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activiationon You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]

I'd rather use SQL though

activiationon You Suck at Excel (2015) [video]

I'm good at excel but I still can't get a job

activiationon Pipelines Considered Harmful

Sorry I didn't read the article

activiationon Google to explore alternatives to robots.txt

"Google to ignore robots.txt for AI purposes"

activiationon I stopped buying new laptops (2020)

I always buy my phones used, from swappa.com... saved hundreds of $ for phones that are in mint condition

activiationon Pipelines Considered Harmful

Of course because they don't inspect them and appear to not care about any leaks ... They probably polute more with leaks and dispersants (see BP's dispersant use in the Gold leak) than with the use of fossil fuel itself. They don't care at all about their impact... They just try to control their image through fines, ads and social media

activiationon Ask HN: Can VimiumC compromise your privacy with TorBrowser?

If Vimium is a browser, I'm not sure I understand the question.

activiationon The WHO is about to declare aspartame can cause cancer

> only technically true

Good enough for me

activiationon Farmer ordered to pay $CAD82k after confusion over meaning of thumbs-up emoji

Posted this a few days ago on HN... Pretty funny... He should have said that AI automatically posted this emoji for him

activiationon When an app asks for permissions, it should have a “feed fake data” option

"Apple knows what's good for you" has been their motto since the beginning of times which is why I never had an Apple device.

activiationon Software engineers hate code

They got off easy with your analogy.

activiationon Every person on the planet should have their own website

Including you?

activiationon After days of destruction, Macron blames a familiar bogeyman: video games

Someone need to ask him which games in particular

activiationon USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals

For-profit prisons respectfully disagree

activiationon Ubuntu Plans to Ditch Its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

Not sure why you are saying that... What is the issue exactly?

activiationon Spanish minister proposes €20k ‘universal inheritance’ from age of 18

Interesting idea

activiationon Ubuntu Plans to Ditch Its ‘Minimal’ Install Option

Just go with Arch if you want minimal

activiationon Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

Somehow I can read her tweet without logging in...

activiationon Twitter is threatening to sue Meta over Threads

Twitter is so simple... I wonder which trade secrets they could be using

activiationon USGS estimates at least 45% of U.S. tap water contain forever chemicals

> We need criminal liability for executives and board members.

Stock holders too

activiationon Out-of-State Driver License Classes That Are Invalid in Florida

Hmm strange... But I looked the law referenced and it didn't mention some of these states: https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2012/322.03

activiationon Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app

They won't pay the bills

activiationon Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

It doesnt to Facebook but it doesnt matter to me either... You would have to pay me to install a Facebook app.

activiationon Ask HN: Great audio-only YouTube channels to listen while doing chores?

He really loves Dune

activiationon Ask HN: Great audio-only YouTube channels to listen while doing chores?

You can ignore the visual part on probably 50% of YouTube videos

activiationon Threads has 10M sign ups in seven hours

No web app means I won't even look at it.

activiationon Human-powered watercraft being developed to break 30-year speed record

Looking at the video, it doesn't go very fast

activiationon Find a YouTube video based on closed captions keyword search?

There are browser extensions to search captions on a single video but I don't know of any better options.. which is kind of ridiculous considering Google owns YouTube.

Here is one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-capti...

activiationon Ask HN: What was the longest you stuck with a project that failed?

My life is a big failure, lol

activiationon My circle is 95.5% perfect, can you beat that? HTTPS://neal.fun/perfect-circle/

My circle is 95.9% perfect, can you beat that? https://neal.fun/perfect-circle/