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by pwg 4y ago
> second phone number for all my online accounts and 2FA stuff and anything impersonal that is likely to result in getting spam texts and phone calls down the line. Unfortunately, that will not stop spam texts nor spam calls to the &quot
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by pwg 4y ago
> They even have a big new building in city center location. Does that fact not answer your question. They have costs related to lease/upkeep on that "big new building" which they can't get out of and if no one is wo
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by pwg 4y ago
> Ctrl-F doesn't open a Find dialog box in Outlook For this, in Outlook, the explanation is (per Raymond Chen): Bill Gates https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...
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by pwg 4y ago
> The Dodge Charger has been around a lot longer than EVs. Per Wikipedia ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dodge_Charger ) the name has been around for 56 years (since 1966). Or 58 years for the "show car" ve
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by pwg 4y ago
> or maybe I am totally wrong For the US, no you are not "totally wrong". The majority of 11kW EV charge ports will have been installed by an electrician and also inspected by the local govt. electrical inspector because the v
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by pwg 4y ago
In the deep past, given how many VCR clocks remained at 12:00 because their owners never set the clock, how many EV owners to you think are going to bother explicitly setting a "charge time" in their EV? Unless it ships from the f
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by pwg 4y ago
> Do you have a recommended email server to run? I am partial to Postfix ( http://www.postfix.org/ ).
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by pwg 4y ago
> Or do I need to concern myself with IP reputations still? IP reputation relates to the receiver (usually the big web mail providers) deciding an email is spam based on the IP. For your own receiving of emails, it should make no differe
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by pwg 4y ago
I've had a Snap-On SSDMR4B0 [1] for at least 25 years now. The usefulness of the ratchet is hard to describe, but easy to recognize after using one for the purpose of driving/removing screws. One big benefit, which only really r
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by pwg 4y ago
> For example, a notebook computer might complain that you have a drink nearby that could spill and ruin its circuitry. Think about how a notebook might sense this situation -- when you have your answer you will have achieved enlightenme
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by pwg 4y ago
Based on many of the "unknown reach" statements the author identified, it is impossible to say. One potential outcome, at least for US businesses where their legal teams believe they have some nexus to California, will be either:
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by pwg 4y ago
> but I believe the rebar and concrete provide different kinds of strength Yes, concrete provides great compressive strength, but is not very strong given tensile loading. Rebar provides the tensile loading support that concrete alone la
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by pwg 4y ago
> users very likely have Google or Apple accounts Have neither - therefore assuming I might want to use your app, I could not.
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by pwg 4y ago
Because as the scammer once you have the payment from the purchaser, you don't care. And a 0.5TB disk would cut into your 'margins' on something like this.
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by pwg 4y ago
With uBlock Origin blocking (by default) the javascript that wired serves, I read the whole article and was only aware of an auto-play video even being present when I read your comment.
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by pwg 4y ago
> what modern windows app doesn't use Ctrl F for Find For this, in Outlook, the explanation is (per Raymond Chen): Bill Gates https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...
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by pwg 4y ago
Drop the animation and just let the browser render the elements and css position/style them. Most 'animations' on otherwise textual articles are merely eye-candy fluff that is totally unnecessary. PS: Viewing with JS on -- y
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by pwg 4y ago
See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memoization
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by pwg 4y ago
Define what, specifically, you mean by: "email automation sequence service"?
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by pwg 4y ago
All domains are "email-enabled", all of them /can/ be used for email. You just have to setup an email server (or buy 'email server' access from someone who sells the same) somewhere that handles email for the d
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by pwg 4y ago
Initial release: 6 December 1991 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mp3 ) Given its age, it has held up remarkably well. You've probably simply found a particular composition that it is just not suited for. But it wo
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by pwg 4y ago
This one is "simpler" (in the sense that it is simpler than the cube, your actual mileage may vary): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubik%27s_Snake Whether it also falls into your "too easy" bucket I
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by pwg 4y ago
Using Ublock Origin to block all the javascript allows the article to be read, without random switches or history hijacking.
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by pwg 4y ago
> it got marked as "[flagged]" for some reason That would be because other readers "flagged" it. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12173809 As to why editing went away, maybe it is now marked &
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by pwg 4y ago
In an earlier comment you said: "PDFs are a clusterfuck of glyphs floating in space". On that point you are spot on. A textual PDF is in essence simply a series of instructions to position glyphs in space (where "space&quot
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by pwg 4y ago
> What is the benefit of a 50 year mortgage from both sides? For the lender the benefit is a much larger total amount of interest paid by the borrower over the life of the mortgage. https://www.calculator.net/mortgage-cal
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by pwg 4y ago
Search the article url on https://archive.today/ - most are already archived, read the archived copy. If not archived, then archive it, then read the archived copy.
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by pwg 4y ago
Just download the videos you want to watch: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp The only "ads" you get will be the ones the video uploaders encode directly into the video itself. Plus you can watch using whatev
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by pwg 4y ago
> it [caller id] was made decades ago to serve as convenience It was made decades ago as a profit center when the telephone network was a monopoly company operating an isolated network. Because only the monopoly phone company operated an
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by pwg 4y ago
Alternately, download the podcasts or interviews (yt-dlp: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp ) and then watch them with whatever local player you have that allows you to save a partial watch location and return to that po

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