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by bux93 7d ago
Note that the caps were introduced because the EU already had widespread use of bank cards, but local schemes were being replaced with Mastercard/Visa debit - the caps were brought in to prevent the duopoly from profiteering. (Apple&#x
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by bux93 8d ago
The fact that Lotus Notes offered attachments with e-mail wasn't as novel as the article suggests, to anyone who had been using uuencode (since 1980) or fidonet (1985). I have fond memories of filling in time sheets on Lotus Notes. Alt
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by bux93 13d ago
Probably this is just an unfamiliar domain for most non-hardware folks, so it's a nice challenge that might introduce Jane Street to some people they might want to interview for non-hardware roles. But, they do have a hardware division
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by bux93 16d ago
It's substantively different. The level of compensation you could expect from copyright needs to be high enough that creators/inventors in general feel that it may be worthwhile to create/invent stuff. That level of compensat
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by bux93 16d ago
Cool! But who remembers phone numbers anymore? Maybe a small screen that you can navigate by dialling 1 (down), 5 (up) and 0 (select) would be a cool add-on (after dialling 0 or 411 to reach the operator perhaps).
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by bux93 17d ago
It was probably a tribe that later emigrated to Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_things_(Australia)
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by bux93 17d ago
One advantage in print; pages are often not entirely opaque. So on page 3, you see a bit of the text of page 2 shine through. If page 2 has a jagged right margin, this also makes the left margin of page 3 look uneven. Meanwhile, the right m
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by bux93 28d ago
I complained to the relevant GDPR authority (German) and never heard back. It's blatantly illegal - overprocessing of PII - to require registration for connecting two devices owned by the same person, in the same room. There's no
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by bux93 1mo ago
You're not wrong in theory. If you're a small country, your currency's day-to-day purchasing power is influenced strongly by your imports and exports. If you have few things other countries want to buy, there's less dema
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by bux93 1mo ago
Here's a visual listicle of "the 10 best opening title sequences of all time". (Epilepsy warning: a lot of flashing in #10) - they compare and contrast and highlight how their picks stand out against others. https:/&#x2
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by bux93 1mo ago
Every word in that last sentence is true. Especially the word "was". Shrinkflation has taken a particular toll on the thick mantle, and Magnums now are basically the choc ices they once beat out. Though with optional nuts and berr
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by bux93 2mo ago
A "banking license" is typically for "taking deposits or other repayable funds". (There's other kinds of banking licenses, too.) That can be for 0% interest too, or even negative interest (e.g. taking fees into acco
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by bux93 2mo ago
Even if you only use first-party analytics, you're still tracking users and may still pipe that data to third parties, so you still need a lawful basis for processing PII (of which consent is the least useful one). Even the use of the
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by bux93 2mo ago
Apparently at least Bluetooth has something called Current Time Service (CTS) (BLE GATT service 0x1805). If you pair a cheap "smartband" to a phone, it'll set itself, even without using any apps. Neat! I guess it uses CTS?
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by bux93 2mo ago
>damned if I could find one with a red seven-segment display that I liked (maybe someone else’s search kung-fu is better than mine?). The secret to finding an inexpensive radio-controlled clock/alarm/watch of your liking it to
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by bux93 2mo ago
I'm not being pedantic, I'm saying their word salad is hard to read. As demonstrated by half of the messages in here arguing about what actually happened and whether the headline is correct. It's not hard to say "We will
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by bux93 2mo ago
>As part of the proactive global strategy adjustment, OnePlus has decided to conclude new product rollouts in Europe and North America. So.. they will roll out new products, conclusively? They will sell the same new products globally, in
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by bux93 2mo ago
That's the Hayes command set[1]. Hayes was a registered trademark up until 2022[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hayes_AT_command_set [2] https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/search/search-results&
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by bux93 2mo ago
In the author's mind, it's unexpected/amazing that 'for' can iterate over many types. But it's NOT unexpected/amazing that 'iter' can iterate over many types. I have no idea why. It's not li
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by bux93 2mo ago
And teams. And new outlook. And powertoys. Onedrive. SQL Server. The Microsoft store. Winget. I'm also not confident Windows Update actually does update Office, which also retains its own update mechanism.
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by bux93 2mo ago
If you design processes to be open by design, the cost of extracting data (removing sensitive data that is indeed not needed) goes down radically. Governments know this and resist it.
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by bux93 2mo ago
IBM CUA (1987) should be required reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
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by bux93 2mo ago
For most people, it is part of the OS though. Windows comes with Client and Server services activated by default even on the Home edition for some reason. The functionality is dumbed down and hidden though, while onedrive - which requires r
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by bux93 2mo ago
Well, the dB scale was once created on the basis that 1dB was thought to be the "just noticeable difference". Off the top of my head, I think trained listeners can actually notice differences of 0.3 dB, though this sort of thing i
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by bux93 2mo ago
djbdns/tinydns can schedule a change and give out a lower and lower TTL the nearer the changeover time gets - a quick search doesn't show any newer implementations but this is surely a good way to do it.
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by bux93 2mo ago
It's to create an in-group, and you are in the out-group.
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by bux93 3mo ago
My car has wired carplay/android auto, but I have a nifty little USB dongle that receives carplay/android auto wirelessly and passes it to the car via USB. Sometimes called an AI box, I think. These things contain a whole System-o
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by bux93 3mo ago
That's in fact one of the pros of carplay/android auto as opposed to just putting your phone in one of those windscreen attached holders; you get to use the volume buttons on the steering wheel. Annoyingly my car doesn't have
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by bux93 3mo ago
Agreed. Their privacy page even says they'll remove data if you withdraw consent, but they don't ask for consent. They also don't mention any you could object to data processing, claiming that "Processing is necessary to
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by bux93 3mo ago
Linux is only used as a kernel temporarily until GNU is finished.

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