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hollander

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    Comment #44704672

    Sorry, but this is nonsense. I'm not talking about photos, but about graphs, line art, tables. Using PNG you can create real small (in filesize) images, like 10-30 kilobytes. The s…

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    Comment #44704547

    I know a guy who wrote for tv magazines. He wrote extensive reviews, did nterviews. He can't make a living anymore. He currently is learning how to use AI to his advantage.

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    Comment #44704532

    I'm talking about books I have boought. I paid money for these books and expect some quality.

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    Ask HN: Why are ePub images so tiny?

    Many non fiction epub ebooks have images, and almost all are so tiny that they are useless. Text is unreadable and the tiny and thin fonts in the images don't help either. Images a…

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    Comment #44644035

    > Schleswig-Holstein, one of Germany’s 16 states, on Wednesday confirmed plans to move tens of thousands of systems from Microsoft Windows to Linux. The announcement follows previo…

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    Comment #44644008

    Google Workspace

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    Comment #44643997

    Enterprise and government don't use random laptops.

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    Comment #44629426

    My 45 yo Technics speakers appreciate this comment…

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    Comment #44626900

    I read that as Haskell and I definitely think HaskellUI would solve all problems. /j

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    Comment #40578902

    That is the problem. He should have contacted them like he did the second time. When he went into their shop, it all depended on that particular employee, and you can't blame that …

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    Comment #40554990

    In other news, everybody uses a router nowadays, with firewall activated by default.

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    Comment #40553162

    This is typical Microsoft logic. And 'logic' should be quoted, because Microsoft has the most stupid texts in their products. They make translation errors, grammatical errors, use …

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    Comment #40466414

    We want the monitor, not the tablet. Plus the probably needed software for Windows, macOS ánd Linus to handle the color scheme.

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    Comment #40216506

    Boeing joined the chat...

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    Comment #39827391

    We don't want to pay for software? Look at the Appstore! Good products for reasonable prices are worth the money. Affinity offers a good product for a reasonable price. Adobe offer…

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    Comment #39821054

    yt-dlp can use browser cookies to get access to Facebook videos. This should have something similar. yt-dlp --cookies-from-browser firefox https://www.facebook.com/1234videos/5678/…

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    Comment #39792662

    Monster of Lochness relocated

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    Comment #39719628

    Apple never had a numpad on its laptops. Since the aluminum unibody design, the Apple laptops outshine all Windows laptops because of the touchpad alone. Nothing compares to it. On…

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    Comment #39709406

    In NL we have IDIN. A website can use it to verify age or address information. I don't think that any porn-websites are using it, but technically this should do the job. IDIN is se…

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    Comment #39390339

    When i hold it upwards isFlat becomes false, but when i hold the phone upwards in landscape mode isFlat stays true. Why do i need to keep the phone flat? Doesn't that depend on the…

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    Comment #38239930

    But why is this a subscription?

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    Comment #38105669

    Naming should be megaband, gigaband, teraband etc.

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    Comment #37892795

    Hungary is the least surprising.

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    Comment #37892787

    So who is going to use this? Do you see your mom ising it? Your friends and family?

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    Comment #37892769

    Proving it will be very easy. Use the service, take a subsciption, send messaged or data, monitor traffic.