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by udkyo 5y ago
I love that this cautionary tale about not opening random links from people you don't know, ends with you opening up some random docx that just materialised out of the blue on one of your USB sticks.
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by udkyo 6y ago
I've done multiple txs in the last few weeks - all with "normal fees," 2 took 3 days to get a single confirmation. 1 took ~24 hours, although these were the outliers, several other txs happened in normal time frames. It'
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by udkyo 7y ago
SARS and MERS killed ~1 in 10 and ~1 in 3 of the people who contracted them. If a contagious disease with a 34% mortality rate don't justify containment. What does?
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by udkyo 7y ago
DDG is fine when you need help with a problem a lot of people bump up against frequently, but its helpfulness nosedives when your journey takes you off the beaten track.
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by udkyo 7y ago
I went from a 2015 MBP to a Gigabyte Aero 15x and put Pop!OS on it. I'm very happy with it - it's a tidy little machine, build quality is good, it has a nice 4K screen, great specs incl a good GPU, all the holes and slots I could
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by udkyo 7y ago
I took the parent posts to mean that step involved checking the project license, not its dependencies. For the latter though, Fossology, Scancode etc. can help.
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by udkyo 7y ago
API Gateway gets expensive when things get busy. App load balancers also let you point methods at Lambdas though, so nowadays that's likely a better idea (and certainly more serverless) than doing the routing in nginx.
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by udkyo 8y ago
On going into the app to let it know when it gets things wrong: I’d love to have it just listen for a “thank you” for a few seconds after it does whatever it thinks we’ve asked it to do.
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by udkyo 8y ago
Having a vacuum cleaner that's not a complete PITA helps too (e.g. light, cordless and powerful) I don't enjoy any housework and used to use a robot vacuum cleaner more or less exclusively, but it can't have been off its dock
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by udkyo 8y ago
VyOS is another good option
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by udkyo 8y ago
If you count one a second, you're counting very slowly. That stops being true long before you reach the finish line. Try timing yourself counting from 147,895 to 147,900 and see how long it takes.
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Show HN: Lup – loopy command execution(github.com)
1 points by udkyo 8y ago|0 comments
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by udkyo 8y ago
BeOS was delicious all around and it's a crying shame it didn't take off. It really felt like the Amiga's spiritual successor to me.
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Show HN: Lup – Vertical command expansion for mac and linux shells(github.com)
1 points by udkyo 8y ago|0 comments
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by udkyo 8y ago
That's what cancel does - you click proceed when you want to cancel. If cancelling isn't what you want, you simply click the button labelled "Cancel" Clear as mud, right?
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by udkyo 8y ago
It's awkward sometimes. AWX: "Are you sure you want to cancel? Cancel/Proceed" e.g. Cancel cancelling / proceed to cancel. To me, that always seemed like a place where a simple "Yes/No" would be more
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by udkyo 8y ago
The problem with tracking cash that way is it only works if the shop closes right after Alice leaves. If another customer comes in and gets Alice's note in their change (which is fairly likely since it's sitting at the top of the