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by mpol 4y ago
If it is all different frontends to the same backend, they very much failed at marketing. For an advertising company, creating this much chaos in their branding and communication is very confusing and somewhat laughable.
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by mpol 4y ago
There was only mention of a facelift, which can be good or bad. And lots of facelifts nowadays are quite bad, so I understand the concern.
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by mpol 4y ago
How do you control for differences in air pollution and water pollution, differences in food, differences in stress levels. There are too many unknowns in these calculations.
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by mpol 4y ago
Original discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17529815
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by mpol 4y ago
I guess this is the professional response ;) I would just blacklist the IP addressess, just to see what would happen.
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by mpol 4y ago
Using brute-force, algorithms or rules is too hard for humans, there is too much going on at the same time. Even Stockfish didn't manage that against AlphaZero :) If you do want to have a more strict repertoire, you could find a few op
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by mpol 4y ago
That awkward middle also included the reputation that they would easily break down after a few years, which made many people choose for a different brand.
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by mpol 4y ago
Not 1950s, but 1970s; Lelystad. They did not mention this at all in the article, which is quite a miss. Lelystad was the earlier experiment, a bit more up north in Flevoland. It is not growing anymore because some parts have failed and not
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by mpol 4y ago
Almere is very walkable, just a bit boring. Cycling is okay too, although it needs a bit of work I think. In regards to cycling, it is not that popular in Almere. Not sure why, it could be that rudimentary, half of the people is upper middl
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by mpol 4y ago
The blog of WordFence has been quite informative over the years. Many plugins, and even WordPress Core, have had security issues. Some really bad ones get used from a very early stage. So I do think there is some merit in being more on top
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by mpol 4y ago
Can you explain what the cause of this sharp rise is? The linked article has nothing on that. It even feels a bit alarming without much depth. And is anything being done? In the Netherlands, many investors, big and small, are buying up hous
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by mpol 4y ago
I think the same model gets larger each generation because of marketing reasons. And since all the manufacturers are doing this, no manufacturer can escape from this. At the top of the line models disappear, at the bottom of the line new mo
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by mpol 4y ago
Oh no, I am playing with this in the same way. Saying things like "Yes, but...", just means "No". I regularly change the word "but" to "and". Sometimes it works really well, like, both parts are true.
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by mpol 4y ago
If the war has shifted to open/closed data, does it mean the battle for free software was won? Saying we lost is a bit early. I do see lots of projects aiming for open data. That battle has not been decided yet, it's a long game.
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by mpol 4y ago
I don't think "force" is the right word here. More that it's an offer companies can make and customers can choose. Free software and free data are not always a concern of users, lock-in might not be the best choice long-
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by mpol 4y ago
One other thing that is easily forgotten, trains are much safer and feel safer. In road traffic there are maybe 50 deaths per year per million people (wild guess, but not that far off). With trains in Europe, it's not even 1 per year p
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by mpol 5y ago
Signaling is on a separate system. There is ATB-EG/ATB-NG for max speed and there is ATB-Vv for stopping for red lights. Part of train history in the Netherlands is the train disaster at Harmelen in 1962 where 93 people died. It spurre
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by mpol 5y ago
Not everyone wants to buy secondhand. I know people who have been bitten before and only buy new now. I don't know how true their story is, but often something secondhand is not like new, and if you are picky, you might not like second
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by mpol 5y ago
I still have the dream that I can use a Pi as my main desktop and main laptop. I still need more CPU/GPU power and more connections, so the dream is not here yet. It will come some day. My main desktop now is an AMD A8 from 2015, which
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by mpol 5y ago
Those piles of money would not be coming from Facebook, they hardly have to pay for any infrastructure and are heavily subsidized. The energy network has some issues. It needs a lot of work to be upgraded. Salary of technical engineers in s
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by mpol 5y ago
I will try to explain my system. Doing exercise, even just walking or (slow) cycling will itself not burn that much calories, breathing will only be twice as fast, so not much energy is being burned. What it does do is turn on the burning o
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by mpol 5y ago
That is factually incorrect. An ISO9660 is a filesystem on a data CD. An Audio CD is just a stream of bits. That is why you need to rip an audio CD, the CD player needs to transform that stream of bits into blocks of 4096 bytes. It has to r
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by mpol 5y ago
When everybody knows, everybody knows. It doesn't mean anything has to happen or change. Down here when children break something and the parents ask "Who did that?", they will often reply "It was already like that".
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by mpol 5y ago
Or maybe it's part of their strategy? Remember, Google is an advertising agency. They are sending a message out that their support is maybe not 100% adequate, but if you do have an issue, just raise your voice on social media and it wi
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Finland’s Jolla, maker of Sailfish OS, is trying to cut ties with Russia(techcrunch.com)
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by mpol 5y ago
The reason that mechanical disc brakes are horrible is because they often are cheap and bottom of the line. You could use TRP Spyre which have a different reputation. It still won't be as light on the hand as hydraulic, but there may b
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by mpol 5y ago
My girlfriend in 2016 had a brand new Samsung that sometimes made a lot of noise, as if the shock-breakers were busted (it was standing on the floor correctly). She called the Samsung service, in the Netherlands they advertise with a really
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by mpol 5y ago
This was already my list of "approved" spamfilters :) I don't know any others that I like and are low in false positives.
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by mpol 5y ago
"They immediately generated enough audio readings to max out the free tier" It seems this is part of the automation, it got flagged based on this. By the way, I am quite happy with JavaScript based spamfilters, they work quite wel
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by mpol 5y ago
"rel=nofollow" is the only somewhat standard one. I have never heard of "rel=ugc" and I wonder if google made it up, does that work on bing and yandex? I mostly use "rel=nofollow noopener noreferrer" which shou

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