iMerNibor

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by iMerNibor 7y ago
There's a huge difference between calling someone you know and have interacted with for a significant amount of time or a random internet stranger the wrong thing though (not to mention the overhead of looking up & remembering the
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by iMerNibor 7y ago
Seems like they've removed it now, maybe they noticed they were DOSing themselves ;)
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by iMerNibor 7y ago
> Soon, everyone will enable previews. Only on the big websites though, why would a news org bother with small or tiny news aggregators? The small websites will have to shut down while google will get even stronger. (This happened in ger
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by iMerNibor 7y ago
This is my main gripe with it aswell, got a fast nvme ssd and yet everything slows down to a crawl since the av needs to seemingly triple check files every time they're accessed
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by iMerNibor 7y ago
As a european my question is exactly the opposite, why would you ever use a credit card if you can just pay directly with the money you have? The concept just seems to bizzare as someone who has grown up with their country specific bank car
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by iMerNibor 7y ago
That's how life works though. You can never eliminate all the risks. So much is just out of your control, accidents happen - be it for kids or adults. People are obviously not advocating for creating deadly play spaces for the future g
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by iMerNibor 7y ago
This is actually an issue, to work around this as a dev you would usually use sprite sheets (one single image file with multiple images in it)
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
..unless you're not, since you don't know the magic prefix of the country in question. There is a lot of variety https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Premium-rate_telephone_number
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18097569 discussion for that, in case anyone else was curious
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
Only reason I can think of is it's way easier to get loads of ips to bypass rate limits with ipv6 than it is with ipv4
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
> What's in it for Google? Data, presumably? Also expanding the capabilities of their GSuite to capture more customers into their ecosystem
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
> voice activated mic Which is a very sane default for most people The only reason you'd want to use push to talk is either you have a lot of people in the channel, you have a loud background or you don't want people hearing st
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The project where literally anything* goes(github.com)
11 points by iMerNibor 8y ago|1 comments
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
That was worded a bit ambiguously then You're not really going to get around having to install "something" to sync your passwords if you want to have your passwords synced You could use something like Syncthing if you just do
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
Do any people actually associate the ads they see with the content next to them on any platforms hosting user generated content? (Or any platform whatsoever) Like, I might if the ad is relevant to the piece of content in question. For examp
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EU copyright law proposal rejected(twitter.com)
1847 points by iMerNibor 8y ago|314 comments
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
> superiority of the product It's not though. Once you become big and have reached critical mass you can pull off quite a lot of mediocre/bad stuff. Fact is the majority of people simply do not care as long as the product still
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
...and then there's even multiplexing in HTTP 2 (multiple http requests at the same time on the same connection)
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
ios does, not sure how good it is though
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
Stupid high fees from uk banks, for example (we're talking a flat ~15€ per transaction)
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
> I'm the first person she's talked to about this I wouldn't have much confidence in that. I've heard that from 3 apple geniuses about the iphone 6 touch disease and about the safari browser bug (i forget which ios ve
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
Not "serious", but I can definitely recommend it for simple (transformative as in webhook -> api) endpoints you don't want to care about hosting/maintaining a server for Low volume stuff is even free (at least on goog
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
> 'Security questions' Not only should you do this for privacy, but also security. It's quite simple to get the answers to some of the questions websites will ask you.. Switching to random strings saved by a password manag
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
Just got some new ips and I've been on the other end of this. Some staging domain of a website still points to one of the ips I got and there's a health checker that keeps trying to ping /health on the domain. Nowhere near th
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
Try the phone based activation next time, it's usually a lot more forgiving for activations + they have a free number in most countries
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
How would you deal with one of your customer faking ad views? That's the main reason I hear from people why server-to-server ads won't work reliably, since the ad network "needs" more data to verify legitimate views
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
It's usually the low budget hosts that do this, since those will attract more shady "customers" Easy way to get rid of those
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by iMerNibor 8y ago
This doesnt work well in practice though. Most people don't have the grasp on the technicalities to even be able to make the decision to vote for a specific candidates because their internet access is sub-par Not to mention if you vote
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by iMerNibor 9y ago
Some hints: ovh is good for eu/(northern) us (loadbalancing ip + vps behind it to spread load - be prepared to ditch vps if you're getting horrible performance), scaleway if you can live with just eu Probably as cheap as it gets f
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by iMerNibor 9y ago
Most (some?) airlines will just suck up the cost though in those extrodinary circumstances (bad weather for example), as a general policy to keep their customers sane. Not sure if they'll give you direct compensation, but most will pay

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