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antsar
11y ago
Ping isn't a CLI, its a single command that expects no further input. A database shell is more like bash than ping. And Ctrl-C does not exit out of bash.
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antsar
11y ago
Valid point. But then you're left with a bunch of crap in the UI that is unnecessary and annoying at best.
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antsar
11y ago
You can use a Chromecast with either, but one of them can also spy on you without your consent.
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antsar
11y ago
Couldn't Google keep cost-per-click artificially high, benefiting themselves at the expense of advertisers?
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antsar
11y ago
Your expectation would be correct if GP said "downright", instead of "down right".
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antsar
12y ago
Your definition of "bad guy" strangely seems to exclude disgruntled former employees.
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antsar
12y ago
The one about Iceland, Costa Rica and Mauritius? Certainly those countries have allies who would come to their aid if their land was being invaded by foreigners. I'm not claiming that every nation has their own military, just that they
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antsar
12y ago
Android would, in my opinion, be impaired if it didn't include Google play, gmail, chrome, and Google Maps. Android would be "impaired" if it shipped a general-purpose mail client rather than one designed specifically for G
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antsar
12y ago
Yes. And that doesn't detract from the validity of the claims against Google.
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antsar
12y ago
Your unarmed neighbor's house happens to be on the land of an existing nation , so you would have to deal with their military before claiming rights to said house.
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12y ago
Seems like they have some instructions here[0], which is linked from http://getkaiwa.com/deploy [0] https://github.com/digicoop/kaiwa-server/blob/master/README....
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antsar
12y ago
And I imagine lallysingh meant that including April 1 headlines in the test corpus could help train the algorithms to correctly interpret false headlines, whether those headlines occur on a single day or not.
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antsar
12y ago
Its seems to be a native Github feature visible for those browsing on a Windows device. The button simply links to https://windows.github.com/
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antsar
12y ago
In my area, there are wireless access points mounted on some telephone poles which provide WiFi hotspots for anyone with credentials from a major local ISP. Apart from that, my understanding is that Comcast routers broadcast your network an
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antsar
12y ago
Interesting. Thanks for the link!
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antsar
12y ago
Is this true? I would think that static bits are no more dangerous than not having the bits at all.
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antsar
12y ago
Is this a common problem with Lenovo, and is it a Linux-only issue? I had been considering Lenovo as an option (admittedly less so after the Superfish shenanigans), and this sounds like a major showstopper.
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antsar
12y ago
Or, you know, redirect " http://bank.com/login" to " https://bank.com.totally.not.phishing.you.co.za" .
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antsar
12y ago
The pitch is presumably "to hide your traffic from CoffeeShopSSIDThatMightBeMITMingYou, route it through a Google-VPN-that's-logging-everything-but-at-least-not-injecting-malware". Technical users like you and I can already s
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antsar
12y ago
When placed in a solution of sodium hydroxide, or even brine, and kept in contact with a flake of aluminium for "fuel", it moves around for about an hour. So not quite self-powered.
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antsar
12y ago
This...sounds like a great way to get shot.
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antsar
12y ago
There may be reception, but is it possible to get a GPS fix? Without one, it may be hard to make automated assumptions about congestion / travel speed.
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antsar
12y ago
Racism? Webster's definition[0] of ghetto (and that of any other respectable dictionary) makes no reference to any particular race. Would the phrase "the poor man's solution is to run strings" also be racist, by your log
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antsar
12y ago
Technically it is because you've gotten a DUI recently. But yes, it is there to prevent (another) DUI.
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antsar
12y ago
Am I right in saying that if I call a function on $2, say, that unless that variable is explicitly assigned in the function that $2 remains unchanged after the function operates. But that with a call-by-reference the value of the variable
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antsar
12y ago
The same way that no serious workplace trusts Google/Dropbox with handling any company data and IP today, right?
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antsar
12y ago
This is quite paradoxical. :)
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antsar
12y ago
So this app wants access to all your photos , ostensibly to make joining groups easier? That doesn't make me particularly excited about installing it.
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antsar
12y ago
[OT/Pedantry] The shower faucet thing is caused by a large distance between the spigot (where the hot/cold mixing happens) and the shower head, not between the water heater and spigot.
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antsar
12y ago
SmartTV and other home-automation-with-voice-recognition device manufacturers would like a word with you.
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