Recent submissions

Comment · 5 months ago
I don't understand why getting a letter notarized is being treated as some huge ordeal. Pretty much any bank or credit union has a notary on staff. It takes 5 minutes. Many lawyers and accountants are notaries. Many people here probably know someone who is a notary and they don't even realize it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I write stuff for our internal teams and it's usually for sensitive systems where you can cause a lot of problems if you make a mistake. I will often start the doc by saying "This assumes you know how to use x, y, and z. If not, then you probably shouldn't be doing this." We limit access already, but some of these could be used in a DR scenario by someone who is not super-familiar with the product. I purposefully will not explain certain things because if you can't figure those out, then you shouldn't be doing these steps.
Comment · 1 year ago
It takes like two minutes to create a tenant. Click Next a bunch, enter a credit card, you're done.

And yes they have different types of accounts and methods of billing. Their customer base is probably in the hundreds of millions. People are going to want options. I don't really see the issue there.

Comment · 1 year ago
I still miss my Palm Pre. I've sat here since it died and watched Android and iOS slowly adopt the UI that my Pre had 15 years ago. We were swapping between apps with cards and swiping them away a decade before anyone else.

I had multiple friends end up buying the Pre and the non-slidey Pre (I can't remember the name) because they saw what I had thought it was so cool.

Now my LG TV runs WebOS, which I assume is the name with no shared code, but who knows.

Comment · 1 year ago
The hotel is at least a known quantity. You have a pretty good idea of what you're getting into, the expectations are clear between all parties, and you're having a fairly consistent experience between different hotels. With Airbnb you have no idea who or what you're dealing with.

With a hotel, I don't have to worry about a doorman asking me who I am and then having to lie, per the host's instructions (yes, this happened to me). I probably don't have to worry about the pictures being of an entirely different unit and having an entire day of my vacation ruined trying to find somewhere else to stay (yes, this happened to me). I know exactly where the hotel is before I hand over hundreds of dollars.

Comment · 1 year ago
Edit: Nevermind, I see that you've already done this.

It might be worth it to pony up for an M365 license or two, send yourself an email, and then open a support ticket inquiring why the email was blocked. I would even avoid mentioning that you are the sender. Just pretend you're a regular customer who receives email from your domain and you're wondering why it was blocked and if there's anything that can be done to stop it from happening.

Comment · 2 years ago
Didn't Internet Explorer do that? It was just the "Favorites" folder c:\users\username.
Comment · 3 years ago
As someone who drank heavily for ten years, I can confirm that this person didn't miss out on anything, except feeling like crap all the time, and money that disappears.
Comment · 3 years ago
Everyone thinks it's malicious. I'm more likely to believe it was a poorly-trained IT person who thought they were in the test environment, or something along those lines.
Comment · 3 years ago
If you use it through your Prime subscription you can now only listen to their playlists. You can't specify a specific album by a specific artist.
Comment · 3 years ago
A monopoly just means you control the prices of a particular market. Amazon, in my opinion, absolutely has control of the ebook market. If they lower prices, everyone else has to lower theirs to keep up.

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton