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by mcbits 8y ago
Personally I'd rather have a 4G modem that can I can reprogram for something useful after my phone is obsolete, but I'll take the special purpose chip if it's cheaper. What I don't want is a general purpose SDR that&#x27
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by mcbits 8y ago
There's little doubt that they have global filtering informed by user flagging. The question is whether they also have localized filtering for items where users may disagree on what's spam. If so, I would expect email from Linke
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by mcbits 8y ago
Huh? "To:mmt" would be a local filter (or a localized signal in the filter - implementation detail). At least, hopefully nobody else is receiving email addressed to you. If you start marking someone's emails as spam and their
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by mcbits 8y ago
It seems Gmail does globally filter some campaigns if enough users (or enough of the right users) mark them as spam, but that doesn't mean they don't also have local account-level spam filters. A way to test it would be to mark Am
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by mcbits 8y ago
While I welcome the line endings support, and text zoom makes sense for accessibility, by far my favorite feature of Notepad is that it loads in milliseconds. If new "features" like Bing integration push that startup time into the
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by mcbits 8y ago
I wonder if it's really necessary to convert the light to electricity as an intermediate step. I'm imagining a filter that's mostly transparent but has a fluorescent coating to convert UV to visible light that the plants can
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by mcbits 8y ago
Five (5) megabytes of JavaScript for a basic brochure site... I assume 99.9% of that is only necessary after signing up and signing in, not while unfortunately viewing the page on a less-than-flagship mobile device and metered data plan?
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by mcbits 8y ago
That's how it works in Economics for Kindergartners 101 or a world with about 100x fewer humans, yes.
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Not in the US. You can go off and try to start a hobby farm in state/national forests or a hidden corner of someone's 10,000 acre ranch, and you might even get away with it for a while, but you're not free to do it.
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Yep, I remember trying to optimize my 1-pixel spacer GIF from 53 bytes down to 47 bytes to lighten up the load of a 200KB page of random interwoven table, font, and center tags that took 30-60 seconds to download.
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by mcbits 8y ago
That sounds like a job for filters, which could be provided by browser extensions, userscripts, or forks of the platform hosted on other sites.
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by mcbits 8y ago
I dispute "The hash doesn't match because the filename doesn't match." He did backpedal and say he really meant they don't match because the files are different. (Well, duh.) I also dispute "It's a tautolo
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by mcbits 8y ago
The cultural differences between urban, suburban, and rural US are at least as great as the overall differences between the US and other countries, and I suspect you'd be weighing every word carefully if you tried making those same arg
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The light coming from the car in that image would be concentrated around 450-500 nm, not 625-740 nm. Viewed in isolation, that's blue, but in the context of the rest of the image, it is red. The "redness" of the car exists on
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by mcbits 8y ago
There are no blues or reds at all if nobody is watching. Color is a purely perceptual phenomenon relying on properties of the eye and brain.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Judging by Zillow's map, 5+ acre lots are a small minority of the properties in that area. Probably less than 10%, although 10% could feel like "most" compared to places where it's closer to 0%.
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by mcbits 8y ago
I thought the question was asking whether there are any reds that are blue. Edit: This isn't as clear as it could be if I was better with GIMP, but it should illustrate the idea. https://imgur.com/a/cRWhdTJ
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I'm not quite sure if it works for blue and red or only certain color combinations, but it's possible to create images where an item in the scene is obviously one color, yet the light hitting the eye is another color. The brain au
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by mcbits 8y ago
I'm surprised you didn't encounter the issue with VSCode on Ubuntu 18.04, as that's where I ran into it. https://github.com/electron/libchromiumcontent/issues/384 tl;dr (as I understand it) is
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by mcbits 8y ago
And now with Electron we have, "This application is optimized for libfreetype2.8-0. Please downgrade your system package until Electron catches up."
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by mcbits 8y ago
I recommend changing "So Much More" to "Documentation" or something. I had no idea that was a link, let alone a potentially useful link.
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by mcbits 8y ago
Krita as a proprietary, for-profit software venture could probably bring in closer to $38k per day , although some of that would have to flow right back out to marketing. Whenever I see someone with a Patreon link, I click just to see how
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by mcbits 8y ago
I tried to use Pocket a while back. First it put me in an HN cluster where it would recommend all the articles posted on HN that I didn't save to Pocket because I wasn't interested. Then I intentionally avoided saving articles f
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Where can I verify this? As I understand it, we already have a bunch of tariffs in the 5% range that only apply to commercial/industrial imports.
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Does this apply to small quantities imported for personal use?
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People still grep for variables in $current_millennium? I have to agree with the other comment about tooling being an important factor in language selection.
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That establishes prior art for X, but X+2 would still potentially infringe on X+1 and they'd have no leverage for negotiating a license. Except they're still one of the biggest patent spammers, so they probably do have leverage in
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by mcbits 8y ago
That sounds backwards if I'm reading you right. An idea can't be patented (well... in theory), but a new invention based on an idea can. Google apparently thinks they've got a new, non-obvious invention based on Duda's p
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by mcbits 8y ago
A problem with Yes/No (and OK/Cancel, etc.) is that one program will ask Unsaved changes will be lost. Save your changes first? and another program will ask Unsaved changes will be lost. Are you sure? Or within a
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by mcbits 8y ago
HTML has had the potential to fill that role since day one, but while today we're talking about sites sitting blank for 5 seconds because they're downloading megabytes of garbage, back then we had pages sitting blank for 60 second

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