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mikewhy

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About mikewhy

The year is 2022, Hacker News is largely American Centrists, erring towards supporting big corporations, with a touch of Nazi sympathizing. I'm out

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    Comment #37357086

    Would you prefer "labelled as by the US Department of Homeland Security"?

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    Comment #37353522

    Are any of them associated with domestic terrorism?

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    Comment #37353488

    The "caucasian" there is redundant.

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    Ask HN: Any way to deactivate your Hacker News account?

    The recent threads regarding KF have made me realize this site is not one I'd like to associate with.

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    Comment #32718925

    If it's not in your power to resolve an issue with your machine by the end of the work day, you should feel no pressure to stay late and fix it.

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    Comment #32717161

    It recently released on bluray

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    Comment #32707957

    So you've verified the person in the screenshot saying they've arranged for bombs to be planted has been banned?

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    Comment #32697360

    So that measures transfer speeds, but what about the rest of the things USB carries? Here's an example of the data that cable testers can give you: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XF…

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    Comment #32682260

    > > dramatically improving security > How so? That seems pretty dubious to me With an electron app, I have access to your file system and can start deleting things. Yes, some opera…

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    Comment #32639461

    Threads like these are why I don't pay attention to HN anymore.

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    Comment #32632604

    Hmm, I suppose that could work, didn't think about targeting the Pipewire api. I didn't play around with it much, but the controller did appear as a 5.1 (or was it 7.1?) in Linux. …

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    Comment #32630324

    I was playing Spider-Man with a dual sense and got wondering. That game puts out audio to your speakers, a separate audio stream to the speaker in the controller, and _another_ str…

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    Comment #32622356

    So if I was heading a project and we had one CI provider and someone suggested adding another, my response would be either "no", or try to have the benefits of this alternative ser…

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    Comment #32622161

    So we've reinvented mall food courts without the foot traffic. Kudos, technology.

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    Comment #32621803

    I don't know of a site, but Taki Udon on YouTube follows them very closely. Retro Dodo does as well. "The best" is very subjective unfortunately. And the answer will change based o…

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    Comment #32581155

    > often connecting new devices that don't access the password manager Isn't that what plex.tv/link is for?

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    Comment #32554030

    I love that CircleCI flaunts it's speed compared to other providers, meanwhile we can clearly see the CircleCI steps take the longest in our builds. Not to mention the constant fai…

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    Comment #32523687

    That sounds exactly like "The client should manage the resources on the client not the server"

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    Comment #32488767

    Nowadays arch install ISOs have an `archinstall` script that can get you going for basic setups.

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    Comment #32473541

    Curious, what's the difference with this and `apt-get --fix-broken install`?

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    Comment #32453124

    https://www.microsoft.com/software-download/windows10

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    Comment #32417048

    If an app uses the non-OS supplied web view I just assume they're doing nefarious things. Coincidentally the only apps I have that don't use the OS supplied web view are from Meta.…

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    Comment #32405383

    I'm confused by all the mention of "what colour apple uses" in messages, message bubbles are a mask over a gradient

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    Comment #32350065

    I'm confused, you say you want the "old" versions of Winamp, but Winamp has had a media library since the "old" versions. Maybe you can ignore the current one just as you always ha…