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Re:The Golden Age of Cordless Power Tools on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @10:32AM (#39370987)
I bought a tiny 12v Bosch driver when I fitted my kitchen 5 years ago, and I've used since for things like assembling flat pack furniture.

I've not charged it once since my kitchen project.

Obviously tightening knockdown fittings isn't very taxing work, but I'm still impressed every time I get it out.

Re:F-35A Has Flown from a Highway for the First Time on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @06:09AM (#37657034)
That's only the B variant, which only UK and Italy will operate in Europe.

I've never seen that use case discussed for the F35, but that was indeed the primary purpose of the Harrier - before it was eventually deployed onto small carriers.

Also I don't think selling GCP to AWS really helps competition.
WinPopup LAN messenger!
Re:Airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with new scanners on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @04:29AM (#35436715)
I think it was quite a developed plot, and led to several high profile trials and convictions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_transatlantic_aircraft_pl...
Re:macOS Cursors on Tuesday March 21, 2023 @07:42AM (#35244916)
> either in iTunes or TV.app

You missed out on another flagship video watching app of Apple's - Front Row...

I've not torrented in at least a decade, and I don't remember seeing magnet links inline in text like that.

Certainly don't miss those hours of waiting for an ISO to download only to find it's all corrupt, or a record label plant, or a handheld recording of a cinema screen...

Ha there is no way that 99% of the world population know what to do with those links / hashes / whatever they are.
Re:How to find a tiny radioactive source while doing 70 kph on Thursday February 02, 2023 @04:28AM (#34624211)
Or a radioactive magpie.
What happens if you stop paying for the iCloud service? Obviously you won't be able to create new hidden addresses, but do the old ones continue to receive mail?
Right until you're involved in a long email thread that has nothing to do with you, and no way to opt out.
Often PMs are the only people with adequate permissions to actually achieve anything with Jira.
I'm honestly mortified if I somehow manage to push a .DS_Store to a PR...
Would it not contribute to flooding as well, unless drainage is somehow improved around each panel.
Plenty of over-specced tractors on farms too.
Lots and lots of LHD trucks serve the UK making daily cross channel trips, or even just based here full time from Dutch / Eastern European shipping firms.
Re:Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market on Friday December 02, 2022 @09:54AM (#33831220)
Fuji have all of that functionality over WiFi on their X series.

...Only, as the parent comment says, it barely works, and the UI to get to it is awful, and the WiFi transfer speed is ridiculously slow.

I'm not super up to date with frontend development trends, but when I used it recently it really went against everything I've ever been taught about separation of concerns.

Like, I thought we were supposed to keep our content and styles separate, not mismatch them all together with a thousand utility class imports.

> IBM has a very different model for supporting developers than Microsoft does with MSDN.

Interesting comparison, because when I was teaching myself to code in the early 00s, that's how I perceived Microsoft.

MSDN was a paid subscription, and the tools you needed to write MS software were also paid.

Hence me ending up forming a career on open source software, and a generation of programmers who still turn their nose up at Microsoft languages.

Re:Electric ferry uses a long extension cord [video] on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @05:09PM (#33631516)
MILAN is very slightly older and probably just as widely used - especially out of US.
Yeah what I hate about dealerships is that they usually have at least four ways to screw you, and it's pretty hard for a layperson to negotiate fairly on all of them.

ie. Trade in price for old car, purchase price for new car, rate of finance, cost of extended warranties.

Re:GitHub is planning Voice to Code on Thursday November 10, 2022 @04:37AM (#33544210)
I don't know what version number, but when it was new I could depend on it to do things like sending SMS while driving, changing the navigation, etc.

Now it's barely worth attempting, because it gets it wrong more than it gets it right.

Re:Mark Zuckerberg confirms broad layoffs to begin at Meta on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:50AM (#33531548)
Unless that location was working on a particular problem that meant fewer LoC.
Re:Ask HN: How would I send 1 dollar to everyone on Earth? on Wednesday November 09, 2022 @08:38AM (#33531389)
Planting an $8bn forest would actually be pretty neat.
Re:UK grocery price inflation hits record 14.7% on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:57AM (#33519653)
I think bread is often a loss-leader for supermarkets - my local Morrisons has amazing fresh bread by the entrance for just 60p a loaf.

I'm sure it must cost more than that to have an in-store bakery constantly churning them out.

Re:UK grocery price inflation hits record 14.7% on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:53AM (#33519596)
There's also a notable lack of choice recently.

One tiny example I was frustrated by recently... soy sauce. You used to be able to get light / dark / reduced salt / premium versions of soy sauce in most supermarkets.

Recently I had a couple of weeks where I couldn't find any at all, and now it's down to just a single brand of supermarket own dark soy sauce.

ha yes, a parent can have a fully demanding, exhausting out of work schedule, but a young grad with plenty of free time is banned from volunteering at their local soup kitchen every evening.
Re:TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:07AM (#33191139)
It's strictly no nudity, but with as much sexually charged activity as you can get away with.

Presumably automated tools just see skin, but are useless against innuendo.

Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:17AM (#33036029)
I keep getting free trials and financially it makes sense to me with Apple One etc, but every time I've tried it I've ended up back on Spotify.

I've concluded the price saving isn't enough to use a product who's UX I enjoy less, even if it works well for other users.

Re:Google is shutting down Stadia on Friday September 30, 2022 @11:10AM (#33035942)
It's actually co-hosted with the coffee machine in Mountain View.

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