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by ckcheng 3y ago
Oh you're right, you can't remove the last option (just confirmed by trying). It's the worse case then, and she'd have to change/remove her email from her Apple ID [1]. Apple should do better and make it easier in t
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Isn’t it possible to click that checkbox next to one’s email to deregister it from iMessage from the Message app on a Mac? I was under the impression it’s [1] possible but I’m away from my Mac to check. Worse case one could change one’s App
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Oh I don’t disagree. Given that she is in such a situation though, I’m just trying to be helpful by offering some hopefully useful info.
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by ckcheng 3y ago
She needs to deregister iMessage I think. She can do that on her Mac laptop or online: Deregister iMessage on your iPhone or online: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042 Direct link for convenience (scroll down to
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by ckcheng 3y ago
Relevant Quanta article: https://www.quantamagazine.org/finally-a-fast-algorithm-for-... The CACM article discussed here at the time (just 3 months ago!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37275676 The r
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by ckcheng 3y ago
> a human baby learns a language with around 30M "token-equivalents" of learning data I wonder if there’s a standard data set that’s reasonably like that? A common crawl of baby books and parents speech commonly heard by babies
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Sutton launches new Alberta AI lab with Huawei funds after Ottawa restrictions(theglobeandmail.com)
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How to select and replace water heater element(waterheatertimer.org)
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by ckcheng 4y ago
Wait… it works in iOS Safari by tapping on the bookmarklet icon in the Bookmarks panel or under Favourites. Can’t get it to work in iOS Firefox tho.
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by ckcheng 4y ago
Thanks! Unfortunately, bookmarklets just doesn't seem to work on iOS... :( I tried using your bookmarklet editor to see if it helped, and the resulting bookmarklets didn't work in iOS Safari nor iOS Firefox. oh well... Wish I h
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Indigo website still offline nearly 1 week after cybersecurity incident(cbc.ca)
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by ckcheng 4y ago
The use of the Lee quote in the article is strange. Of all people, Lee would never say to practice 10,000 times in exactly the same way ... and definitely wouldn't suggest doing so 10,000 times on a punching bag, seeing as Bags Don&#
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by ckcheng 4y ago
> the risk you take working for other things (ideals, status, etc) is that, if you become disillusioned, you're left with nothing. > This has happened to friends of mine in social work. Yes. Worse, after that many years working
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by ckcheng 4y ago
> Then there are those awkward in-person situations when somebody asks my email and I have to say firstname@lastname.com. I suggest making up a domain name unrelated to your actual name exactly because of this. Saying "homer@juniper
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Simple mix of soap and solvent could help destroy ‘forever chemicals’(science.org)
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by ckcheng 4y ago
> What’s left behind, Trang says, is mostly easily captured fluorine ions, and a mixture of harmless, naturally occurring carbon and oxygen containing byproducts, her team reports today in Science. > Roughly 40% of PFAS compounds cont
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WhatsApp chats can finally be moved between Android and iPhone(techadvisor.com)
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by ckcheng 4y ago
You can finally transfer WhatsApp with all your message history from Android to an iPhone: > The Move to iOS app requires an iPhone that’s been factory reset, or a brand new one, running iOS 15.5 or later. So sadly: > It isn’t possibl
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Firefox will no longer be a supported browser – service.mbna.ca(github.com)
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by ckcheng 4y ago
Description: "image alt text Firefox user alert—After August 1, you must use Chrome, Edge or Safari to access MBNA online banking. Sorry!"
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by ckcheng 4y ago
Related thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31692543 This is the followup article heavily discussed in that thread.
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by ckcheng 5y ago
Contactless payments was already adopted in Canada for several years by 2010 [1]. It’s not recent. Not sure why US is slow in this adoption though [1] See first two sentences here: https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/n
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Canada's Global Affairs Dept suffers 'cyber attack' amid Russia-Ukraine tensions(globalnews.ca)
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Clayton Christensen on How to Find Work That You Love(fastcompany.com)
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by ckcheng 5y ago
You can move the region and thus move the mouse actually: From: https://www.semicomplete.com/projects/keynav/ > The following is the default configuration: h : select the left half of the region j : s
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by ckcheng 5y ago
> Q: Does it work on ... Wayland...? > A: Sadly, no; keynav is totally dependent on X11, and porting it to any other graphical system would really be a clone/rewrite. I hope it'll eventually get ported. It's such a usef
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by ckcheng 5y ago
The series relates to recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896343 which was just a Google spreadsheet
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by ckcheng 5y ago
The series relates to recent https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28896343 which was just a Google spreadsheet
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Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 2. Strategy(fangprep.substack.com)
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Big Tech Coding Interview Framework – Pt 1. Inspect(fangprep.substack.com)
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