nahkoots

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by nahkoots 2mo ago
That's incredibly cool actually, what was the book? Could you share anything he wrote which you found especially interesting?
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by nahkoots 6mo ago
Linus Tech Tips made a Faraday cage out of an employee's house using graphite-based EMF-blocking paint. MMS messages with images couldn't be sent from within the house, although text messages and phone calls went through. They did
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by nahkoots 6mo ago
Fat shaming doesn't work. It can maybe work, sometimes, on an individual level, like if you're a big enough dick to your friend or partner maybe you can get them to lose some weight. But the problem we (society) have isn't th
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by nahkoots 6mo ago
Then your bank is garbage and you should switch to a better one. My main bank (USAA) lets me use a one time code sent to my email as a second factor (or SMS, or a code from their app). If they started requiring me to use the app I would dro
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by nahkoots 1y ago
That's pretty unhinged, but I'm glad there's someone out there vandalizing annoying pumps. It's important work, I think.
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by nahkoots 1y ago
Can't you use youraddress.servicename@gmail.com? I thought gmail strips whatever comes after the dot. (I don't have a google account, so I could be wrong or maybe it was a different character, but I remember reading about it a cou
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by nahkoots 1y ago
“This seems like a path toward having no people with Down syndrome, having no people with certain disabilities, even though there are people that have those disabilities that live fulfilling lives,” he said. “You’re talking about culling a
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by nahkoots 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_magnitude#List_of_app... The sun on Pluto is only slightly dimmer than the sun on a very strongly overcast midday on Earth (about half as bright), but still much brighter (almost
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by nahkoots 1y ago
Often, the whole kernels you see in the toilet aren't actually filled with corn.
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by nahkoots 1y ago
Someone who's jailed for driving on a suspended license because it's the only way they can get to their job probably isn't going to discontinue that behavior upon their release. I don't want my tax dollars being spent on
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by nahkoots 2y ago
"within your natural lifespan" isn't really a qualification of "never, ever". The two are very different time frames. I think it's good that you're willing to adjust your opinions given new information, bu
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by nahkoots 3y ago
Yes-like Meta, or Threads, or Apple, Glean, Element, X, Zoom, etc. If you choose a generic word for your brand name, don't be surprised when a bigger company chooses the same generic word and ruins your SEO. This has happened before. M
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by nahkoots 3y ago
I detest Meta as much as the next guy but I can't bring myself to feel bad for Threads Software Limited here. This is what you get when you pick your company name out of a dictionary in an attempt to be trendy/minimalist.
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by nahkoots 3y ago
Piracy vs. not buying it vs. not downloading it are morally equivalent. The actual ethical stance here is whether or not you're paying for DRM; once you've committed to not doing that, whether or not you choose to pirate it at tha
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by nahkoots 4y ago
> The Gujo City Fire Department in Gifu Prefecture, which has many ski resorts within its jurisdiction, received 351 emergency calls between Jan. 1 and Jan. 23. Nearly 40% — 135 calls — were made erroneously. I wonder how many of the 351
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by nahkoots 4y ago
Where do you live? If you're in the US, check if you live near an Ace hardware store; mine sells gallon jugs of 90% sulfuric acid for something in the range of $25. Look for Rooto brand drain cleaner, and if it doesn't say on the
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by nahkoots 4y ago
https://archive.ph/y4vso
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by nahkoots 4y ago
Do you have a source for this?
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by nahkoots 4y ago
I just did it from Firefox on Linux in a private tab near Washington, D.C.. Fake name, no phone, no backup email. I was able to log out, sign back in, and send an email without any trouble. No doubt they're letting me through because s
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by nahkoots 4y ago
Don't forget that we very nearly had a successful coup, which would have spelled the end of American democracy. Are we on the verge of becoming a Stalinist state? No, not really. Could it happen? Absolutely, and we need to recognize th
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by nahkoots 5y ago
For me it'll be "yes". If an airline cancels my boarding pass because they don't like my email address (?), too bad for them, they just lost a sale. If someone keeps missing important emails because their provider's
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by nahkoots 5y ago
Correct, things used to be worse than they are now. Does that mean that the automatic rebuttal to any complaint with anything remotely modern is that at least we're not still living in mud huts and writing on sheepskins? Nobody's
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by nahkoots 5y ago
22 kg, not 83. (That's still a lot.)
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by nahkoots 5y ago
They've also taken a hardline stance against right to repair, which is a deal breaker for a lot of HN. Unfortunately, there aren't many modern options for people who care about both owning their devices and not being spied on by t
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by nahkoots 6y ago
Users that care about having control over their devices shouldn't be buying Apple hardware in the first place. Not that I support Apple's anti-consumer practices, but if you buy one of their products, you have to know what you&#x2