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by _puk 6y ago
I've seen many of the early "Gatso[0]" cameras vandalised. My understanding is that they originally used film, which had to be retrieved, so trying to burn it down with a well placed tyre had a chance of avoiding a fine. [0]
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by _puk 6y ago
I've always read it as "Happy To Help". I see that's wrong, but ignorance has made the internet seem just that little bit warmer all these years!
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by _puk 6y ago
Or the origin of the salute [0] - raising one's visor to show that you're friendly. [0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salute
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by _puk 6y ago
There's the likes of Gatsby [0], which is generally well supported and pairs well with Netlify and a headless CMS such as contentful. 0: https://www.gatsbyjs.com/
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by _puk 6y ago
Hah, just reminded me.. My daughter, whilst roaming in the US from the EU somehow managed to get unlimited data after her initial miserly roaming allowance was used up.. simply by switching airplane mode on and off repeatedly until data wor
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by _puk 6y ago
From a comment further down that thread: "heard about the story a year ago, but forgot about it. Then I remembered and told my family about on Christmas. So I wanted to check out if this is still unsolved and found this reddit. I’m cur
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by _puk 6y ago
The terminology is well defined [0], so in this case, retrying is not ignoring the RFC. It's a difficult one though, because as you rightfully state, covering up for Google is not the best course of action for the system as a whole, ye
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by _puk 6y ago
No, not really. I'm just asking why an innocent question along the lines of "couldn't we.." gets immediately shut down as "No, That's not open source". What is ultimately wrong with having real world limit
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by _puk 6y ago
And just to build on that thought. (IMO) The only people who really care about open source are us, the philanthropic builders of said software. If we shout down those in our community who question the status quo, by simply stating "it&
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by _puk 6y ago
There's more than one licence that's open source. Is there a reason that a new style of licence that prevents the "fork and suffocate" approach of these large companies can't be ratified as fitting with core open so
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by _puk 6y ago
It's the axle that was truly revolutionary.
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by _puk 6y ago
Whilst I agree with the sentiment, it does occur to me just how many kindles I see with ads. Is there any data released on ads Vs no ads versions? That's the closest comparator I can think of.
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by _puk 6y ago
Off topic, but wow that loads fast! Let's hope that the "modern rewrite" doesn't slow it down too much ;) On topic - kudos for being free. There must be a threshold where a company that's "free forever" ca
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by _puk 6y ago
There was an interesting pilot performed by SEI (Stockholm Environmental Institute) and UCL, using shipping data from Brazil, that tried to attribute shipping emissions to commodity type [0] 0: https://www.sei.org/publicatio
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by _puk 6y ago
Is there any way to report these? I found one obvious one the other day, but after about 15 minutes of searching couldn't work out how to report it without a seller account..
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UK and US say Russia fired a satellite weapon in space(bbc.co.uk)
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by _puk 6y ago
Could you train the ML algorithm to select the best traditional algorithm based on the distribution of the items being sorted?!
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by _puk 6y ago
If we're going down the route of regulation, and browser control, would it be a step too far to require standardised metadata in a cookie? That way, each cookie could describe itself as login, tracking, optional functionality etc. You
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by _puk 6y ago
I've always wondered how the copyright for the Google RSS works.. As far as I am aware it is an undocumented API that can be called without authentication or acceptance of any EULA. The response includes an explicit copyright field. Do
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by _puk 6y ago
The cumulative total hours wasted from all the Devs that accidentally left an ad blocker on whilst developing, then spent time debugging a misbehaving app has to be pretty high! I know I've been caught out on that one before..
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by _puk 6y ago
Kind of, but you can still leak a lot of information in a simple read-only GET GET /realylongstringwithmeaningfulbits/{user identifier} This is basically what tracking pixels have been doing for years (1x1 transparent PNG
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by _puk 6y ago
I had a similar one that claimed all IP to the full extent of the law, and anything beyond that extent, they reserved the right of first refusal to purchase it if sold. Of course, it also required arbitration of anything around that area. T
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by _puk 6y ago
I recently tried moving from mobile Brave to Firefox as I've used desktop FF for years, and wanted cross platform bookmarks. The experience was incredibly sub par on Android. I tried browsing a video heavy subreddit, and FF just hung (
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by _puk 6y ago
My issue with the score is that it is numerical. If I get 91, I want 100. Having a traffic light style system whereby green is good, red is bad etc. would give a decent target without the costly Uber optimisation for perfection. To your poi
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by _puk 6y ago
Ēd Sheeran was so prevalent at one point that they had to change the rules for the Top40 (in the UK), limiting it to 3 from the same artist [0]. 16 out of the top 20 songs were from Ed when he released his 2017 album ÷. https://w
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by _puk 6y ago
Quite the generalisation.. To provide a counter generalisation, I am sure a certain percentage would pay for a niche search engine if it provided specific value. I mean, LexisNexis news search exists, and is far from free.
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by _puk 6y ago
Personal supporting anecdote: I have a grandfathered free GSuite plan on a domain I hardly use. The few issues I have had have been promptly solved by a real person.
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by _puk 6y ago
To your second point, yes, all the time and it's infuriating. You either need to slow down how you use the search results page, or they appear from nowhere just as you're trying to click the second link. What's worse is I the
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by _puk 6y ago
Being able to create an anonymous access token, that in turn has certain restricted claims defined by default. API keys kind of do the job, but they're basically deprecated through a lot of JWT providers, and you need to support two Au
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by _puk 6y ago
Something similar I've wanted before, but auth0 didn't support, is the provision of anonymous tokens. No need for them to persist. Controlling non logged in user claims / access without having to have special "no token&q

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