i2shar

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by i2shar 9y ago
> I'm not sure. Historically, Indian governments have been most undeserving of our taxes simply because they've misspent it and/or misdirected it to achieve their own means (corruption, buying votes etc). Depending on who
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by i2shar 9y ago
[To put things in perspective] travel time to the Moon is about 3 days, Mars would be about 150 to 300 days (source: Google).
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by i2shar 9y ago
It is indeed disturbing. Why should a web page be able to detect if dev tools has been opened? Isn't this a browser security issue?
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by i2shar 9y ago
I researched and installed uMatrix immediately, but (due respect to the creator) the application is so hard to use and broke several web pages. I also installed WebRTC Leak Prevent Tool that helped a little.
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by i2shar 9y ago
> Here’s another one. The second link that follows that one ( http://webkay.robinlinus.com/ ) really terrified me. I had no idea my private network hosts (192.168.X.X) or my private IP address could be scanned by a random
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by i2shar 9y ago
I am also a fan of this very practical Hadoop/Kerberos guide https://steveloughran.gitbooks.io/kerberos_and_hadoop/conten...
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by i2shar 10y ago
> I expect it to have high battery consumption and an unreliable user experience, but would be fine with it if it comes with a warning and only runs in the absence of play services. So for those who are still running on devices with Play
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by i2shar 10y ago
Is that because of not depending on GCM/FCM? Just curious how you were able to deduce that?
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by i2shar 10y ago
That's right - I don't feel anything when I am eating myself, or even when I am at a lunch table with others munching with me. It's only when I am not the one eating. I also get irritated when I am on the phone and the person
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by i2shar 10y ago
I understand exactly what you mean. But expert practitioners say that this is only the initial and the hardest phase and that it can be overcome with practice. What lies beyond is another question, but I want to trust that I will be able to
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by i2shar 10y ago
I use IntelliJ for Java/AngularTS/ web development and Sublime for lite note taking/editing. IntelliJ is an excellent IDE and is far superior to Eclipse. Great refactoring, code completion everywhere, and very intuitive (I am
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by i2shar 10y ago
They could also not include the commercial features in the standard download and make you download additional stuff to use the commercial features as they do with the Unlimited encryption packages.
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by i2shar 10y ago
That points to the i7-6500U version. The I7-7500U is this: www.bestbuy.com/site/hp-spectre-x360/5617202.p?skuId=5617202 and the least I saw on it was $1199
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by i2shar 10y ago
Where did you get that for $999? I got the exact same build from BestBuy for $1199 and find it for $1099 at HP's site.
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by i2shar 10y ago
How do you mean?
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Why America Needs India's Rockets(bloomberg.com)
3 points by i2shar 10y ago|0 comments
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by i2shar 10y ago
Lately I've been using Opera Incognito with free builtin VPN for all general browsing and I highly recommend it. (I use Chrome to stay logged in to email).
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Children inherit their intelligence from their mother(independent.co.uk)
7 points by i2shar 10y ago|0 comments
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by i2shar 10y ago
The weights would be different based on who's assigning them.
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by i2shar 10y ago
FYI: I wrote an app that does that on a Raspberry Pi / Mac: https://github.com/i2shar/express-text-to-speech
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Apple responds to diversity criticism: “We had a Canadian” at iPhone 7 event(mic.com)
7 points by i2shar 10y ago|5 comments
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by i2shar 10y ago
One word: "Courage".
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by i2shar 10y ago
(Reposting my comment from your other thread): FWIW, if you don't need hardware, you can turn your phone into such a "button". Apps allow you to add a widget to your home screen and can be configured to make arbitrary HTTP re
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by i2shar 10y ago
Classpath issues such as yours are very common in Java. I suppose that's why building a fat jar is part of the getting started section of the docs.
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by i2shar 10y ago
When I read Outliers, I never took the 10,000 hour rule literally and I don't think Gladwell wanted us to. It put in perspective what we all knew and that's what contributed to it's popularity -- it gave us a common vocabular
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by i2shar 10y ago
I always browse and search incognito, lately on Opera with free VPN. That takes care of my desktop/work search history not being associated with my account/IP. But what is particularly insidious is the mobile click tracking. I a
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by i2shar 10y ago
Don't forget the menu item "Scanning" in Settings > Location. It "improves location" by scanning wifi and bluetooth _anytime_ i.e. even when location is turned off. I like the sneaky location of the menu item (no
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by i2shar 10y ago
I just used your very cool site to configure machines that we used for an in-house cluster. Would have been extremely difficult without it. Thanks a lot for building and making it available for free! (Recruit me for any feedback/usabil
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by i2shar 10y ago
I've been a happy T-mobile customer for years. Am on their $30 prepaid (unlimited data 5G at LTE speeds, 100 minutes) plan on Nexus phones. Have never bought "subsidized" carrier phones. 100 MB tethering (excluding HTTPs and
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by i2shar 10y ago
FWIW, if you don't need hardware, you can turn your phone into such a "button". Apps allow you to add a widget to your home screen and can be configured to make HTTP requests. https://play.google.com/store&#x2

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