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ZoomStop··on NYC Subway is replacing printed maps with low-resolution digital maps
Indicate the direction of North at street level subway exits

As someone who vacations in NYC every few years, this would be great. Sad that my map collection showing NYC changing over the years may have its last map already.

ZoomStop··on PowerToys: Windows system utilities to maximize productivity
If you like WinDirStat, try WizTree sometime. Not open source but free from antibody-software. Many times faster in operation that WinDirStat.

For file renaming lately ReNamer Lite by den4b has been great. It seems to have all the power of other rename tools with a GUI that makes it very easy to accomplish what you are trying to do.

ZoomStop··on The Joys of Being a Late Tech Adopter
Most of the authors examples involve buying a generation or two older and buying used. I would certainly expect previously owned gadgets to cost substantially less. While there is a lot less early adopter risk in this, most of the savings are realized from buying second hand.
ZoomStop··on Google Calendar Event Injection with MailSniper (2017)
Was having the same problem. Fixed it by disabling the adding events from Gmail automatically according to the Google instructions. I would rather choose what hits my calendar anyway.

https://support.google.com/calendar/answer/6084018

ZoomStop··on Equifax removed the $125 claim payout option after millions submitted claims
"Because the total amount available for these alternative payments is $31 million, each person who takes the money option is going to get a very small amount. Nowhere near the $125 they could have gotten if there hadn’t been such an enormous number of claims filed."

"You can still choose the cash option on the claim form, but you will be disappointed with the amount you receive and you won’t get the free credit monitoring."

This seems like something written by Equifax not the FTC.

ZoomStop··on YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube
Many states in the USA are similar once you get above a certain blade length to allow for common pocket knives. Then again the same rules will get you in trouble for having a baseball bat and don't seem to have a good reason.
ZoomStop··on Show HN: Top PDFs and Papers Submitted to Hacker News
A link at the top for 2019 would be helpful, maybe change text color for year being displayed? When navigating years returning to 2019 isn't intuitive.
ZoomStop··on My Roommate's Tik Tok Fame Made My Life Hell (2018)
I read it like the author moved out with six months expenses in the bank. After six months they hadn't been able to make money off music and weren't having luck finding a job. So while OP was in the hospital they terminated the lease and GTFO. The roommate sounds like a crappy person, but the author has now also made them homeless.
ZoomStop··on The 3dfx Voodoo1
Remember clearly buying my Voodoo Banshee from Babbage's for $250 USD. My high school girlfriend at the time was so annoyed that I would spend so much on something so strange at the time.

GLQuake blew my mind, but I was just trying to get Daggerfall to run acceptable more than anything at that point, and run it did.

ZoomStop··on Creating a Starcraft AI – Part 22: Caveat Implementor
Getting a 502 instead of the article
ZoomStop··on The World's Longest URL “Shortener”
The query assigned looks to be random a & A, this is genius.

Watch out for my knock off, bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb.com

ZoomStop··on Amazon Caught Selling Counterfeits of Publisher’s Computer Books–Again
If your price is lower than Amazon by a magic percentage, you have a good sales record, and probably other unknown factors, Amazon will grant the buybox now to other sellers on Amazon carried items.
ZoomStop··on Modern Weather Forecasts Are Stunningly Accurate
That's a 2009 study, so more like every time you open your flip phone.
ZoomStop··on Why Linux Is Spelled Incorrectly
The whole article is based on the x in Linux being wrong because Unix should have been called Unics seems thin. The 2017 interview with Kernighan makes it sound like it was Unix from very early on.

https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7035

ZoomStop··on The popularity of the Squatty Potty
My apologies, you are correct.
ZoomStop··on The popularity of the Squatty Potty
They write up a 4,000+ word article on this product yet don't mention the exposure it got on US prime time with Shark Tank. I think that is where many people first saw this product.
ZoomStop··on USPS took a year to fix a vulnerability that exposed all 60M users’ data
This is the site that last year had a password reset bug also. When resetting your password the system would generate a random password and email it. During the reset password the current password (the one emailed) is required, and their form validated the old password for the security requirements (length, special character, etc) that the auto-generated reset password did not meet. This effectively locked you out of their site. It took them three months to fix that.

We absolutely cannot trust this company with our data, yet we have no choice but to do business with them.

ZoomStop··on USPS API bug exposed user data of 60M users
This is the site that last year had a password reset bug also. When resetting your password the system would generate a random password and email it. During the reset password the current password (the one emailed) is required, and their form validated the old password for the security requirements (length, special character, etc) that the auto-generated reset password did not meet. This effectively locked you out of their site. It took them three months to fix that.

We absolutely cannot trust this company with our data, yet we have no choice but to do business with them.

ZoomStop··on The ELF Virus Writing Howto (2003)
Looks like the article was deleted
ZoomStop··on Cloud Computing Without Containers
This was a reply to a different article, sorry.
ZoomStop··on Cloud Computing Without Containers
> Even more importantly: Amazon is bad. It is monopolistic [...] Its owner should have his immoral hoard of wealth forcibly expropriated by the state before his power grows so great that all of society is warped by it.

That is a heck of a statement to make.

ZoomStop··on We Removed jQuery
> Our quest for greater page-speed optimizations reached a point were we considered jQuery as unnecessary overhead.

Their 'conditions for removal' are half made up of reasons they want to remove jQuery. Makes no sense.

ZoomStop··on Ask HN: What discontinued company/product do you wish was still around?
Interesting idea, an alternativeto.net style site for consumer products with crowd maintained lists. I'm sure you could affiliate link to a lot of the products to help finance the effort.
ZoomStop··on Police told to avoid looking at recent iPhones to avoid lockouts
A fellow HN detailed how he did it here, seems extremely non-intuitive.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17235923

ZoomStop··on Worst Puzzle Ever (2009)
His rationale that the accumulated mailing list would be highly valuable is not wrong. The idea such a list would be sold by a luxury toy company looking for cash in hard economic times isn't hard to fathom. And this is before robo calls ruined our cell phones, back then you could keep your spam calls to almost zero if you were smart about giving your number out.
ZoomStop··on How Reddit plans to make money through advertising
Showing the error "Unable to find table: fh-bigquery:reddit_comments.2015_05" https://bigquery.cloud.google.com/table/fh-bigquery:reddit_c...
ZoomStop··on Amazon2csv: Amazon products scraper to CSV (no API token required)
Currently you have to be a member of their affiliate program to get API access. To become a full "member" you have to be a prospect who generates three referral sales (iirc) within a 30 day period. So once in you have the API, but getting in isn't as easy as filling out a form. From there you can get your API rate limits increased from the default 1x call per second up to 10 based on your prior 30 day affiliate sales.
ZoomStop··on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production
Why do they call them all a "gigafactory"? This is getting ridiculous since the subject "gigafactory" in the article is a million square feet and 500 employees.
ZoomStop··on A letter about Google AMP
It's on GitHub also and looks to be from today: https://github.com/amp-letter/amp-letter.github.io
ZoomStop··on LAPD arrests man on suspicion of making deadly swatting call to Wichita police
Its a life and death game of Simon Says in these situations. And you get to play regardless of guilt or innocence at the time.
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