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by theginger 1y ago
Is this anything to do with them taking passwords without consent? I rarely use windows, and when I do one of the first things I do is switch from edge to chrome. I think I set up edge and used it once to see what it was actually like, but
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by theginger 1y ago
They have been doing that for years for all sorts of things usually seasonal but sometimes other stuff
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by theginger 1y ago
They get locked into a caged ecosystem
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by theginger 1y ago
Does anyone know how long was this going on, are we talking weeks, months or years?
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by theginger 1y ago
Invoice them. The worst they can do is not pay it.
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by theginger 1y ago
Possibly although given the story about it could go the opposite way.
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by theginger 1y ago
Best part of 20 years ago, which is a long time in anything, it's a lifetime in tech. About 15 years ago I used to work on some projects for greater London authority, we seemed to mostly be squatting on transport for London servers and
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by theginger 2y ago
Something I also remember from tv was what I think they called data bursts, at the end of certain TV shows they would play a few seconds of still frames full of information, like flicking through a magazine in 10 seconds. You would record t
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by theginger 2y ago
How timely is this. Just minutes ago my child handed me a tooth to go under their pillow, then I find this.
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by theginger 2y ago
It's hard to find but does also have a page for mini https://www.bmwgroup-classic.com/en/history/historic-modelov...
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by theginger 2y ago
A decent setup which allows you to prove you are not dependent on 1 cloud provider will probably pay for itself when it's time to negotiate discounts.
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by theginger 2y ago
I don't know if it is regional, but for me right now every single thing on their service status page is red. And my son can't play roblox
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by theginger 2y ago
What an odd choice of words for a headline. Expecting something to do with big balloon tyres that could drive on water or something. They meant hydrogen powered wheeled excavator. I could understand it if it was just the hacker news title b
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Ask HN: How long should you wait for a response on hacker one?
2 points by theginger 2y ago|3 comments
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by theginger 2y ago
Reaction times differ by types of stimulus, auditory is slightly faster than visual and tactile slightly faster than that at 90 - 180 ms So if git gave you a slap instead of an error message you might just about have time to react.
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by theginger 2y ago
Is the technique to this exactly the same as the technique to view a 3d stereogram image? I was able to get a 3rd image to be clearly visible in the middle doing this, on the 2nd image I could definitely seem some spots appear that lead me
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by theginger 2y ago
I hope to see this evolved into doom by the end of the year. And it better not be just monochrome
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by theginger 2y ago
What is with the font joining the character c and t on this site?(In headings)
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by theginger 2y ago
Archaeometallurgical, If we allow words with 94 bits of entropy why do we need some words with 3 or 4 different different meanings?
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by theginger 2y ago
> Nerdsnipe: The core of the quote is wrong. All mammals go through the same boom and bust cycles that other species do. There is no “instinctive equilibrium.” I totally agree, that speech always bugged me, so many obvious counter exampl
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by theginger 2y ago
So every time someone fails doing a demo it is proof that they are great at the task and or performing demos, because if they found it hard thier performance would have improved and they would have smashed it, so they must have found i easy
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by theginger 2y ago
Traceroute isn't real, I like this, sounds like something I'd say. But it is real, it's definitely real, it's installed on my laptop, it's probably installed on yours. I know fairly well how it works, understand man
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by theginger 2y ago
Almost any story about cloud repatriation is a story about a failure of the market to act competitively rather than someone actually able to do it for less money than the cloud providers can. The big providers margins are crazy, like over 5
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by theginger 2y ago
There was an article recently about 'haunted' domains with a bad history, this seems to be one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41951131
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by theginger 2y ago
I think they might not pay it
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by theginger 2y ago
I think since it is I am a teapot not you are a teapot It should be a 5xx code because clearly it's a server side issue.
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by theginger 2y ago
This was a 2020 article https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24919710
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by theginger 2y ago
Hanlon's razor comes to mind https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon%27s_razor
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by theginger 2y ago
This science paper could have been a cat meme video. Never thought I would be saying that and meaning it literally.
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by theginger 2y ago
Ridiculous! We need to develop 1 universal standard that covers everyone's use cases. Yeah!

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