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dan

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Aussie living in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Coding since 1998.
.NET Foundation member. C# fan
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A few Australian universities attend college fairs in the USA, because even after you include the price of the flights, accommodation, and the uni itself, studying in Australia can still end up cheaper than the USA. Americans seem to love the idea of going to Australia, too.

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Bad take. Just because one group of people had to go through some pain, doesn’t mean other groups should have to go through the same pain.

A long term strategy would still be better, but for now, this is a good move.

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It’s interesting how light KDE has gotten. It used to be the big, bloated desktop environment that you wouldn’t even try using on old hardware. It seems to have traded places with GNOME.

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9x had versions too… 95 was 4.0 and 98 was 4.1. They were mostly just used internally though.

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This is a myth. The Win32 API doesn’t even have a method that returns the string “Windows 95”! Windows version numbers are numbers, not strings. Windows 95 was actually 4.0. Windows 98 was 4.1, ME was 4.5, and XP was 5.0.

Actually it’s not entirely a myth - there was some Java library that did this - but it wasn’t widespread at all, and certainly not the documented approach to check the version.

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I remember using Windows 2000 at school. That OS was solid. Far more reliable and stable than what I was running at home (Windows 98, first edition).

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Thanks for the correction :)

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I’m on Windows 2000 which is 1987 versions ahead of Windows 13.

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Honey I shrinked the kids

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10% fewer calories per pack.

Like the “light” juices that are “50% lower in sugar” because they dilute it 1:1 with water. I could just do that at home!

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Costco do this too, at least in my area in California. They price some canned drinks per fluid ounce, and others per can. Really annoying.

I used to see Walmart do it too, but I think they’ve gotten better.

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I could see this happening in more progressive states like California, Oregon, or Washington state.

California already has a bunch of consumer protection laws:

  • Store gift cards can never expire and must be redeemable for cash if they have a balance of less than $10.
  • A warranty can’t require you to register the product to be eligible for warranty coverage.
  • The CCPA, which is like a mini version of the GDPR. Companies must provide all data they’ve collected about you upon request, must delete all the data upon request, and must let you opt out from them selling your data (they literally have to have a link labeled “do not sell my personal information” on their site)
  • Anti price gouging laws.
  • As of July 1, drip pricing (hidden fees on top of advertised prices, such as service charges) will be illegal.

And probably a bunch of other ones I can’t think of off the top of my head :)

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Nowadays a lot of people go straight to where they wanted to find info - Wikipedia, StackOverflow, IMDB, etc. - and search from there.

Didn’t people always do this, though? If I want to find something on Wikipedia, why wouldn’t I search on Wikipedia for it? I have Firefox configured so that it searches Wikipedia when I type “wiki” then a space then the search query.

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Bring back DMOZ and the Yahoo directory.

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Searx is dead. You’ll want to use SearxNG instead.

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dropped their “don’t be evil” principle.

It’s still there. See the final paragraph: abc.xyz/investor/google-code-of-conduct/

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Is this better than oomd?

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