I’ve had to do help a client in a similar position. We got contact with the domain registrar’s phone support, took over an hour, “proved” we were the legitimate owner of the domain with credit card details along with other personal information the registrar knew but was not public. They changed the recovery email of the domain account temporarily so we could login and get control back.
Readit Newspierreminik commented on Ask HN: (Solved) We are sorry, but you do not have access to Gmail · Posted by u/WelcomeShorty
pierreminik commented on Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020) sixcolors.com/post/2020/1... · Posted by u/polycaster
But you can change passwords.
And the biometric check is still password based, right? You can't use Touch ID until you've entered your password, and then it's only a convenience for a given time.
Correct, I'm dismissive because I don't think the article is saying anything particularly interesting or even correct. You're welcome to disagree, which is why we're arguing here in the comments section :)
As far as I tell (it's not my story after all), the author appears to be asserting that Inuktitut is somehow uniquely in tune with nature in general (dubious) and that we could change the way the Western world acts by absorbing some of those words (which sounds like linguistic determinism to me, not to mention even more dubious).
As for Turing completeness, my off the cuff analogy is that just like any Turing-complete programming language can implement any algorithm, any natural language can state any expressible human thought.
There's a joke in Greenlandic, closely related to Inuktitut, about polysemy. The joke stems from Greenlandic having very little polysemy when it comes to hunting, nature, practicalities and activities, while European languages is quite a bit more polysemic in nature.
I don't know how well this joke translates into English but it works very well in Danish. Here it goes:
> A Danish police officer gets called on the radio by a Greenlandic hunter who has been in an accident. The hunter tells that his partner have fallen into the water and have been pulled up again but might have died from the freezing water. The officer tells the hunter to "make sure he is dead". Over the radio the officer hears a riffle shot and the hunter replies: "There, he's dead now for sure".
The design of Inuktitut and Greenlandic is very in tune with nature but I agree that it doesn't mean you can absorb it's qualities into other languages. That said, doesn't mean you can't learn anything from them, as the author fo the article claims.
Assuming grandparents live near their families, and are alive, and are capable of child care.
Denmark is geographically a relatively small country, and it is not uncommon for children to travel alone across the country in dedicated trains[1] for the children during the weekends.
That said, its really not uncommon for other family members besides grandparents and even friends of the family to take care of your children in Denmark.
[1]: (In Danish) https://www.dsb.dk/find-produkter-og-services/dsb-borneguide...
Wait, how would this prevent health care workers with children from needing to be home? Who is going to be watching those kids while the parents are working at a hospital?
Most children have two parents. The few cases where both parents work in health care they most likely have immediate family and/or friends who are either public workers or private sector workers who can work from home.
Something that I heard from an epidemiologist the other day is how shutting down schools and daycares can be incredibly counterproductive, because such a high percentage of health care workers have children which suddenly are at home and need to be supervised, pulling these workers out of their duties.
I suppose its ok early on, but seems problematic if enough people eventually get infected.
Understood that schools are primary transmission vectors.
I saw the Joe Rogan clip[1] and I agree that Michael Osterholm's analysis of this seems correct when it comes to the United States.
Denmark however has a completely different structure socially. All private sector employees who can work from home are urged to work from home. All public sector employees who are not working in any matter-of-life-and-death function are forced to stay at home. The public sector employees will still get paid despite not working. Practically this means very, very few cases of health care workers with children needs to be home supervising the children.
pierreminik commented on Ask HN: How to reclaim domain when caught between Yahoo and Melbourne IT? · Posted by u/pierreminik
Does anyone know Yahoo Small Business' support phonenumber?
pierreminik commented on Ask HN: How to reclaim domain when caught between Yahoo and Melbourne IT? · Posted by u/pierreminik
I have tried tweeting to @YSmallBizCare and I really hope they have a solution...
pierreminik commented on Oh, Adobe... read the copy, then view the source. muse.adobe.com/index.html... · Posted by u/josscrowcroft
That's only weird to those who think open standards to be
the only viable standard.
MS Office is the de facto standard
your data is not vendor-locked when using it
This is, however, mostly thanks to people reverse engineering Microsoft's original binary file formats, and MS was not really happy about this to begin with. If they could have prevented it, they would have done so (and they tried). Even the newer OOXML is not entirely documented and prevents free implementations due to patents (which, no matter what Microsoft may claim, is the exact opposite of an open standard).
Also, while this conversion might work fine for simple, small documents (or other files), the more complex and larger your filed become the more impossible it becomes to convert without a major hassle, which brings us back to your misunderstanding of 'vendor-lock'. The terms doesn't necessarily mean that it's impossible to switch to alternatives, but also applies when measures are taken to make it as hard as possible to switch without investing heavily in time and money.
As a side note, I am not attacking MS Office specifically. It's just the best example for showing all that is wrong with closed standards and proprietary file formats.
I'm not preaching morals, I'm taking business. Business' care not for fair software but their investment which is why I used the "somewhat open standard"-wording.
In the history you're clinging to you completely ignore that there was no real alternative. Open standards weren't in a viable state. Furthermore the competition from closed standards have forced open standards to shape up.