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by kpozin 9y ago
If you connect to any hotspot with a captive portal, you would need to deal with the portal again every 5 minutes.
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by kpozin 9y ago
In order to have access to vocabulary words. From the article: > I wanted to get a transcript of the episode’s dialog so I could study the unfamiliar vocabulary. Unfortunately, the video files I have only have hard subtitles
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by kpozin 10y ago
The crash-on-full-screen-video bug started on my laptop after installing the Anniversary Update (v. 1607). I have a hybrid Intel 4000 / NVIDIA NVS 5400M video card, similar to the setups described in realharo's links. There was no
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by kpozin 10y ago
I had to revert the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to work around that.
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by kpozin 10y ago
IKEA's disclaimers are more apt than ever. > WARNING - Serious or fatal crashing injuries can occur from furniture tip-over. To prevent this furniture must be permanently fixed to the wall.
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by kpozin 10y ago
In the past couple of weeks, I've searched for several categories of items on Amazon: umbrellas, paint brushes, and acrylic paint. Almost every product's page was dominated by five-star incentivized reviews.
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Google’s DeepMind AI can lip-read TV shows better than a pro(newscientist.com)
7 points by kpozin 10y ago|0 comments
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by kpozin 10y ago
You can configure Android to treat any specific WiFi network as metered, so apps that care will treat it the same as a mobile network. Look in Settings > Data usage > Wi-Fi > Network restrictions (might be in an overflow menu).
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by kpozin 10y ago
A little earlier than that: August 2001.
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Marvel, Jack Kirby, and the Comic-Book Artist’s Plight(theatlantic.com)
3 points by kpozin 10y ago|1 comments
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by kpozin 10y ago
On a cross-country flight a couple of weeks ago, I decided to calculate the distance to the horizon using a pen, notepad, and the SatStat GPS app on my phone (to get the current altitude). That must have looked really suspicious.
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Plenty of Passengers, but Where Are the Pilots?(nytimes.com)
2 points by kpozin 11y ago|1 comments
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by kpozin 11y ago
I've been looking through some of the kernel code [1] out of curiosity, and I'm very surprised to see that most components have almost no internal documentation — minimal file and class comments, and even fewer inline comments. Is
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by kpozin 11y ago
I actually received a physical postcard about this today (in addition to multiple emails and a notification on the Amazon home page).
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by kpozin 11y ago
It was an in-place upgrade on a 3.5-year-old installation of Windows 7.
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by kpozin 11y ago
As a counter-anecdote (on a somewhat more powerful laptop, Core i7 with 8 GB of RAM and an SSD): I just upgraded from Windows 7 to 10 three days ago, and have been amazed at how much snappier everything seems. In particular, app switching a
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by kpozin 11y ago
I read this entire article thinking it was overly elaborate satire, but there was no punch line at the end, and the links are actually valid. The TP pool memo[1] in Neal Stephenson Snow Crash seems sane by comparison. [1] http:/&#x2
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by kpozin 11y ago
What mobile client are you using? I've found that Gmail on Android is pretty good about dismissing notifications for messages that have been marked as read elsewhere.
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by kpozin 11y ago
On the other hand, I know a two-year-old who starts to cry when ads interrupt his truck videos on YouTube.
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by kpozin 11y ago
The last few times I tried to use the mobile site, it gave an error message claiming that requesting a car via the site was not authorized (it had worked for a few months before that).
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by kpozin 11y ago
I got my start in programming around the same age using tools from Clickteam [1]: Klik & Play, The Games Factory, and eventually progressing to Multimedia Fusion (now Clickteam Fusion). These are all drag-and-drop tools, with graphical
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by kpozin 12y ago
Can anyone comment on the claim that private solar power generation affects the stability of the grid? What kinds of infrastructure changes would be needed to properly support power generation in private homes?
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Solar Power Battle Puts Hawaii at Forefront of Worldwide Changes(nytimes.com)
96 points by kpozin 12y ago|98 comments
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by kpozin 12y ago
I believe those are the same limitations as on the x86 emulator provided by Google/Intel.
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by kpozin 13y ago
The paid version of Swype still collects location information (or at least uses the location API, according to my phone). Paying users of the keyboard would be quite justified in trying to prevent Swype from getting that information.
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London’s Great Exodus(nytimes.com)
133 points by kpozin 13y ago|146 comments
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A Race to Save the Orange by Altering Its DNA(nytimes.com)
47 points by kpozin 13y ago|44 comments
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by kpozin 14y ago
I'm reminded of the government's TP Pool Regulations [1] in Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash . [1] http://soquoted.blogspot.com/2006/03/memo-from-fedland.html
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by kpozin 14y ago
I had to use Bing Maps on the Palm Pre for a few months this year after they updated the app (and partially blocked the Google Maps mobile site). Bing couldn't find anything without an exact address.
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by kpozin 14y ago
Considering that Amazon knows about most of my online purchases from the past 10 years, the kinds of ads they show indicate that they are not at all targeted. Almost disappointingly so.

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