ThoAppelsin

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Google and Microsoft Push Websites to Go Password-Less(pcmag.com)
34 points by ThoAppelsin 8y ago|53 comments
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> I don't know what you mean by "really pass-by-reference". I was wondering if `int &a2 = a;` allocates memory in stack to make `a2` refer to `&a`, or does `a2` somehow truly become an alias for `a` in symbol table
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
While C++ is a whole lot of different language with operator overloading amd everything, I don't think the pass-by-reference in the C++'s way with &'s before the variable/parameter identifiers is much different from
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
> an unreasonably high goal post I wouldn't say unreasonably high for 10% for a single man offering that much money. I would even say that it is rather very risky . Besides, claiming a platform is "a toxic wasteland" pu
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by ThoAppelsin 8y ago
I believe it is just a manner of speech to talk about the extremes to claim the innocence of your defendant. Without such examples, declaring Stack Overflow as a saint would sound dull.
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
> rich white kid Excuse me, but was Bill Gates back then or is the article right now being discriminative against the people without the privileges he had? The article rather depicts him as an influential figure that encourages all peopl
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
Rather unconventional, but Windows 10 on desktop and mobile do have a Feedback Hub [1] where Windows 10 users are able to provide all sorts of feedback, either as a suggestion or a problem . All the feedbacks are public and users can fre
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
It is funnily interesting to me how they prefer to capitalize the word BUG, perhaps as a means of drawing attention to its (apparent) importance.
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Google is always listening(youtube.com)
2 points by ThoAppelsin 9y ago|1 comments
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Project Zanzibar, a human-computer interaction project from Microsoft Research(microsoft.com)
2 points by ThoAppelsin 9y ago|0 comments
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
An analogy of filling a curved-bottom tub would be a better fit than of someone making bets optimally when the chances are non-uniform. Our cones can be stimulated only up to some certain amount. At the point of saturation, any further stim
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
The part where he takes the human sensitivity into account has grabbed my attention. It looks a little suspicious to me the way he simply just multiplies the normalized relative sensitivity measure with the spectral fluxes. The way it is ca
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
Perhaps Netflix people are to blame for taking +tagged mail addresses as different than the ones that are not tagged. It is a well-acknowledged [1] and commonly offered feature by the email providers that should have been accounted for. Dot
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
I use DigitalOcean as my VPN provider and make my connections to there over IPSEC. I did not set the server up myself alone, but used the Algo VPN [1] script to do it for me. With this setup, I have two things to be concerned about: 1- I di
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
I, too, use encrypted VPN, but we are just a minority. Many people use the services provided as-is without taking any extra measures, and I think that those are the people more likely to be influenced by the influencers anyway. We, the ones
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Microsoft quantum computing scientists have captured a Majorana quasiparticle(neowin.net)
2 points by ThoAppelsin 9y ago|0 comments
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
According to this video [0], it is not something of carbon that the elephant puffs, but a "puffball mushroom". I was very eager to believe in his words when I watched that yesterday. It was because that the day before, I had watch
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
It is a great idea, and I think it can be pulled off without being (easily) detected as decoy activity by making occasional submissions, than like 20 submissions a minute. A very simple way to do it on top of my head: - Seed a crawler with
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
Knowing him no more than how he was described by the story, that is exactly what I would expect from him.
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
This description of teaching is a lot like how 3blue1brown does his videos on YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCYO_jab_esuFRV4b17AJtAw I am not affiliated, just love how he geometrically visualizes the concepts
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
The article explains it as if the nissan.com domain was priceless to Uzi Nissan.
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
I had the impression that Uzi Nissan did not want to sell the domain regardless of the amount they would offer. The article says he told the following: > “Fifteen million dollars. Do you understand right now that I don’t want to sell?” F
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
What would you think about a compromise solution to the situation as the domain nissan.com becoming an index page for the both parties? A link to both nissancomputers.com and nissanusa.com could have been displayed there side by side along
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
As a sentient being, I also feel the urge to support an individual against a company. And I am sure that finders-keepers is an intuition ingrained not to just humans, but to the whole nature. However, as I try taking this not-personal, and
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
Google surely can draw a network of its ever-logged-in users just with their ad services alone: 1. You visit a page with some Google ad at home. 2. Someone else at home visits another page with some Google ad. 3. Your browsers make the requ
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
I would be appalled as soon as someone says "I'm gonna burn any books in this box", whether any people puts books in that box or not. It is a promise for an appalling act.
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
Fetch API still cannot handle progress events, unfortunately, so it is not yet a backwards compatible replacement.
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
As an outsider, I forecast that in Europe the demand for the gas guzzling cars will be on a sharp decline in not more than a year. BMW and any other car company that are reluctant in adapting to the future, will be troubled economically for
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
I might be wrong about this, but as far as I can see the larger cube slides parallel to an edge and not a face. On top of that, I think the cube passing through would still be sliding parallel to an edge, even if it were to slide along a sp
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by ThoAppelsin 9y ago
I have a laptop and a desktop running Windows 10 on my account. I use them both daily, one for entertainment, one for work. Both running on Pro and constantly up-to-date. I have been using one for exactly 2 years, and the other one for like

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