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I used to think my tinnitus was the sound of lights or other electrical devices or current around me. Not sure where I got that idea. Until one night when the power goes out, and i…

DKIM and SPF validate a message. DMARC sets a policy as to what to do with it (quarantine/reject.)

Maybe this is reductive but I always suspected the car project was a Jony Ive indulgence. In the years after Jobs' death, Ive was pampered as many people attributed Apple's vision …

It's baffling that they did this little PR blitz across HN and Reddit and then didn't reply to any of the questions.

You should tell your support teams that, because when I asked them if local Google Drive files were excluded they affirmed, and directed me to instructions on how to dissolve my bu…

Well I do pay for their business product, I have a "Business Groups" package with a few dozen endpoints all backing up for $99/year per machine. According to support's reply just n…

I'm going to drop Backblaze for my entire company over this. I need it to capture local data, even though that local data is getting synced to Google Drive. Where we sync our data …

"Semantic ablation" is the term I learned for this right here on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47049088

Facial recognition? looks at photo I've probably seen a dozen different people who look exactly like this woman just this week.

I like your post and the last line is really key. When we are young we hear versions of this (e.g. "have to love yourself first") and despite the trite or pithy phrasings of it, it…

I agree! Taste is downstream of such things as design principles which can be described in objective terms. Taste is not synonymous with personal preferences, otherwise we wouldn't…

I love this feature and wish something like it would come to Gmail. I can't rely on iCloud Mail anymore due to its overly aggressive silent spam filtering. Not great if you're tryi…

To the extent that U.S. voters want to maintain the status quo, which many (though not most) voters do wish to do, it's largely driven by an individualist mindset in which the wors…

I have no doubt that civilizations are out there. Maybe a handful, maybe nearing infinity. But out there. The problem is "out there" is so far away, we are all isolated on our own …

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