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That’s kind of a strange and rude thing to say… Don’t yuck his yum.

*and crappy

Forgot that part

Same.

403 from Europe. Cool GDPR policy.

As a foreigner myself, the winter is my favorite time of the year in Iceland. The landscape is beautiful and the glacier lagoon is quite full of icebergs and excursions like [into the glacier](https://intotheglacier.is) or snowmobiling are very enjoyable on a clear day.

30 days on either side of the peak of winter (21st of December) daylight is limited and that can make seeing things more difficult. The sun rises not very far from the horizon between 11am and 4pm but enjoyment of most activities will primarily depend on what you plan on doing and how lucky you get with the weather. It’s very unpredictable, even hour by hour, so you’re at the mercy of nature to have good visibility from frequent snow storms.

As a tourist in Winter, you’re probably best to be taking guided excursions from Reykjavík and not backpacking the highlands or driving the ring road in a camper van. Those activities could in fact be very dangerous if you aren’t prepared.

FYI this domain is getting blocked via some OpenDNS block list on the public wifi I’m using at the moment.

Does anyone else think the low power alert noise is too loud as well? I always get startled when it happens and my ears hurt afterward.

I have an easier way to mitigate this:

1. In the Venmo app, go to the You tab by selecting the single person icon 2. Tap the Settings gear in the top right 3. Select “Account” under “Preferences” 4. Tap “Close Venmo Account”

About midway into the N64 lifecycle a ram expansion card (expansion pack) was released. His modifications sound like they still play on a stock N64 but the expansion pack is needed. This was fairly typical with higher end games made by Rare. Even as a purist, this added detail doesn’t really detract from the outcome of the project to me.

Ransomeware wouldn’t exist to the same degree without crypto. Crypto’s killer app is quite obviously fraud and illegal activity.

The way he discusses performance analysis in his YouTube video also does not inspire great confidence in his technical or analytical abilities I’m sorry to say.

OpenWRT is seriously good. The architecture (UCI, overlayfs, LuCI, etc) achieves what very few appliance-like firmwares can: extensibility without consistency problems.

Not to mention the zoned based firewall is seriously impressive. Rarely do I see such unified product vision in free software.

Just got back into OpenWRT after 10 years or so and it’s really grown up. Tell me, what package are you using for sending stats to influxdb? Thanks!

Don’t you think their chance of defending their country would be a lot higher with deliberate military spending vs an untrained ad-hoc citizen militia?

False dichotomy.

Reread: The right to carry a AK-47 into Walmart is not the same as a government handing out weapons to defend from invasion.

It’s absolutely delusional to think that armed citizens could contend with a modernized military, especially in the US. That time has passed.

Take for example how well BLM protestors managed against lightly militarized police—and they get scrap compared to current military tech.

This argument may make sense in less developed nations but it’s time for legislation in the US to wake up to the 21st century.

I find FaceID a lot less convenient, as double clicking rapidly on my dominant hand is difficult for me due to an medical/accessibility issue and of course having to pull down my mask to authenticate is *literally* pathological in a pandemic.

I noticed double click speed is also difficult for my grandparents who don’t have the same condition I do but they had no issues with older TouchID based phones. Double click-to-FaceID comes up quite frequently with use, enough to give my grandparents the impression that “this phone won’t work for me”. It’s a shame.

I’m strictly in the Apple ecosystem but was pretty surprised when I saw a friend’s Google phone with fingerprint based biometric authentication through the screen. Hope Apple develops something similar.

To desperately cling to the past out of fear of the future.

It’s distributed as a DKMS module, it’s not like we’re all doing `cd /usr/src/linux && make config`

Backup: https://web.archive.org/web/20220129202423/https://sylvestre...

I studied fine art at a top 3 art school in the US (CalArts). I’m compelled to completely disagree with you on “art school leading to ascension” (and that it also must be traditional and boring...) The best artists I know would have to be taught how NOT to be successful despite their worst effort.

My advice, admittedly cynical and maybe unpopular, is that you either ”have it or you don’t”*. The asterisk being that you might have an underdeveloped “it” and not even know it. There’s no substitute for practice.

If we looked at reading the way we treat creativity, we would all be illiterate.

What did you get your elevator operator for Christmas?

“Rclone” and not “Csync”? Missed opportunity! ;)

Talk to people who work for the city of Reykjavík, they are now being compelled to do the work of 5 days in 4. They haven’t hired additional staff to cope with the time crunch. Employees are not happy.

I’m from the US and so I can only speak to US law which I’m more familiar with and obligatory IANAL but… counterintuitively that is only _possibly_ infringement. More information would be needed to determine exactly if that is infringing.

Pinterest, like most sites hosting UGC is protected under 17 U.S.C. § 512(c) DMCA safe harbor laws.

The majority of pins on Pinterest are from the “pin-it button” a small snippet of JavaScript which content creators embed themselves on websites. Pinterest offers opt-out mechanisms but the majority of content creators see huge value in the additional traffic generated from Pinterest.

> Why do you think you were engaged in a net Good?

This is a very easy one for me to answer: I saw the net good firsthand in our users’ faces. The most common response to telling someone where I worked was: “I love Pinterest!” and as a core user, I do too.

My favorite way to browse Pinterest is on an iPad late at night, bouncing around from idea to idea. Discovering interests I had no idea existed within me and inspiring me to be the best version of myself and try new things.

My Pinterest boards are the most honest, reflective, and personal things I’ve ever posted on the Internet. Every imperfect human part of me is on display.

https://www.pinterest.com/joshenders/

I’m really sorry to hear about your bad experience in tech. I can relate and empathize with how you’ve felt and I hope you’ve arrived at a better place.

If you do ever want to chat my email is my hn username at gmail.com.

Your frustration may be better directed at Google then. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You’re in a country (well, technically connecting from a non-US IP) which does not have a ccTLD redirect. This is the same issue as above. It appears the updated code sends a non-dismissible UI for non-US markets (the US is saturated, this is a user acquisition/growth strategy).

Oops. I didn’t answer your question.

> Specifically Pinterest image result clutter?

No, not at all and quite the opposite. If I see a result is on Pinterest, specifically a pin result, I’m more likely to click it because I know the image will be delivered fast (I was in charge of CDN strategy) and is two easy clicks to “download image”.

Often when I see other results, I’ll get to the page and there will be some irritating right click disabling script or I’ll have to hunt down the image and it’s a pain.

If the site it links to is dead, I’ll at least have an audit trail I can use to hunt the image down from the metadata on Pinterest.

Because I answered the same question below in two lengthy posts before responding to this response.