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The money transfer app? Works perfectly fine.

I wrote a batch script that that opened the entire Creative Suite in parallel and couldn't believe how much faster it was than just launching just Flash would have been on the old …

Edges are a separate table

There are no good private DNS configurations, but if you don't trust the big caching recursive resolvers then I'd consider just running your own at home. Unbound is easy to set up …

Editors & style guides don't tend to give you that choice.

The New Yorker is one of the few places you'll see this regularly https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-curse-of-...

quite common in America too

I'd also say it's integration with Firefox on Android is just a broken, miserable experience. (I mostly blame FF for this, because it used to be great) https://github.com/mozilla-m…

I just created a new Google account in the US without providing any personal details whatsoever.

About a decade ago, as an intern helping research this, I developed an app to manually tag processes as "big core only" or "little core only" etc. This was for the QuickIA[0], whic…

PowerShell does have progress bars, but rendering them is (was?) on the critical path. I once had a script that was downloading a large file and took ages to finish, you could spee…

From reading this it sounds like support should land soon in Fedora 35 https://lwn.net/Articles/869561/

At 2 am last night a bot impersonating a family member added every one of their friends on facebook & sent them messages. I reported it as a fake account, a ticket which was instan…

Looks like it's only true for pointer types which cannot be null (so they can reuse null as the None tag) https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/option/

They need their custom CA on your box for your machine to accept the traffic by default, otherwise you'll get a big ugly untrusted cert error on every https/ssl connection, but som…

I have found this comment on liburing[0] which clarifies some things for me. So is it because something like getaddrinfo is not just a simple operation, but a hodgepodge of stuff l…

There is a difference between blocking and non-blocking, which is what I am asking about. Language runtimes apparently cannot provide non-blocking DNS (as evidenced by this article…

Not sure a better place to ask this, but we're getting to the point in most OSs where basically anything you want can finally be done truly async (non-blocking). Except that DNS ap…

I don't think Pajama Sam requires reading, I definitely played it before I could read at least, and probably around the same age as when I was playing putt putt.

soda stream is a lot cheaper than buying bottled sparkling water, and you can make a very good analog to your favorite mineral water / soda / energy drink for even cheaper if you b…

much worse than regular win 10 insider builds, not much worse than the other previews for unreleased windows versions. Except for a few bugs in the settings menu which I've figured…

You're right! And now I qualify for the win 11 beta. Looks like I got confused between two different security setting pages in the UEFI menu, and had just enabled "the ability for …