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SamSkjord··on Tell HN: Remember to migrate away from .name domain
As a Brit: play stupid games, win stupid prizes
SamSkjord··on Ugreen is expanding into AI-powered smart home surveillance
Following the Anker playbook step by step? Don't recall that going well recently
SamSkjord··on Stimulation Clicker
My brain has never been happier to see a credits screen
SamSkjord··on Read Google's memo warning employees to 'think again'
'Don't be evil'
SamSkjord··on Why do military personnel wear watches upside down?
>I suspect the article is just an ad. They want to sell a watch for "tough guys" and came up with that story.

Look at this £240 tacticool watch we, the authors happen to sell. Meanwhile when I was in we all wore the disposable £5 casio you could get from Argos an didn't care if it got smashed up

SamSkjord··on Why do military personnel wear watches upside down?
I think you mean 'tacticool'
SamSkjord··on Why do military personnel wear watches upside down?
people seeing it, he's being considerate to their eyes
SamSkjord··on HN website is/was down. I'm curious why?
£20 says it was DNS
SamSkjord··on Getting Started with Orca-2-13B
Kind regards, Chatimus G PTonkin
SamSkjord··on Share Bristol – A Library of Things
Better not be Yate!
SamSkjord··on ZSA Voyager: Low profile split keyboard
steep learning curve if you've never used a split\ortho board but once you learn how to type again (couple of weeks for me), other than that my wrist pain is now gone! only real downside is people asking why I have a pair of glowing oven gloves on my desk
SamSkjord··on Hugging Face and AWS partner to make AI more accessible
And when you delete the Sagemaker domain, remember to also delete everything associated with it under the Lifecycle configuration... that was an expensive weekend
SamSkjord··on Ask HN: What is the thing you've built that you regret the most?
> Teams started hogging my keyboard media keys last week just to play the ring tone twice when pressing play/pause. The media player won't react to these inputs anymore and I have to click with my mouse. Nice going, Teams devs.

Have also been experiencing this, call finishes so I press play to turn music back on, hear teams dialling tone. Annoyingly triggering

SamSkjord··on GoDaddy locks out derivatives of Chrome
Works fine with Waterfox (with uBlock)
SamSkjord··on Ask HN: Where Is the COLA?
My current employer is all too quick to say how well the company is doing, I bought up COLA with a director and was told 'we were all the in the same boat'

Sure we are, and that's why I'm jumping ship

SamSkjord··on People may one day drill for copper as they now drill for oil
One day, hopefully.

Currently it's more acceptable to set the ocean on fire than it is to protest against the ocean being on fire.

So might be a while

SamSkjord··on Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
"Oh you have multiple monitors with different resolutions? No, I don't like that at all." - SAP
SamSkjord··on Ask HN: What's the worst-designed, slowest app that still makes a lot of money?
SAP