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by msravi 8y ago
You can quickly find position of byte number X using: line number = floor(X/(bytes/line)) + 1 column offset = X % (bytes/line) + 1 Or it could just print byte numbers instead of line numbers.
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by msravi 8y ago
A few years ago, Flipkart was the leading e-commerce portal in India, and Amazon was a poor third, behind Snapdeal[1]. At some point in March 2015, Flipkart (and their fashion portal, Myntra) decided to go "app-only" on mobile[2],
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by msravi 8y ago
I use Netguard ( https://github.com/M66B/NetGuard ) and block out access to Facebook's Graph API by every app on my phone. Works very well.
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by msravi 8y ago
Yes, I'm aware of the pot-of-nectar legend - just didn't have the time to check primary sources for the origin of the legend, and did not want to put out something I was unsure of. If you have a primary reference for the origin of
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by msravi 8y ago
Did you read what I wrote? > Also, the Saraswati is not described as having a confluence with the Ganga/Yamuna at Prayag in the Rig Veda - this is a later legend which does not seem to have any basis. See https://www.theh
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by msravi 8y ago
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Prayagraj,+Uttar+Pradesh/@...
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by msravi 8y ago
Trivia: - The Kumbh Mela's periodicity of 12 years is based on Jupiter's period of revolution around the sun - It's called Kumbha mela, because Kumbha is the name for Aquarius. Jupiter spends an Earth year in each Zodiac,
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by msravi 8y ago
Is the quality of sound still the same in the wired mode? I have one like this, but the quality of sound in the wired mode is too atrocious to even think of it as an option. So while it ticks a "feature" on the box, it is, for all
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by msravi 8y ago
More details https://pruned.blogspot.com/2012/01/gardens-as-crypto-water-...
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by msravi 8y ago
And the problem is that the membership doesn't give you access to their publications. You've to pay separately for that.
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by msravi 8y ago
I was a student member, but cancelled after I graduated. For $200, I somehow expected that I'd have complete access to their publications, but it turns out that you don't get that. You've to pay extra for access to their dig
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by msravi 8y ago
Link to the bbc summary: "New BBC research shows nationalism is driving the spread of fake news" https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/latestnews/2018/bbc-beyond...
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by msravi 8y ago
Amazing. They used a sample size of 10 per age group * 4 age groups in a country of 1.3 bln people to conclude that "...the dense interconnections on the right on Twitter are enabling the effective circulation of fake news in a way th
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BBC research on ‘fake news’ is shoddy, unethical, and dishonest(opindia.com)
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by msravi 8y ago
That threshold is going to be very low, at least for me. If my friends decide not to move, I'll just switch back to plain old regular SMS. I already have an SMS app that has spam filters, and that'll do just fine.
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by msravi 8y ago
That gap is the feature, and I'm willing to pay to keep it that way. The moment bots start spamming my WA feeds/groups I'll be gone. I'll move to Signal and if my contacts don't do the same, I'll just switch ba
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by msravi 8y ago
> but other research shows fairly strong correlation evidence I'd be very interested in looking at this research and evidence of correlation between ads and photo data. Can you please cite the reference?
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by msravi 8y ago
For mac: go get -u github.com/akavel/up
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by msravi 8y ago
Technically, the extension is clearing cookies for the site, and setting the "Referer" header to either google.com or facebook.com. Is it illegal to do that? Source: https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywal
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by msravi 8y ago
I wasn't funded by him. I was on a scholarship and then on a TA, and was funded by the department.
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by msravi 8y ago
My masters' thesis supervisor took my thesis and submitted it to a well known journal and a couple of other conferences with himself as the first author and me as the second. I had defended my thesis and started work and did not have t
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by msravi 8y ago
Firefox 62 has DoH support enabled. https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2018/06/01/improving-dns-pr... Has been plenty useful getting around court -ordered clampdowns on torrent sites in India. You can configure
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by msravi 8y ago
I have no clue! That said, from the website: > Users can earn tokens for continuing to seed files after a download is complete > Users who participate will exchange tokens with each other on the basis of resources provided, not mining
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by msravi 8y ago
Ok, I'll bite. ...will connect the BitTorrent peer-to-peer network and the TRON blockchain network => BitTorrent will start accepting "coins" a custom token => a new "coin" an in-client token economy => the
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by msravi 8y ago
Understanding how Firefox tracking protection works is one google button press away. If you tell me that the OP had the time, patience, and technical skill to list all those possibilities but could not do a basic check on how Firefox tracki
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by msravi 8y ago
Firefox tracking protection doesn't block all cookies - just third party trackers on the disconnect.me basic list [1]. While all scenarios you listed are theoretically possible, basic due diligence suggests that there are pretty signif
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by msravi 8y ago
Tridactyl. Very vim-like.
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by msravi 8y ago
I really recommend Quiver ( http://happenapps.com ). It supports code blocks, LaTeX, html, markdown, etc., as well as attachments of any kind (pdf, jpg, etc.) The format is well documented and open ( https://github.com&#
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by msravi 8y ago
This "harming democracy" and "being questioned daily in the national US press", is all about the existing arbiters of information (also called the mainstream media) trying to protect their control over information dissem
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by msravi 8y ago
Apparently because archive.is wants cloudflare to pass on (most of) your IP address to them for DNS resolution, and cloudflare won't play ball... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17743154

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