mickeypi

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by mickeypi 8mo ago
Yes, and this is a huge habit difference between Mac and Windows laptop users I know. Give a Windows user a Mac and they will habitually try to use scrollbars with their fingers. Mac users just don’t have that habit and they find it strange
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Can You Optimize Love?(nytimes.com)
3 points by mickeypi 8mo ago|0 comments
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by mickeypi 1y ago
This is claimed to be the longest-to-discover easter egg ever.
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37-year old Easter Egg in Windows 1.0(slashgear.com)
2 points by mickeypi 1y ago|2 comments
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by mickeypi 3y ago
I did the walkthrough - pretty slick!
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by mickeypi 3y ago
The same article posted for the 14th time since 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=c4model.com
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by mickeypi 3y ago
FTA: “Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle” and “The deal was considered "gift-wrapped for Amazon" until Oracle (co-chaired by Safra Catz) contested the contract”. So pretty much every
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Intuit will pay $141M for misleading ads for free tax filing(text.npr.org)
3 points by mickeypi 4y ago|1 comments
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by mickeypi 5y ago
https://github.com/microsoft/msquic
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by mickeypi 5y ago
The extraction of coal is really destructive too. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010956116/a-coal-mining-mons...
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by mickeypi 5y ago
Yes, people also built the buggy software. But the role of software here can’t be overlooked. Because people trust software to run the modern world, there is a high level of trust that this software is working properly. The article says tha
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by mickeypi 6y ago
Another reason to breastfeed, if that's a viable option for the parents.
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by mickeypi 6y ago
That’s like saying your house is for sale because if someone offered you enough money you’d sell it. Therefore all houses are for sale? Opportunistically earning some extra cash is a lot different than having to work for a living.
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by mickeypi 6y ago
Watergate was a long, difficult, expensive and risky investigation for the journalists and newspaper involved. They did it because, in their opinion , Nixon was doing something wrong. Without opinions, what would motivate real journalism?
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by mickeypi 6y ago
Yes, you can do that with ssh even from cmd.exe. Windows ships with an ssh server too, you just have to enable those features.
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by mickeypi 7y ago
Unfortunately it inherits JSON’s lack of support for dates.
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by mickeypi 10y ago
Couldn't agree more on the pet peeve. I've stopped having coffee after a great meal at a restaurant because inevitably they'll ruin it with a cup of something awful. Even in places like Vancouver, SF or Seattle with a very st
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by mickeypi 10y ago
Sorry, that was intended to be implied. The original would say that it matters to them but to any observer it does not.
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by mickeypi 10y ago
Yes, and if we actually had a way to disassemble and reassemble humans, the reassembled beings would tell you that the experiment works and their consciousness goes back to their first memories as a child. But the disassembled person would
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by mickeypi 10y ago
Consider another version: An exactly similar human being to you is discovered to exist on another planet. They have your memories, your aspirations, your habits, etc. They were not created as a copy of you. This person was born to parents,
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by mickeypi 10y ago
If the internet were used only to publish read-only content, like a magazine, then maybe this would make some sense. But language shapes thought. It actually limits it. If you can't express something in your language then you are unlik
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by mickeypi 11y ago
http://www.parrot.com/products/rolling-spider/ Not exactly the same thing but similar.