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Re:Ask HN: Do you still own a printer? on Wednesday October 07, 2026 @12:25AM (#49988174)
yes, 2 multifunction printers with scanning and faxing and copying capability
Re:Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher on Monday September 14, 2026 @01:15AM (#49692281)
he denied it, convincingly
Re:Verizon Wireless Is Down on Wednesday January 14, 2026 @01:20PM (#46620062)
Verizon posted they're aware of an outage https://x.com/VerizonNews/status/2011500483072954495?s=20
I use it all the time because I switch between a lot of different cars a lot, and my memory is not that great.
nonexistent
But wouldn't they tell them why then?
Re:Show HN: A zoomable, searchable archive of BYTE magazine on Tuesday August 26, 2025 @07:04PM (#45033413)
On fastish home network (~300 Mbps) with middle-age MacBook Pro (2020), it's wonderfully snappy, not sluggish at all.
Re:Ask HN: Why is it called "Vibe Coding"? on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @09:18AM (#44797619)
That tweet, plus the fact that vibe is a hot word these days. I think of vibe shift (here's the source: https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/a-vibe-shift-is-coming.html)
I just got an MRI. No warning about dangers of having any metal in the room was mentioned verbally. Was asked if I had any metal in my body, not told why. I just said no to that question. That was it.
Re: on Wednesday May 14, 2025 @02:36PM (#43987803)
It's mostly not working for me. Seems to sync from my local computer up to the server, but cannot log in on website or create Dropbox links. I see it's listed as down on the status page as well.
Re:The subtle art of designing physical controls for cars on Tuesday February 11, 2025 @07:08PM (#43020037)
Digital controls? Hell no. Just say no.
Re:Ask HN: What's Wrong with WordPress? on Friday October 04, 2024 @11:55PM (#41747611)
What are modern alternatives that are less old, slow, and clunky?
You left for work at 6:30 am to arrive at work 2.5 hours later at 9 am?
So they left you believing take the voucher or get nothing?
Re:Recent 'MFA Bombing' Attacks Targeting Apple Users on Wednesday March 27, 2024 @03:59AM (#39836584)
What's the recommended alternative for mere mortal hackers?
Re:Is This How Amazon Ends? on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @12:21AM (#38838402)
Lack of serpentine queues for checkout. It's unfair and infuriating.
Re:Did English ever have a formal version of "you"? (2011) on Tuesday December 26, 2023 @01:06AM (#38769266)
Informal du is used in German to talk to God. Same in Yiddish, which uses דו.
Since there are Fastmail people here, I'll say the web app's search is slowly improving, but it leaves a lot be desired. For example, it is stupid around interpreting time intervals for search. E.g.,

You can ask it to Search "between" times.

If you give it __Jan__ and __Feb__, of course, you expect it to include everything between Jan 1 and Feb 28 (if it's not a leap year) or Feb 29 (if it is a leap year). What does it do?

after:2023-01-01 before:2023-02-02

Sad.

Re:Ask HN: What Happened to Picture-in-Picture? on Saturday October 28, 2023 @01:27PM (#38051700)
I miss it. I would love to have it back. Guess I'm a minority.
Re:Is This ‘Which’ Dead? on Monday September 25, 2023 @01:24AM (#37639918)
"Close you the door" sounds completely ungrammatical to me. Is it or was it ever considered grammatical in modern English?
Makes me want to stay there
Re:Show HN: Cross-platform dotfiles manager written in Rust on Monday September 04, 2023 @08:36AM (#37379908)
Why no Mac version?
Re:That Old NetBSD Server, Running Since 2010 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @10:00PM (#37288796)
Weren't your customers annoyed?
Re:Tiffin Tom: Fish, chips and a side of identity theft on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @08:30AM (#36785246)
They got big during COVID days for being more "touchless"
A ton. My most common workflow is command+4 on Mac, then select rectangle to capture, then reveal in finder, then rename the image file name to something meaningful. Wish I had a faster workflow for this.
Sounds like maybe how Skype got completely wrecked
That's ridiculously complex. Plus you cannot use the same gesture on your other computers, or those of your friend, coworker, family members, etc., without repeating same complex setup.
Re:Ask HN: What's the current best domain host? on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @12:06PM (#34883575)
I could not figure out how much one .com domain costs. Fail
Re:Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS on Friday February 17, 2023 @01:04AM (#34831364)
What you describe around audio

> mute the audio by default, stream the video on mobile data anyway, and then unmute the video as soon as the user clicks anywhere

sounds like exactly like how Instagram app works.

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