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by zamnos 3y ago
This is a metaphorical hill you're willing to metaphorically and not literally die on? How brave. The Stack Overflow poster is on a metaphorical hill in a literal warzone to literally die on. They're trying to hack together AC pow
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by zamnos 3y ago
I'd say it's on the other end. users can't find the apps which are properly designed for tablets, and get tired of wading through crap to find them. the tips are totally there, but if you search for, eg, python, you can be su
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The iPad store didn't break away from the iOS store until 2019. The original app store came out in 2008, eleven years earlier. While you have as certain point, the division is meant to highlight apps which treat the iPad as a mini lapt
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by zamnos 3y ago
> MS still lacks a industry leading 21st century consumer device The XBox division doesn't count?
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Balmer said it best, 'Developers, developers, developers!' And then Microsoft bought Github.
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I just checked and got a 404 for that link.
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by zamnos 3y ago
If HN's your problem, check out the noprocrast feature in your profile to force yourself to take a break.
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by zamnos 3y ago
Just because the DNS entry says telemetry in the name doesn't mean a thing. Just like if they'd called it medical-records-here.dropbox.com and were only sending telemetry to it. Whenever the topic of telemetry comes up, I try and
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by zamnos 3y ago
The issue of converting offices to housing is water supply and drainage. Electricity is well supplied in modern offices. The reason luxury apartments make sense is because either the apartments are real big so there's less plumbing nee
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by zamnos 3y ago
Yes but because your computer is sending its IP to Dropbox, you can't say, a priori, make the claim that the GDPR isn't an issue.
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So don't use it for corporate conversations? There's already Slack for that. Corporation's private internal communication just isn't the target market. The issue is the public side of projects that are using Slack or Dis
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I don't see why you'd think it's bizarre. Using Google for inbound links was practically Stack Overflow's raison d'etre. If someone searches their question, finds an answer almost immediately via a search engine (do
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by zamnos 3y ago
https://xkcd.com/1150/ ?
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Of course, if they failed to disconnect all your security cameras, the story won't end there. You make a rap about the raid, put the cops stealing money from you in your music video, and the cops will turn around and sue you for in
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by zamnos 3y ago
The GDPR lists IP addresses as PII, and not to be all "your IP address is leaking" but in order to send the telemetry, your computer's IP (or that of your VPN) is being sent to Dropbox, potentially to be logged.
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because there's a third option - stay but change the situation somehow. But by ignoring that third option, and presenting only two, that's the dichotomy, but one that isn't real, because there's a third way.
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I think it was the report that went around that Netflix won't renew most shows for a third season because that's when the writers and talent get uppity and ask to gasp be paid well for their work.
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Spoiler: the link is from 2022 and only covers Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and Hulu. The OG networks (G Paramount) and Disney were not mentioned.
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Do auto insurance rates on touch screen cars show this to be the case? Cars with touch screens have been around long enough that they should have data, and consequently be charging more for insurance on those cars if they are is that is in
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It's not about the money. The fines are because Telegram won't reveal who's operating (neo-Nazi) accounts on their platform, with an added bit of political shenanigans to muddy the waters on top of it.
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by zamnos 3y ago
The courts have their own dictionaries though, so it depends on which court in which case you're talking about. Here's a list of definitions for how the (US) courts define the word software. https://www.lawinsider.com&#
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If you want to get better at manipulating your car's buttons without looking, practice doing various tasks with your eyes closed while stopped at a light. If that sounds ridiculous, just own the same car for 15 years instead. Realistic
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Dr Seuss books were recently recalled and remade to be less racist and to remove insensitive imagery. Bernstein Bears books all got replaced by Berenstein Bears books, so it's clearly not impossible to do.
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If you're outside the US, you can select 0.99 lbs above and see what it is in metrics units. Weirdly though, 99 lbs doesn't offer a conversion.
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The water ads I've seen aren't for water from the tap, but are instead pushing bottled water which aren't quite the same thing.
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So kick out the freerider! Avoiding doing anything about a problem just because there's potential that some asshole is going to come around is not a good reason to avoid helping others. Some asshole is going to come around and disturb
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That's different than vanderZwan's quoted description of what spontan means in the GP comment.
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Underpowered CPU being asked to do way more work than it properly has capacity for.
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Triplebyte and a few others in that space were able to do pre-screening for companies that chose to go though them, which skipped the recruiter call and pre-screen and got you on site faster. Worked pretty well, but they failed to figure ou
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Staying out from Thursday or Friday evening until Monday morning is not for everybody, but Berlin's a city where that's eminently possible.

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