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by ajnin 7y ago
Practically all French banks which use a fixed number of digits . Something insane like 6 digits is common. And of course they all insist on using a friggin' on-screen keyboard ! For some reason I feel that the upcoming European pay
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by ajnin 7y ago
I believe that ORMs try to solve a problem that fundamentally cannot work. As long as you keep the usage simple and use your database as an object store, as a majority of projects do, all is fine and dandy. But once you start to look into y
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by ajnin 7y ago
I hear that argument a lot from people trying to shift the blame to the victim. But we all depend on some particular entity in one form or another, we all depend on the government upholding the value of money, we depend on the transportatio
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by ajnin 7y ago
I'm guessing some lawyer at the Montreal transit authority decided to report that app for violating some kind of intellectual property. And, due to Google's consistent cover-their-asses policy (of Youtube fame), they decided to sh
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by ajnin 7y ago
Can someone shed light on the subsidy structure behing the current model, are shipments from China being subsidized by shipments from other countries or is there government money involved ? In any case this kind of subsidy is not necessaril
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by ajnin 7y ago
> when my computer turned off, it does 0 requests I wouldn't be so sure
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by ajnin 7y ago
I think the term "power users" is not appropriate. I believe we're encountering some kind of "curse of multidimensionality" problem here: every time Google adds a feature, they add one dimension to the space of util
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by ajnin 7y ago
"Introduction to monads" articles generally miss the mark because either 1) they insist on using Haskell syntax throughout, and this is most likely to be unfamiliar and obtuse to programmers looking for this kind of articles. Expe
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by ajnin 7y ago
The design is broken, on desktop below a certain width the menu disappears, and there is no hamburger menu either so once you're in a section you're stuck. Also the links are not links, you don't know where they are going and
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by ajnin 7y ago
Youtube is a monumental money-making machine for Google because of the large amount of ads. Creative content is only incidental, it is not the primary purpose of Youtube to foster creation, only to gather ad revenue. It shows in the way the
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by ajnin 7y ago
The announcement was in Russian, but the pianist is Chinese. He would have caught the name of the pieces but he probably didn't understand the announcer saying he mixed them up.
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by ajnin 7y ago
In Diablo you have only one life, you don't respawn after death like in Diablo 2 or 3. You do have save games however.
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by ajnin 7y ago
The "final design" is the chamfered bend with additional vias, a design with two 45° bends was not studied in this paper. Page 2, second paragraph of section A : > The final design that includes both the chamfered bend a
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by ajnin 7y ago
Interesting bit about the other person who had stuff stolen receiving the exact same emails from KitSplit. If they bothered to have created a script for this it means that they're probably dealing with this stuff frequently, more than
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by ajnin 7y ago
Some types of messages do require immediate attention of the user, or are of highest value if delivered immediately. Instant messaging apps have been using notifications for a long time and did not require a foreground service. Expecting in
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by ajnin 7y ago
Avoiding doing unnecessary work is something all developers should strive to, experienced or not. Maybe in that case that won't make any difference. But, say, a method call in a loop often sould be done outside the loop. Doing it here
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by ajnin 7y ago
The june 2 WHO bulletin about the outbreak, which I believe is the source data for the article. It contains more data including a graph of number of cases by date of illness onset, which I think gives a better idea of the progression of the
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by ajnin 7y ago
Are they doing anything with the email addresses beyond checking they appear in breach databases ? Are they anonymizing things, for example using some kind of one-way hash to match email addresses ? Is it GDPR-compliant ? There is not clear
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by ajnin 7y ago
Plastics cannot be reduced to their CO2 impact, they cause tremendous damage to marine animals, they are pollutants themselves, they release endocrine disruptors in the environment, they can persist many many years in the soil and water. Th
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by ajnin 7y ago
As the antitrust investigation of Google progresses, they must find a fine line : get as much control as possible of the web while leaving enough margin for competition to avoid an antitrust ruling. That move to limit adblockers might be st
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by ajnin 7y ago
The 50.8°C temperature is the highest-ever recorded temperature in Rajasthan. The previous time it went over 50°C was in May 2016. So no, it is not "normal" temperatures and it is not a fact that they go that high every year.
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by ajnin 7y ago
How effective is a double layer of mosquito netting at stopping fungal spores ? The workers in the photos don't seem to be wearing any sort of protection equipment either. This seems like a very carelessly conducted experiment. The fun
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by ajnin 7y ago
It's working for me, make sure you have the latest Firefox version, there was a bug a few days ago which broke addon-on signature verification.
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by ajnin 7y ago
Firefox has the Tree Style Tabs add-on, makes having many open tabs much more manageable.
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by ajnin 7y ago
Sure it seems closer now than before, but reaching Mars is still very very far, it's nothing like going down the road to the chemist, for example let's say that we want to pursue the current population growth but on Mars, that&#x2
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They're not blocking adblockers, they're blocking users (or browsers) who use adblockers. I don't see it as irony, they're just trying to protect their revenue stream, which I think is fair game, they're free to dec
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by ajnin 7y ago
I've been tracking the data from Google's Android dashboards over time : https://www.bidouille.org/misc/androidcharts From these observations, it seems that Android's fragmentation is getting worse, and
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That's an interesting dilemma. If your goal is to get your source code to be used by lots of people, then it seems logical to use an as permisive license as possible to "compete" with other open source projects. But it might
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by ajnin 7y ago
He must have used secret CSI technology to "uncrop" the picture larger than the one he supposedly "stole".
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At what scale are you going to run the process ? Is it going to be large scale refinery-like production facilities, or could it also be a small unit for storing power in a remote location with plenty of sun but no power lines ?

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