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by 4cao 6y ago
No VPN in my case but the IP address changes every 24h, and the browser is set to clear all data on exit, so I can't really say if Google's suggestion to try logging in from a "known" browser and location would have chan
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by 4cao 6y ago
Funny, I've also had this happen recently to one of my accounts, only without the policy violation part: in my case, it's just that Google noticed "unusual activity." I haven't forgotten the password, and still have
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by 4cao 6y ago
ICANN were asked to comment on the story but chose not to do so. If they have anything to say, they are free to issue a statement anytime. Meanwhile, what we know so far, together with their lack of response, should be more than enough to h
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by 4cao 6y ago
> Over the phone, ICANN explained that the matter was discussed internally. This unnamed group of people concluded that the organization is ‘not comfortable’ doing business with him. It's the height of arrogance that they didn'
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by 4cao 6y ago
Five locations being considered according to WSJ [1]: Phoenix, AZ (2 sites); Austin, TX (another 2); and Genesee County, Western NY. Austin seems to be the front-runner. 1. https://www.wsj.com/articles/samsung-eyes-up-t
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by 4cao 6y ago
Excellent investigation, and an elegant solution. There's a "but" though: you might end up getting banned from GTA Online altogether if this DLL injection is detected by some anti-cheat routine. The developers should really f
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by 4cao 6y ago
Link to the 2017 study referenced in the article: https://academic.oup.com/humupd/article/23/6/646/4035689
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by 4cao 6y ago
> I would be more cautious to say that he invented backslashes You're right of course, I was just relaying what the post there said. There was prior usage as early as in the 1940s as you mentioned. According to Wikipedia, [1] its or
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by 4cao 6y ago
At the time (in MS-DOS 2.0) you could set SWITCHAR=- in CONFIG.SYS to override this setting. @kiwidrew's post above even has an excerpt from the source that demonstrates it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26272844
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by 4cao 6y ago
One of the comments on that blog post says the backslash was invented by Bob Bemer at the time he developed ASCII in the 1960s, also linking to a page that supports the claim: https://web.archive.org/web/20100612011533&
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by 4cao 6y ago
Thank you for your clarification, and your work on Firefox. I guess that clears it up.
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by 4cao 6y ago
The question is how to use "Total Cookie Protection" without any hardcoded or heuristics-based exceptions. Your answer seems to be about how to turn off "Enhanced Tracking Protection"/"Total Cookie Protection&q
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by 4cao 6y ago
> Total Cookie Protection makes a limited exception for cross-site cookies when they are needed for non-tracking purposes, such as those used by popular third-party login providers. Would be great to have some more details about it: in p
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by 4cao 6y ago
That's a good point. As far as I know, newer B77* generally use GE or RR engines. The PW ones are old at this point, and also represent the smallest and decreasing share, so most planes of this type aren't affected. United (or one
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by 4cao 6y ago
My bad, I could have worded it clearer: "have the parts inspected more often" would do, I think. Alas, can't edit the comment anymore, and probably shouldn't anyway, considering the discussion it sparked.
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by 4cao 6y ago
Specifically, it concerns some variants of the Pratt & Whitney PW-40xx engine (the affected model was a PW-4077). Japanese carriers also grounded their affected planes earlier, and so did United. Japanese authorities issued a NOTAM requ
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by 4cao 6y ago
> 359.33.9.234 I searched to see where it's from (CSI: Miami) and found a screenshot of it in a gallery with even more egregious examples, like 67.259.2942.1003 and 8394.83.384.38482: https://www.root.cz/galerie&#x2F
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by 4cao 6y ago
The destination is "開元路土(𩵚)魠魚羹", a street and a restaurant name in Tainan [1]. It seems to be recognized correctly from the speech but then the system crashes before the waypoint is set. Nobody seems to know what exactly causes th
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Tesla navigation crashes when set to a certain POI (in Taiwan)(youtube.com)
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by 4cao 6y ago
There is a lot of insight in the description of all the individual, small- and medium-scale Chinese businesses in the region, and the article is well worth reading for this reason. However, extrapolating these observations alone is not enou
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by 4cao 6y ago
I'm aware there are different romanization systems but not sure which is which. I've corrected Taehongdan. I guess it should say Paektu not Baekdu too? Update: Paektu appears to be the DPRK spelling. Source: http://sori
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by 4cao 6y ago
Thank you for the corrections, I've edited the parent post. The lake on top of the Baekdu (Paektu?) Mountain appears to be called Heaven Lake: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven_Lake (Not sure why your comment w
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by 4cao 6y ago
Except the files with Korean names in Backgrounds/* and Wallpapers/*, everything else seems to be generic. Names of the said files ran through Google Translate, with some minor corrections to the English output (I don't know
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by 4cao 6y ago
> Before a few months ago, you didn't yank someone off your network because you didn't like their politics. AWS dropped WikiLeaks as a customer back in 2010 for political reasons, and apparently this was announced by a US senat
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by 4cao 6y ago
I know Heise (the publication) for its good coverage of specific issues, the most recent I recall being the data collection practices of coronavirus-related apps [1]. I've always assumed it's something like a better version of The
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by 4cao 6y ago
4PDA.ru is arguably a better version of XDA-Developers: a repository of all kinds of customizations for Android devices. Unlike XDA, it's well-categorized into threads, the first post is always a good summary of what's inside that
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by 4cao 6y ago
Someone will probably come up with a better answer but you can check out https://www.heise.de/forum/ for tech news.
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by 4cao 6y ago
An interesting bug (or a feature). Specifically, it redirects to: https://quillette.com/2018/12/30/the-2018-free-thought-award... And https://quillette.com/the does exactly the same. So, alte
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by 4cao 6y ago
I also think the following take is interesting, and hasn't been mentioned in any of the comments so far (to the extent that I've been able to keep up with them): https://www.themoneyillusion.com/understanding-middl
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by 4cao 6y ago
Call me cynical but more regulation like this only serves to further entrench the existing (quasi-)monopolies by increasing the barriers for new entrants. Especially the focus on "illegal" content and political advertising only (a

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