throwawayapples

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by throwawayapples 5y ago
Re-learning where a particular feature is hidden in the menus every few years has been an interesting experience. Microsoft is even implementing (yet another) new UI right now: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/7&#x2
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
But that doesn't seem to be as useful or relevant advice in this case, because all of these tools (or operating systems) can perform the baseline of the job (creating and sharing documents, etc.) One might have initially lower resist
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but once you've acquired that knowledge, you have it forever. It's not like LaTeX changes very often (unlike, for example, Microsoft Word)
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
With regards to the scanning issue, you could scan to FTP; new Brother workgroup MFC printers can even scan to SFTP and I'm sure other manufacturers are the same. (Note that smaller, cheaper $150 Brother lasers cannot scan to FTP/
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
Thanks! That is really interesting. I wonder if it still uses the filesystem as a database (I often do that myself, especially for rarely-read or config data.)
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
You should never move just to move. Postgres has an incredibly long scalability curve just on a single server or small cluster, and after you outgrow that, you can move to something clustered that's PG-compatible, either self-hosted or
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Ask HN: What is the Hacker News database structure? Does it use tables or NoSQL?
8 points by throwawayapples 5y ago|5 comments
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
> Bay Area techworker total comp has gone up like 50% since COVID [, so houses are actually more affordable.] That's a pretty shocking claim, even if you're exaggerating to make a point; do you happen to know if anyone is track
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
Point taken, but it is for server-side games like Fortnite, because the bulk of the game world actually runs on the server. However, I'm not sure when they started shifting over to that model (or even if that's what he was talking
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
I was just comparing the pricing to OVH's cloud VPS's ( https://us.ovhcloud.com/ ) and, accounting for the currency conversion and OVH's huge amount of free unmetered bandwidth (vs 20TB for H), it actually look
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
> By 2009, game developers will face... CPU’s with: 20+ cores It seems like he was off by a matter of a few months at most. I have a quad AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 6172 (Mar 2010) 2U server with 48 hardware cores. This motherboard can
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
It's easier to leave your phone at home or in a faraday bag than putting your vehicle in either. If your phone is part of your vehicle, it's pretty hard to go anywhere without them.
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
Those generally want ID in order to activate over the phone.
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
'The paper does not say what the article claims. The paper is about proposing a credible alternative model of weight gain and is a call for further research. This article, like most science journalism, is fake news and we need to stop
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
I wish you'd posted this as a top-level comment, so that you could become the highest-ranked comment!
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
That is true; I remember, early on, the lab leak theory (of which I am a proponent) received substantial and fair discussion with significant technical detail, long before it became a partisan thing.
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
For those of us who believe banning anonymity is an answer to anything , please ask yourself how you would feel if this site did that -- or even, in fact, if HN didn't actually make anon accounts (without even requiring an email con
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by throwawayapples 5y ago
What about Apple? Apple and Google completely control their app stores on their respective platforms. That means that reaching mobile users means dealing with either both of those two, or (if you want to brave the PWA nightmare, especially