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by buro9 4y ago
The correct link is in my comment. I'd read this before, but knew immediately what it was... saw the archive link and remembered where the original was. I think their `browse.cfm` has session identifiers implicit in it (or a referrer c
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by buro9 4y ago
I knew this was going to be about or by KEF from the title. This is the link to the paper: https://www.aes.org/e-lib/browse.cfm?elib=20758 These are speakers with this: https://uk.kef.com/pages/ls5
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by buro9 4y ago
A horrible company for consumers too. Take those who can least afford to purchase something and give them purchasing power that they don't have and can't get from anyone else.
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by buro9 4y ago
> I copy-pasted the HTML source for the review in a new file and it's 20kb. I opened it in a browser and hit F12, viewed the network panel and hit refresh... it is 3.41 MB. You can do this on the web with Web Page Test... here'
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by buro9 4y ago
The airline app offered a button to add the boarding pass to Google Wallet, I pressed the button (because airline apps are slow, and a local asset would be more reliable) and it appeared in Google Pay and everything went smoothly. The airpo
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by buro9 4y ago
Pkpass appears to be an Apple defined spec that isn't owned by a neutral party like a standards organisation. Yes they've published the definition ( https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentati
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by buro9 4y ago
Google Pay ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and... ) can store my Tate and National Trust membership cards, my EU COVID passport (proof of vaccination and booster), as well as boarding pa
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by buro9 4y ago
This. I used to work there, and there wasn't a global "do this for this browser" (except for a little bit to reduce annoyance specifically for the Tor browser). It is almost 99% certain to be a site operator firewall rule bas
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by buro9 4y ago
For our sins we are all destined to work on a billing system or an authentication system at some point in our careers.
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by buro9 4y ago
This is for comment spam. It's trying to find a long tail of popular but not top listed blogs for the purpose of posting comments with the much desired links to the SEO target.
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by buro9 4y ago
Prometheus is adding sparse histograms. There's a couple of online talks about it already but one of the maintainers, Ganesh, is giving a talk at kubecon on it next week off anyone is attending and curious about it.
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by buro9 4y ago
100% Prometheus compatible, proven to scale to 1B active series. It's not about comparisons, every tool has it's own place and feature set that may be right for you depending on what you're doing. But if you've reached t
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End to end monitoring with minimal effort(martinheinz.dev)
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by buro9 4y ago
That's what Mimir solves
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by buro9 4y ago
The future is shit
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by buro9 4y ago
Could it be that the placeholder is based on the most popular search and the most popular search wherever Aliexpress is not mainstream is a NSFW term?
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by buro9 4y ago
Ah, this reminds me of a review of the book I stumbled upon recently that is eye opening... eye opening as it shows how the context of the reader is imprinted on their experience of the reading. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp&#
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by buro9 4y ago
Nice. So I've followed up and called one of the retailers to ask why it's mandatory and got "We use Klarna and Klarna requires it, but you can enter a fake one and still get through as it's not verified.". This is
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by buro9 4y ago
It depends. Some merchants offer PayPal or Card or Klarna as options on the first part of checkout. Those are fine. Some merchants though, have given their entire checkout process to Klarna and the card and other options are downstream of e
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by buro9 5y ago
Or your checkout could be Klarna which demands your date of birth... Which I am never going to give to a shop just to purchase a piece of clothing. But my transaction didn't vanish, it wasn't abandoned, I consciously moved it to a
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by buro9 5y ago
Keybase had an implementation of the identity piece down. At least, it appears more similar than dissimilar.
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by buro9 5y ago
It's not trying to be disingenuous. I ran a cycling forum and thought it could be without politics, but cyclists died in road traffic incident in London that turned out to be predominantly female cyclists due to heavy goods vehicles, a
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by buro9 5y ago
Everything is political, you can't pretend it's not. You may deny it for as long as possible, but people see through that. Technology is political. Whether it's the nature of architecture (centralised Vs decentralised), or th
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by buro9 5y ago
Lots. And they are as unknown to you as HN is likely to be to the users of them. I run a number of forums, the largest yielding 250k monthly visitors. It's not huge... But it's 15 years old, very civil, and more interestingly has
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by buro9 5y ago
Somewhere I wonder if people have read too much of Orwell's 1984 and Iain M. Banks Culture series and have decided that between Newspeak and Marain is an idea that whilst we may not better the world today, if we can obliterate language
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by buro9 5y ago
Two sources: 1. Companies who use dark patterns to spam you even though they implied they wouldn't, and who continue to spam you even after you try and unsub from them. Even Google are bad at this... you can explicitly unsub from every
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by buro9 5y ago
A question: Who has multiple github profiles and why, or why not? Do you separate work commits from personal/oss/hobby commits? Do you have different github accounts per employer you've had? If so... why? If not... why? I per
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by buro9 5y ago
It's no longer big brother, it's big sibling and it has always been big sibling.
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by buro9 5y ago
There are a number of projects that do this, and some are paid. Do they work? Yes. Do you want to do this? Probably not. Why not? Spotify does not have lossless / Hi-Fi audio yet and what you're getting is a lossy transcode. You w
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by buro9 5y ago
Where is the paper? This appears to be a BBC journalist and writer, covering some research without citing it directly, and then pointing to a longer article on the BBC America website whilst still not citing the work. Is it because the work

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