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by null_object 3y ago
> The problem I found with this (and many other recommendation engines) is that I've read all of the suggestions. Immediately had the same experience: input a Theroux, Bill Bryson and Bruce Chatwin into the engine, as I've been
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by null_object 3y ago
Say goodbye to ever photographing anything abroad on film again.
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by null_object 3y ago
> I am surprised I am getting downvoted. You got my upvote because I have a similar experience - still using my 2014 MacBook Pro. However, I also agree with the other take I’m seeing in these comments: the current prices do seem dispropo
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by null_object 3y ago
A few years ago I had a medical procedure that entailed not eating for 2 or 3 days - just drinking water. By the end of that fasting period, my sense of smell was immeasurably heightened, and could definitely smell the differing fragrance o
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by null_object 3y ago
> Not in Sweden and we have less accidents than Germany. I don't think you got the memo where everyone seems to think getting blind drunk and then getting on an electric scooter is totally ok "in Sweden". I've had a f
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by null_object 4y ago
This gives a really distorted image of the real Sweden I know. 99% of kids in real Sweden are definitely not hanging out at these educational centers: in this massively conformist society (especially for teenagers), the kids are getting hol
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by null_object 4y ago
> COVID was never very dangerous for young people… An ex-colleague who is now 31 (or 32) who was running the Stockholm marathon in 2018 and 2019, got Covid very early in 2020, and suffered a massive pulmonary embolism which took him mont
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by null_object 4y ago
> the effects of covid/prolonged lockdowns on missed screening. This ignores that lockdown was a 'side-effect' of covid that affected the health-service, whereas covid itself had the exact same effect on healthcare, with
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by null_object 4y ago
> At the low end Apple is actively ripping off users providing computers which can't even edit photos. > open a 20MB photo suddenly you're out of RAM and the software starts crashing Have an M1 laptop with Photoshop and Ligh
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by null_object 4y ago
> The software experience is getting worse imo, particularly when upgrading. Many people chiming-in about the absolutely rock-solid stability of the last few updates, and I'm adding my vote to that. I have had zero system-crashes or
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by null_object 4y ago
> In Sweden we also have a local metrology bureu which produces much better forecasts than most others Ironically Sweden’s best weather forecast comes from Norway [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31965812
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by null_object 4y ago
Article: boring . Image of Philippe Petit wire walking between the Twin Towers: amazing .
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by null_object 4y ago
I find that some days, when I'm tired at the end of the day or drained by work, I crave some simple entertainment and come to HN or my RSS reader looking for articles or blog-posts to read, but I'm definitely finding that the RSS-
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by null_object 4y ago
> this will result in the days the responsible C-level staff gets jailed. This would be simple and very effective. I really recommend you transfer your hatred and sense of injustice to companies that are right at this moment poisoning
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by null_object 4y ago
> Finally people from high management need to land in jail on a regular basis for the missteps of big companies Amazing number of people baying for prison time for this pretty trivial mis-step. As I said in another comment, just finished
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by null_object 4y ago
> We should put CEOs in prison So in an obscure settings toggle, in one version of iOS that was immediately fixed, some developer probably unknowingly set a toggle default to a setting that contravened an EU law… and you think Tim Cook
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by null_object 4y ago
> The fine should be equivalent to profit plus a hefty penalty on top of that. So this was a toggle in an obscure preferences setting toggled incorrectly and therefore a minor infringement of EU law - but you want the court to fine Apple
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by null_object 4y ago
> I'm kinda surprise how the goalpost is shifted from "hey it's easy" to "go install iTunes if you're on windows". I having a website too much to ask really ? Dunno where you got the idea that I somehow
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by null_object 4y ago
> full of pedantic tripe like that. Ah here was me thinking this was an uncontroversial and enjoyable discussion on HN. Anyways. Once again, just to underline what I wrote before - my comment wasn’t supposed to suggest that there was a g
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by null_object 4y ago
> To note, the “easily accessible” part is for people with an Apple device with iCloud set as the target account. > You don’t have another Apple device to manage your kid’s subscriptions ? it’s simple ! Download iTunes on Windows! No
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by null_object 4y ago
I think you gravely misunderstood my comment, I’m certainly not harking back to some romantic ideal of pre-industrial Arcadia. If you were an under-nourished worker, living in the rat-like polluted conditions of an Industrial Revolution tow
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by null_object 4y ago
> that's impossible to cancel via some dark UX patterns The scandalous $10 per week kid’s games definitely exist, but in fairness, you made this part up, as all subscriptions are easily accessible on your clearly labeled ‘Subscrip
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by null_object 4y ago
Setting aside the problem (mentioned in the article) that these images were produced for an aristocratic class, and possibly don’t accurately describe the reality of a peasant’s home, then what’s most striking is how decorative the interior
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by null_object 4y ago
> I really wish Apple would stop doing, though: Molded plastic packaging Last year needed a new laptop, iPad, iPhone, and a whole load of accessories (from work switch) - none of them had plastic packaging.
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by null_object 4y ago
Where I'm working we're porting the native apps gradually to SwiftUI on iOS and on Android using Kotlin Compose - addressing a lot of the development speed issues mentioned in the article, and shifting to a 'reactive' mo
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by null_object 4y ago
> I’m EU and it was enabled. This is pretty certainly a violation of GDPR in that case. https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/r...
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by null_object 4y ago
> I'm in the EU, and currently content analysis is toggled off for me I'm also in the EU and checked this (very well-hidden) option for the first time after reading the thread - and it is defaulted to off. Yet more evidence f
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by null_object 4y ago
> Only by the Apple fanboys This is such a pathetic line. The story is so full of inconsistencies and the poster is backtracking fast on the clear initial implication that the laptop was somehow switched for an inferior replacement - but
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by null_object 4y ago
Wow - even compared to other crap articles about this subject the last few weeks, this one was amazingly weak. The 'journalist' quotes the "founder of the Fear Group, international property developers and investors" and
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by null_object 4y ago
> Yes, I was with her when she picked it up. Ok in that case your story must be 100% true and no at all made-up for cheap HN upvotes. Thanks for the clarification. PS: get back to us when you’ve checked the “switched” laptop serial numbe

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