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Comment · 1 year ago
That's brilliant! Please make a Firefox extension too!
Comment · 3 years ago
70% of the time it works all the time
Comment · 3 years ago
My discord server was flagged as "offensive" and removed from public listings without giving a clear reason why. It took me weeks to accidentally discover the cause, which was the name of a channel: #bugs-minor. Renaming it to #bugs removed the flagged status.
Comment · 3 years ago
What do professionals do when the hardware fails? Do they have regular backups, then buy the same hardware on ebay and then restore the "golden" setup?

I recently tried to reinstall an old MacBook 13" that had a hard drive replacement. I couldn't log in to perform the install, Apple servers were throwing me an error. The only choice I had is to put another OS on it.

Comment · 4 years ago
I had something similar happen with a translations file for a game. It has a column with keys like "created.at" and a column with human readable translation. Google Sheets automatically create links to anything that looks like an URL, so "created.at" becomes a link. And if you're not careful to immediately remove those auto created links, some of them can lead to malicious sites, then Google will detect your sheet containing those malicious links. In my case Google blocked sharing, but didn't take the document down. Still, I believe it's terrible UI/UX, to automatically link to malicious sites and then penalize the sheet owner for this.
Comment · 4 years ago
I started streaming my programming sessions live on Twitch, with desktop capture, camera and voice. It was super awkward early on, but after doing this for 3 years almost every day, I am more relaxed with 100 viewers than with 3 in the beginning. You just get used to anything that is uncomfortable if you keep doing it.
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Comment · 6 years ago
They have used a cheap angle grinder disk, what would have happened if they took a proper diamond one?
Comment · 6 years ago
This is also why I will never publish to Android Play Store. Experience is very similar, it constantly demands random changes.
Comment · 6 years ago
I buy coffee for $10/kg, it gets me 75 cups of strong black coffee. I will rather pay $5 for software.
Comment · 7 years ago

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