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by wolpoli 4y ago
For personal use, it would be much easier using a Calendar service that syncs with our devices and works with our services. That said, this kind of text format is useful if one needs to keep track of calendar information for a specific pro
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by wolpoli 4y ago
It isn't surprising that the central bank wants to get unemployment higher, to keep increases in wage low. This is explained in depth in introductory economic courses. What's surprising is that they believe their lever is precise
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by wolpoli 4y ago
The team responsible for regulatory compliance is responsible. If the team doesn't exist, then legals should advise management to establish one or provide trainings to every team, and then the teams are responsible.
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by wolpoli 4y ago
It would seem like the banks would be much better equipped to handle $80 billions because they have experience with companies that need to move cash around. If push comes to shoves and Tether needs that $80 billions immediately, the bank co
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by wolpoli 4y ago
I am sure designers will stop using grey text on solid white as soon as someone shows them that paper isn't really pure white, but is a bit off white and it has texture and gradients, depending on the light source. Maybe they'll s
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by wolpoli 4y ago
I should have said the mass of ad-blockers users migrating instead of mass of users. Yes, only a percent of people use adblockers on desktop and even less people use them on mobile, which is the dominant source of traffic these days. It mig
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by wolpoli 4y ago
If web sites get aggressive that declarativeNetRequest no longer works well, I could see the mass migrating off Google Chrome/Microsoft Edge to alternatives, including Mozilla Firefox.
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by wolpoli 4y ago
Microsoft Edge will stop running Manifest v2 on January 2023 [1], or 6 months from now. [1]: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/extensions-c...
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by wolpoli 4y ago
> Mozilla will maintain support for blocking WebRequest in MV3. Glad to hear that uBlock Origin will live on in Firefox.
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by wolpoli 4y ago
Considering that as of Mar 12, this search engine only has 1001 sites indexed, I am not sure how useful this site is for getting SEO backlinks. Speaking of which, are backlinks still a thing these days?
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by wolpoli 4y ago
There does appear to be a small unserved niche for people looking for an open computing device that's portable but with a keyboard. As you mentioned, subnotebooks are hard to come by. Android phones with keyboard are also hard to find.
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by wolpoli 4y ago
> Windows launched after the Mac, into an era of slightly more powerful processors and better understanding of user behavior on truly multi-application devices. These differences led Microsoft to adopt an OS-level unified window history
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by wolpoli 4y ago
>For Microsoft to be able to make any smartphone OS margins versus Android being given away for free, they'd have to be willing to cut margin expectations or overly invest to make a "knock it out of the park" OS. If Micros
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by wolpoli 4y ago
So it isn't as bleak as I thought. Forking 10 years old code would not be desirable in most cases.
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The story needs to continue with Microsoft releasing Edge and adding the "Edge" identifier to the user agent string, then in Chromium Edge, changing the identifier to "Edg" because they need to ensure servers do not conf
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by wolpoli 4y ago
I am not familiar with the proposal to require a periodic renewal fee, but given that FSF's GPL is based on copyright, wouldn't that cause much of the source code to go free, thus nullifying the GPL?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Someone could write a very interesting whitepaper on this. But I'll just sidestep it by noting that this problem formed under the current social/economic/political system and so many/most solutions proposed in that hypot
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> rather than risk-pooling and restitution to landlords when such harms do occur? How would this work? Would it be some kind of tenant paid for insurance for compensating landlords?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Thanks for summarizing this. Did they do any other clean-up when moving to 64 bit?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
This Cafe uses traditional waterfall framework with fixed scope but flexible timeline. I will be opening an agile writing environment with time-boxed duration. There will be all your favorite ceremonies such as Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum,
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The Windows 11 taskbar was rewritten from scratch, with what it looks like a few bits from the Win32 version bolted on. Hence it never supported putting the taskbar/menu on the side. Th ExplorerPatcher utility, on the other hand, re-en
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I think it's worth watching the original clip (2 minutes) as it's more clear there. I got the sense that the company has decided work on other priorities at the moment and that the ability to move the taskbar is somewhere in the b
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Toastytech is an important part of the internet's history. It'll be a sad day if the site goes dark.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> My semi-cynical view would be that cosmetics companies don’t have any specific incentive to accelerate the natural march of research as long as they stay on the forefront of it and have top of the line products I looked at the Linkedin
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> Notably Notepad++ is not project/folder based. It is for editing a file. I looked and it turns out that Notepad++ does have the ability to open a folder as a workspace. So it's an extra option if it is needed.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Notepad++ works like a classical Windows application, with minimal learning curve for existing Windows users. It's mainly a preference thing.
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The survey looks like it picked up a couple of corrupted CPU Vendor strings like cAMD, ntel, and €. I wonder what happened?
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>I'm not invested at all in Place, but to me it seems like the whole point of the event is that things are not permanent. That's probably the reason why they made it fade away back to white in the end. For many participants thr
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by wolpoli 5y ago
This is a very handy script. Thank you!
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Ask HN: How to change web page's grey text to black?
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