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sebtoast··on Gitlab's Director of Risk and Global Compliance Resigns
Do any of you have a recommendation for an alternative to GitLab and GitHub?
sebtoast··on The Toyota Way
I've never seen Toyoda mentioned as the inventor of the lean model, I usually seen Taiichi Ohno credited for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiichi_Ohno

sebtoast··on YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site
Very sorry but know you know what kind of individual are popular on the site. Keep that in mind if/when you have kids.
sebtoast··on YouTube Stars Are Pushing a Shady Gambling Site
Keemstar said he was offered 100000$ but turned it down. Ricegum said in his followup video that he was offered more since he has more subscribers.
sebtoast··on Seals Used to Protect Voting Machines Can Be Opened With a Shim from a Soda Can
Maybe you already know this but some padlocks can be easily opened using the same shimming technique.
sebtoast··on Reddit Hits 1B Views per Month 1 Year After Launching Native Video Player
My favorite si far is BaconReader.
sebtoast··on My Own Car System, Rear Camera, Offline Maps and Routing with Go
From what I can gather by the maps, he's located in Quebec city in Canada and we didn't have custom plates until July 2018.
sebtoast··on Two Canadian banks say accounts compromised: CIBC 40,000 and BMO 50,000
I just wanted to say that Scotia's corporate accounts do have 2FA with a physical token generator, so they do have the technology they just don't enforce it for consumer accounts.
sebtoast··on Microsoft Turned Consumers Against the Skype Brand
If you enabled it (it is by default I believe), the conversations are stored in Outlook.

It sucks... but you can still get to them if you have access to Outlook.

sebtoast··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
It kind of is, but like Reddit, you make you're own frontpage, you have to find the right communities for you!
sebtoast··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Reddit?
Here's my list of alternatives

https://hubski.com/

https://lobste.rs/

https://snapzu.com

https://soylentnews.org/

and Voat, Slashdot.

sebtoast··on The Dawn of PC Multimedia: Laser Discs and CD-ROMs (2013)
Thank you, I didn't expect to find a modern game with that gameplay style.
sebtoast··on The Dawn of PC Multimedia: Laser Discs and CD-ROMs (2013)
>Lands of Lore (the LoL of our time, hehe)

Thank you, I was looking for the name of that game for at least ten years.

sebtoast··on The original pitch for Diablo (1994) [pdf]
Well, I know what I'm doing once I get home tonight. I actually found my CDs for both D1 and Hellfire last weekend.
sebtoast··on The original pitch for Diablo (1994) [pdf]
"Look I'm just a cow OK?"

I believe that was from Hellfire, right? Was it the character that you could give a moose suit to?

sebtoast··on TunnelBear Joins McAfee
That was my first thought too, I hope Linus will talk about it at some point. They seem transparent and upfront about their income.
sebtoast··on Googling Bend, Oregon's ZIP Code 97702 results in an internal server error
It works for me but I'm using google.ca if that makes a difference.

Edit: It worked about ten times in a row but now I have the error: "Server Error We're sorry but it appears that there has been an internal server error while processing your request. Our engineers have been notified and are working to resolve the issue.

Please try again later."

Edit2: I just realized that using the link in the article works but typing the zipcode in the search box or clicking the magnifying glass next to it in the result pages will not work.

sebtoast··on Scientists use an atomic clock to measure the height of a mountain
Thank you to all those who replied.

At the top of the article you linked there's the: "This article is about time dilation due to relative gravity. For time dilation due to relative velocity, see Relative velocity time dilation."

I didn't know there were "two forms" of time dilation, knowing what to search for helps a lot.

Thanks again.

sebtoast··on Scientists use an atomic clock to measure the height of a mountain
I am confused, I always thought that moving faster makes time go slower but the article says this:

"For example, a clock on top of a tall mountain — far from the center of the Earth — will move a tiny bit faster than a clock at the base of that mountain, where the gravity is stronger. It's not a mechanical error. Time itself actually passes faster at the top of the mountain."

From what I can understand from the Wikipedia article is that time does go slower the faster you move: "Special relativity indicates that, for an observer in an inertial frame of reference, a clock that is moving relative to him will be measured to tick slower than a clock that is at rest in his frame of reference."

I did a little search and half the sites I saw said one thing and the other half said the opposite.

Would anyone mind explaining like I'm five? Or maybe share a trustworthy sources I could read on the subject?

Thanks.

sebtoast··on Clicker Heroes 2 is abandoning free-to-play
Kittens is one of the best clicker games there is along with space lich omega and a dark room I think.

For those interested in these types of games I would recommend subbreddit https://reddit.com/r/incremental_games

sebtoast··on The most downvoted comment in Reddit's history
I had the opposite happen to me with my EA account.

It was stolen and I was getting emails in Russian (I think) but I didn't care (mostly because of things they do like this post) until last year when I wanted to play BF2:BC so I contacted EA's customer service thinking there's no way I could get the account back, especially after 4-5 years. They asked a couple of questions and got my account back in about 15 minutes.

sebtoast··on Growing homeless camps contrast with West Coast tech wealth
I couldn't find the blog post itself but I found a Guardian article on it https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/17/san-franc...
sebtoast··on Does anyone remember websites?
Some websites used to have a "webring" where they would link to each other and you could just click on "next" and it would take you to another site on the same topic.

I used to like those.

sebtoast··on Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs to turn 800 acres of Toronto into an “internet city”
> To be followed shortly by amazon's second head quarters:)

No way, Montréal will have that second HQ!

sebtoast··on American Nazis at Madison Square Garden, 1939
There seems to be some kind of issue with the video between 2:08 and 2:10. You can see the flags going back and forth as if someone rewind the footage. Maybe it's an editing error?
sebtoast··on My last name makes me invisible to Computers (2015)
I'm French and I see this all the time, even Outlook, given the right conditions, will gives you this in the default folders, Inbox in French is "Boite de réception".
sebtoast··on United States Expatriation at an All-Time High
That's a lot of people, thanks for the reply.
sebtoast··on BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf]
I have what might be a stupid question, in your second paragraph you typed "circle 1998", what does circle mean in this context? Did you mean circa? Is circle an english version of that term?

English isn't my main language and haven't seen this term before. Thanks!

sebtoast··on United States Expatriation at an All-Time High
Out of curiosity, can you name some of those celebrities? I know Gerard Depardieu moved to Russia, but haven't heard about others. Thanks.
sebtoast··on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
I can't edit my comment but I should have ended with "If true, I wouldn't say it's a public document."
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