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Re:One Google Staffer Fired, Two Others Put on Leave Amid Tensions on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:42AM (#21523819)
>Google has a major lawsuit on its hands, regardless of whatever arbitration agreement it makes new-hires sign. Google is causing harm by capturing employees hearts and minds.

What's next, suing a woman because she breaks your heart?

Re:Show HN: Testing HN titles against a neural network on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @08:06AM (#21523557)
That is how it works here, you collect upvotes if you use fancy words. That's why everybody uses the word "orthogonal" here all the time. Have you ever seen that word anywhere else?
Re:More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @04:06AM (#21522270)
You can do the same thing on Windows by using InSpectre: https://www.grc.com/inspectre.htm
Re:Just how fast is too fast when it comes to web requests? on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @03:42AM (#21522129)
Whoever wrote that feedback is probably an engineer at reddit.

"I didn't get any 503 codes forcing me to click send a few times, this comment obviously didn't get through"

Re:Privacy: Is That iPhone? on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @07:49PM (#21520006)
Pretty sure many apps don't even allow you to save pictures at all. Maybe Facebook is one of them, not sure. That + the button to save pictures not being at the same place on all apps makes screenshots easier and reliable. They simply work.
Re:Do binary files contain more 1s or 0s? on Tuesday November 12, 2019 @03:35PM (#21517861)
There's a Linux application called "ent" that calculates the entropy of a file. I use it to see if it's worth it to compress a file before I ship it somewhere else.
It's really a shame that we are all forced by law to sign up to Facebook/Twitter/etc and check the feed constantly