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by transcriptase 5y ago
This explicitly supports what most of us assume is going on. I wont be surprised if someone with a (un)vested interest will be along shortly to say that their experience is the opposite and that on their team, making people look bad by te
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by transcriptase 6y ago
Another fun one in the early 2000s was if your organization was using Novell Groupwise, you could run any executable by renaming it nalwin32.exe Good times playing Age of Empires and Half Life on school computers over LAN using that!
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by transcriptase 6y ago
Google Finance was 'renovated' and went from a robust portfolio tracking and stock charting tool to a relatively useless news aggregator.
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by transcriptase 6y ago
I'm convinced that Windows developers have perverse incentives tied to optimizing engagement or telemetry metrics that happen to be highly correlated with irritating power-users.
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by transcriptase 6y ago
Did anyone here work on implementing Bing web search into the Windows 10 start menu? I'm curious to know the decisions that led to an operating system file search prompt ignoring exact file, directory and app names in favor of trying (
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Wyze removing person-detection from cameras after Xnor terminates edge-AI lease(forums.wyzecam.com)
2 points by transcriptase 7y ago|1 comments
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by transcriptase 7y ago
The issue I've observed is that those on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are put at a disadvantage when these are given higher weighting. The teenager with wealthy parents can participate in (expensive) extracurricular acti
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by transcriptase 7y ago
That is simply untrue. You can uninstall approximately half of the bloatware, and on occasion they do reappear after 'feature updates'. Win 10 Pro comes with the following, all of which have the "Uninstall" disabled:
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The Genetic Structure of Marijuana and Hemp(journals.plos.org)
1 points by transcriptase 11y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: Simple data collection apps with QR/Barcodes?
1 points by transcriptase 11y ago|0 comments