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quassy··on I Received an AI Email
Point 1, 2 and 3 all apply to miners as well and yet they never delivered on their promise.
quassy··on Libyear
That is an argument for libyears, not against it. If they only updated the docs, why didn't you upgrade already? If anything, projects using stable libraries like this could very easily reach 0 libyears, because there are no breaking changes when upgrading.
quassy··on Car Seats as Contraception (2020)
Might just call that part by its proper name, emigration.
quassy··on I've been playing the same game of Civilization II for almost 10 years (2012)
As they are still active on Reddit... are they still playing? If so, I really doubt there was peace or even a victory.
quassy··on Heroku: We’ve Heard Your Feedback
Considering how badly Salesforce handled communication and bug fixing of log4shell in Tableau that's not really surprising.
quassy··on Wikimedia Foundation stops accepting cryptocurrency donations
No problem here: If anyone truly cares about Wikimedia they can just convert crypto to fiat and donate this instead.
quassy··on Daytime napping and Alzheimer's dementia: A potential bidirectional relationship
Considering apnoe and in general bad sleep is really bad for your heart, yes.
quassy··on The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)
It's in the article: The author found information about the presumed attacker on a site where parents write about their gifted (= highly talented) children.
quassy··on Tesla owner blows up his Model S with dynamite over $22,000 battery replacement
> Katainen didn’t like the value proposition considering used 2013 Model S vehicles go for about 35,000 euros in Finland and he didn’t have access to a third-party shop to fix the pack.

It's literally in the article that that wasn't an option.

quassy··on Germany is closing half of its reactors before the end of the year
2. Yes but ~1990 is not a good baseline as back then lots of highly inefficient industry and power plants of former GDR were still running and on the brink of being demolished due to economic collapse. It makes Germanys efforts look much better than they were.
quassy··on Ask HN: Recommended two-factor authenticator app for personal use?
Nothing is stopping you from adding the secret token to multiple apps or devices to generate TOTP codes, as there is no connection between the service providing the secret and the TOTP generator.

One way to have a backup is just adding all your secrets to your password manager like KeePass, KeeWeb etc which can generate TOTP codes (but kind of defeats the purpose of _two_ factor).

quassy··on Elementary OS 6.1
Same with the System Settings: Here search is disabled as well when you are not on the index page. So quickly going from display to drivers or similar is not possible.
quassy··on Elementary OS 6.1
Do you remember which program that was? Afaik elementary does not have any official backup application or function so I wouldn't put the blame on them here.
quassy··on Wirecard files for insolvency after financial hole laid bare
@Fnoord (can't respond to your comment directly weirdly) How can anyone seriously rank Australia and the UK so far high up?