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Re:BMW Rolling Out In-Car Spam
on Friday August 07, 2026 @05:32PM (#49216486)
F BMW and F what this website does to stop you from clicking the back button.
Re:The history of Casio watches
on Wednesday November 12, 2025 @11:14AM (#45901959)
Exactly. I did the same with my wrist remote in class. After the second time the TV turned off, without saying anything the teacher went to his desk, picked up a notecard, and propped it up over the remote sensor.
Re:Show HN: New Ensō – first public beta
on Monday June 30, 2025 @09:26AM (#44423029)
Also not to be confused with Enso Analytics https://ensoanalytics.com/ which is also software for Mac (and Windows and Linux)
Re:Cursed Excel: "1/2"+1=45660
on Monday April 07, 2025 @01:48PM (#43614046)
It would be interesting to know if your Excel correctly interprets 1/2 as 1st February based on your international settings.
Re:Notepad++ is 21 years old
on Friday November 01, 2024 @04:18PM (#42021127)
My favorite feature is when I try to save something in an admin restricted folder and I hadn't started it as admin. It seamlessly restarts itself as admin and restores the file I was working on. It's magic.
Re:Brainfuck Enterprise Solutions
on Monday September 23, 2024 @03:14PM (#41629524)
Why not GPT in Brainfuck?
Re:ICQ will stop working from June 26
on Friday May 24, 2024 @12:53PM (#40468033)
I believe you're right on this. The original ICQ number accounts got merged into AOL Instant Messenger, and for a while you could log into AIM with your ICQ number. I think the original ICQ died when AIM got shut down.
Re:Surf the web like it's 1999
on Friday January 19, 2024 @01:55PM (#39059490)
I like https://oldweb.today ... actually emulates old OS/browser combinations and proxies stuff from archive.org
Re:Why does the SARS-Cov2 genome end in aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...
on Sunday February 12, 2023 @01:24AM (#34760417)
No No No, Oooooooooooo in surprise and alarm.
Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working on This Year?
on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @02:59AM (#34228998)
Love this. I have often thought about doing the same thing, but using the audio feeds from broadcastify perhaps.
Re:Old-school computing: when your lab PC is ancient (2021)
on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @12:29AM (#34157818)
And no modern OS does those two things consistently or correctly.
Re:I drink before I interview
on Thursday November 17, 2022 @10:46PM (#33649910)
same, and I think the same. how did you go about getting diagnosed?
Re:Demo of =GPT3() as a Spreadsheet Feature
on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @04:11PM (#33442282)
ctrl+e
Re:https://16777217/
on Monday September 19, 2022 @09:23AM (#32897958)
Re:The case for ending calculus requirements for science majors
on Saturday September 17, 2022 @07:26PM (#32882654)
At my university in the late 90s, I was required to take calculus for my CS curriculum, but no statistics courses, which I always found funny because our department was "Computer Science and Statistics". With "Data Science" (i.e. statistics) and "Machine Learning" (i.e. statistics) becoming so commonplace, I sure hope that has changed.
Re:http://pn./
on Sunday September 11, 2022 @11:56PM (#32805918)
http://microsoft.com./ has an interesting 404 page
Re:I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
on Sunday July 17, 2022 @02:35PM (#32129658)
Says a website with 20 ads on it
Re:A rant about search engine results for large format laser printers ...
on Monday May 23, 2022 @04:48AM (#31476654)
I have an HP m377dw laser and this exact thing was happening when I printed on card stock. TIL via the comments of this video that there should be a paper thickness setting in the driver.
Re:The day I discovered that Apple Maps is Kind of Good now
on Tuesday May 10, 2022 @06:21PM (#31333440)
Where I live this is the way we give directions (e.g. 2 blocks past McDonald's take a right), so to me it feels more natural than looking for a street name.
Re:Singapore Government Tech Stack
on Saturday May 07, 2022 @12:27PM (#31296031)
I thought it was going to be built on Salesforce
Re:Mourning loss as a remote team
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @03:15PM (#30814479)
Possibly true when the programmers are building the company's product. I happen to work for a company where all of IT is a cost center.
Re:Mourning loss as a remote team
on Saturday March 26, 2022 @10:36AM (#30812179)
The moment you realize HR is there to serve the company's interests, not the employee's, your expectation of them changes.
Re:The magic of the Japanese convenience store sandwich
on Friday March 11, 2022 @12:10AM (#30636476)
Where I am, Cumberland Farms and Seasons are pretty good.
Re:USB Type-C finally shows up in power tools
on Saturday January 29, 2022 @08:20PM (#30132669)
It's not just ridiculously-sized power bricks designed this way... do a Google image search for wifi extender and be amazed! Had trouble finding one with a cord.
Re:Reverse engineering Wordle
on Wednesday January 12, 2022 @12:06PM (#29909546)
It will be if you run the JSFiddle at the end
Re:NIST is broadcasting a test signal on minute 8 of the hour on WWV a...
on Thursday December 02, 2021 @12:23AM (#29412830)
If you want to listen, go to http://kiwisdr.com/public/, find an SDR operating in North America, and tune it to 2500, 5000, 10000, 15000 or 20000.
Some have better reception than others. I've had the best luck with 10000 (10Mhz)
Re:Corded headphones are making an unexpected return
on Sunday November 14, 2021 @10:38PM (#29223396)
Apparently I'm fashionable again. Wait long enough..
Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch
on Monday October 18, 2021 @08:07PM (#28913445)
I had (and lost, unforunately) a pair of Sennheiser MM400 headphones... The charging jack was on the removable battery pack and you could charge it while using it (no effect at all on headphone operation)
Re:SpaceCadetPinball – Decompilation of 3D Pinball for Windows
on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @10:24PM (#28859880)
And it was forked and ported to emscripten! Amazing!