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by signal11 9y ago
Seriously. Active Hours was such a terrible idea, how did it move past the design stage? There were some hilarious hacks to disable the Update Orchestrator and prevent the reboots. They work well, although allegedly you should not need them
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by signal11 9y ago
I do think running hospitals on Linux is a good idea. However just sticking a skin over $YOUR_FAVORITE_DISTRO may not quite work. Hospitals have to work with proprietary devices -- for example, retinal scanners etc, many of which only have
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by signal11 9y ago
> Being British but not English would make you... Or an ethnic minority, for example Mo Farah or Archie Panjabi. As far as I can make out, minorities preferred "British-x" (e.g. British-Asian) as a label rather than English eve
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by signal11 9y ago
> Why isn't XP good enough to run a map kiosk in a mall? Or flight arrivals screen in the airport? It is and the stripped-down versions of XP Microsoft sells to run kiosks still get updates [1] > Windows Embedded Standard 2009.
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by signal11 9y ago
I can't stand the Windows 10 Start Menu. I paid 5 bucks for Start10 [1], although some people like the free Classic Shell [2]. [1] http://www.stardock.com/products/start10/ [2] http://www.classicsh
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by signal11 10y ago
I use a Thinkpad X230 - it has a 12.5" display with 8 or 16GB RAM. The latest model appears to be X270 -- same size display. http://www3.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/Thi...
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by signal11 10y ago
The Architecture of Windows NT page on Wikipedia has a good diagram to help visualize NT subsystems. The first few versions of NT, iirc, shipped with the OS/2 subsystem but this was removed with Windows XP. https://en.wikipe
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by signal11 10y ago
OneNote is a great example. It has fairly well-regarded native apps for each platform it supports, _and_ a decent web (HTML5) interface. I think the issue is time and resources. Small teams, like Slack, would like to create a slick experien
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by signal11 10y ago
Back when phones were mostly sold via carriers ("new phone every 2 years"), I suspect OEMs wouldn't want it because updates would almost guarantee no updates for the duration that the phone was supported by Google. In a plate
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by signal11 10y ago
Also worth noting: users often don't know what they want until they see it. Tabs in browsers were a 'power feature' NetCaptor introduced (and Opera copied), then they got really popular.
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by signal11 10y ago
Wow. I remember reading somewhere that an early American innovation (1833 in Federal law) was - no more debtor's prisons, which allowed much more risk-taking in American business. I did not realize this persists today in Germany. http
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by signal11 10y ago
The OA did the whole "TV series as novel" thing very well. It was very disorienting for me (but in a good way) when the opening credits played almost 60 minutes into the first episode, with about 10 minutes to go.
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by signal11 10y ago
Many vendors do use the Windows Update system. Looking at my old Windows 10 box, in the last three months it's received display driver updates from Intel and nVidia (it's an Optimus system so yay, twice the driver update joy). It&
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by signal11 10y ago
As someone who remembers NT4 video driver crashes bringing down the whole system, when I saw Windows 10 recover from a video driver (yes, nVidia) crash I was massively impressed. There's always room to improve but I'm really happy
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by signal11 10y ago
They probably got rid of lamination to reduce cost, but I wonder if the loss of lamination will improve repairability.
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by signal11 10y ago
> The entire event was enterprise-focused Some very old-school enterprises are working with Google to onboard GCP in their organisations. A few of them even spoke at the event. I'm assuming they've done due diligence to ensur
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by signal11 10y ago
Hey, a fellow K800i owner! I loved that phone, used to run Gmail on it (J2ME app). For its time it also had a pretty good camera. As far as I remember it didn't have a headphone jack though, just some weird proprietary headphones.
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by signal11 10y ago
TweetBot does a reasonable job here IMHO. It allows you to choose which browser opens links by default -- it supports Firefox, Chrome, Safari as well as its own in-app browser which is a WKWebView, which means it's just as fast as nati
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by signal11 10y ago
Rice is way better than processed carbs, no question. I was referring to the parent's point about these meals in India -- the sheer amount of rice in the typical serving size there is okay if one was really physically active (say a far
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by signal11 10y ago
Usually raw. I sometimes steam kale and always blanch broccoli.
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by signal11 10y ago
I think the issue with these is that they're very carb-rich. I've bought one of the Nutri-bullet type blenders and quite enjoy home-made smoothies; I eat far more fruit and veg than I'd have ordinarily.
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by signal11 10y ago
My experience of installing VS Community Edition several years ago was that it downloaded a lot of dependencies when I requested a fairly basic C# and C++ environment: versions of SQLXML, Windows SDK, etc, which had to be managed and upgrad
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by signal11 10y ago
IANAL, but isn't encouraging the City of Munich to source from "local" enterprises vs Ireland a violation of EU free-trade laws? By the same token Ireland could then discourage/block "imports" from Munich and w
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by signal11 10y ago
I remember reading this a few months ago: http://www.ndtv.com/india-news/fake-call-centre-scam-masterm...
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by signal11 10y ago
If you're posting on HN, you and your friends are probably not the audience for whom there's pain. Reading the NYT piece, it appears to be hitting contractual labor the hardest - people who earn $220/month or less. From the a
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by signal11 10y ago
> For me it's a simple feature in Chrome "tab to search" which frustratingly has never been ported into Firefox Firefox has a similar feature called 'Quick Searches' (look in Firefox's Bookmarks menu). For e
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by signal11 10y ago
I really didn't know CSS could do that. http://caniuse.com/#search=css%20pointer-events for any one whose mind was blown by this.
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by signal11 10y ago
I remember PLATO (PLATO Notes, specifically) as one of the inspirations behind Lotus Notes. It's quite interesting to see how seminal the ideas behind it were -- given the right commercial decisions, Notes could have pre-empted the web
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by signal11 10y ago
I don't mind installing apps if it's something I care about. Medium is a great (counter-)example. I wanted to leave a comment on mobile. You can't unless you use their app. No thanks. I have an app that pays for parking in my
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by signal11 10y ago
I have this exact issue with web fonts. One neat trick I discovered on slow/flaky connections (think train passing through countryside) is that you can read the page quickly by going into iOS Safari's Reader View. It's a bit

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