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Re:Ask HN: Which TV do you recommend for privacy? on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:23PM (#50331904)
I buy the best tv that satisfies my needs. I will not handicap my viewing pleasure reading chicken little stories of the paranoid Internet.
Re:Patrick Stewart taught us what good men do with power on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:19PM (#50331874)
It seems most here and the article venerate the actor but he probably had little to do with the words he spoke. You can play up the character but give credit to the writers who wrote those words
Re:Radiation Map of the World on Sunday November 01, 2026 @05:22PM (#50330549)
Only 403 contribute in the USA. Is that enough to be of value now?
Thanks. That worked.
I don't see it on the Play Store for my Pixel 11. There are two marked "Outcrop" but not by these people.
Re:Digital Minimalism on Saturday October 31, 2026 @08:12PM (#50321533)
Almost all of it is nonsense. Ten years ago I was at a funeral where I found out the relatives were all on Facebook. I never saw the need till then so I signed up. Turned into a constant barrage of kids photos and someone standing in front of a statue while on vacation. But that's all gone away, rarely does anyone post, and I'm tempted to just delete the account cause now ask I see is nonsense reels and advertising.
So this means these areas were once not ice covered? Does this mean the area is returning to what it was a thousand years ago? And, back then, this was the normal or is ice covering the normal?
Re:Pico CSS is no longer maintained on Friday October 30, 2026 @09:36AM (#50303696)
I don't see that on my Android phone with Chrome. Looks good for me.
Re:DoorDash to Acquire Instacart on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:54AM (#50289105)
My son lost his job so did InstaCart for a while. He got really good at it and started making good money. Then they sent him to an apartment complex but didn't give him an apartment number.

He called support who contacted the customer and said they were on their way and could he wait five minutes. Of course he did but 30 minutes went by.

Contacted support again who said customer would be there in five minutes but, 15 minutes later, support said to just take the goods back to the store.

He took the goods back to the store but the store refused to accept them. Support said he could just donate them or keep them.

Despite showing the back and forth text messages, he was deactivated for not delivering to the customer.

Re:StackOverflow now gets fewer than 1000 questions a month on Thursday October 29, 2026 @09:44AM (#50288938)
I had moderator privileges and I used them mainly to just get people to follow the rules. But the higher ups didn't want you to do that due to the "be nice" policy. "But...but...it's a direct violation!" I'd say. Then I'd be declared a bad guy and put into moderator jail for a while.

That happened often enough that I just gave up. I rarely felt the need to ask questions cause I was pretty good at what I did so I quit altogether. For fun, I signed in and noticed about a 2000 uptick in my standing and three "best answer" awards.

You can Google for the same information as I did over the past year. I won't do it for you.
You've decided to go down your own beaten path and want me to follow. I'm not doing that. I'm staying with everybody else. Go start your own thread somewhere else.
Which has absolutely nothing to do with what I'm pointing out.

I'm sorry. Is this Reddit? Sure reads like it

Uh, wouldn't that be the same? Let's say factually and statistically. In any case, I posted that to balance what the other guy said which was misleading at best
Inflation under Trump is half that of when Biden was in. https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/article/inflation-u...
Re:What goes into making an animated film? on Monday October 26, 2026 @07:38AM (#50242063)
That's a tangent that won't work here as others have said.
Re:What goes into making an animated film? on Sunday October 25, 2026 @10:18PM (#50238325)
You're thinking of Steve Jobs and his attention to detail on the inside of Apple computers; a trait he learned from his father as detailed in the book about him by Walter Isaacson
Re:XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop on Sunday October 25, 2026 @04:24PM (#50235714)
Thank you unknown person for fixing that.
Re:XPS 16 Creator Edition Laptop on Sunday October 25, 2026 @09:29AM (#50231364)
The site blocks Chromium on FreeBSD.
Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @09:29PM (#50227326)
This is what I thought from long ago but wasn't sure. Thanks
>>I get that we live in an era where the machine writes most/all of the code

Only on the Internet is this true, not in real life. I cannot and do not trust any of these things to do a proper job because they have not in any situation succeeded in any job I've given them. And no company I deal with claims otherwise

Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:36PM (#50222892)
Well, they've been around for 14 years. And they do charge for some services.
Re:FreeDNS on Saturday October 24, 2026 @12:35PM (#50222881)
Can someone explain how and why and when this would be used?
I would avoid and distrust most social forums, such as reddit, that have Pookas which are fond of rumpots, crackspots and how are you bix6? -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeEsx2QLJ40
In John Sandford's "Prey" series, detective Lucas Davenport looks scary with a cut that goes from his forehead down his cheek. Bad guys know it's from his tough guy image but the reality is he got it from fishing when a hook went wild and ran down the front of his face. But he doesn't tell anyone that.
I always advise people to never, ever use Reddit as a reference for anything.
Re:DNS: A Replacement for Finger on Friday October 23, 2026 @06:32PM (#50216276)
Unix, Linux and BSD have finger built in.
Re:The Kevin Bacon on Friday October 23, 2026 @05:45PM (#50215812)
I'm two degrees from Kevin Bacon. Friend of mine wrote the script to "He Said, She Said". So there.

My son has been good at the game since he was 13. He's been a professional actor since he was nine. I don't think he's ever been tripped up.

Again, it doesn't happen to tons of people or to normal people. Quit reading Reddit headlines and look around you unless that is the type of people in your life. Certainly not mine or anyone I know

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