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waffl

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    Comment #37227258

    Is it not still blocked, or at least under heavy scrutiny? I would also dread Figma being folded into Adobe's bloated ecosystem. Thank god for penpot as mentioned in another commen…

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    Comment #35724404

    The real magic is found in Apple charging 690 EUR for an upgrade to 2TB from 512GB on a MacBook Pro (0.43/gb), or 2760 EUR for 8TB (0.37/gb). Considering the 2TB 980 pro for $160 U…

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    Comment #34411967

    Also inertia.js just reached 1.0 and has been really fantastic to work with.

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    Comment #34411949

    What really struck me was the statement: "In total, $580,000 was raised in 2022 The Foundation pays 6 developers to work on PHP" which made me realise how easy it is to take for gr…

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    Comment #34360781

    An example could be plucking data from related posts of different types that are related via Advanced Custom Fields.

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    Comment #34220058

    For me the main barrier has been convincing my family to actually take password management seriously. My entire family has had their emails hacked at least twice due to poor/reused…

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    Comment #33908385

    Ah yes, exactly and thanks for the search tips, I felt like I was misremembering something being unable to find what I was looking for!

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    Comment #33908377

    Thank you so much, that is precisely what I was looking for (my memory failed me regarding the background colour though, though there are purple elements). Thanks again, much appre…

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    Ask HN: Recently posted directory of personal sites/blogs?

    Within the last month or so, there was a site posted that seemed to be a directory of personal websites/blogs organized by topic/theme that made it to the front page, but for the l…

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    Comment #30765805

    The German word for 'time' is 'Zeit', so that would be 'Zeitgeist' :)

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    Comment #29276008

    One of the more interesting things I've felt about web3 is the idea of portable identities not being locked to centralized account management systems/walled gardens. This applies t…

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    Comment #27484585

    I wanted a simple to use, easy to deploy tool to send sensitive data to clients. I was often using onetimesecret which is great, but still felt wary of trusting a hosted service fo…

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    Comment #25749641

    Thank goodness for the transition away from the terrible 16:9 screens that have plagued almost every single PC laptop for years. These are all 16:10 with a few screen options (at l…

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    Comment #25287631

    In Regensburg, Germany, there is a restaurant that has essentially been operating for 850 years since the construction of the Steinernen (Stone) bridge was constructed in 1146 AD, …

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    Comment #25109831

    I learned about this from the book "Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths Errors" by Matt Parker. It was interesting in the context of describing this concept of 'Swiss Cheese Model' where …

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    Comment #23937271

    I had to tackle this problem as well for a small project and found that I could just send a GET request to https://www.cloudflare.com/cdn-cgi/trace and parse the response with a si…

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    Comment #19489929

    Although not exactly relevant I remember reading that some devs at google were looking to mainline Magic Trackpad Support because I was so disappointed in the trackpad functionalit…

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    Comment #18762402

    This reminds me of an old story of how the Japanese idol band AKB48 added a new member who turned out to be a computer composite in 2011, to think what they could do with technolog…

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    Comment #15891808

    Actually I feel almost any component in general sadly. I had to replace the front camera assembly as well and after trying almost four different parts from multiple vendors and non…

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    Comment #15891749

    I replaced an aging battery on my 6S Plus a few months ago myself and installed iOS 11 at the same time (figured it was a good opportunity to do both together). Immediately I notic…

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    Ask HN: How does Facebook identify me?

    Just now, I was sitting at my computer when a string of texts appeared on my phone with: > XXXXX is your Facebook confirmation code, or go to https://fb.com/l/HASH I never requeste…

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    Comment #14371115

    This is an incredibly frustrating thing with the way OS X handles encrypted disk images as well. Needing to share confidential documents with coworkers, we were hoping to store the…

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    Comment #13245515

    Likewise, I've owned a huge number of mac laptops since the titanium PowerBook and I don't think I ever managed to get more than 4-5hr of real work use (adobe suite etc) I've alway…