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Old_Thrashbarg
660karma·230submissions·January 15, 2015
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Talked with Sales: - first salesperson said: "We are anticipating the Newer XPS 15 laptops to be launched by Dec last week or by Mid Jan that comes with 14th Gen Processors and preinstalled Ubunt…
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Good point. I'm fine just doing with fingerprint reader, did you send it back because you wanted that feature, or was it causing some deeper issue? I was thinking to go for the XPS 15 since it&#…
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Hard to negotiate when Windows has monopoly pricing power and Dell doesn't.
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When I first starting using Ubuntu 10+ years ago, getting a new laptop was like going to battle. My patience has gone down for this stuff as I've gotten older, but fortunately it's gotten c…
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Just talked with a Sales person yesterday. Indeed, from the new models, only the XPS 13 runs Ubuntu, but the keyboard looks like a nightmare. The sales person did send a link to a Precision with Ubu…
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Or "freedom of speech is not freedom of reach"
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I'm curious why you decided to migrate from Vue to React.
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A significant misconception is about who writes the codes. I haven't looked closely at NFPA's model, but many of the Law Publishers actually have outside volunteers write the codes - govern…
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UpCodes cofounder here, couldn't agree more. We're fighting the Law Publishers for free, ungated access to the law. They think they own the laws, it's insane. Previous Hacker News thr…
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Right, my startup work on compliance tech for the construction industry. Pretty gritty work trying to simplify and automate regulations that are constantly changing. Can't imagine anyone doing th…
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If you ask most people to just label their apples, they'd call the first one "1", and so on. Very few people would say, "please pass me apple #0".
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I believe there's a powerful status quo bias. Doing the reversal test, if programming languages had all been 1-indexed, then I doubt we'd hear much from people, in 2022, saying "I think…
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Please report spam on these. The email providers won't know they were unsolicited and unwanted if you just unsubscribe.
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Yeah, the new tabs are a bit of a waste of real estate.
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I'll just be happy if they keep their Creative Commons licensing.
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Strangely, the draft just shows up as an empty page for me in Firefox, but Chromium works fine.
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Hey folks, the previous post [Can the Law by Copyrighted?]( https://techcrunch.com/2019/04/09/can-the-law-be-copyrighted... ) a year and half ago seemed popular, so wante…