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gberger··on Sandwell Bitcoin mine found stealing electricity
What is a "Sandwell Bitcoin mine"?
gberger··on How Our Slack App Got to 200K Users with No Marketing Whatsoever
It's not a feature of SMS, rather it's implemented by SMS clients.
gberger··on An observation on MetroCards, after a $1 fee (2013)
Yes, using a machine like this one [0] you just need to present your card to the contactless terminal and you'll be able to get £5 back in cash.

[0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=oyster+card+machine&tbm=isch...

gberger··on An observation on MetroCards, after a $1 fee (2013)
In practice, you don't even need to give the Oyster card back to collect the deposit.
gberger··on "I’ve kept silent on the Apple situation; they broke silence, so will I"
What's the context?
gberger··on Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar
This would be avoided if Notepad was implemented in React Native for Windows.
gberger··on Don't Pick Up: Missed calls in India
Sophie Schmidt
gberger··on Submarine Sleepovers
Yes, but the maintenance cost is probably that much or more per year.
gberger··on Adobe charges subscription cancellation fee
In the US it's called sales tax, not VAT, that may be why you're not getting results
gberger··on 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?
I'm curious, you mention "outrage quotient" and "measurable improvement".

How do you measure outrage?

gberger··on Ludus Latrunculorum
> The official policy is to use British (AKA "Commonwealth") spelling when writing about British (or Commonwealth) topics, and American for topics relating to the United States. General topics can use any one of the variants, but should generally strive to be consistent within an article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:FAQ/Contributing#ENG...

gberger··on On Cache Invalidation: Why Is It Hard? (2018)
Then you should lock the cache while the change is being performed?
gberger··on Chrome’s address bar will use https:// by default
I think if you swipe the spacebar it moves the caret
gberger··on Substack's UI and 1Password temporarily cost me $2k
Why not? It's an arbitrary donation amount.
gberger··on Spaceprob.es catalogues all the probes that still communicate with Earth
Yes, but the data travels at approximately the speed of light, so you can just drop the "light" unit in front of the time units
gberger··on I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
I live in the UK and aiming for FIRE
gberger··on I followed my dreams to get demoted to software developer
So?
gberger··on Advertisements have emerged on Substack's 'ad-free' newsletter platform
Yes, they allow job ads for YCombinator companies.
gberger··on Bill and Melinda Gates: America’s Top Farmland Owner
You can stack households on top of each other.
gberger··on Malware on My Android Phone
How is the average user expected to use adb and Android Studio to identify & remove malware from their phone?

Android security is broken.

gberger··on Google outage – resolved
Google doesn't fire people who cause outages.
gberger··on Google outage – resolved
This is bad opsec
gberger··on Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers
What's the criteria for an account being labeled as an alt acocunt or not? It's still created/owned by a citizen.
gberger··on Google knows where we are, and so do advertisers
Pedophiles, spammers, and scammers are still citizens.
gberger··on Spreadsheets: Functional Programming for the Masses (2014) [slides]
(ppt)
gberger··on A tech antitrust problem no one is talking about: US broadband providers
What is the X axis representing in the chart in the article?

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/broad...

Edit: second quarter of 2019, third quarter of 2019, etc.

I read the Q as a 0...

gberger··on You might not need to store plaintext email addresses
Oh. I would be pretty annoyed if I had to re-enter my email address every time I perform an action that sends out a transactional email...
gberger··on You might not need to store plaintext email addresses
Maybe this is a dumb question but how do you send an email if you only have the hash of the recipient's address?
gberger··on SQL X-to-Y
Why do I have to complete a captcha to access this website?
gberger··on Ask HN: Best programmable robot for a child with SDK?
Your child came with an SDK? :)
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