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by cabirum 5y ago
Well then, don't act surprised when all Western companies and assets get nationalized.
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by cabirum 5y ago
They don't have to reveal their identities in order for their statements/arguments to be valid. It also eliminates authority bias.
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by cabirum 5y ago
Another source worth mentioning is waronfakes.com which counters ukrainian propaganda echoed by western msm.
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by cabirum 5y ago
It does not require js to work. In essense, it uses css styles to exploit visited links.
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by cabirum 5y ago
Are we now going to post malicious links on hn?
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by cabirum 5y ago
And Ukrainans believe there's a "ghost plane" in the sky that destroyed half russian air force.
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by cabirum 5y ago
Is there a viable solution to keeping the locks secure while providing TSA a way to access the bag contents? The locks must not be compromised. Instead, locks get unique serial numbers. TSA gets portable CNCs specifically designed to make k
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by cabirum 5y ago
The developers must have realized that their income depends on devices controlled by a hostile regime.
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by cabirum 5y ago
No idea how things work at Amazon, but why did you accept such a tight deadline? Have you provided your own estimates for dev time?
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by cabirum 5y ago
I want so much the wireless headphones fad to go away. When batteries deplete in the middle of a meeting, what are you supposed to do? Connect a spare pair via usb dongle?
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by cabirum 5y ago
Is there any way to guarantee your hosting provider does not access your data? That no one can read your storage volumes and a hypervisor can't access instance ram?
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by cabirum 5y ago
> The data itself is quite decentralized, at least on the popular blockchains, but that’s about where the decentralization ends. Yes. Web2 is where users generate content and generate profit for companies. Web3 is where companies went fu
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by cabirum 5y ago
Now wait for Intel to install a miner directly into their on-chip Intel Management Engine.
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by cabirum 5y ago
How much effort does it take to maintain? Are topic discovery and story updates automated? It looks it could take a whole team to manually update every notable development in a timely manner.
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by cabirum 5y ago
Its ~23.2 deg for 21:9 ratio, not 22°. For a more common 16:9, the angle is 29°. (lambda w, h: math.acos(w / math.sqrt(w**2 + h**2)) * 180 / math.pi)(16, 9)
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by cabirum 5y ago
Developing a whole new UI theme instead of just turning brightness down is what I call an overengineered solution (to a problem that barely exists)
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by cabirum 5y ago
TL;DR: just lower your display brightness. I'd like to provide my opinion based on some observations: First, human eyes have probably evolved to work in natural daylight. This corresponds to [CIE D65][1] standard, which "is intend
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by cabirum 5y ago
It's all fun and games until big corps start adopting cloud-everything approach. There will be no devices left, only thin clients connecting to someones cloud and logging everything you see and do. Imagine your employer watching your e
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by cabirum 5y ago
Can we please stop (mis)using the term "AI"? It just does not live up to most people's expectations. Copilot is a glorified Markov chain autocomplete sitting on a huge dump pile of data. It is not aware of constructs such as
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by cabirum 5y ago
3DS is a type of 2FA that makes stolen card credentials harder to use. It does not replace but augments existing antifraud techniques. 3DS is merely a positive marker for antifraud system. This means a 3ds transaction is less likely to tr
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by cabirum 6y ago
People should start thinking twice before using US-controlled platforms/services/anything.
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by cabirum 6y ago
Why, when an app is "suspended", Play Store shows 404 as if it never existed? Can't Google display the app page with some status banner and a reason for suspension while disabling install button, or allow installing last know
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by cabirum 6y ago
Try opening the included "learn webstorm" interactive project.
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by cabirum 6y ago
No, not due to fear. It's just somewhat easier to sell their products using a EU based legal entity. Another example would be Yandex, registered in the Nethelands. JetBrains main dev offices are in St Petersburg, Moscow, Novosibirsk.
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by cabirum 6y ago
Git should have been a library to create multiple compatible CLI/GUI implementations. The Git CLI has become too bloated to use. It will take a month to read through the manual and learn all available commands. A well-designed VSC
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by cabirum 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowcake
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by cabirum 8y ago
Profiling results: - initial time: 49s - replacing default thread-safe RNG with rand.New sliced 6 seconds off. (the default RNG uses mutexes), = 43s - use float64 instead of float32 and remove many type conversions. Another two seconds off.
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by cabirum 10y ago
Thanks for the summary. I've noticed I started to avoid clicking links with titles I perceive as overly dramatic or emotional. I wish there was a browser extension providing community-sourced alternate titles and tl;drs for every news
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by cabirum 10y ago
D700 being still relevant means sensor tech is moving slower than the rest of mobile industry. I didn't mean to accentuate specifically on Zeiss brand. My point is there's nothing revolutionary in today's iPhone 7 compared to
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by cabirum 10y ago
How is it better than the 20MP Zeiss optically-stabilized DNG enabled camera in my Nokia 930? The article reads like a big and not very trustworthy advert.

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