Spare_account

that is covered off in the article, for what it's worth

(Not the same guy but) I've definitely heard about this bug in the past, but I assume it is fixed now. I can't actually find a reference for it. If I find one within the hackernews comment edit window I'll add it here.

Somewhere else in the thread, it was suggested that these 'late slips' might be useful for proving to one's employer why they were late to work.

Is this the only use for them?

I am reminded, once again, how lucky I am to have been employed by people who trust me.

I like your future proof year numbering. Most current date formats are going to have a BIIG problem come the end of 9999 but not you!

Are All Generalisations False?

@dang Can you add (2023) to the title.

Also, the linked reddit thread contains no concrete evidence of the alleged privacy breach in the title. This may be a candidate for re-titling / removal.

They probably meant to write 'shameless self-promotion'

Every time threads like this come up I am reminded that Google has ads. I don't see them, presumably because of uBlock Origin.

I'm typing this response not to smugly boast, but because it's a lead in to the question that your comment raised within me:

Are you using Pihole to block ads at a network level, but not also using a browser extension to block them at the client?

In case you're interested in finding out the exact age of your Microsoft account: A few years ago I opened a support ticket with Microsoft about how old my account was and they were able to tell me the date my account was created. In my case, it was 22nd June 1998.

While attempting to help a family member register for an account on this credit/finance company, I noticed that amongst the password requirements was this statemant:

" We do not accept automatically generated passwords from IOS / Android"

What would be the reason for that?

It may be relevant that Creation Finance are known as a bottom-feeder type credit agency preying on people who have bad credit history. I am assuming that anything they require of their customers is somehow a dark pattern but I can't figure out what it might be here.

Agreed, in the UK:

- 'angled towards the ground' is 'On' (https://cdn.aws.toolstation.com/images/141020-UK/800/10481.j...)

- 'angled towards the ceiling' is 'Off' (https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Images/Products/size_3/MKK4870....)

It's been archived

https://web.archive.org/web/20240128035720/http://www.homede...

Not a single use of the word 'webmaster' in the whole article. Was Zach even around in the 90s? ;-)

When I return a gas powered hire car, I'm required to return it with the same amount of fuel as I picked it up with. I sign a contract that states I'll be charged a higher-than-pump price to top up the car if I breach this requirement.

Does the same (or an equivalent, eg: Plug it in to charge upon return) requirement not apply to electric cars?

Well I feel pretty silly now. Thanks for pointing out the error

The title of the post (on Hackernews, above) has the spelling "Phosphorous" (with a U). This is the spelling of the Adjective (a describing word). It is a mistake in this context, because what has been discovered in the outskirts of the Milky Way is not a grammatical construct but rather a chemical element.

The chemical element is spelled without the U (even in British English!): Phosphorus.

https://grammarist.com/spelling/phosphorous-phosphorus/

>Mr. Dubrowski, the JPMorgan Chase spokesman, said the bar’s series of deposits was indeed the problem.

>“We must know our customers and monitor the transactions that flow through our bank,” he said. “That includes instances where we see a pattern of cash deposits that are just below federal currency reporting thresholds.”

Later in the article:

>“We must know our customers and monitor the transactions that flow through our bank,” Mr. Dubrowski said, who stressed that the bank was not accusing Mr. Ladipo of any wrongdoing. “That includes instances where we suspect that the transactions involve parties connected to potential scams.”

Is Mr Dubrowski an AI by any chance?

>Sonos waited until 2019 to pursue claims on the invention (and until 2020 to roll out the invention in its own product line).

What was the feature that Sonos introduced in 2020 that was being fought over?

As per Betteridge's law of headlines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

I wear sunglasses for driving every day of the year in the UK.

Your optician will also encourage you to wear sunglasses year-round, UV damage can occur even in overcast conditions.

>I don't think this is a US-vs-world issue.

Which country are you in?

I'm in the UK and we only connect dishwashers to the cold supply. Other comments in this thread from NL and DE are the same.

So if I hook up my gmail account to this service, and I send an email via Eppie to my mom's outlook.com email, the outbound Sent Item won't show up in my gmail Sent Items folder?

I don't understand what this is _for_?

It is creating a second copy of all my email data on your cluster? For what benefit?

But I have to clean the print heads every time I print (about once a month). I use up vast amounts of ink just keeping this thing working.

I wish I'd bought a laser

One possible view on this topic is that you're experiencing a form of confirmation bias here.

You aren't aware of the numerous people who have stayed under the radar in the process of every stage of development that has ever happened.

I wonder if there is a pattern here that people who are complaining about MS Teams are also largely non-Windows users?

My company is almost exclusively made up of Windows users and overall, I don't hear many complaints about MS Teams.

As a happy MS Teams user, I'm curious about what issues you experience?

Also, if you're willing, I'd be interested to hear which competing products you use and which areas those products outperform MS Teams?

>What if Apple starts to say that we can rinse off our iPhones any time they get dirty? They already show advertisements in which iPhones get dunked in water.

Semi-related: If they somehow use that loophole then they should be obliged to honour warranty claims for water damage.

I'll admit that I don't know about iPhones, but my Pixel 6 was described as being waterproof but experienced water damage after being dropped in a swimming pool (1 metre depth) for a few seconds and Google refused to repair it under warranty.

Take a look at my other comment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35516985

This methodical approach to vehicle diagnostics is something you can see on YouTube at South Main Auto Repair

https://www.youtube.com/@SouthMainAuto

Eric regularly takes the viewer through the entire process including sometimes measuring electronic components with diagnostic tools that include oscilloscope functions.