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Re:Things I've Heard Boomers Say That I Agree with 100% on Saturday November 08, 2025 @10:08AM (#45857118)
> should be a website

Yes, and please make the website one that actually works on mobile.

In some restaurants, I've seen the QR code go to a full-page PDF version of the menu. Like, thanks, but I can't read that on a mobile device.

Re:800 Years of English Handwriting on Thursday September 25, 2025 @06:10AM (#45371111)
There's a blue button at the bottom center to revert to the original language.
Re:The Timeless 9 Golden Rules of Debugging on Monday January 13, 2025 @07:49AM (#42682862)
That is literally #8 in the list
They seem to be saying that the absence of rare earth metals makes the overall lifecycle carbon emissions be 40% lower than those that do use these metals. It does not seem to be related to the efficiency of the motor per se.
Re:Elon Musk Texts Parag Agrawal on Friday October 28, 2022 @05:06AM (#33369211)
You don't need to go through everything to form an opinion. I bet they're only interested in a couple of specific points, and not a full review of every single line.
Re:Browser in the Browser (BITB) Attack on Thursday March 17, 2022 @05:17PM (#30715986)
Even if browsers did this, you can still execute this attack. As long as not all of your users know what the expected behavior is, you can trick them with a fake UI as long as it looks believable.
Re:The Fun Scale (2014) on Wednesday February 16, 2022 @02:28PM (#30364579)
Well see you were just optimizing for the wrong things. You thought avoiding wet was the thing to optimize for, but now, with experience, you find other things are more important to you and you aim at optimizing those. What things are wrong and right vary by person and by purpose (and probably by time, too).
Re:Giant Pyrosome on Monday January 31, 2022 @01:30PM (#30151967)
Likely the appearance of the colony being a single, gigantic, thing.
Re:Ask HN: Was Your Turkey Dry? on Friday November 26, 2021 @10:06AM (#29350835)
The best thing I did for not having dry turkeys or other meat, is a meat thermometer. I, like your aunt, just didn't pay attention to anything before.
Re:EU Chatcontrol 2.0 [video] on Monday November 01, 2021 @04:25PM (#29072578)
Hunted, a Dutch TV series, is a reality show featuring exactly this kind of investigative resources. A lot of times, the players (the hunted) are tracked down because they used some form of communication that is compromised by the hunters.
Re:Global Climate Report – September 2021 on Thursday October 14, 2021 @01:16PM (#28867110)
It's clean in the sense that it isn't generating CO2. But it is a finite resource. Also, the environmental impact of a nuclear power plant is non-negligible.
Re:Suez Canal blocked briefly as container ship runs aground on Thursday September 09, 2021 @08:48AM (#28469084)
Have the worldwide trade delays from the blockage with the Ever Given been resolved?
Re:“It's open source! We’ll let our customers fix it.” on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:50PM (#28450842)
A self-respecting company doesn't let their customers just be stuck like that. While fixing the issue may not be feasible, there's usually a workaround that the company can help their customers find or implement. But then again, not every company lives up to these expectations.
Re:O.mg Cable on Thursday September 02, 2021 @04:40PM (#28397067)
"motivation" is usually the answer. Motivation can be (gaining) money, power, politics, etc.
That's an easy fix; just put a repeater on Mars...
> spent the last year field-monitoring vaccine trials

As an adult that was vaccinated, thank you for doing your part to get us all here.

Re:Why Russians do not smile (2002) on Friday May 28, 2021 @07:25PM (#27321677)
Fun experiment, try asking "how are you" a second time. A lot of Americans will respond instinctively, without wondering why you asked again.
Re:Real world ownership is not a use case for blockchain on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @12:39PM (#27211057)
Or someone has it on their cart on the way to the checkout.
It's really hard to fight this though, because it may take many years, even decades, to thoroughly answer a follow-up question. By then, everyone has forgotten about the original reason something got published.
Re:Great Vowel Shift on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @12:38PM (#26809502)
I learned about another vowel shift yesterday: the (US) "Northern Cities Vowel Shift" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inland_Northern_American_Engli...
Re:IBM COBOL for Linux on x86 on Wednesday April 07, 2021 @07:44PM (#26733112)
The key word here is "support". Will it run? Probably. Is some IBM support engineer going to help you if you tried it on some other distro? No.
Re:Let’s fix font size on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @03:52PM (#26639532)
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Re:WhatsApp Down in Some Regions on Friday March 19, 2021 @02:43PM (#26516942)
The site presents me with a pop-up:

> When you proceed to access our site, the companies listed in the Cookie Consent Tool will use cookies and other technologies. This is further explained in our Cookie Notice.

None of those are links, and the only button is "Agree and access site". How do I find the Cookie Consent Tool and the Cookie Notice, without having to click "Agree"?

I get angry when there's not a single letter on the first page of a web page, just a lead graphic.
This would be so easy for shady tracking websites to circumvent
The dot seems to not be interactive, i.e. I won't be able to find out which app it was, and what it did. But it's a start!
I agree to what you're saying, but the 4th bullet should not mean this. Find joy in what you're doing is independent advice. I would add to this that outside of work, you should also look for something that gives you joy. Something that is not coding would be preferred.
Re:The Earth has been spinning faster lately on Friday January 08, 2021 @02:46PM (#25689334)
Petroleum and gasses should be lighter than the rock surrounding them right, so if you move those up, the rock above those layers will be moved closer to the earth's center. So I would expect that that will cause the earth to spin faster, not slower.

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