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Mask Up and Shut Up(theatlantic.com)
1 points by darren_ 6y ago|1 comments
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by darren_ 6y ago
They've also pulled off an incredibly hostile move for paid users of older Lightrooms - they're refusing to update it for 64bit-only OS X. The app itself is 64bit (in fact, the app itself is _only_ 64bit), but its licensing/i
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by darren_ 6y ago
Your argument only makes sense if we grant that Webkit is always and forever the fastest safest most efficient and all round best browser engine there is. iOS users are denied the opportunity to have 3rd party developers even attempt to pro
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by darren_ 6y ago
> NZ is in a similar situation as VN where a local transmission appeared today without known infection chain. It only takes one error and you're back to square 1. Citation? I'm not seeing it on any of the usual NZ news sites, a
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by darren_ 6y ago
This - 4K BOTW at 60FPS is really something. It's a shame the 60FPS messes with the physics a bit (it's not super noticeable if you're not already familiar with the game, but there's some fairly big differences)
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by darren_ 6y ago
> This is bonkers. The attribution is still there, you just have click it This means, almost by definition, that the most viewed versions of these photos on twitter, probably by a very high margin, have no attribution. Why is this bonker
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by darren_ 6y ago
It's an ongoing project, most of the frontend stuff simply hasn't actually been made yet. So far one tool has been launched: https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/30/21241093/facebook-google-... and
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by darren_ 6y ago
Yes, and regularly, and so do millions of other Tokyo residents. Cases here are up to ~200 daily new cases with (AFAIK) zero linked to public transit (and this is weeks after our quasi-lockdown ended). If public transit/trains were by
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by darren_ 6y ago
> Maybe people in Japan look at the US and wonder why we have so much media about superheros, and so little about highschool To be honest as a non-american, americans seem pretty obsessed with high school as well.
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by darren_ 6y ago
NZer, never seen it before
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by darren_ 6y ago
the 'context onself' is americans talking about america. got it.
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by darren_ 6y ago
When their title is "Why Restaurants Are So Fucked" instead of "Why Restaurants In America Are So Fucked" is why.
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by darren_ 7y ago
No they didn't. Paste a URL and hit the icon next to it. https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&tab=TT&sl=auto&...
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by darren_ 7y ago
GTFS feeds are open. The ‘G’ stands for general. This person is excited about freely fixing this issue for _everyone_, they’ve just chosen to frame their blogpost around the most popular surface for that feed. huge disclaimer: I work at goo
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Companions of Xanth (Preceded by the Worrisome Case of Piers Anthony)(filfre.net)
2 points by darren_ 7y ago|0 comments
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by darren_ 7y ago
it wouldn't, which is why the complaint in these tweets ("drag the map even a pixel? it erases all your results and closes the infobox you were looking at") is, in fact, not something that happens. give it a go.
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by darren_ 7y ago
> if I remember correctly, employees are even expected (obliged?) to use their personal Google account for work. You remember completely incorrectly.
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by darren_ 7y ago
> Gmail on iOS is especially annoying because we often have to open links that require sign-in (e.g. Github) and there's no way to make it open Safari, but it does have an option for opening "Chrome" (also a shell around a
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by darren_ 8y ago
> If you use the tickets you pay more, if you don't register your card, good luck when something goes wrong with it(and it will). Counterpoint: No it won't, necessarily. I've never had an issue with one of these IC cards (
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by darren_ 8y ago
? This isn't true at all. You buy them at vending machines in the station. You _can_ add your name to them if you want. You don't have to.
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by darren_ 8y ago
> Plus, people paying cash slow down the bus as they fumble for their wallets and count out their coins and such. Around here, on board the busses, they have completely automated machines that can read all the notes and dispense change a
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by darren_ 8y ago
> Standardizing a fare payment system just does the same for mass transit. No it doesn't. Japan has a standardized mass transit fare payment system, covering close enough to the entire country, and you can get in on that with a card
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by darren_ 8y ago
ok I'll bite: what are the exciting developments in blockchains that google is missing out on
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by darren_ 8y ago
So I in fact work on the maps team. There is absolutely no _personal_ incentive for me (or anyone on my team) to help Google collect more location data. I will not get a bonus for it, I will not get an increased perf rating for it, any bene
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by darren_ 8y ago
googler. This one always comes up a lot for some reason (I really don't understand what point is being made), but I'll point out that maps was actually acquired. But, it's been so long since that it's been a) thoroughly
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by darren_ 8y ago
The old Amiga game cannon fodder did this well - you had named soldiers that rose in rank as they survived missions, but if they died they were gone forever. The increased rank didn't improve them gameplay wise, so you wouldn't re
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by darren_ 8y ago
On iOS, location history absolutely was not required for this. Either its different on android google maps, or you're conflating web and app activity with location history.
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by darren_ 8y ago
> Also I was pleasantly surprised to discover that Google Maps now remembers searches you've made without location history or app activity tracking being active. This wasn't the case about a year ago, when I last tried it, a da
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by darren_ 8y ago
Thanks for the update. I'll admit to not reading the guidelines closely until now, but since they don't actually outline a list of websites considered 'non-original', this does essentially mean that HN can apparently shi
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by darren_ 8y ago
Please insist on dropping comments if you're going to keep doing this. Imagine commenting encouragingly on some programming article, and then HN merges it with another one, and now you're on record as being at all positive to ESR

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