Pick-A-Hill2019

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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Ah! Thanks!
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I'm confused.. the Article opens with an Update that I'm struggling to parse.. They seem to be saying that a better title would have been xyz (i.e the same but dropping the 299 Days claim?) Appologies if this has already been ask
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I’ve never heard of the product prior to this so I did a HN/Algolia search and skimmed through the comments on the various HN posts (after reading the submitted article and the original announcement) and I think that what it shows is t
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
BT (a UK ISP) were up to hijinks in 2008 - "BT and Phorm: how an online privacy scandal unfolded" https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8438461/BT-and-P...
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
I make a mark on the back of my hand in ball-point and ONLY rub it off when the job is done. Eq (using your example) if I knew I had to lock a door on the way out I would write either an 'L'(ocked) or a D(oor) on the back of my
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Edible Packaging(positive.news)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
In regards to your comment about the situation being a bit muddier than presented: I would suggest that you take a look through the unabridged version as linked in the post ( https://web.archive.org/web/20210530184721&#
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India tells social media firms to remove 'India variant' from Covid content(bbc.com)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
[Meta Comment]: Posted this because of a recent “Ask HN” from a few days ago asking for any low-cost, high impact start-up ideas for low-skilled tech-workers. When I came across this today I immediately thought - Wow, this is an idea that c
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Exercism (Code practice and mentorship for everyone)(exercism.io)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
The thing I don't like about pinging certain hosts like google.com (and a few others) is the return ping from them to your ip address a few hours after you pinging them. Sure, in the grand scheme of things thats a massive {shrug} &quot
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Popular Coding Challenge Websites [Updated for 2021](freecodecamp.org)
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Apple, Google and Microsoft Have Teamed Up to Block the Right-to-Repair Law(wccftech.com)
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New Dark Patterns tip line lets you report evil tech company menus(theverge.com)
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Citizen app siccs entire user base on wrong man after offering reward for arson(dailydot.com)
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Corsair's DDR5 primer has me dreaming of running 1TB of RAM(pcgamer.com)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
Wow. Perhaps I'm a Luddite but the article started well enough by interviewing an expert in the field (Omar Akbari, a molecular biologist whose lab works on genetic control technologies at the University of California, San Diego). Uhmm
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
The chained CVE's made for interesting reading. Book-marked for future reference when I have my SDR to hand.
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 5y ago
In addition to what gtirloni said ..... Dan G (hn@ycombinator.com) is a reasonable fellow that is always happy to answer these eternal 'Why doesn't HN do xyz' type questions. I would suggest that going that route is better th
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Seems rather short sighted in my opinion given that the current scientific consensus is that Covid will become a seasonal thing as it mutates which means that booster shots will probably be needed. Given that amount of R&D funds that th
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Try Naked Browser ( http://nakedbrowser.com/android/ or Play Store link https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.fevdev.nak... ) Despite the somewhat contentious name the naked refers
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26738746 (108 points, 166 comments) and also links to the actual bulletin rather that the Twittersphere
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
I'm with you on that one. I also assumed that the the title had been editorialized/was click-bait until I read the pdf and the incident was filed and issued by the AAIB as a 'Serious Incident'. Which is understandable gi
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Yeah - sorry I wasn't clearer - I found Mobikwiks denial of a breach hard to believe at the time and this seems to confirm that they (Mobikwik) were full of it regarding their nope, didn't happen press release
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Which sort of gives the game away regarding Mobikwik's denial of being breached - [1] MobiKwik in a statement rejects that such a data breach has occurred, “Some media-crazed so-called security researchers have repeatedly attempted to
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Cancellation Flow examples and why they work(uxmag.com)
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Qualcomm is planning an Android-powered Nintendo Switch knockoff(androidpolice.com)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
I'm confused. The Landing page proudly states "HTML5 Internet Speed Test. no Flash or Java!" & "Broadband Speed Test That Works on Any Web Browser." yet all it does it sit there spinning (with JS disabled on FF
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Facebook announces AI that learns from videos(techxplore.com)
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by Pick-A-Hill2019 6y ago
Dumb question but is this the "Take 2" version of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26409132 or is it the same thing / a dupe? 100% not sure since the link says last modified 16 March

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