cosmie

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by cosmie 6y ago
This[1] may help. What you're saying is true, but it's generally using either the API remoting or device emulation methods mentioned on that wiki page. In those cases, the VM does not see your actual GPU device, but emulated devic
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by cosmie 6y ago
I've executed my own email programs for small projects before, and had the same reaction when I started working at an agency and saw how much we charged for that type of work. Interestingly enough, it's actually not as padded as i
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Still much underappreciated and I think underestimated technology by CF. Very hyped.. I think much of Cloudflare's capabilities are underappreciated and underestimated. I do analytics work for an agency, and had one multi-national
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by cosmie 6y ago
Security deposits are legally the tenants funds held in escrow by the landlord until the end of the lease. They tend to be heavily regulated in tenant law, with stipulations on how large they can be, what can be deducted from the security d
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by cosmie 6y ago
It's not a leftover – the core premise of how these scripts work use the exact same principle. Even when using the JS tracking library, if you look at the network calls to Facebook after the initial script download, they're all hi
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by cosmie 6y ago
> I suspect it's more likely intended to ease setup for less-technically-savvy users. > ie they don't really want your truly-security-critical customer data. It's both. It eases implementation with a one-and-done snippe
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by cosmie 6y ago
Virtually all tracking boils down to 1x1 sized images getting embedded on the page, with various metadata being attached in that image call. The javascript libraries may include other functionality (like additional fingerprinting and such),
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by cosmie 6y ago
I don't necessarily disagree with you, and whether a pixel should be there at all is definitely a discussion in itself. But for those who are implementing FB Pixels, I wanted to put out some potentially useful information that can help
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by cosmie 6y ago
I'm not really sure if it's common knowledge, but I'd say it's less common then it should be. I went ahead and made a top level comment[1] with some info about controlling data disclosure to FB's Pixel in case it&#x
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by cosmie 6y ago
PSA for any devs out there implementing FB Pixels: – Facebook's pixel will, by default, attach click listeners to the page and send back associated metadata. This simplifies implementation needs, but can create unintentional informatio
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by cosmie 6y ago
Within Facebook, you can use the event stream collected by your FB Pixel to both define conversion criteria as well as create audiences and define inclusion/exclusion criteria for that audience. When it comes to tracking on pages behin
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by cosmie 6y ago
I can try to give you an overview, but caveat emptor that I'm no expert and could very well be butchering some of the finer points below. The two historical programmatic interfaces to Office (that I'm familiar with): VBA[1] - They
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by cosmie 6y ago
They already have a counter move, to an extent. One of the deployment models for GA is via Google Tag Manager. One of the deployment models for GTM is this[1] server-side mode deployed to an App Engine container in Google Cloud. The only br
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by cosmie 6y ago
While not completely customizable, it is already configurable. The Alexa/Echo devices currently support 4 wake words - Alexa, Amazon, Computer, and Echo. I work with an Aleksa that I refer to frequently during calls, and was quite exci
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Which gets to me other point in: besides the seriously unlucky residential users, who is paying these extreme prices? Factories which can't go down? Critical infrastructure? The residential consumers in this unlucky boat were ones
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Edit: As to why they're valued at $35B, consider that their customer base is "Every company with IT too screwed up / incompetent to deliver new features in a timely manner." And that's not even the totality of
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by cosmie 6y ago
ARRAYFORMULA itself doesn't exist in Excel, but they did recently add support for dynamic/spilled arrays[1]. Which brings it close to (if not at) parity with ARRAYFORMULA. It's not even close to as handy as QUERY (in ease of
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by cosmie 6y ago
Carriers run IoT-specific networks[1], which are optimized for use cases such as telematics (low power consumption, low bandwidth usage, but high penetration and coverage). So it's entirely likely that your washing machine would be abl
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by cosmie 6y ago
Reading through the comments on a few of these recent Gitlab posts, the self-hosted option has pricing parity with the SaaS option. I.e. most of the features gated to the $19/month Premium tier for the SaaS are similarly gated in the s
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by cosmie 6y ago
Sounds like you can already do that with the "delete from org + recreate in personal" workflow, so an "unshare" button would just be streamlining that existing capability.
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by cosmie 6y ago
Stuff like what the parent described tend to be "on top" of your day job, rather than your actual day job. Parent likely established a working relationship with individual(s) in engineering organically over time, and at some point
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by cosmie 6y ago
> What management needs to realize is that this is also an important interface point which requires attention. This doesn't happen at all, or is inconsistent. > What I've always found interesting, is that all of these are of
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by cosmie 6y ago
You'd be surprised. Amazon's affiliate program, as one example, pays out for any item added to someone's cart within 24 hours of the affiliate click (with a 90 day window to complete the purchase)[1]. So even if the commissio
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by cosmie 6y ago
> Also, giving your credentials to any third party, including Plaid, voids the warranty at many financial institutions. Funny enough, I've seen that be the case at some banks that simultaneously integrate Plaid into their online acc
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by cosmie 6y ago
That's a legally required quirk of credit unions; in order to get a federal charter/license to operate, they have to define a field of membership[1]. That said, I've never had a credit union bring up membership requirements p
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by cosmie 6y ago
Oh interesting. I was curious and found [1], which mentions aerial deployment is actually preferred when poles are available. Around me, you might see aerial to neighborhood cabinets, but everything past that (cabinet -> pedestal, pedest
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by cosmie 6y ago
Those aren't conflicting positions; indefinitely can mean both "unspecified/undetermined" or "unlimited/forever" amounts of time. So you can interpret that statement as "we are extending the block w
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by cosmie 6y ago
My childhood was a few decade after that, but peanut butter on toasted white bread and Velveeta (+ Rotel[1]) were pretty much stables of my youth. [1] https://www.ro-tel.com/products/original
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by cosmie 6y ago
They didn't come back and bury those? I have AT&T Fiber – the installer ran a line from the nearest fiber hut to my home (across several neighbors' yards and a storm water runoff/drainage area), and left it exposed. But a
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by cosmie 6y ago
> has access to everything else Everything else _that's on my computer_. The person with access to my camera has access to observe the environment my computer is in. My WFH setup is in my bedroom - I don't want to be paranoid t

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