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willyyr

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About willyyr

Technology Strategist at Microsoft

https://willy.me

@willyyr on Twitter

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    Loved the first part. Can't wait to play it. Didn't know there was an iOS Version for the first one, time to replay that on my phone on a plane :D

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    Comment #49081283

    It absolutely is working on a ship. At least for me it helps e.g. when traveling on a big ferry etc. but I guess everybody has a different level of tolerance.

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    Comment #38599788

    Mark Russinovich shares some of it in this recent Ignite session: https://ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessions/49347847-9ae4-43... *I work at Microsoft but have nothing to do with t…

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    Comment #37480603

    My Steam account is turning 20 today at 4:58pm (CET) and I cannot help but feel a bit old for the very first time. I still remember all my friends hating it so much in the beginnin…

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    Comment #34489108

    Related MS announcement with some more details: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2023/01/23/microsoftandopen...

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    Comment #33522120

    Thank you for creating this. I was just looking for something like that to send notifications to my mobile without setting this all up and deploying my own app to the store. Using …

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    Comment #26088309

    Cool project. Looks a little bit like the one i've been using as a basis: https://github.com/brennentsmith/internet-speed-logger I just combined it with a CosmosDB and put the dash…

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    Comment #23139680

    Can you recommend a good way to make sure the Pi and Pi-hole are always up to date? I imagine a simple cron with pihole -up is not sufficient?

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    Comment #22099572

    I tried that once but ran into so many errors for passwords that contained characters like ", or ;" that I gave up. Is there a way around this other then copying every entry manual…

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    Comment #21651559

    Awesome! I wanted to have something like this for ever and planned to build it myself using a combination of gmail and Flow or something. Now LastPass , 1Password etc. need to inte…

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    Comment #20505783

    It loads but very slow. Most of them seem to be from the MIT IBM Watson AI Lab. I like that they used generated portraits of themself :D Extract of "Why": "AI Portraits Ars uses Ar…

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    Comment #19443440

    Since you mentioned: "be on a conference call". There is nothing more annoying then a participant in a conference call (or any call) using AirPods especially when they are at a bus…

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    Comment #17124542

    That's exactly what this option does. It deletes everything that has been collected up until that point.

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    Comment #17124327

    There is an option to delete all diagnostic data collected (Windows 10 1803). You can find it under Settings->Privacy-> Diagnostics & feedback-> Delete diagnostic data. As others h…

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    Comment #16388152

    Hi Chandan, great to see you put the domain to a good use and making it to YC W18 :). Congrats on the launch.

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    Comment #16366571

    If the patent got invalidated now, wouldn't they be able to get their "fees" back?

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    Comment #16335632

    I'm using the one from http://hn.premii.com/ and when logging in it takes me to the HN website login page. As I said it kind of looks like an OAuth flow but probably isn't :)

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    Comment #16335151

    Looks nice! Have been using another client till now. One question though. Why do I have to enter my credentials directly in the app? The app I'm using now uses kind of an OAuth flo…

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