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New comment by f4c39012 in "Google Workspace thinks my domain is an email provider (2025)"

f4c39012 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 06:19:27 +0000

I'd recommend not coming up with inventive fixes like this. There's a non-zero chance that check is in some server-side validation that you can't work around, and one day something you rely on becomes unrecoverable. Take it as a sign that it won't always work

New comment by f4c39012 in "A faster way to calculate the day of the week"

f4c39012 — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:44:27 +0000

1st joke https://youtube.com/shorts/3p2Apuhj40E

New comment by f4c39012 in "Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo"

f4c39012 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 09:02:41 +0000

You're missing the point. Towns come out ahead when the people living there come out ahead. I'm not arguing with your math, but your math is also a straight line to a town with no people at all being better. Towns are for _people_.

New comment by f4c39012 in "An Infuriating Goodbye to Photoshop"

f4c39012 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:45:57 +0000

One hallmark of poor quality software is the existence of a separate cleanup tool in case the uninstall doesn't work

New comment by f4c39012 in "No leap second will be introduced at the end of December 2026"

f4c39012 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 17:01:26 +0000

I think it's more than publicity. Anyone can stand as a candidate, and anyone can vote for them. Money and connections and establishment and everything else don't matter, all candidates are equal on that stage. It's both weird and to be admired.

New comment by f4c39012 in "The space bit of SpaceX is worth $8 a share, says Morgan Stanley"

f4c39012 — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:54:45 +0000

Dotnetrocks did an excellent breakdown https://www.dotnetrocks.com/details/2007

New comment by f4c39012 in "Ask HN: Is there a bad employers (who have a records of not paying) list?"

f4c39012 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:12:02 +0000

In much the same way as some HR departments exist to protect the business from their employees, some Finance departments exist to not pay the bills (for as long as possible). They may of course do this because the business itself is not being paid

New comment by f4c39012 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

f4c39012 — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:43:01 +0000

Thanks. Appreciate the thought trail. For an employer, if they delete the data later (if I don't get the job) then I'm ok with that since I'm expecting it to be accessed and used by humans.

Interesting about the website forms that have separate options for each category, I'd always believed this was to wear me down so I click "agree" once instead of changing 98 separate sliders to no.

New comment by f4c39012 in "I told them forced consent was unlawful. 5 years later it cost Elkjop €1.8M"

f4c39012 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 08:56:38 +0000

Can i withdraw consent later? So, attend the interview (to maximise my chances of being offered the job), and then after the application process withdraw consent?

New comment by f4c39012 in "Stop Killing Games fails to secure EU law despite 1.3M signatures"

f4c39012 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 09:13:29 +0000

> If you don’t like games that require a server to function don’t buy them, that’s a choice that can be made.

"buy" is doing some heavy lifting here. If I buy something, it is mine. If someone else can arbitrarily take it away or stop it working, then it was mis-sold, because what I've really done is rent for an indeterminate period of time. What should be clear up front is whether I'm buying or renting.

New comment by f4c39012 in "Pokémon Go Scans Trained the Navigation Tech for Military Drones"

f4c39012 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:13:28 +0000

With attribution

New comment by f4c39012 in "Sagrada Família Lego set"

f4c39012 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:55:48 +0000

It's an impressive model and I'd like to see it in the Lego shop - but I wouldn't like to own it. When it comes time to use the pieces for something else, that's ten thousand beige blocks. Its like some of the Star Wars Lego, for instance the AT-AT is a fantastic creation but its just all the same colour, and to me isn't interesting for more than a few minutes. I like the larger builds that are minifigure-scaled e.g. the bookshop or Hogsmeade or Ninjago city gardens, there's much more detail and variation and fun

New comment by f4c39012 in "Earthion: A New Mega Drive-Style Shoot-Em-Up"

f4c39012 — Tue, 26 May 2026 06:16:32 +0000

I tried to watch the video on the website, but it auto scrolls to the next video whilst playing

New comment by f4c39012 in "Incident Report: CVE-2024-YIKES"

f4c39012 — Sun, 10 May 2026 21:25:52 +0000

'The changelog reads “performance improvements.”' was the truest part for me. Surely what we're releasing is the most fundamental thing to understand, yet almost every single app update I see is this or something jokey that really means "don't know" or "don't care"

New comment by f4c39012 in "Ads on Apple Maps"

f4c39012 — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:52:18 +0000

Depends what you're looking for. If I'm looking for businesses or streetview or 3D I'll use Google Maps. If I want to explore I'll use openstreetmap. Sometimes I'll use public rights of way mapping or parking zone boundaries on local council websites, or hiking-specific mapping apps that overlay routes. Having one mapping app that does it all would be nice, but each serves their purpose

New comment by f4c39012 in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

f4c39012 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:24:11 +0000

"weirdly epic slop" is the most concise description of linkedin posts i've yet seen

New comment by f4c39012 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

f4c39012 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:36:10 +0000

One great use of interfaces is for automated testing, the test class can implement the same interface specification as the code.

A long time ago I also used structuremap to automatically wire up default implementations of interfaces, which reduced the need to write boilerplate code enormously. It also helped separate concerns because separating out interfaces means I could concentrate on only the specification of the class.

New comment by f4c39012 in "Review of 1984 by Isaac Asimov (1980)"

f4c39012 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:20:45 +0000

Asimov missed the idea of the panopticon here, whereby control is self-enforced by the fear of being caught because you can be watched at any time, not all the time

New comment by f4c39012 in "James Moylan, engineer behind arrow signaling which side to refuel a car, dies"

f4c39012 — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 07:48:56 +0000

I prefer the pump that is on the side of the petrol cap, but filling up from either side absolutely works for me in the uk, there isn't a "wrong side"

New comment by f4c39012 in "Map of all the buildings in the world"

f4c39012 — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:59:24 +0000

Or, they subtracted a digital elevation model from a digital surface model, ran a point-in-polygon match against an existing building dataset, and labelled the difference as the height of the building. No ML needed.