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What made you switch from poetry?
How are the carrier locks implemented today? I assume it must be implemented on the client (phone). Do the carriers work with all the phone manufacturers to have them add this capability?
Re:Show HN: Shpool, a Lightweight Tmux Alternative on Thursday June 13, 2024 @03:03PM (#40673301)
There's an entry in the FAQ for alt key on mac: https://zellij.dev/documentation/faq#i-am-a-macos-user-how-c... Fixed it for me in Alacritty
Re:Why is a mood tracker from 2016 still the best? on Tuesday August 22, 2023 @11:22PM (#37231492)
I recently discovered How We Feel so I just wanted to thank you for your work. I really enjoy using the app!

I found a small bug in the analyze tab though. If you look at e.g. weekly and select a tab that is not the left most one, then scroll down, then tap the top of the display (the universal scroll to the top feature of iOS), the content disappears.

You are in the credits though!
Re:Little Snitch Mini on Thursday March 23, 2023 @09:15AM (#35274259)
I think the point is that after 3 to 4 years, a new version of the perpetual license version would be released and you would spend that amount to upgrade anyway. Of course you could choose no to upgrade, but that’s not always an option when support for new macOS versions are not available in the older version.
That’s more or less what just eat did/does. Though it combines both delivery and pickup
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:35PM (#31627771)
Unreal engine is open source but in a private GitHub repo. Anyone can link their GitHub account with their epic games account which adds them to the team.
Re:Arizona moves to ban recording video of police on Saturday March 19, 2022 @07:08PM (#30738395)
Original headline is “Arizona House approves ban on close-up videotaping of police officers”. Not sure why OP changed it
Re:Why do dogs tilt their heads? New study offers clues on Friday October 29, 2021 @11:49AM (#29039931)
My dog is blind and does the head tilt when she hears certain noises (e.g. dogs barking). She was not born blind though, in case that could make a difference.
Re:Back Orifice (1998) on Saturday September 04, 2021 @11:08AM (#28415770)
I wrote a similar tool to mess with my friends at the computer lab at school (since back orifice, netbus, etc. would all be detected by antivirus at this point).

Years later, I was shocked when whatever antivirus I was running detected it as a trojan through heuristics. I realize this is pretty normal these days, but back then it felt like magic.

Re:Killing TurboTax on Thursday March 04, 2021 @01:01AM (#26339164)
I've been wanting to try it, but I can't sign up because they, for whatever strange reason, don't allow emails with foreign country tlds...
Re:CircuitPython: Programming Hardware in Python on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:31AM (#25928667)
I have a few of their boards and my experience with them could have been a lot better.

Their documentation is rather poor. Parameters to function/constructors are often left out, leaving you to go through the source to figure out how stuff works.

The standard modules can have different functions/variables between different boards. It makes sense since some boards have capabilities others don't. However there is no documentation on this.

Finally, in my opinion, some of the adafruit_* libraries are not well designed. There are many "kitchen sink" libraries that try to do everything. I also noticed that while they do appear to use pylint to enforce good standards, almost all source files have at least one check disabled...

Re:YoYo Games Is Now Part of Opera on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @02:34PM (#25850882)
Same here! Mark was like a hero to me back then as I was learning Delphi (which Game Maker was written in at the time) as a teenager. I even asked him some questions about Delphi but I don't remember if he answered.
Re:Ask HN: Predictions for 2021? on Friday January 01, 2021 @12:53AM (#25601215)
Doordash for weed

Tech companies will close offices and have most employees work from home

Google will finally make a smart watch on par with the Apple wacth

Re:Cover Your Tracks on Saturday November 21, 2020 @09:33PM (#25174423)
It might their bot manager product
Re:Wish S-1 on Saturday November 21, 2020 @02:15PM (#25171979)
I've used both. Wish often has free shipping but slightly higher prices (or free product with higher shipping), but occasionally will still be cheaper than AliExpress.
> Fulfillment by Amazon Donations, which Amazon says will help sellers send returns directly to charities instead of disposing of them.

So the seller ends up having to take the loss?

Re:“35-50% of clicks on Reddit Ads are fraudulent” on Friday October 09, 2020 @01:58PM (#24732565)
The ad worked even better then! You went to their site AND they didn't have to pay for it
Re:The GitHub Arctic Code Vault on Thursday July 16, 2020 @08:35PM (#23865631)
20 of those are probably node_modules folders
Re:JazzKeys: Type to improvise Jazz music on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @01:39AM (#23756056)
Or "window"
This is exactly it. I have seen app developers who were "caught" by this use the same explanation. There is a new API that can be used instead that does not trigger the notification (and does not disclose the clipboard content)
Re:A photo is crashing some Android phones on Wednesday June 03, 2020 @07:30PM (#23410329)
Was that the feature that would occasionally replace your desktop background with an error message?
Re:Grafana 7.0 on Monday May 18, 2020 @07:11PM (#23229475)
I really hope the new plugin architecture does not change for a while. The biggest reason we are still on an older grafana release at work is because we don't have resources to update our plugins to the later versions. And now we have to migrate to yet another new architecture?
Re:Google Duo rolls out realtime AV1 on Tuesday April 21, 2020 @07:54PM (#22940581)
Google Duo does have a web interface
Glasswire is probably the closest equivalent for Windows
Re:Off-Facebook activity on Wednesday January 29, 2020 @01:58PM (#22184453)
I don't think it's be email (or at least not ONLY email). The page shows a company is sharing my data with Facebook and my email address is different from the one I use with that company.
Re:An Illustrated Guide to OAuth and OpenID Connect on Friday October 25, 2019 @02:37PM (#21357922)
This is even worse on mobile apps as they typically just show that page in a web view without the ability to even see the URL/cert
Could be that it's configured with a single signature, and it can determine a match with 95 % accuracy
Re:Ask HN: What do you do with your Raspberry Pi? on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @02:41PM (#20277445)
I'm only familiar with the commerical ones (flightaware etc.). What are some of the open ones?

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