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Comment #46715836
By that logic we should require DNA testing because, you never know, someone might go to a polling place and lie about their name and have a fake ID too. You never can be too caref…
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Comment #46664628
The office icons are rather subtle but do sorta illustrate what they do if you look carefully - the word icon is a list, the excel icon is a spreadsheet, and the powerpoint icon is…
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Comment #46664619
The current icons really aren't that good. Looking at apple specifically: The facetime and messages icons are almost completely indistinguishable. Get angry and say I'm blind, but …
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Comment #46664600
I agree with your conclusion that the sweet spot is in the middle, because I could easily explain to my mom "click the icon that has a pen and paper" and it would be very obvious. …
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Comment #46482022
Microsoft has never been an end-user-focused company. Almost every successful product they've ever made was to sell to a business for their employees to use. Everything else they s…
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Comment #45689588
> The YouTube thing is Google's choice, not Apple's, as those are "premium" features. Install Vinegar ( https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303 ...) to get a s…
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Comment #45689564
> How I miss that time on a Macbook, with all the chords you have to press whenever you need a Home or End button to edit the line! ???? ctrl+a and ctrl+e? That works on most Linux…
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Comment #44691364
> Say you order food online — you’d want a notification to update you, instead of having to manually refresh a webpage Browsers have a notification feature where websites can send …
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Comment #44617987
What's messed up about red light cameras is they can actually be useful - if used correctly! The correct use case is "We seem to have a problem with red light runners at this inter…
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Comment #44617939
Those things should just be illegal. I can't even imagine how much energy and plastic/paper/food goes to waste in those damn things.
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Comment #44372312
"If she can only cook as well as Honeywell can compute." Oh my goodness it's a satirical ad. I don't know the proper marketing term for it, but I've seen these in magazines before …
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Comment #44351590
> Amazon already has their own custom electric delivery trucks The vast majority of amazon's delivery vehicles are random vans, and amazon themselves doesn't own them; they franchi…
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Comment #44195909
That problem plagues every OS. Fortunately, my 14 year old canon networked printer/scanner/fax works in fedora 42 without any configuration at all. As long as it sees it on the net…
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Comment #44165936
Trash Driven Development :D
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Comment #44018702
GM just making some fucking cars people want to buy. Nobody wants to look like a fat grandma driving a Tahoe or a racist uncle driving a Silverado lol. I mean I wouldn't mind a cor…
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Comment #44018700
RAM IT THROUGH! Like a drunk ram 2500 driver lol.
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Comment #43957196
Having an AC problem in death valley in the summer could be troublesome.
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Comment #43952376
What's really going to happen is IT people will enforce this by default because good users aren't supposed to take screenshots, apparently.
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Comment #43952308
I have never worked at google, but when I was in college 10+ years ago the allure was that they were making all kinds of cool new stuff, and they had enough money to not just pay y…
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Comment #43919594
AFAIK lots of new remasters of classic albums are auto-tuning the vocals as well. https://www.reddit.com/r/audioengineering/comments/1bfxj2d/w...
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Comment #43892991
What if the picture does have historical significance but you don't know it yet?
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Comment #43892984
I'm with you here! I take lots of pictures. I picked up that stupid habit when I was a teenager with my family's digital camera. Eventually got a small canon for christmas and kept…
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Comment #43824275
Just over 10 years in space stuff, I have noticed exactly the same thing.