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Re:The Xkcd thing, now interactive on Tuesday March 03, 2026 @12:07PM (#47235408)
When was that?
They probably meant, as explained in the video, "light from our sun"
It seems like an appropriate channel given the silliness of the question!
Replicators failed to take control every times, but now they're trying through the election process.
that's the kind of news I expect to be in mice and not in humans ;)
Re:NordVPN library and client code open-sourced on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @11:58AM (#35153629)
I wouldn't say "a lot", but he did some. He never said he would never do VPN ads, he said he would not do it using the false advertisement talking points. For example, when speaking of geo-block bypassing, he alway mention this probably goes against the terms of services of most streaming services.
Vertical screen users thank you in advance!
Re:My VM is lighter (and safer) than your container (2017) on Thursday September 08, 2022 @10:54AM (#32766501)
Exactly, unikernels are great for performance and isolation, but that can't be compared to a full application stack running in a container or VM.
Not OP, but we had to get a c section and milk production was slow to come in. We also used the breastfeeding aid, but with formula.

The way it was explained to us, the idea is to continue to stimulate milk production while supplementing. We used it for a week until production was sufficient. I personally enjoyed this as it allowed me to be more involved and removed the stress of knowing if we were feeding our child enough while still getting what we could from breastfeeding.

We definitely had a great hospital. With all the stress and lack of sleep, I'm not sure I would've kept calm if they'd imposed stuff that way. Not letting you the choice of using formula when using the breastfeeding aid seems crazy.

Re:What did www.python.org look like from 1996 to 2021? on Wednesday March 23, 2022 @10:51AM (#30779039)
I see the HTTPS:// was removed from the submission title, it's what got me curious about it.
Re:Pilot FriXion Erasable Pens: A Comprehensive Guide on Wednesday March 09, 2022 @03:27PM (#30619546)
The issue is mostly that it could erase by accident.
Re:How to earn money by hacking a “walking for money” app on Monday February 28, 2022 @04:14PM (#30505229)
A solution would be for the OS developers (Apple/Google) to provide a way to retrieve data from the backend. This would not fully prevent it to be hacked but would change the difficulty:

- wanna be GPS spoofers would need to emulate the whole OS/sensors to send spoofed data to Apple/Google

- the platform/OS developers would have more ressources and incentives to detect spoofed data

The cat&mouse game is harder when played against Apple/Google than against a single small developer.

Re:Scan of the Month: Lego Minifigures on Wednesday November 17, 2021 @01:49PM (#29257187)
Quite an alarming claim!

Looks like regarding to Cadmium, "vintage" means up to mid-to-late 1980s [0]

> Apparently The [Lego] has been aware of this concern for at least three decades (hence the switch to Cadmium free plastic colorants sometime in the mid-to-late 1980s)

[0] https://tamararubin.com/2019/05/vintage-1970s-legos-test-pos...

Re:Show HN: My proposal for a new keyboard layout on Monday November 15, 2021 @02:36PM (#29231644)
Yes! As a French Canadian, that's my preferred layout.

Its advantage is that it uses dead keys to add diacritic.

For instance (Alt Gr+i then [normal vowel key]) will give îôêâ... You just have to know the diacritic position and press the normal letter to apply it.

Re:Ask HN: Who's not sucky to work for? on Wednesday November 03, 2021 @06:01PM (#29100917)
Don't. The hiring company always has a role in those kind of situation. Maybe they picked the lowest bider, maybe they don't have good hiring criteria or just don't review the work being done make sense.

We're in the process of hiring abroad and it's hard. The promise of better salaries does attract more candidates that need to be filtered but we think that if we care while interviewing, we'll get as good candidates that will be part of the team.

Be proud of the work you're doing and don't take OP's anecdote as an absolute. But the situation described does happen.

Didn't knew it once was named Rendez-vous!

It has been called Bonjour for a long time now.

Re:A variable signal at heart of the Milky Way on Tuesday October 12, 2021 @11:13AM (#28840723)
If that's intelligent life, they could then attack our encryption!
Also, please test your download page on different browsers.
Just bought it! I'd recommend adding SPF, DKIM and DMARC record to your domain so that emails don't ends up in spam (that probably the reason they currently do).
Re:Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance on Thursday April 29, 2021 @10:48AM (#26981861)
oh! I just did the onboarding again and I just realized that the yearly maintenances were in %! I had set it to a few thousand percents thinking it was $!

That's why the value of my home was making me broke...

Re:Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance on Wednesday April 28, 2021 @11:25AM (#26970448)
There's something weird going on with the mortgage calculation when configuring the house's value.

When I set it to 0, I'm paying the mortgage way faster than should be possible, when I set it to anything meaningful, I'm bankrupt in one year!

Re:Sublime Text 4 [video] on Wednesday March 31, 2021 @10:38AM (#26647881)
OH yes. Don't know why, but I've developed an habit of putting important stuff in unsaved files from my use of Sublime a few years ago. I've been bitten by this in VSC a few times but I still do it...
Possibly. My understanding is that seaweed improve the microbiota of the cattle which should be beneficial for the overall health.

(I've no domain knownledge on this, but saw an interview with the founders of a company that produce seaweed for cattles. they do claim healthier animals)

Re:You Shall Not Pass on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @10:11AM (#26090157)
The reward for "almost winning" is quite underwhelming but hilarious.

There's 3 levels, can be passed relatively quickly.

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