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People with all Apple devices do not consist "most" of users

EU is not a single country and starting a business varies from one member state to another. I currently own a business in both Finland and Portugal, and I can start a new business …

Coding, cooking and fine dining, LEGOs, walking, motorcycles, gym

52, started coding when I was 12 but doing mostly sysop/admin things now

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Client company of mine likes to document server rack layouts with Excel sheets (not a bad idea really). I used LibreOffice for years to _read_ those Excels, but any time I would wr…

The Finnish version of Excel used to have all of the functions translated to Finnish (in late 90s when I was doing Excel for living). It was literally impossible to do anything wit…

I literally learned English reading the only computer books that were available at the time, mid 80s. That was before I had a single English class in school - in fact I already kne…

There are loads of programming languages which have nothing to do with the English language. Assembly: LDA #$01 STA $0200 LDA #$05 STA $0201 LDA #$08 STA $0202 Brainfuck: >>,[>>,] …

I standardized on US ANSI layout (straight Return, not the L-shaped). I'm from a country where the local language has accented chars and while it's nice to be able to chat with cor…

Not mine originally but "always check your inputs"

Fear of change, mostly.

Don't take this the wrong way... but I control my lights with mechanical switches that are installed to walls of my home. They don't need logins to any cloud services, in fact they…

Separate network stacks? Separate filesystems? Separate processes and memory allocation? With WSL1 processes started from WSL console appear on Windows Task manager and starting a …

WSL1 is what keeps me on Windows - but I don't understand why they keep calling WSL2 "WSL" as it has nothing to do with the traditional "Windows service for XXX" model. For better …

What it's worth my own RSS reader also fails to find any feeds from your site because my parser expects the link type to be quoted with either single or double quotes. Not sure wha…

I'd like to reverse the whole question: why do mobile browsers force every website change their layout/fonts/etc instead of just rendering sites so that they would be readable by d…

Nope, not using, I'm not even using command history or bash completion. The only way to actually learn what you are doing is by doing it yourself - but that's just me, I don't judg…

At least in Finland and Sweden those highways-as-emergency-airfields are always in use, no need to prep the area or remove dividers in any way. They are mostly used by the army for…

If you are running uBlock Origin (and why wouldn't you?) edit your "My filters" and add these lines to the end: ! Hacker News dark mode news.ycombinator.com##html:style(filter:inve…

You probably want to fix the page title: Document

It's not even about tracking, sessions are perfectly cromulent under GDPR without popups. It's only if you start tracking users without any other purpose than marketing/spamming wh…

What does being ~50 years old have to do with anything? I'm 50 and I'm the one who designs and implements those login screens, password managers, authentication databases etc etc..…