daveoc64

What is the reason for the variation in experience of commenters here?

Several are saying that they've successfully disassembled and reassembled all sorts of IKEA furniture, while others insist that isn't possible.

I've had IKEA furniture for 10+ years, and it's survived several house moves and reassembly cycles.

That includes some of the cheaper products like LACK, KALLAX, and LINNMON.

How would you know that they are who they claim to be?

There is an urban legend in my city that a person claiming to be a parking attendant worked outside the zoo for 20 years, pretending to work for either the local government or the zoo, collecting parking fees from visitors.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/fake-parking-attendant/

This is, of course, false - but there is no practical way for regular people to verify that people in a public place are who they claim to be.

You might want to try running the EPUB through https://kindle-epub-fix.netlify.app/

This applies a few fixes for problems with EPUBs that the Send to Kindle service doesn't like.

A very interesting read!

Hyperlinks are a particularly challenging area.

>The thing is, even here on HN (where I expect, maybe not warranted, the level to be higher), people seem to absolutely proud and entitled to chargeback whatever for whatever reason.

I'm not American (I'm from the UK), but filing a chargeback is an incredibly satisfying weapon for a consumer.

So many companies try to weasel out of their legal obligations under consumer protection law, so why not hit them with a chargeback when they won't do what they're required to?

After being burned by PayPal protection not working out, I will now buy anything I can directly on a Credit Card, as you just get so much more protection in the UK - both contractually and legally.

There is a classification system for how processed foods are:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nova_classification

Under that classification, boiling potatoes counts as processing them.

Something as minor as rinsing fruit in tap water can count as processing - it could affect the lifespan of the fruit or its nutritional content.

Of course, that isn't the only definition out there.

You have to work in specific industries or work in specific job roles:

https://customercare.costco.co.uk/app/answers/detail/a_id/85...

Apparently, by targeting the Wholesale market - plus a limited range of general consumers, they are able to class their stores as wholesale warehouses, which can be opened in locations where a general retail store wouldn't be permitted. That makes purchasing or leasing land for the store much cheaper.

I've only been to Costco once here in the UK (as I'm not eligible for membership - the criteria are quite tight here), but they had a person and a scanner checking cards on the entrance.

Maybe that's because of the stricter eligibility rules.

Recently discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41126782

> Please don't post comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

>And, of course, Portion VPN itself is headquartered in Switzerland

Autocorrect?

I agree with the other commenter.

The current situation is worse.

EME requires that the browser ship with a DRM library like Widevine.

Flash used an industry standard plugin model and could work in any browser.

They're now saying that it's likely a glass related injury, so not jumping to conclusions was the right thing to do.

In the UK, the IKEA Restaurant offers free hot drinks for IKEA Family members on weekdays - plus all of the other benefits you've mentioned.

I would say that the Wi-Fi is important, as the design of most UK IKEA buildings blocks mobile network signals!

My local library service in England has had the "Open Access" scheme in place since before the pandemic.

I don't think there have been any major problems with it.

You need to go through an induction course on things like fire safety, then you use your library card and PIN to enter the building out of staffed hours.

It's very convenient to be able to go at any time from approx 08:00 to 19:30 every day.

The "tailgating" problem is a little overblown - you're encouraged not to let others in, but they know that you can't do anything to stop it, and they don't expect you to put yourself in any danger.

There are still staffed hours throughout the week, and these work on a sort of rotation so that a neighbouring library will likely be open if your local one is unstaffed.

https://beta.southglos.gov.uk/open-access/

Her recent series on RSS feed readers has avoided naming virtually any of them.

I can't imagine she is working for them all.

Generally, services like Google Drive can't even max out a 1Gbps connection.

It's a LOT faster than the Windows Event Viewer.

That alone makes it useful!

Amusingly, the Kindle edition isn't sold in the UK.

Transatlantic commerce has been foiled by copyright.

Thanks - that's really helpful.

I love the project, but it really does need a way to find the most popular books:

https://github.com/standardebooks/web/issues/298

>Websites that are Just Text On A Page should load fast, but many don't. Hacker News is blazing fast, but Google's API docs never load.

Things aren't always that simple.

I'm in the UK, and my ping time to news.ycombinator.com is 147ms - presumably because it's not using a CDN and is hosted in the USA.

cloud.google.com on the other hand has an 8ms ping time.

So yes, Hacker News is a simple, low-JS page - but there can be other factors that make it feel slow for users in some places. This is despite me being in a privileged situation, having an XGS-PON fibre connection providing symmetric 8Gbps speeds.

Starlink is available in something like 40 countries, including Australia.

Unless you're specifically talking about bases in Antarctica?

Yeah, it was way too long to fit it all in!

I've heard people talk about Rewind as being the equivalent for macOS:

https://www.rewind.ai/

As the article points out, given the rampant levels of shoplifting in the UK (and the associated abuse of staff), all of the major retailers and a lot of their staff are going to be on board with this.

For the government and police, it's a cheap option to deal with the problem.

>In the UK dryers have never had an exhaust.

I wouldn't say never, my home in England had a dryer with an exhaust hose in the 1990s.

But since the 2000s, they're not usually seen.

SQLite isn't open source.

It's in the public domain.

I was really concerned about the direction Windows 11 was going in, but after trying it out, there's really not much I don't like.

I don't even have to use any of the third-party tools that remove OS functionality - just changing easily accessible settings and Group Policy is enough to get it working how I want it.

Windows 10 feels dated in comparison now.

The second factor isn't always needed.

The banks use the sort of risk factors they do for other kinds of fraud protection.

If you make a larger transaction than usual, or try to make a transaction with a merchant you've not used before, then you'll usually be prompted to authenticate.

There's also a limit to how many unauthenticated transactions you can make within a period of time.