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eeiaeaa | 10 months ago | on: Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits

I used to use Testy Tester until one of my coworkers commented that she was acquainted with the Tester family, and there were quite a few of them in the area. These days I usually have completely separate systems for testing, but even there I use something like Zzzperson for test data.

eeiaeaa | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What 1980s/90s-era shareware did you purchase?

Not Shareware exactly, but once I started earning money in the mid 90s, I purchased physical copies of Slackware on CD-ROM to support the distro that taught me Linux. It was also much more convenient than downloading dozens of floppies from ftp.funet.fi or whatever FTP server I was using at the time. As for my Amiga and C64 days, I was too young to have a lot of money, and piracy was rampant in Europe, where I lived. Even if I had wanted to pay I wouldn't have known how to send money overseas.

eeiaeaa | 2 years ago | on: Show HN: I made a SQL game to help people learn / challenge their skills

That challenge was annoying because of the terrible spec. In addition to the "around 1/2 lbs" spec, it falsely claims that length and weight are metric (they are not), and it spells it "impostor" in the specified output, but expects "imposter". Both spellings are used in the spec. Frustrating.

However, students will learn not to trust the spec, so I suppose that's a valuable lesson.

eeiaeaa | 3 years ago | on: Some CyberPower UPSes may pose a fire hazard

I have one of these. I have had it for years, and even swapped out the battery pack once. I have had no other issues with it.

After I read the Reddit post and watched the tear-down video, I disconnected and opened it up and found that not only did it have the yellow glue, but patches of it had turned brown and had what looked like drops on it in places.

Now I am looking for a replacement, but from the comments here it sounds like other manufacturers have the same issue.

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