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by jakereps 6y ago
I’m fairly sure SoundHound has had this feature since the early 2010s. Haven’t heard of the app since, but apparently their site is still up. I think Shazam ended up winning the music ID race as I remember having both apps.
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by jakereps 6y ago
I mean you can just not use the apps, can’t you? The headphones don’t magically ship data home through the device. The app is what you agree to their privacy policy through and is what reads all the metadata through usage and then sends it
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by jakereps 6y ago
> Also why is it on Medium under a Paywall, they are worth, quite literally, nearly $200 billion dollars =/ Maybe their scripts determined them hosting on Medium was costing them too much money. /s
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by jakereps 6y ago
A normal person won’t be able to access an onion site, let alone care about the pop up they’re getting about its availability. I’ve watched people navigate web pages with the half screen cookie banner still open. Tor is not targeting a “nor
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by jakereps 7y ago
I discovered this "feature" when I set up a PiHole on my home network. After a few days I noticed that my TV was phoning home on an almost minute-by-minute basis. After digging into the URL (which had the acr in it), I read a few
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by jakereps 7y ago
If you're interested in joining one, there are Discord communities with thousands of active users discussing those very things. One of the more generic ones being MechKeys [1], but once you find some designers you like or more niche co
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by jakereps 7y ago
This is in no way the standard go project layout - this is one repository with umpteen folders containing almost no information. This is more to confuse than it is to help new developers.
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by jakereps 7y ago
I read their message as saying USB-C with MagSafe technology to prevent the cord from pulling the machine off your desk if tripped over, and not two separate ports. Basically as it exists but a modification to the cable or connector to have
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by jakereps 7y ago
That may be absolutely true, but how does that relate to the title of "Reasons not to reveal your DNA." > Don't reveal your DNA, because socks are a better gift. The two are completely unrelated, IMO.
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by jakereps 7y ago
> Genes can be hacked. Scientists have discovered how to store data and even animated GIFs in DNA, and even believe malware could be placed in DNA to compromise the security of computers holding databases. Still trust them? Trust who? Th
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by jakereps 8y ago
Yes, Python introduced static type hinting in version 3.5 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0484/
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by jakereps 8y ago
The email prep Q/A CSS is broken. The answer boxes cover up the questions. (Firefox Nightly 63.0a1)
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by jakereps 9y ago
I'm with you on that. I've been a Spotify Premium member since day 1 of US availability, with no intention of switching to others. The only alternative I've even tried is TIDAL, through their trial, to see if the lossless qua
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by jakereps 9y ago
Oops, I think my cousin mentioned the >1k and I just took him at his word. The official Pokémon site says that 80x number as well (they gave 806). https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/
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by jakereps 9y ago
> since the 1990s children—millennials—aren’t collecting like generations before them. I would say (being a 1989 baby), that it isn't due to a lack of wanting, it's due to the systematic mass production of anything and everythi
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by jakereps 9y ago
I think they need to work on improving Siri before they can even enter the Echo/Home competitive ring. The other virtual assistants are leaps and bounds ahead of Siri.
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by jakereps 9y ago
> Globally, however, Spotify remains in a league of its own, with nearly twice as many paid subscribers than No. 2 Apple, and slightly faster subscriber growth. I mean Spotify has been around a lot longer. Is it weird that new user
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by jakereps 9y ago
> ... rolling onto iPhone cable ... > Police said a "broken-down" charging brick and frayed cable were also found in the 14-year-old's bed. It is not thought those devices were made by Apple. So, teenager gets electrocu
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by jakereps 9y ago
> I wish these premium APIs were available during our first few years. As we grew, we quickly ran into data limitations that prevented expansion. Ultimately, we raised a round of funding in order to accelerate our growth with the enterpr
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by jakereps 9y ago
If that's the case, then it's probably purely marketing. I had no idea PostgreSQL offered a comparable option.
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by jakereps 9y ago
We use it for our database engine, as the nature of our data does not work in a SQL table. I work with DNA sequencing, and we store our data in a sample metadata, feature metadata, and sample-by-feature count table. So our sample metadata h