jgtor
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5 months ago
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on: Jane Goodall has died
Been lucky enough to visit that park and it's a fantastic place. Take a walking tour and see the chimp groups up close.
jgtor
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11 months ago
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on: Amazon Web Services dark patterns (2024)
> AWS should provide features where you are prompted to set a hard budget limit when you first signup and services fail once that's exceeded
They should, but the entire internal metering & bill generation pipeline isn't setup to support that. You can configure billing alerts but these will only refresh on updates to your estimated bill (typically re-computed every 8hrs). And since service teams are responsible for posting metering records to commerce platform their implementation may vary.
TLDR: AWS Commerce Platform is a mess.
Source: Ex-AWS SDE
jgtor
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11 months ago
Hey Muhammad. This is your project that you are trying to play off as something you've just come across isn't it?
jgtor
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1 year ago
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on: macOS Sequoia is available today
Have you updated to Xcode 16?
jgtor
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1 year ago
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on: Ask HN: How do you handle users asking for freebies?
Can't you offer a free trial for everyone to test your service and potentially convert if they like it?
jgtor
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1 year ago
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on: Firefox bug gets fixed after 25 years
No, this was filed for originally Netscape Navigator which codebase evolved into modern Firefox.
jgtor
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1 year ago
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on: FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal
For exactly the same reasons, Amazon limits message retentions on it's internal Slack platform and aggressively enforces mailbox quotas in it's internal email system.
Up to some shady shenanigans, and don't have to hand it over as part of discovery if they don't got the record in the first place. Exactly the same way criminal gangs operate!
jgtor
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1 year ago
Seems to be affecting from consumer site and publishing side (App Store Connect).
UPDATE: Looks to be more wide spread, also including Apple Music, iTunes, Podcasts.
jgtor
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1 year ago
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on: White House wants Moon to have its own time zone, Coordinated Lunar Time (CLT)
Can't wait for a 2026 manned moon mission. Get to watch a live moon landing like my grandparents generation!
jgtor
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2 years ago
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on: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
I actually built 'Tembo - Bilingual Stories' while learning German myself, so hate to plug it on this thread, but we've got lots of German content, maybe you'll find something that interests you?
https://www.tembo.app
jgtor
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2 years ago
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on: Show HN: Glossarie – a new, immersive way to learn a language
Then can I shamelessly plug Tembo - Bilingual Stories (iOS/Android) to you. We offer audiobooks for some of our titles, so you can listen and learn simultaneously. It's a big undertaking to editing them all in-house, but we have audiobooks available for about 30 stories across our courses.
https://www.tembo.app