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forgotmypwd123on Backblaze acknowledges using curl, becomes the new largest single-shot donor

I wonder if they'll commit to $100/mo going forward... After all, they're still using it!

forgotmypwd123on The Unison language

The name is already pretty taken....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_(disambiguation)

forgotmypwd123on Blue light may not be as disruptive to sleep patterns as thought: mouse study

I do the same. Then I hiss like some sort of vampire-cat when I launch photoshop and the filter switches off.

forgotmypwd123on Visualising the amount of microplastic we eat

Sorry, but the FDA isn't really trustworthy to the rest of the world anymore...

forgotmypwd123on New Material Breaks World Record Turning Heat into Electricity

Overclocked threadrippers can hit 500W[1]. I can see peltiers and 'vapochill' style phase-change cooling making a comeback...

1. https://www.anandtech.com/show/13124/the-amd-threadripper-29...

forgotmypwd123on Paean to Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri (2016)

Which factions are so weak as to make this 'fair'?

forgotmypwd123on So Where’s My Low Voltage DC Wall Socket?

I always thought running low-voltage DC through a house from a single supply was doomed due to voltage drop over the distances required....

forgotmypwd123on Game Critic Uses Workaround for YouTube's Copyright System (2016)

Yes, that's the exact same trick as Jim Sterling's "Copyright Deadlock".

forgotmypwd123on User Agent Changes

Web pages should not work around browser bugs, its like a linux distro working around kernel bugs. Just fucking fix it.

forgotmypwd123on How to Leave the United Kingdom

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forgotmypwd123on Astronomers on the verge of detecting “first light”

But it's coming from everywhere, and the universe is infinite, so if you look at a distant enough point, you'll find some light from [AGE OF THE UNIVERSE] light-years away. This is probably a horrendous misunderstanding.

forgotmypwd123on Say it's 1962, you're lucky enough to be a programmer working with an IBM 7090

>But then, I also sometimes copy plaintext into Notepad++ and turn on syntax highlighting for a random language to make it easier to read.

whut

forgotmypwd123on Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

Or the civil service. I'm sure there's plenty of dickheads would still want derry put first even when using both, though

forgotmypwd123on Astronomers on the verge of detecting “first light”

But wouldn't the hot dense stuff before reionisation have emitted light?

forgotmypwd123on Shibboleths that get you past the initial script stage

I feel obligated to say, I THINK YOU'LL FIND THAT'S DERRY/LONDONDERRY, SON.

forgotmypwd123on What Happens if SAT Scores Consider Adversity?

What's happens to the title?

forgotmypwd123on Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players

AlphaGo doesn't know chess at all....

forgotmypwd123on At an Outback Steakhouse Franchise, Surveillance Blooms

Your job sucks. Leave.

forgotmypwd123on Ask HN: How was life for a regular dev during the dot com burst?

So did Flickr. Same guy behind it too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Butterfield

forgotmypwd123on Guitar Machine

reminds me of the Wintergatan Marble Machine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q

forgotmypwd123on Adventures in parametric textile pattern design

Why all the cigarette designs?!

forgotmypwd123on Ask HN: What are your arguments in favor of end-to-end encryption?

> (see TSA locks and basically any time in history that was tried).

For anyone unaware, the TSA lock master key was leaked by including a photo of an actual master key in a newspaper article about said locks. I don't think encryption keys shared with police/govt. will be any safer.

forgotmypwd123on An Update to Our Community and an Apology

>Last week we made an important decision for our community. We removed a moderator for repeatedly violating our existing Code of Conduct and being unwilling to accept our CM’s repeated requests to change their behavior.

Hang on a sec...

>their behaviour.

Wasn't monica fired for suggesting she used gender neutral pronouns generally? Because they said she should use the preferred gender specific pronoun when known?

And now "Sara Chipps" is doing exactly that?!

forgotmypwd123on Ask HN: Who Wants to Be Fired?

You're gonna go to jail.

forgotmypwd123on 20,000 Startup Ideas

>524. Solicit new business.

Genius!

forgotmypwd123on Why Hasn’t Brexit Happened?

The stuff on Northern Ireland is incredibly biased and inaccurate.

forgotmypwd123on OLPC’s $100 laptop was going to change the world (2018)

>productivity

You've obviously never tried to use a 2008 netbook for anything productive...

forgotmypwd123on Stop Infinite Scrolling

There's a lot of reasons why it would break all of those things. Hacking it so that the URL & history is rewritten when content is loaded is significant extra work.

I have no idea what you mean by indexing, given the word index doesn't feature in the article. You also ignore the problems of making the scrollbar useless & the footer unreachable. I don't see any fix for those issues at all.

forgotmypwd123on CDC says stop vaping as mystery lung condition spreads

Worried about the possible dangers of certain flavors, I tried "flavorless" e-liquid (6mg) and it tastes TERRIBLE.

Its not flavorless, its unflavored, and the nicotine (and possibly also the VG/PG) tastes like pre-chewed nicotine gum.

forgotmypwd123on Why ElementaryOS Left Medium

It used to be possible to visit medium.com and quickly find a few articles worth reading for free. Now its almost impossible to find anything on the front page without a star (paid sub required)