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Been following him for a while. The recent one about the brush company was great.

Hoë bome vang die meeste wind (Afrikaans)

The word "gesellig" in Afrikaans (daughter language of Dutch) pretty much conveys the same meaning as gezellig.

What is a "Microsoft legacy shop" ?

RIP :(

My opinion is that there is something else wrong if your editor takes minutes to open. I know very few people that routinely have major issues with VS. It's not perfect, but it's a…

https://brooker.co.za/blog/publications.html

Clicked for the article. Stayed for the pizza recipe.

You might need to consider that she didn't intend for HN volumes of traffic. Also, it loaded fine for me.

Yeah, from the comments on the blog: "The German market would be Germany, Switzerland and Austria. That's over a hundred million people. Works for me "

Dynamic/adaptive cruise control is a really nice safety feature which I use whenever I can. I guess the 'autopilot' capabilities is just another form of that, but I'd still be hesi…

Experience. Indirectly linked to age. When you have been driving for a number of years and have experienced how quickly and unexpectedly things can happen while driving, it's hard …

Disappointed that it's not responsive...

Triple plot twist: VAG buys Tesla

"Switch to Chrome, a smarter browser Google recommends using Chrome. Try it?" Every. Single. Time I open Google using Edge. And Chrome is just as annoying wanting to be the default…

I always have Chrome open, but Edge is still set as my default browser to open links from applications. It opens quickly and it works perfectly fine. Have never had issues with Edg…

Panic was also good. :)

No tests for Africa?

Cape Town, South Africa My ISP Pinging 168.210.2.2 with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 168.210.2.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=58 Reply from 168.210.2.2: bytes=32 time=1ms TTL=58 Reply fr…

7 spanning 6 years. What's interesting, is that is the account I use for the more mainstream sites. The accounts I use for sites I don't trust, all has 0.

And the longer version is yes, if you want to only live until 35.

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Battery life was a little bit worse (not much) on my 5X with the preview releases of Oreo. 5X died from bootloop before I could upgrade to the final release.

Random thought from someone with little theoretical experience with TLS. What would be offloaded to hardware? And would that not create a possible security/backdoor issue if there'…

I was intrigued by this article. So I tested it myself using VSCode 1.15.1 (x64), and a 6.16 MB (6 462 222 bytes) XML file. File opened in < 4 seconds. Uses about 180MB of memory. …