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Re:Free Universal Construction Kit on Monday January 05, 2026 @03:11PM (#46504166)
It begs for an acronym.
Re:Ask HN: Give me your terrible job-search advice on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @11:40AM (#45263760)
"Follow your dreams". Without a backup plan, this will statistically doom the vast majority of those who dream of online gaming, being an influencer, or playing professional sports.

Sure there are people who make a living in all 3 areas, but the odds are definitely not in your favor.

Re:I used to know how to write in Japanese on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:23PM (#44907645)
3 years of Japanese in high school and I can still read hiragana 48 years later.
In the US the condition will be called Werewolf-Therewolf in honor of Drs. Feldman and Wilder.
Re:Behold, a giant AI-generated rat penis on Wednesday June 19, 2024 @03:43PM (#40731736)
Didn't AI-Generated Rat Dick open for the Stones?
Re:Ask HN: What clipboard manager do you use? on Saturday January 06, 2024 @09:48PM (#38897937)
I use Ditto (https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/). It uses about 5MB Ram and lets you expire clips.
Re:Sales of sugary drinks fell in cities with soda taxes on Saturday January 06, 2024 @08:11PM (#38897336)
What happens to the sales in neighboring cities without soda taxes?
Agreed. I think lag / ping is just as important as throughput in determining subjective snappiness of a connection (unless you're doing large up/downloads.
Re:Ask HN: Why are domain registrars so bad? on Tuesday October 24, 2023 @12:49PM (#38001803)
Cloudflare.com doesn't charge more than what the top level registrar charges them.

NameSilo.com includes quite a few features (Privacy and email forwarding) that the sleazy registrars try to upsell.

Re:Free unlimited DDoS attack protection by Google on Wednesday March 29, 2023 @12:27PM (#35359543)
Thank you Google. Also note that Cloudflare offers a comparable free service for all domainholders, not just certain categories of sites.
Re:Ask HN: Do you use RSS? If yes, which reader do you use? on Wednesday March 08, 2023 @11:27AM (#35071010)
I use QuiteRSS reader on Windows.
Re:FCC calls for mega $300M fine for US robocall campaign on Thursday December 22, 2022 @05:25PM (#34099701)
The FCC loves to attack Potemkin villages. The VOIP provider closes up shop with no assets and there is one less scumbag - a victory, but not in terms of taking money from phone abusers.
Re:Improving Firefox stability with this one weird trick on Tuesday November 22, 2022 @09:42AM (#33706295)
TL;DR. The latest version (105) of FireFox implemented the trick. Users don't need to do anything other than update.
Quite handy, but not part of the free tier. It's included with purchase of the Advanced Certificate Manager.
Oddly, Cloudflare is part of the Bandwidth Alliance - a consortium of 19 companies who want to reduce bandwidth costs.

Backblaze, an online storage and backup company, is also a member. They charge $.005/GB/month for S3 compatible storage. And if you map and access a bucket through Cloudflare there is no egress fee.

So it's possible to store and access your files at 1/3 the price of Cloudflare alone by using Cloudflare (plus Backblaze).

Re:Peloton Row is a smart rowing machine that costs $3,195 on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @11:20AM (#32912935)
Plus $44 a month, because a rowing machine is also a stream of income.
Re:The Cult of Busy on Monday September 05, 2022 @04:35PM (#32729121)
When somebody says "Sorry, I can't. I'm busy" I hear "I have something more important to do". May be true, may not.
Re:A Negative Covid Test Has Never Been So Meaningless on Saturday June 11, 2022 @10:21AM (#31704616)
Anyone who cruises or travels internationally to certain nations. https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-travel-restricti...
A friend had an Apple ][+ and an acoustically coupled modem in the early 80s. He had to dial the phone and put the receiver into the cups of the modem. One evening of calling a list of modem numbers for Bulletin Boards and companies (there was no specific law against hacking in 1980), I was hooked.

I saved $2,500 for an Apple //e, printer, and Zoom modem the next summer and it changed my life. Though I had an MA in clinical psychology and was an intern psychologist, through some some roundabout choices I ended up a few years later as one of the first Forensic Computer Examiners at a small federal law enforcement agency. It was the wild west in the late 1990s as I was working as a Special Agent and they offered the job to me as a sworn agent with no official credentials other than the ones I earned within the agency.

Wouldn't have changed a thing. I retired at 51 and am living as an expat.

Re:Tell HN: Cloudflare does not cache HTML content on Thursday May 26, 2022 @12:44PM (#31520521)
Free Cloudflare accounts come with 3 page rules per website.
Re:Box of human heads stolen in Denver, Colorado on Sunday March 06, 2022 @07:02PM (#30582549)
Still 4 heads short of a movie. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118541/
Re:The Sublime Beauty of My Friend Bob Saget’s Filthy Comedy on Saturday January 15, 2022 @03:08PM (#29949736)
"It's a kids movie from the 70s about cats in Paris. Oh, and it has the guy from Full House. Let's buy it for the grandkids."

Kyle and Kaylie on the next visit. "We loved The Aristocrats, Grandpa. I have a story. This family walks into a booking agent's office..."

TL;DR

Yes, as good as reading on a screen. But maybe not as good as reading on paper (Easier to gauge where you are in a book on paper).

"Hi Mom, how the f*ck ya doin?" "Kyle, where did you learn that word?" "A bird flew in the class.... Er, Edwin told me".
Re:Fakelish – Fake English word generator on Sunday December 05, 2021 @12:54PM (#29451141)
Quite a few cromulent words, but far from perfect.
"He said he put it on the floor then he slipped and fell on it — and it went up his a**."

Sure... I'm reminded of Fusilli Jerry.

Re:Show HN: Turn your un-used domains into Reddit-like clones on Thursday December 17, 2020 @05:11PM (#25461184)
Free for 1 site. $5 for 3 sites $10 for 10 sites $20 for 30 sites.
Re:Ask HN: Did Captcha suddenly get terrible for you, also? on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @11:40AM (#25347637)
It seems to vary with the originating site. Most of my experiences have matched yours, but a couple of sites let me in after one screen with no additional screens or even replacement photos - and that was using same browser and same IP.
Re:Winamp Skins Collection on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:56PM (#25283487)
<Slapping forehead>. Yes, that's it!
Re:Winamp Skins Collection on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:23PM (#25281834)
This really kicks the llamas ass. Thanks.

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