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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You shouldn’t write a sort algorithm because much smarter people have already done so and their work is included in the standard library.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
A number of reasons including * because they could (or so they thought) * because there’s a lot of important resources in the ground * because they want to lay down the border between NATO and Russia and preferably not at the border of Russ
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Apparently Apple can’t compete with these independent repair companies either, because Apple only barely offers repair services. For iPhones they offer only three options: replace the battery, replace the screen and replace the phone.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Coincidentally I recently read somewhere that the Ubiquity firmware is actually based on OpenWRT.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s not only keeping the old emails, if your email address becomes available for registration an attacker can also register it and receive password reset emails etcetera.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
In the meantime we’re using programming languages that cause us all kinds of problems because there’s a ton of constructs that cause undefined behavior.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If true, that doesn’t matter for an update. But I think it only changed in Windows 11 where you can’t run the oobe wizard without internet to skip past the account.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/whats-ne... What’s new in 22H2? Basically nothing is new in 22H2. So if you’re installing updates anyway, nothing changes when you upgrade to 22H2.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I was thinking about the TVs in Ideocracy, a movie that is gradually revealing how prophetic it is.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Apparently the tear tugging emotional appeal of this nurse is so inconsequential it wasn’t deemed worthy including in the article text, but indeed they found a nurse issuing it. She felt this, she felt that. I don’t think a hospital is the
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
No, they aren’t the ones complaining about executive bonuses and in fact nowhere does the article say they are the ones complaining. They leave that useless whinery to Karen on the internet. > the same people who will be saving your ass
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
The whole idea of ‘front-line workers’ as if it’s some kind of battlefield is stupid drama and leads to nothing but Facebook whinery about unrelated things like executive bonuses. It’s so excessively dramatic it can’t be taken seriously. If
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
You’d think if the healthcare system is overrun, the executives have to work harder as well. This is just the standard ‘executives get bonuses’ whine with some COVID sauce on top of it.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
> Asus also failed to negotiate further sponsoring the channel by simply not getting back to requests. This doesn’t really sound like an unbiased source with respect to the quality of Asus products.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
At the end of the article there’s a list of complaints about X, and coincidentally it’s a list of things X users probably won’t care about. your desktop tears screen capture is dog slow your media keys stop working one day your speakers sou
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It’s where the people with the most guns say it is.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Turns out patting people on the back and tearfully nodding to the stories about their sad youth doesn’t make society safer either. Ultimately life just isn’t fair and people do need to be induced to take responsibility for themselves.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
It could be intended as a distraction but the ease at which it is possible to steal those cars quite arguably does not meet any standard of care, and Kia clearly agrees, otherwise they wouldn’t be scrambling for workarounds and solutions.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I think Excel is still the old mdi application that has been hacked to look like a sdi application. It’s only a recent innovation that it is possible to have two files open with the same filename.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
A major downside of phps model is that there is no continuously running service, so you can’t run timers or background cleanups.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Sorry, I don’t disagree but the exact same thing goes for comments that start with ‘This!’ And ‘+1’
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Because if they were smart, they would go employ their talents in a different way than spoiling Apples product announcements.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
And it makes it possible to say, well you had 9 years to make the change, now that you’re out of time it’s your problem.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
GDPR is actually an excellent example, all tough talk with strict rules, yet basically nobody follows the rules and nothing happens. The government itself runs websites that say ‘you can’t visit this site unless you agree to our use of cook
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
I don’t care if people wear masks for the rest of their life as long as they don’t try to force me to. As in this article of course, somehow because these people have long COVID they demand everyone wears a mask around them. And of course t
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Only time will tell. As of yet, all we have is warnings.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
> Europe actually has some teeth. Playing dumb when Europe tells you "try me" is a sure way to be banned out of the common market. It all remains to be seen, some EU Joe random hotshot issuing warnings is no more than that, war
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Sorry, do I really have to explain the difference between an adapter and a cable? I think that is the problem.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
Apple doesn’t use ‘Apple connectors’ on the phone chargers, they are universal USB adapters.
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by tinus_hn 3y ago
If Apple just sticks to the specification to the letter they achieve exactly what they want and what HackerNews hates, only proper power supplies work and cheap inferior crap charges slowly. They can just put a logo on cables and chargers t

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