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by signal11 5y ago
Access was restored when I checked the next day.
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by signal11 5y ago
I was wondering that too, but the problem does resonate with me, because something similar happened to me as well and I’m reasonably technical :) My Facebook account was protected with 2FA and wasn’t compromised — no shady posts etc. In fac
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by signal11 5y ago
Why only Win32 — Azure Kubernetes had this limitation under some circumstances, even a few years ago[1]. Anyone know if this issue is still present? [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17703371
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by signal11 5y ago
I suspect it's a mindset change. Not heeding demand and staying stuck in the past was how Windows became a punchline, although I'm sure enterprise customers loved it. At some point it did begin to change -- I suspect it hasn'
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by signal11 5y ago
You have a very good point. Cars give people a lot of personal autonomy. Yes, cities could be built with better/smarter public transport options, but even Londoners and New Yorkers (two cities with very good public transport) will sa
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by signal11 5y ago
> I've lived without a car in the US for more than a decade. Is there a post/blog/thread/AMA about this? This sounds super interesting in itself!
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by signal11 5y ago
Swift handles this really well, "त्या".count // 1 "त्या".unicodeScalars.count // 4 "त्या".utf8.count // 12 Javascript's minimal library is of course not great, but there are l
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by signal11 5y ago
The technical term for this is “insider risk” and it’s not just confined to phone store workers. Ops People working in mobile phone companies in NOCs and so forth have a lot of power too. Lucky they don’t have any bad apples, right… right?
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by signal11 5y ago
> "0" is too special And yet Project Zero exists :-)
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by signal11 5y ago
> Then the fraudster will say, ‘I’m going to send you the password and you’re going to read it back to me over the phone.'” In the UK, banks have put in quite a lot of messaging around the fact that they'll never ask for a pass
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by signal11 5y ago
I quite like that you no longer have to enclose all your C# code in a namespace { } block. Removes an admittedly minor aesthetic niggle about the language for me. It’s a bit more like Java now[1]. namespace X.Y.Z; using System; class X {
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by signal11 5y ago
There’s properties files too, but TOML is my “format of choice” as well for a bunch of use-cases where human readability is important. More people should give it a try. Very reminiscent of old Windows INI files and Java properties.
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by signal11 5y ago
> seeing the ¥ symbol as a path separator is normal Also for people working in many Japanese MNCs.
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by signal11 5y ago
> Who here is writing software which runs on Linux, yet needs to be running Windows while they do it? Lots of developers: NodeJS, Ruby, Python, Data Science folk... They typically deploy on Linux in production so often want Macs to get
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by signal11 5y ago
Firefox has had a Mozilla Maintenance Service[1] (essentially a daemon) on Windows since 2012 or so. I'm guessing they are improving it so the UX for updates involves even less effort for users. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org&
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by signal11 5y ago
> I’m not a believer in “the year of the Linux desktop” either, but those insane policies around fictitious hardware requirements surely must have some impact on market share? I will give them (some) benefit of the doubt -- they probably
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by signal11 5y ago
I largely agree, but would only say -- consider if your use-case needs LTS[1]. Not every use-case does. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26478175
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by signal11 5y ago
> After, like every little French boy, having been fed with Tintin and Asterix in my baby bottle Not French but I've felt this too -- purely on an aesthetic level I enjoy the artwork of Tintins, Asterixes, and even older American su
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by signal11 5y ago
This is an interesting example of the subjectivity in art -- I love Tintin for this very reason. The "flatness" and the beautiful coloration the artistic style creates is so beautiful to me, it's a treat to my eyes. Similarl
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by signal11 5y ago
For anyone who likes this sort of thing, the initial few episodes of the History of English podcast[1] is amazing. It dives into the history right from Proto-Indo European and in fact covers the Greek and Etruscan influences, and spends tim
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by signal11 5y ago
> an Open Source adblocker-style extension that intentionally breaks "do you want to download and install our app..." While not an extension, the DuckDuckGo browser app on iOS has exactly this feature. Maybe Firefox should cons
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by signal11 5y ago
For people wondering why Morocco has DST (which isn’t that useful for countries relatively close to the equator?), it seems Morocco chose to permanently become UTC+1 in 2018, with the exception of Ramadan , when it’s UTC. So it’s not reall
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by signal11 5y ago
> Meanwhile, my flagship android phone from 2018, the Samsung Galaxy S9, is stuck on the last version of Android. That's inexcusable, and this attitude carried over to security updates is a big reason some corporates left Samsung an
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by signal11 5y ago
Very cool language! Is it open source by any chance?
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by signal11 5y ago
It’s not very well known, but this was probably the first Genocide of the 20th century. As Deutsche Welle noted[1], it doesn’t get much attention, but it’s really worth learning about[2], if only to understand how things came to such a pass
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by signal11 5y ago
Yes, IIRC Giffgaff was originally owned by Telefonica, O2’s parent. Never by BT.
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by signal11 5y ago
Would it be reasonable to expect that current-model M1 Macs, which can't support multiple monitors, will be able to do so in the future with say an OS + Firmware update? Or is there something in the M1 SoC that prevents this? I'm
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by signal11 5y ago
Samsung’s use of ACR is the other big source of discomfort. That’s some creepy stuff right there. LG has something similar too, but it was off by default in mine. “Samsung Smart TVs have built-in Automated Content Recognition (ACR) technolo
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by signal11 5y ago
True. And a few large organisations are taking those baby steps too. Some of these super-conservative organisations started using subscription software with Adobe’s creative cloud, and got familiar with monthly update schedules thanks to Wi
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by signal11 5y ago
You’re right. Your post inspired me to look up oed.com, which is the “full” OED and available through many British public libraries. The quality of that definition seems to be rather terse and restrictive as well. It’s got a lot of referenc

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