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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   We blocked ads at work and one user asked for them to be reinstated as she likes seeing them.
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   The worst example of this, in my experience, is any newspaper article about arachnophobia. They always seem compelled to add a photo of a nasty looking spider. As an arachnophobe, I find this actually quite abusive as it seems to be deliber
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   Twitch displays frequent popups claiming ad blockers may impact site performance(twitter.com)

   1 points by jjbinx007 6y ago|2 comments
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   Very interesting, thanks
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   I'm wondering if the guy could claim to be a citizen journalist.
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   I think I have a reasonable mental model of how certain QM processes work by visualising waves in transit coalescing as particles when measured. But I have absolutely no idea how to visualise entanglement. Any tips? Or do we just have to sh
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   I meant like this: https://youtu.be/_pEiA0-r5A8 You would see the image of a car before the actual car arrived
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   Ditto on Huawei Mate 20 X
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   by jjbinx007 6y ago

   Also, if we added the speed of light to an object's speed you'd get really weird results like you'd see a car coming towards you before the car actually arrived. Trying to stay alive in such a world would be quite a challenge
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    by jjbinx007 6y ago

    "A study in the Journal of Applied Physiology found that men had an average of 26 lbs. (12 kilograms) more skeletal muscle mass than women. Women also exhibited about 40 percent less upper-body strength and 33 percent less lower-body s
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    by jjbinx007 6y ago

    Even if this was true, which I doubt, what would Facebook actually gain by doing this? They'd see a person's face from an unflattering angle with an unflattering expression. Or they'd see whatever the front camera sees at the
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    by jjbinx007 6y ago

    The MS-DOS version of XTree Gold was the best piece of software I used in the early 90s.
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    by jjbinx007 7y ago

    I often quite like these but I'm extremely annoyed by them at the moment as I saw a huge spoiler for a TV show I was wanting to watch. I've avoided all online newspapers but I open a new tab and Google go and spoil it for me. Ther
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    by jjbinx007 7y ago

    I've seen a lot of suggestions for alternatives but nobody's mentioned station307.com yet
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    by jjbinx007 7y ago

    You need a TV licence if you watch or record TV as it's broadcasted (or shortly afterwards) or if you use iPlayer.
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    by jjbinx007 8y ago

    So would this work the other way around? Leave your phone at home to prove you didn't go somewhere?
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    by jjbinx007 8y ago

    I have little sympathy. Twitter's algorithms can shadow ban accounts at any time for seemingly any reason. I had my account locked for breaking a rule but I never found out what the rule I had broken was. I sometimes have replies to me
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    by jjbinx007 8y ago

    I also don't appreciate auto playing video wasting all my data and battery when I'm reading on mobile. Why can't sites just emulate newspapers of old and statically embed non tracking ads on their pages? I'll whitelist t
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    by jjbinx007 8y ago

    There's a lot to be said for sites like this: http://lite.cnn.io/en It's fast, non intrusive and just gives you the information you want without the annoyances. It also works far better for disabled people. I know
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    by jjbinx007 8y ago

    Google seems to favour desktop search over mobile for some reason. I can't search chats from my phone (but I can from desktop), I can't even set up filters from mobile. There are some search tricks you can employ from the desktop
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    by jjbinx007 11y ago

    Tom Scott's just done a video about this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVI87HzfskQ
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    by jjbinx007 11y ago

    I decided to turn my adblocker off wherein I received the message: "Thank you for turning off your ad blocker! Enjoy Forbes' ad-light experience for 30 days." So what's "ad-light"? Two auto-playing (but volume
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    by jjbinx007 11y ago

    The history of copy protection would make for a fantastic article in itself. The only sad thing about the copy protection in Dungeon Master is it's difficult to play the game using an emulator as you don't know if the version you&
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    Amiga emulator in pure JavaScript and HTML5(scriptedamigaemulator.net)

    107 points by jjbinx007 11y ago|15 comments
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    by jjbinx007 11y ago

    Exactly. I always thought magic tricks exploited P vs NP... once you know how a trick done it seems obvious, but there are so many things to rule out before you find the right answer.
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    by jjbinx007 11y ago

    >The logs will show every web site you visited – for example, bbc.com – as opposed to the specific pages on that website, for example bbc.com/news. >This information, especially when accumulated over a period of a year, would sti