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foobar33333

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    Comment #28784246

    I would be. The Gemini devs would insist that nothing should be supported that doesn't work on an 80 char terminal with only the ascii charset.

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    Comment #28784235

    It wasn't "because he was a conservative". It was because he was funding a campaign to limit peoples rights and and everyone / every website was running a campaign to tell users to…

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    Comment #28784221

    Subscribe to their other things like the VPN thats coming out.

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    Comment #28784195

    Gemini throws out way way too much. Inline links and image support for one. It feels like someone wants to have everything exactly as it was in the 80s. They claim to stop feature …

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    Comment #28726403

    You don't even have to swap to water. Sugar free drinks are extremely good replacements for full sugar drinks.

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    Comment #28668936

    I mix it with milk and its really nice.

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    Comment #28625106

    I think the iphone pro will still have a port and likely usb c. They are pushing it as a film making product now and no one wants to copy 50GB + of video over wifi when you could j…

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    Comment #28625094

    Apple is stuck in this crappy half way situation where the MacBook and iPad are USB-C while the iphone and accessories are lightning. Clearly the iPad and Macbook will not switch t…

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    Comment #28625087

    USB-C ports have a tongue in the device end which can be damaged. Seen some nintento switch repairs and most of the time its the usb c port thats broken. The iphone in comparison s…

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    Comment #28603943

    Is it any better for site tracking to have 1000 users show as the same v4 address or have 1000 users jump around the same v6b block?

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    Comment #28575949

    The prices in Australia are based on forecasted demand. Since there is almost a 100% chance that the population of tomorrow will be greater than today, that means you can buy on hi…

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    Comment #28410995

    Not really because this is being proposed as a solution to solve people using fake photos on dating apps which means it has to work on every single consumer device to actually work…

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    Comment #28410982

    The salt would leach in to the ground, killing any plant life in the area for a very very long time.

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    Comment #28410968

    So now we are essentially bricking the devices of real users? Without doing anything meaningful to real attackers who just grab the next key out of their list of 10 million stolen …

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    Comment #28410946

    HN would have you believe the whole frontend scene is totally replaced every month. At our company we started using React about 3 years ago and React is still the industry standard…

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    Comment #28402910

    Cryptographic keys embedded in hardware worked really well for the DRM industry. Eventually someone will work out how to extract the key, then create malware to spread around andro…

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    Comment #28402828

    Its crazy how different languages on the same article can have completely different tones and give a different idea of the subject even when they fundamentally have the same facts …

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    Comment #28344345

    You can buy products online which claim to jam just about everything. For "testing" purposes of course.

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    Comment #28342593

    Don't really agree with this. It like saying "why did you use a phone to do that math when a simple calculator or even pen and paper would work" Sure it would work, but the phone a…

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    Comment #28274833

    You might be interested in this solar project in Australia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundrop_Farms This farm grows a huge amount of tomatoes in the desert. It has its own wate…

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    Comment #28274800

    No the government actually is pro coal. Its their whole marketing image and they have been trying to warp the market to stop the death of coal. AGL wanted out because it wasn't pro…

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    Comment #28264588

    Google literally has remote control over all pixel devices and can push arbitrary code via the play services at any time without user approval. In this day and age, if you don't tr…

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    Comment #28254561

    It would be nice if the browser title text feature didn't flat out suck. Why is there no way to show tooltips immediately rather than having to wait a few seconds. Seems like every…

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    Comment #28186450

    The Apple Watch cellular version might be your thing. Directions, music and some IM usage is very easy but web browsing is non existent.

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    Comment #28186441

    I feel like the more practical version of this is the Apple Watch cellular version. You can do those things easily but stuff like wasting time on IMs or checking emails is cumberso…