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by hennell 3y ago
It does sound kinda sketchy, but the preceding sentence to your quote mentions it 'has been shown in earlier work' so presumably there are some studies somewhere showing the experiment, links and how much we can learn from it etc.
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by hennell 3y ago
A) Advertisers request content changes before showing advertising is not forcing you to not have that content, just saying you have to do that if you want their advertising. Why support Google's ad business? B) Here's a spreadshee
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by hennell 3y ago
People are too obsessed with tech stacks and chasing the best framework they forget the thing they're actually trying to build.
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by hennell 3y ago
Limit usable characters, and just literally check the page doesn't resolve already before allowing the change. Customers will never be locked out and characters can't impersonate others. If you want to allow some symbols you can e
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by hennell 3y ago
Nothing special, just it's hardly a rare name for a variable. And this sets it globally.
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by hennell 3y ago
Not sure if it's a difference to era, or a just a earlier stage for Apple in the same cycle. Apple made good phones that work and last well, then 'fashionedised' them with different colours leaning into the newest model as a
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by hennell 3y ago
User Interviews: A customer's real experience and feedback on your product, cutting through the assumptions and guesses you think customers might think. This: An AI's assumptions and guesses on what customers might think. What did
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by hennell 3y ago
Best app I've bought for android in years is buzz kill which lets you auto dismiss notifications that match certain terms or icons, or cool down apps so they can only notify you once in x mins etc. it's really tidied up my notific
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by hennell 3y ago
They have a downloader for the hashed password list: https://github.com/HaveIBeenPwned/PwnedPasswordsDownloader
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by hennell 3y ago
Prosecuting directly meant there was no outside eyes on a lot of the cases, no questions about if it was actually in the public interest to prosecute, or external assessment of the evidence before pushing for plea deals. It's not a foo
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by hennell 3y ago
I'm curious as to which of the many fantastical elements of this tale you consider most unbelievable? Someone using chat gpt for a kids bedtime story? The idea an authors kids might like a bedtime tale based on their own ideas? Does a
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by hennell 3y ago
Needed to get data out of a CRM system for specific printed orders - when it was printed, who processed it, what was on the order etc. The process of authenticating with the CRM was complex and there wasn't a way to get anything at pri
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by hennell 3y ago
I feel pleased that me as a single web dev with minimal money and few smarts, has managed to successfully implement rss on all blogs or blog like things I've made. Perhaps I should interview at Google and teach them my amazing solution
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by hennell 3y ago
I would have assumed that medical devices would have strict guidelines and heavy testing. A bit worrying if it's just suppliers discretion.
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by hennell 3y ago
There's an interesting bit in car guys vs bean counters where the author recalls the new regulations mandating a smaller average size car. US manufacturers had to make much smaller cars to lower their average. But US customers just we
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by hennell 3y ago
Compared to the alternatives at the time (and really now) it absolutely is. Without decent search the web is a mess, it's just mountains of information with no logic or organisation and the best content and information is nothing if yo
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by hennell 3y ago
I'm not clear if people are really replacing a physical something here, but if you have an old smart home device which sucks, be sure to put it up on online marketplaces. List it cheep along with a warts and all discussion of it's
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by hennell 3y ago
Feedback loops. Contrary to what a lot of people seem to think, analytics is not just about advertising or selling data, it's about analysing site and content performance. Sure that can be used (and abused) for advertising, but it&#x27
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by hennell 3y ago
There is a real problem with discovery without any ads. I'm still aware of movies, but I never have much idea what TV shows exist anymore, or even when shows I like might are back on the air/streaming. I might hear about about som
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by hennell 3y ago
Pretty sure he made a video about him doing those ads when he did them to answer that question, but you kind of answer it in your description anyway. His objection to VPN ads wasn't the fact it was a VPN, but the deceptive content in t
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by hennell 3y ago
This article would be a lot more persuasive if it's footnotes on mobile weren't a total mess of a system that's going in my bookmarks of bad design. Everything is in black with white borders so the layers of pop over is hard
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by hennell 3y ago
I have phone, tablet, headphones, laptop, steam deck, graphics tablet, art light box, and various battery chargers and camera lights & accessories that all use usb C. Kindle and Fitbit is about the only thing I use that's not USBC
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by hennell 3y ago
I think it's worth tracking how many people view a thing at least just to have a reasonable idea so things like "how many DNS requests should I be able to handle" are less of a shot in the dark. But it was nice to read someth
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by hennell 3y ago
It's about uncertainty though so it doesn't really work if you know it will turn up (also 1 minute is hardly a delay). People would probably choose a system of 0-30mins delay with no info vs 0-60mins with info, if they know thats
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by hennell 3y ago
But what actual examples are there of this? Evidence that they actually do this. Facebook has had a number of big stories and leaks showing they sell info on to other parties, but Google seems to sell advertising access rather then the data
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by hennell 3y ago
There's a similar bit in the book Alchemy by Rory Sutherland where he talks about trying to increase trains reliability or the satisfaction from a gas engineer callout. Turns out people just really don't like uncertain waiting. Ma
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by hennell 3y ago
>The other challenge for cameras is that, unlike lidar, which has its own light source, they rely on ambient light. That’s why they often struggle at night or in bad weather. They were testing to disprove the idea it doesn't need am
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by hennell 3y ago
Is this the origin of "semi-magnetic-man"?
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by hennell 3y ago
Simply understanding how to read explain output can be quite a task in itself though, databases are a whole other thing, especially if you barely do any SQL yourself. Tools like https://explainmysql.com that make it clearer what
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by hennell 3y ago
There are actual problems, they're mentioned in the article. Just because it doesn't affect you, doesn't mean it's not a problem or important to others.

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