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by emacdona 4y ago
I don't think so (I looked). Best I could find was some articles online claiming you can add "-unwantedChannel '...'" to your YouTube search to exclude individual channels. I didn't even test it because it woul
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by emacdona 4y ago
That's a good question. I don't know -- I never considered private browsing. If I close a private browsing session, are all traces (ie: cookies, history, etc.) of it erased? If so, I don't think that's what I want. I&#x2
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by emacdona 4y ago
For anyone curious as to how I solve the problem right now, I just have two separate Firefox profiles. One has a ton of plugins; I use it to browse the web. The other has no plugins; I use it to visit my bank's website.
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by emacdona 4y ago
Thanks for the tips. I will check out the filter lists you mention. You might be wrong about PopUpOFF, though. I started using it as a solution to websites that pop-up an overlay asking me to subscribe to their newsletter when I mouse-out o
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by emacdona 4y ago
I recommend using an ad-blocker while visiting that site :-/ Lately, I find myself using more and more plugins to make the "modern web" tolerable. To list a few: Channel Blocker (lets me block channels from search results on
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by emacdona 4y ago
Thanks for the info. I'll have to try to run some experiments with other devices in my house that have microphones. I swear, there are some things that I mention casually in conversation with my wife... that end up in my Twitter or Fac
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by emacdona 4y ago
I mean, it's not like the apps advertise what they are doing somewhere easy for me to see. Yes, I'm sure that somewhere in their ToS they indicate that they may "collect data". Are you certain you are not using such apps
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Ask HN: In iOS, why can't I allow access to mic and camera “Only when using”?
3 points by emacdona 4y ago|7 comments
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by emacdona 4y ago
DisplayLink is a daily source of frustration for me. If I disconnect my DisplayLink hub, and then plug it back in... I have to open and close my 13" M1 MacBook Pro a few times; restart the DisplayLink software; and sometimes reboot my
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by emacdona 4y ago
Agree that lowest common denominator is a VM. But... I'm curious: has anyone here made an attempt to go "cloud-agnostic" by targeting managed kubernetes offerings? (GKE, EKS, AKS). Just curious how much pain I'd be causi
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by emacdona 4y ago
Ah, victims of their own success? Glad to see people are lining up to pay for it :-)
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by emacdona 4y ago
Has anyone been able to sign up since this announcement? I get to a "Confirm your payment details" screen, but there is no further action I can take (ie: no button to press or link to click to "confirm"). It does say &qu
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by emacdona 5y ago
> There are situations where named pipes fail, where you actually do need a plain file In general: If the command you are passing the named pipe to expects a file which it can randomly access, a named pipe won’t work. I ran into this tod
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by emacdona 6y ago
Okay, but how does Handshake solve that problem? It seems like the answer is "everyone buys their own TLD", right? That works great until the only names that are left are all too long to remember. And if you buy space from someone
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by emacdona 6y ago
But you can buy a new TLD in the DNS, right? Granted, for more money and pending approval. How is the TLD you get from Handshake different? You still control it, right? And you have the power to revoke sub delegations within it, right? That
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by emacdona 6y ago
Maybe the value is that b/c it's on the blockchain, you can see to which IP address a name referred to at ANY point in its (the name's) history?
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by emacdona 6y ago
But now that I think about it, the registry IS already decentralized. IE: .com is managed by an organization separate from .org. And the whole reason for "renting" from .com is because .com owns the space. If you "buy" a
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by emacdona 6y ago
Followed by this: 'Handshake is “is effectively a decentralized domain name server,” Roquerre said.' -- thus implying that DNS is NOT decentralized? The article is pretty bad. For his sake, I hope they are taking his quotes out of
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by emacdona 6y ago
Wish you had posted this yesterday! I could have used it this morning. I bought a copy so I could use it for a presentation on Friday. Thank you for making it! Suggestion: Make the diameter of the cursor highlight an option I can tweak.
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by emacdona 7y ago
Looks like the wikipedia page says there's a Chaitin's constant for each Computable Function, so yeah, countable. That's if I'm reading it correctly. Even if the constant differs for every program that computes a given C
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by emacdona 7y ago
I say "it" when I mention Chaitin's Constant, but really I believe it's an entire set of constants. Is that set countable? So many questions... :-)
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by emacdona 7y ago
The author claims in the notes that "The useful reals are similar, but not quite equivalent to other ideas in mathematics, such as [...] computable numbers." Is that correct? What is the complement of the Computable Numbers in the
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by emacdona 7y ago
Scott Chacon wrote a book on git internals that was published by peepcode some time ago. Searching for where to buy it turned up this HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7999515 Looks like peepcode was acquired,
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by emacdona 8y ago
Right, in order for you not to be wasting your time, you'd have to get some value from attending. I think you could argue for any of the following: (a) educational, (b) entertainment, (c) charity work, or (d) none of the above. Depends
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by emacdona 8y ago
I always thought it would be kinda fun to get a group of people together (maybe a Meetup) who would attend timeshare pitches for fun. The goal would be to pack the room with people who had no intention of buying in. Time is money, and I sus
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by emacdona 10y ago
Googling for "iphone witch doctor repair shop" gives 263k results. So there are roughly half as many iPhone witch doctor repair shops as iPhone micro soldering repair shops?
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by emacdona 12y ago
The question I came here to ask relates to your comment: > 'The universe doesn't need to "calculate" it's systems before it executes them, they just do what they do (for lack of a better description).' What
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by emacdona 12y ago
This is really great news for me (I "cut the cable" a couple of years ago). I was thrilled when HBO released a lot of content on Amazon Prime. I've been buying content they haven't released on Prime through Amazon stream
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by emacdona 12y ago
Quite a misleading analogy. If you go to <any site>.com to buy <anything that can't be downloaded or legally mailed to you>, you're going to be disappointed. Should we have the same expectations for downloadable softwa
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by emacdona 13y ago
Rhetorical question: How many of you who followed through and quit Dropbox because of this have voted in a primary against an incumbent who supported the same policies you are angry with Condoleezza for supporting?

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