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Yes, and this is a huge habit difference between Mac and Windows laptop users I know. Give a Windows user a Mac and they will habitually try to use scrollbars with their fingers. M…

This is claimed to be the longest-to-discover easter egg ever.

I did the walkthrough - pretty slick!

The same article posted for the 14th time since 2017. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=c4model.com

FTA: “Companies interested in the contract included Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Oracle” and “The deal was considered "gift-wrapped for Amazon" until Oracle (co-chaired by Safra C…

https://github.com/microsoft/msquic

The extraction of coal is really destructive too. https://www.npr.org/2021/06/28/1010956116/a-coal-mining-mons...

Yes, people also built the buggy software. But the role of software here can’t be overlooked. Because people trust software to run the modern world, there is a high level of trust …

Another reason to breastfeed, if that's a viable option for the parents.

That’s like saying your house is for sale because if someone offered you enough money you’d sell it. Therefore all houses are for sale? Opportunistically earning some extra cash is…

Watergate was a long, difficult, expensive and risky investigation for the journalists and newspaper involved. They did it because, in their opinion , Nixon was doing something wro…

Yes, you can do that with ssh even from cmd.exe. Windows ships with an ssh server too, you just have to enable those features.

Unfortunately it inherits JSON’s lack of support for dates.

Couldn't agree more on the pet peeve. I've stopped having coffee after a great meal at a restaurant because inevitably they'll ruin it with a cup of something awful. Even in places…

Sorry, that was intended to be implied. The original would say that it matters to them but to any observer it does not.

Yes, and if we actually had a way to disassemble and reassemble humans, the reassembled beings would tell you that the experiment works and their consciousness goes back to their f…

Consider another version: An exactly similar human being to you is discovered to exist on another planet. They have your memories, your aspirations, your habits, etc. They were not…

If the internet were used only to publish read-only content, like a magazine, then maybe this would make some sense. But language shapes thought. It actually limits it. If you can'…

http://www.parrot.com/products/rolling-spider/ Not exactly the same thing but similar.