TrickyRick

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by TrickyRick 5y ago
> I don't consider mobile and console platforms as gaming, but that's just my biases. Gatekeep much? You know that you just excluded probably 90% of all gamers right there?
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by TrickyRick 5y ago
100% of the energy you put in to a computer gets converted to heat. So if you have a GPU that draws 250W, that's 250W of heat you're putting into the atmosphere. It's not that much compared to a heater which I would presume i
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Crew Dragon’s Short Hop Begins the Era of Valet Parking at the ISS(hackaday.com)
2 points by TrickyRick 5y ago|0 comments
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by TrickyRick 6y ago
> When you visit the Network or use our Apps, Stack Overflow automatically receives and records information from your browser or mobile device, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address or unique device identifier. Cookies and data abo
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VS Code Can Do That?(vscodecandothat.com)
1 points by TrickyRick 6y ago|0 comments
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Completely agree with this, banks care. They don't always care in the best of ways, usually it's just about ticking a box in a spreadsheet, but at least they ask.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
If the tests take 2.5 hours and given that there is no parallellism it's pretty basic maths to figure out that 1 device can do about 10 tests per day.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
This exactly, it's very much happening even if you're not reading it in the news every time.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Also Voddler I guess?
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Doesn't really matter though, still means (Slightly oversimplified) that a peer can connect to 10 hosts and not have to download at all from the origin server. Also this simply isn't true in a lot of European countries where uploa
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Show HN: Covid-19 Travel Ban Tracker(blog.awardfares.com)
6 points by TrickyRick 7y ago|0 comments
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How Docker Works – Intro to Namespaces(youtube.com)
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
> I recall hearing a theory that having individuals with differing circadian rhythms within the same social group provided an evolutionary advantage as not all members of the group would be asleep – and consequently vulnerable to externa
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
But it's extra staggering considering the consequences which I'm sure is what OP meant :)
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
I think you may need to re-read my post, my point was exactly that it's not a good argument :)
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Government tracking (Prism etc) are generally not about tracking actions taken by dentists, doctors, skydivers, or whatever. The interest is in things like catching terrorists and criminals. As you can see the same argument can be applied t
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Yeah, this is what I don't get. Nowadays you can just uninstall any Apple app you're not using so I don't see why the big fuss?
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Ah, thanks! I grew up using a rotary dial phone but of course was too young to think that much about how it actually works. Learned something new today!
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Finally someone acting reasonable in this discussion. When I tell people my startup (We're two developers, a few thousand LoC, a pretty simple web service) is built as a monolith people look at me as if I'm crazy. Many people don&
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
For someone not familiar with morse or pulse dialing, how does one do that?
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
That's a good point!
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Considering the BND's (German equivalent of NSA) love of intercepting traffic and gathering metadata about citizens, I wouldn't put "funded by the German government" in the Pro column.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
I mean the author notes that you can decline and the software keeps working. I don't have a Wacom tablet so can't confirm, and it doesn't justify what they're doing but at least it's relatively easy to opt-out.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Every country I've lived in in Europe does this. Maybe you shouldn't extrapolate from the US to "all developed countries".
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
It's coming in the next couple of weeks! Both me and my co-founder had Star Alliance frequent flyer programmes so that's what we focused on first.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
I build https://awardfares.com together with a friend which scrapes airlines' award seat availability. Airlines' websites are horrible from a UX perspective so scraping the data and presenting it in a better way was a
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Wasn't the point that they were scraping public profiles, i.e. they never signed up and thereby never signed any ToS?
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Native apps are generally a lot easier to scrape since they rely on an API which can't be changed willy nilly without breaking compatibility with older apps. Also you can't do captcha etc on API calls in the same way you can on we
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Yeah, I'm inclined to agree. This is just common sense written down in a few sentences. Provides nothing new to anyone.
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by TrickyRick 7y ago
Thank goodness it's still around! Yet once again, no way of knowing that feature is there without being told.

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