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by tredre3 3y ago
Also some of that bouncing around involves passing your email into the URL (?account=you@outlook.com) which is just bizarre in current day (tm).
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by tredre3 3y ago
I had a similar experience. On the first run it downloads about 30GB of data. I don't know if it would work offline on subsequent runs because for me it never ran again without crashing! Also upon uninstallation it left behind all its
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by tredre3 3y ago
The ESP32 has 448KB of ROM that embeds most of newlibc as well as wireless drivers and part of the bluetooth stack. From past experience I can say that tinybasic can go down to about 3-4KB in size. So it was probably "free" in tha
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by tredre3 3y ago
Yup it's completely disingenuous on Google's part. Some people don't have data but Google doesn't care, they force clueless users to enable RCS anyway and then they're on their own to figure out why they don't
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by tredre3 3y ago
If you turn off RCS, Google Messages shows you a full screen prompt once a week to turn it back on. Indefinitely. And of course the prompt has a large blue button to enable, and a very small text underneath to dismiss, making it easy to acc
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by tredre3 3y ago
Yup, here's the full message: whoa there, pardner! reddit's awesome and all, but you may have a bit of a problem. Make sure your User-Agent is not empty, is something unique and descriptive and try again. if you're supplying
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by tredre3 3y ago
Canada withdrew its $2 bill in 1996 (when it introduced the coin) but it was still pretty common until 2000. Canada also withdrew its penny in 2012. There's been talks of withdrawing the 5c coin recently but I doubt it will happen soon
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by tredre3 3y ago
AMD offers RAM encryption on their threadripper server CPUs and also in their Ryzen PRO on workstation/laptops (you have to enable it in the bios). https://www.amd.com/system/files/documents/amd-memory-gu
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by tredre3 3y ago
> Stanford Healthcare charges me for "general classification" just for a nurse to open up their computer and see that there are zero events. Okay so having access to the data wouldn't change a thing, surely you'd be c
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by tredre3 3y ago
> owning a computer and not knowing what's inside is like not knowing what brand of car you own It's more like not knowing what type of engine your car has. Most people don't know or care what type of engine/cpu they
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by tredre3 3y ago
> NameCheap (which is outsourcing all their support to Eastern Europe countries like Russia, so these people are actually looking at your sensitive data) Is it really called outsourcing when they are themselves located in Ukraine (former
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by tredre3 3y ago
It's Powershell. It's Windows' Bash equivalent (admittedly much more advanced) but it's been open-sourced and ported to Linux as well.
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by tredre3 3y ago
Please stop posting GPT comments.
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by tredre3 3y ago
> region restriction in DVD players [...] force the manufactures to turn it off Where did this happen? Some players can be unlocked and others are multi-region, but to this day DVD players are still region-locked, are they not?
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by tredre3 3y ago
Neither is Whatsapp, thanks to push notifications.
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by tredre3 3y ago
You're so right. You're the only one who is allowed to define what is a "real" problem. Every widely popular thing that you dislike is just virtual opiates, after all. Classic HN comment.
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by tredre3 3y ago
We don't but it's bizarre that when told to not be violent, your first thought is "wow this is excessive".
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by tredre3 3y ago
He was very pro Windows because Windows' development tools are simply much better (yeah yeah I know your pimped emacs with a stack of 25 scripts/plugins to interface with gdb is so much more productive than Visual Studio's de
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by tredre3 3y ago
Wow that whole comment suggests you're SF/SV-based. 180k is top pay for a dev in most of America. 50-60k is entry-level pay for a dev in most of America. 350k is really uncommon outside of your bubble. Are you really suggesting In
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by tredre3 3y ago
Users pay indirectly for those, they don't see it as a standalone paid product.
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by tredre3 3y ago
> The temptation to use these technologies all the time is too strong for even self preservation of your own (writers) voice. I don't know about that. I have played with ChatGPT/Copilot/etc enough to know what they're
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by tredre3 3y ago
We can throw anecdotes to each other all day. I've been using smartphones since 2010 as well. Never used a case. Never cracked a screen.
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by tredre3 3y ago
Colombia, not Columbia.
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by tredre3 3y ago
Rhetorical means you know the answer, so let's avoid the inevitably emotional debate and just tell us the answer!
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by tredre3 3y ago
Thank you for that, I was wondering why the address bar icon wasn't showing up for me. You need to go to the settings, search for Translations, then click install all packs.
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by tredre3 3y ago
> when Chrome started blocking/disabling ad blocker extensions. That has never actually happened (yet). Though it is true that firefox offers APIs for better blocking.
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by tredre3 3y ago
> Why they copied the Chrome interface ? Because Chrome did a lot of things right and copying it is a benefit to most users. Getting rid of the status bar and menu bar comes to mind (both can still be added back in firefox). Or the unifi
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by tredre3 3y ago
I thought it was just me! Search on the Google Play store is just useless. It shows you 1-2 relevant results if you're lucky, then a few pages of ads, followed by completely unrelated results. When I know full well that what I'm s
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by tredre3 3y ago
> your data shipped off to a company that knows how to use it against you OK I hate Google as much as the next guy but that's just ridiculous. In what way does Google use your data against you? How would that be profitable? I guess
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by tredre3 3y ago
> But instead they want "bigger" and are chasing after the iPad with the new pixel tablet I bought a 11" tablet BECAUSE it is much bigger than a phone, so I can comfortably watch videos and read technical documents. I migh

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