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by ddalex 6y ago
You can easily instrument this server side - cookie and referrer is enough to track a single hop journey
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by ddalex 6y ago
having worked specifically on website responsiveness improvement for a medium-size publisher, I can certainly attest that ads heavily influence performance, even if added asynchronously after the first paint, or after the site becomes inter
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by ddalex 6y ago
I must have transferred multiple 10K s for various reasons and didn't have any problem with them. Monzo is amazing in UK, but they don't support larger EU :(
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by ddalex 6y ago
and then perhaps only one comment per user per day - because some users may be more vocal than others, right ? How about no ? Voting and Speech are separate issues, lets' not confound them
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by ddalex 6y ago
FB is clearly not being free speech - they remove posts all the time for the most variety of reasons, the most begnin of which being female nipples
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by ddalex 6y ago
JWZ links to disgusting image when accessed with HN as referrer, I suggest you remove this link.
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by ddalex 6y ago
Why? Nobody should hold the nose and bend over, especially people who have an easy choice.
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by ddalex 6y ago
Except it would cost grubhub money to run an uncooperative client, so why would they ?
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by ddalex 6y ago
Surely you mean "write and quit"
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by ddalex 6y ago
well you specifically said 2:30 tomorrow.. it sounds like it triggered at 2:30 next day And never-mind the literal interpenetration of the command - it's far more usual to set up an alarm very early in the morning (got to catch a plane
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by ddalex 6y ago
Or was it because you had more time to slow down and look at the sky??
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by ddalex 6y ago
I mean, it's good enough for lots of games. But there is another way there - running Windows in a VM with GPU passthrough - works beautifully in my case.
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by ddalex 7y ago
and, somehow, the economic and social system in France is much better than the one in Romania my take is that the western-style school focuses on getting students life skills, while the eastern-Europe one focuses on cramming knowledge in th
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by ddalex 7y ago
if the image doesn't sit superimposed in the center of the vision no matter where you look, that's not a retinal display
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by ddalex 7y ago
Chipping is smoke and mirrors. You are already very much biometrically identifiable at large scale.
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by ddalex 7y ago
> Why not install an ad-blocker > not installing filters on information. you're literally advocating opposing viewpoints in the same phrase
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by ddalex 7y ago
This isn't the US, this is Europe where employees have rights such as sick days, and they use them, so somebody having an absence from the office due to health reasons is pretty common - certainly not special in any sense to get a care
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by ddalex 7y ago
if you sneeze and have a running nose, it's likely not the covid-19 virus - those start with high fever and dry coughing, but no runny nose or sneezing
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by ddalex 7y ago
licence plate numbers are not PII
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by ddalex 7y ago
Lift and drag are proportional. You fly higher you need to go faster as to get the same lift, and you'll encounter the same drag.
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by ddalex 7y ago
Working at Google. My opinion is my own, etc etc What you get told is What needs to be accomplished, but not How, if that makes sense. E.G. IF you choose to accept this challenge, this platform is running at XX% availability and we need to
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by ddalex 7y ago
> Very few innovative people seem able to reap or retain the most value of their work. Once a company pays you, it's not your work, it's their work. They paid you fair and square. IMHO a developer need to produce about 10x what
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by ddalex 7y ago
Bingo. I did quit facebook by changing my password to a long random string that I had noted down on paper but not ever saved in the pass manager, together with auto deleting the cookies every day at 12AM. The sheer annoyance to re-log-in ma
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by ddalex 7y ago
So you're complaining of having to use a SIM while you have 6 SIMs?
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by ddalex 7y ago
What do you mean? How were they forced to use a number they didn't want? Why would they care if a number they don't what get disabled?
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by ddalex 7y ago
$1 / minute of driving for the airbag to monitor crash conditions and deploy
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by ddalex 7y ago
But Tesla sold the car to the dealer as a NEW car, slightly defective, hence the sticker. The customer needs to go to the dealership and get their money back, and the dealership needs to go to Tesla and get their own money back
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by ddalex 7y ago
Once that car is yours, the software on the car is yours, too. It boggles my mind how the manufacturer modifying a car they don't own isn't computer trespass and/or straight theft as they deprive you of the rights of ownershi
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by ddalex 7y ago
The uncanny valley
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by ddalex 7y ago
> can be linked a user account Which is still not PII. More importantly, 3rd party advertising cookies CANNOT be linked to a user account if you don't have code that stores them in your environment. CAN has a very limited meaning, w

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