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Tell HN: Windows Defender considers W10Privacy to be malware
15 points by tareqak 4y ago|5 comments
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by tareqak 4y ago
Given that some Microsoft employees no doubt frequent this forum, I hope they see and address this issue. Something like an advanced checkbox to customize the local account’s username. Maybe also having a default local user account name tie
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by tareqak 4y ago
Wouldn’t it be better for estimated latency to be calculated for each direction? The ping message could have the client’s current time, and the pong message would have this client time and the server time.
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by tareqak 4y ago
This other post has details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34145286 .
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by tareqak 4y ago
Previously posted just over two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33948741
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by tareqak 4y ago
The memo is dated December 21, 2022 and today is December 27, 2022. I don’t remember if the North American winter storms started before December 21, on that day, or after.
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by tareqak 4y ago
From the article: > If you've been left in the lurch and your efforts to reach a customer service agent are going nowhere, the founder of Scott's Cheap Flights suggests trying an international number. > "The main hotlin
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by tareqak 4y ago
What do date pickers in other browsers look like?
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by tareqak 4y ago
Felis Catus: Correction, human. It was always my keyboard. You were just using it without my permission, and I reappropriated it when I felt like it. Now, go get me some wet cat food for your slanderous outburst before I send you to the cat
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California earthquake puts early warning system to the test(apnews.com)
2 points by tareqak 4y ago|0 comments
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by tareqak 4y ago
Tangentially related, the PowerToys Keyboard manager allows for key remapping on Windows: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/keyboard...
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Funding bill targets online sites amid retail theft concerns(apnews.com)
1 points by tareqak 4y ago|2 comments
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Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report(reuters.com)
10 points by tareqak 4y ago|8 comments
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by tareqak 4y ago
The word ‘leaver’ reminded me of lever.co (the applicant tracking system). Perhaps there is a need for a business that specializes in dealing with the possessions and effects of departing employees?
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by tareqak 4y ago
I wonder what school boards and the different levels of government will think about a sudden increase in students using VPNs and Tor.
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by tareqak 4y ago
Sort of like “post this cat the 19th of every month”: https://ifunny.co/video/post-this-cat-the-19th-of-every-mont... .
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by tareqak 4y ago
The Streisand Effect encoded as a Term of Service [0][1]. As of 2:22 PM Pacific Time: > What is a violation of this policy? > At both the Tweet level and the account level, we will remove any free promotion of prohibited 3rd-party soc
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by tareqak 4y ago
Stable Diffusion but for video: everyone becomes a TikTok content creator.
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by tareqak 4y ago
I’ve seen an HN post about a joke using the word “musketeer”: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33932041 .
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by tareqak 4y ago
Twitter and Tesla shareholders that are concerned about the amount of CEO attention their respective company is receiving?
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by tareqak 4y ago
https://kernel.dk/io_uring.pdf ?
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Oppenheimer wrongly stripped of security clearance, US says(apnews.com)
4 points by tareqak 4y ago|1 comments
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by tareqak 4y ago
When I saw the test suite that Peter Norvig created for the program, I immediately thought to myself “what if there was a LLM program that knew how to generate test cases for arbitrary functions?” I think a tool like that even in an early i
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Pentagon has received ‘several hundreds’ of new UFO reports(apnews.com)
4 points by tareqak 4y ago|0 comments
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by tareqak 4y ago
What about using that energy to emit light that plants can use at nighttime?
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Phoenix airport first to offer self-driving ride service Waymo(apnews.com)
1 points by tareqak 4y ago|0 comments
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Oregon city drops fight to keep Google water use private(apnews.com)
16 points by tareqak 4y ago|6 comments
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by tareqak 4y ago
It sounds like TikTok has the passive viewer aspect of TV, but with the always-on feedback loop of an app and a much wider library of content that is easier to create (no need for a studio and a channel willing to broadcast).
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by tareqak 4y ago
> In a memo, President Biden authorized more than 70% of the roughly 16,000 remaining files on JFK's death to "now be released in full." What about the remaining percentage? Why is that not being released?
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by tareqak 4y ago
Is there an automatic refactoring that changes type-inferred variable declarations and changes then into typed declarations? I can see the value when writing code in the early stages of a project to both have flexibility and save keystrokes

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