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by choward 8y ago
My thought exactly. Totally surprised me. I thought the only inputs a web site could get from me from hardware without asking permission is key presses and cursor movement.
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by choward 8y ago
> Sounds like the author met one crazy person He either met a straw man or a troll.
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by choward 8y ago
More people makes it even worse in my opinion.
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by choward 8y ago
> I've been controlling my TV and I have WiFi smart plugs. It is super useful and it has never had issues understanding what I was saying. > I also don't understand why so much hate for Alexa. Those are nice features. You a
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by choward 8y ago
> You will first need to sign up for Plaid and apply for the development plan. I guess I'm not the target audience. The only reason I would even consider building something like this is so that I'm in full control. I have no id
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by choward 8y ago
Oh. I didn't realize this. None of the teams I'm a fan of are in my local area.
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by choward 8y ago
> possible coming recession Possible? There definitely is one coming. It's just a question of when.
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by choward 8y ago
That's pretty terrible. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't watch a game when I'm getting alerts on my phone in real time.
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by choward 8y ago
> You don't have to enter a stadium or even pay a cent to a sports team to get utility from it. That is completely not true. But even if it was, why does the stadium have to be brand new and built in a high property value area? What
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by choward 8y ago
> It's 100% financed by the team and was welcomed by residents NIMBYs tend to welcome things that aren't new housing since they are likely to raise their property value. New housing has the potential to do the opposite.
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by choward 8y ago
You have to protect your data from both remote and local attacks.
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by choward 8y ago
Exactly. Turning cars are by far the biggest problem.
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by choward 8y ago
> look at the app's source (to their credit, it's easily available) Care to link to where this "easily available" source code is? I tried searching for it and couldn't find it.
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by choward 8y ago
Walking can also be dangerous. Especially if you follow the laws. If find it a lot safer the do the made up crime of "jaywalking" between intersections than crossing legally. I have had several close calls crossing legally because
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by choward 8y ago
> If they really ever catch on, I could see where apple might require you to start hosting some kind of cross-signed cert or something that you can only get from Apple to install/use them. And you would find this acceptable? I would
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by choward 8y ago
I've noticed this too. On top of that, they nag you consistently to install the app. They have an option to disable the nagging. However, even with this option disabled, they still nag you via ads and every time you refresh the page it
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by choward 8y ago
So nothing that couldn't be solved by a better mobile friendly web site?
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by choward 8y ago
Since I can't view the article can someone tell me what Amazon is doing in the title?
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by choward 8y ago
What if they used the same idea for a watch screen? Would that be "rounding"?
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by choward 8y ago
Reminds me of looking at West Virginia and Kentucky. https://maps.app.goo.gl/GPy6u
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by choward 8y ago
> for the life of me I can't come up with any problems that I couldn't solve with a relational database It sounds like you have the right tool for the job now, so great. Keep using it. Dependencies should be added to projects a
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by choward 8y ago
You really only have one password for web sites with password resets via email and that's the password to log into your email account.
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by choward 8y ago
"Initial load time" means "download, install, and run time". With PWAs (just like native apps) the "download and install" part only happens once. The article is irrelevant to PWAs.
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by choward 8y ago
That's why you lock your dependencies.
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by choward 8y ago
> Source? Exactly. Without source code you have no idea what they're doing. All you know it's what they say they are doing. Two completely different things.
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by choward 8y ago
Why would you say that? Automation is a good thing for humanity and it's a lot more efficient than shipping from China. What doesn't it help? Is this a "jobs" argument?
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by choward 8y ago
> When watching on my computer, they insert un-skippable ad breaks during stoppages, even when watching a replay. That is completely absurd. They literally broke fast forward. I would definitely not sign up next year. I bet the commercia
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by choward 8y ago
Thanks. It is the correct demonym. Just because there is a lot of unused land doesn't mean nobody cares.
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by choward 8y ago
That's what I want to do: configure something that I used to not have to configure before. The touchbar replaced a row of keys that was fine before and required no extra effort. Once you configure something and it's no longer the
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by choward 8y ago
Seriously? Pocket as the replacement? The thing that shows me three articles with click bait titles on my homepage? Yep. That's just like RSS...

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