DaemonHN

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by DaemonHN 2mo ago
The sad part is that Speed Queen, while absolutely worth it, costs 2-3x the price of the average pile of junk sold in [Home Depot, Lowes, etc]. Buy once, cry once and a legit example of the boots theory: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by DaemonHN 7mo ago
Terrible article. Broch's story is a tragedy but one that's tenuously linked to that famous painting. I kept reading waiting for the substance promised by "life imitating art" and all I got was a set decorator's coi
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YouTube has changed how views work [video](youtube.com)
4 points by DaemonHN 1y ago|0 comments
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by DaemonHN 10y ago
In my opinion, replacing ads is worse than simply ad-blocking. Imagine a scenario where a replaced ad actually degraded the website's performance more so than the website's own ads, which is not all that far-fetched, and users end
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by DaemonHN 11y ago
No, I don't use NoScript, just uBlock. It seems to be sort of intermittent, as when I pulled it up again, I got the title loaded, but still blank page.
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by DaemonHN 11y ago
I think all the HN traffic might have crushed the website - I'm getting a blank page and when I refresh it seems to be stuck. Not very encouraging, assuming they're using it to serve their main page.
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by DaemonHN 11y ago
Yeah, this seemed more like a listing of the operating systems than a comparison.
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by DaemonHN 11y ago
Thank you, that worked great as it had majority of my library saved in JSON format.
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by DaemonHN 12y ago
I was also expecting a new GUI shell and used to run GeoShell and Litestep. I got somewhat excited and hoped that there might be a resurgence in the popularity of Windows shells but it seems like that time is gone for good now. If I recall
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by DaemonHN 13y ago
But this wouldn't affect Apple as much. By destroying the phone, they're effectively reducing the number of users. If they sold it, the number of iPhone users stays the same. Not to mention that it makes quite a dramatic statem
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by DaemonHN 13y ago
The controls are pretty horrible, especially when using the mouse and the cursor leaves the viewport.
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by DaemonHN 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if they try to sneak in a provision in the Terms of Service prohibiting VPN use.
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by DaemonHN 13y ago
What if they made the door-to-door delivery a premium subscription that one could opt-in? That could provide some revenue to offset the losses they are posting. If you decided not to get it, your mail goes to the community mailbox.
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by DaemonHN 13y ago
I don't see what this has to do with iOS7 looking similar to Windows. See: https://yourlogicalfallacyis.com/tu-quoque
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by DaemonHN 14y ago
It was Amazon's existing customers that requested that the book be published according to the article.
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Statistics about Yahoo leak of 450.000 plain-text passwords(blog.eset.se)
2 points by DaemonHN 14y ago|0 comments
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by DaemonHN 16y ago
I used to do that all the time (until I grew a beard), but I would only do it after taking a shower. I found that shaving cream just got in the way.
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by DaemonHN 16y ago
I think it might have been taken down (for whatever reason).
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by DaemonHN 16y ago
What you have is a plan that provides _up_ to 20Mbps. Since you're most likely a residential customer, there are no service level agreements that you can hold your ISP to.