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by shever73 2y ago
>The article mentions an Amazon policy to always call an ambulance when they find a medical issue. True...there's a difference between having a policy and it being enforced, though. The article also contains a quote from a union org
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by shever73 2y ago
Thank you for your service :)
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by shever73 2y ago
Hack was/is brilliant and is still one of my favourite games. It is so engrossing. No fancy tiles, just the @ character and # for tunnels.
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by shever73 2y ago
...without even a recipe! I bookmarked it to read later, and was kind of disappointed that it was just a "I've learned how to make hot sauce" post.
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by shever73 2y ago
We've been bitten by going the "free 3rd-party <x>" route so many times, so I sympathise with the problem here. Off-topic, but kudos to OP for still engaging with the threads. This certainly wasn't a dump and run p
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Facebook and Instagram's algorithms served sexism and misogyny to blank accounts(theguardian.com)
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by shever73 2y ago
And Ryanair’s “Priority” boarding service just means you get the privilege of standing around on the tarmac in the rain and cold for longer than non-Priority customers. Other added Priority perks include being stared at disinterestedly from
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by shever73 2y ago
…and “blue sky thinking” and anything to do with “synergies”.
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by shever73 2y ago
A colleague who lives in Korea recommended these to me before. I stopped eating them because of the insane amount of salt in them, not the spice level!
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by shever73 2y ago
This should be the top comment. Thank you!
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by shever73 2y ago
This is why I love HN. Something I'd never thought about before reading this article is now of vital importance to me!
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by shever73 2y ago
I use Brave on mobile and didn’t get any ads in the video.
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by shever73 2y ago
That's brought back a load of memories! Harrier Attack was a brilliant game. I never played Sopwith, but I had a 1986 DOS clone of it called "Red Baron". For some reason, I hadn't made the link between the gameplay.
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by shever73 2y ago
It could be done. The FizzBuzzLang esolang uses only the words FIZZ, BUZZ and FIZZBUZZ.
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by shever73 2y ago
Since January 1st this year. We considered other PaaS providers, but Neon offered the best integration with our existing tooling. We have an SLA in place and haven’t had a single issue so far.
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by shever73 2y ago
Another satisfied Neon user here. We migrated our tooling, users and thousands of databases recently and it has just worked.
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by shever73 2y ago
Alt + 003 on the numeric keypad, IIRC.
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by shever73 3y ago
I discovered Core Wars through his Computer Recreations column and enjoyed playing it for years. I still love his line about “programs doing battle in the dark and noiseless corridors of core”. RIP
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by shever73 3y ago
This reminds me of playing Duke Nukem 3D on a LAN in 1997/8. Me and some friends were in our 20s, had just set up a company together and had a few PCs linked together in a converted garage. After work on a Friday, we’d get beers in, in
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by shever73 3y ago
I've been using Brave for a few years now. It's speedy enough, and does a great job of blocking ads and trackers. I've never had issues with Spotify and I like the auto-dismissing of cookie banners too.
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by shever73 3y ago
That last paragraph is wild! Chaz went into full Samuel Beckett mode. Slightly off-topic, but one thing I’ve found consistently sends ChatGPT into a tailspin is asking it to analyse and solve a cryptic crossword clue. You get pages of musin
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by shever73 3y ago
Every time this pops up on HN, I’m reminded of the XKCD comic “Ten thousand”[0] Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow Torches was one of the first websites I looked at when I got connected to the Internet back in late ‘94. It makes me very happy to know
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by shever73 3y ago
There’s a brief etymology in Etymonline: https://www.etymonline.com/word/mensch
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by shever73 3y ago
I call this the "shiny window effect". 30 years ago, when I started my first business from a converted garage, I used to think about all of the chaos I had to deal with. I'd look at the big companies with their shiny, mirror
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by shever73 3y ago
True, although the official safety posters[0] still seem to be available: https://www.cafepress.com/e2hp.34051572 [0] https://www.entrances2hell.co.uk/pagesafety.html
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by shever73 3y ago
Ah, yes, 90s web development. Somewhere, in a dark and hidden corner of archive.org lives my first website. Updated in 1996 to be "enhanced" for Netscape Navigator 2.0. It had a lot of what this article spoke about - including a p
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by shever73 3y ago
This is glorious, thank you for sharing. I also started coding on the ZX Spectrum and can still remember the Z80 assembler opcodes. You make a good point about both the simplicity and immediacy of the environment, which made it so easy to j
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by shever73 3y ago
I’m the same. I haven’t bought anything from Amazon in nearly 4 years. The top spot on my “worst companies in the world” list is usually tied between Amazon, Meta and Nestle. Macroeconomically, it probably makes precisely zero difference, b
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by shever73 3y ago
> FB has the advantage that everyone is basically a verified user When my wife sold a standing desk recently on FBM, approximately 60% of the respondents were scammers. They offered above the asking price, but wanted us to pay for a cour
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by shever73 3y ago
This is simply a badly written, outdated list of airlines that don’t use the 737 MAX. It is not a list of airlines who have grounded their fleet due to the current safety concerns.

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