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by pxeboot 5y ago
While I hate these features as much as everybody else on HN, they are likely necessary if they ever want the app to go mainstream.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
This looks great. Happy to see an easy way to access registry timestamps, as the default editor doesn't make it known they even exist.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
I can only speak to residential, but when I worked in the industry, it was extremely rare for rents to go down because many existing tenants would see the new rate and demand a discount or leave. It was perceived as cheaper to have a few va
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by pxeboot 5y ago
>Microsoft should consider a "hacker" build of windows that starts as a bare-ass powershell prompt WinPE? Server Core?
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by pxeboot 5y ago
There are definitely a lot of summer only burger joints, ice cream shops, etc., especially in places with cold winters.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
And then there is Windows Update, which I have seen take hours even on $100k servers.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
> On a carbon-per-person metric, private jets are literally the worst. And the same people probably have several yachts that burn even more fuel per hour.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
Didn't Facebook already do this?
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by pxeboot 5y ago
States normally don't share data with each other or the feds. As an example, CA might use The Work Number to check if you are working in NV but not claiming or under reporting that income on your CA medicaid application.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
And since governments themselves use it to look for tax and benefits fraud, they are unlikely to to do anything about it.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
> TPM 2.0 was released in 2019 This can't be right. I have 5+ year old PCs with 2.0 TPMs.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
> There was no moratorium on paying mortgages Maybe not for large commercial loans, but traditional mortgages (usually for 1-4 unit properties) absolutely could be deferred for ~1 year if you could show a loss of income from the pandemic
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by pxeboot 5y ago
That seems far more complicated than just using DISM, PowerShell or wimlib (on Linux or Windows) to split the install.wim file into two parts, which I believe older versions of Rufus (or a similar utility) offered to do. https://
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by pxeboot 5y ago
Me too! I am working on migrating ~100TB right now. Not anywhere close to needing something like this
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by pxeboot 5y ago
I have a MikroTik 10G switch. Only 4 ports, but it was under $200.
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by pxeboot 5y ago
If you submit a change of address to the USPS, they sell that data to marketing companies. One workaround is to submit a 'temporary' address change for 6 months at a time instead.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
It is amazing how rural internet can be great in one area and non-existent in another. There are islands in Alaska with gigabit service now, yet I know somebody who lives ~3 miles from a state capitol who can't get more than 3mbit DSL.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
> They would probably be better off just giving the inmates 250k a pop and asking them to stay out of trouble. Wouldn't that just encourage more people to commit crimes so they could get a large check themselves?
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by pxeboot 6y ago
It's not like we have a national school schedule. There are already 1-2 hour differences in school start times, sometimes just a few miles away.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
Many companies maintain VIP lists to provide better service to celebrities and politicians. When a senator calls Comcast, they are not talking to the same call center the average customer is.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
I disputed essentially every bill after my first child was born. Magically, every one was reduced by a substantial amount. There were literally made up charges they admitted to billing everybody for, but can waive if somebody's insuran
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by pxeboot 6y ago
Dell sells at least 75" monitors. They do cost 10x as much as a similar size smart TV from Walmart though.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
Having a static resolv.conf file can/does lead to many issues when connecting to multiple networks or a VPN with different dns servers.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
On the other hand, a lot of people would have been happy to have a 5 figure electric bill instead of having their pipes freeze from an involuntary blackout.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
Source? I have personally seen one operating in Alaska during the winter.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
> Anecdotally, I’ve heard lots of people argue that poor people are only poor because they have poor financial skills This is certainly a thing. I know people who could be firmly in the middle class, but instead live paycheck to paycheck
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by pxeboot 6y ago
And don't forget the State of Oregon paid an additional $240 million for their own version of it [1]. [1] https://www.koin.com/news/oregon-oracle-settle-cover-oregon-...
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by pxeboot 6y ago
Thinking of housing markets in general, should existing residents be allowed to consider a city 'full' and ban additional housing units? Or should everybody have the right to live there, with a free market determining the price an
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by pxeboot 6y ago
I had a connection through a small municipal ISP until moving recently. My connection would drop for several seconds at exactly 23:59 UTC every day. Never was able to figure it out.
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by pxeboot 6y ago
How much data is sent to the developer after somebody makes an in-app purchase?

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