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by wafflebot 22d ago
got it on 2nd turn. I am terrible at this.
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by wafflebot 1mo ago
I used to think my tinnitus was the sound of lights or other electrical devices or current around me. Not sure where I got that idea. Until one night when the power goes out, and it’s dead silent, but the eeeeeeee is still there. That was o
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by wafflebot 2mo ago
DKIM and SPF validate a message. DMARC sets a policy as to what to do with it (quarantine/reject.)
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by wafflebot 5mo ago
Maybe this is reductive but I always suspected the car project was a Jony Ive indulgence. In the years after Jobs' death, Ive was pampered as many people attributed Apple's vision and taste to Jobs #1 and Ive #2. Losing both would
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by wafflebot 5mo ago
It's baffling that they did this little PR blitz across HN and Reddit and then didn't reply to any of the questions.
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by wafflebot 5mo ago
You should tell your support teams that, because when I asked them if local Google Drive files were excluded they affirmed, and directed me to instructions on how to dissolve my business account. I'm not surprised that support was wron
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by wafflebot 5mo ago
Well I do pay for their business product, I have a "Business Groups" package with a few dozen endpoints all backing up for $99/year per machine. According to support's reply just now, my backups are crippled just like ev
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by wafflebot 5mo ago
I'm going to drop Backblaze for my entire company over this. I need it to capture local data, even though that local data is getting synced to Google Drive. Where we sync our data really has nothing to do with Backblaze backing up the
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by wafflebot 6mo ago
"Semantic ablation" is the term I learned for this right here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049088
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by wafflebot 6mo ago
Facial recognition? looks at photo I've probably seen a dozen different people who look exactly like this woman just this week.
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by wafflebot 6mo ago
I like your post and the last line is really key. When we are young we hear versions of this (e.g. "have to love yourself first") and despite the trite or pithy phrasings of it, it contains a truth. We shouldn't conflate not
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by wafflebot 7mo ago
I agree! Taste is downstream of such things as design principles which can be described in objective terms. Taste is not synonymous with personal preferences, otherwise we wouldn't describe some taste as "bad taste" or "
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by wafflebot 9mo ago
I love this feature and wish something like it would come to Gmail. I can't rely on iCloud Mail anymore due to its overly aggressive silent spam filtering. Not great if you're trying to log into an account, and you can't rece
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by wafflebot 11mo ago
To the extent that U.S. voters want to maintain the status quo, which many (though not most) voters do wish to do, it's largely driven by an individualist mindset in which the worst thing that can happen is somebody else getting someth
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by wafflebot 11mo ago
I have no doubt that civilizations are out there. Maybe a handful, maybe nearing infinity. But out there. The problem is "out there" is so far away, we are all isolated on our own island worlds. An ocean of space so vast we cannot