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   by dddddaviddddd 8y ago

   Pretty old rumor
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   by dddddaviddddd 8y ago

   It's somewhat useful on a laptop where it's easily invoked by a trackpad gesture — I've sent a few users who consider it to be where all their apps 'are'.
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   by dddddaviddddd 8y ago

   Lack of support for modern ciphers and secure protocols becomes a deal-breaker pretty quickly if you need to access the internet much (including third-party email servers).
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   by dddddaviddddd 8y ago

   This type of data typically had low individual and high collective value.
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   by dddddaviddddd 8y ago

   The bookmarklet is neat, but this seems over-worked compared to just youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-format mp3 youtube.com/watch?v=00000000 [1] https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/
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   by dddddaviddddd 8y ago

   Where are macOS builds?
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   by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

   That's been the story since the 1960s at least; while the Constitution includes some guarantees for bilingualism this was much strengthened by the Official Languages Act as part of the federal response to the Quiet Revolution in Quebec
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   by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

   In bacteria at least it's well-established that natural selection favours a smaller genome -- hence why antibiotic resistance will be dropped if the selective pressure is removed.
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   by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

   Link to referenced comic: https://xkcd.com/1970/
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Project-based contract work / freelancing? A good portfolio, some networking, and interviewing well could get you some gigs. Not being an employee would probably reduce any risk-averse corporate refusals.
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Always suspected Facebook quizzes had ulterior motives.
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Flash zero days seem like pretty low-key hanging fruit. Not surprised that even a small state actor would have the capability to discover and weaponized one.
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Seems like such a bad idea from a UX perspective that it's hard to imagine iOS apps on macOS being anything more than reimagined Dashboard widgets.
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    I use 1Password but AgileBits's push to cloud services is troubling — will definitely move to something else if they remove local vaults.
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Interesting that raising live feed for the frogs would be one of the major bottlenecks (despite good efficiency of 3 masses of food to produce one mass of frogs).
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Time to make a IETF RFC
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Uninstalled the Facebook app a while ago — constant geolocation is too high a price. Also, file access could allow Facebook to read photo geotags when location was turned off. Constant clipboard access from the FB app was excessively invasi
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    What does it actually do?
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Someone should write an automated tool for finding ASCII art in git repositories
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    I enjoy how JavaScript is used to change anything copied off the page (with included new line).
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Less dramatic but also significant — higher intensity workouts can discourage continued physical activity e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/0278-6133.21.5.452 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2007
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    Especially over HTTP/2
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    by dddddaviddddd 9y ago

    See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14654696 where it's been reposted with comments.