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> Anyway, pretty soon we'll have open source speech recognition, so I guess then you'll really have no excuses left. What changes with an open source implementation? Your home-build device can be compromised as well, it needs m
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So, why trying to be creative? Just robbing the store in a conventional fashion should do - and facing security/police when leaving. Good luck.
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What should happen if you change clothes in the bathroom? You would not allowed to enter with any goods not already purchased. So, you have to pick up your items after leaving the bathroom in your "new" clothes in a designated sto
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Congrats if you are able to do so. I often try to predict the value of the items in the shopping cart when waiting in the cashier queue. Most of the time shopping in a supermarket, I can predict the total sum in a range of +/- 2 Euros.
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There are literally hundres of updates for apps that make them iPhone X screen and FaceID friendly. Pretty prematured reaction to return a device because third party software isn't updated in the first hours of release. Moreover, you w
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Could someone help me understand? I‘ve read multiple times in this discussion: > Many (most?) people have more private information on their phones than they do in their house But I can‘t think of any in my situation. Regarding data, almo
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Ad 1): They briefly mentioned in the keynote that Face ID does indeed adapts to gradual changes like growing a beard. So, that form of recalibration seems to be part of the concept.
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First of all, Apple don't need to sell many of these models: We're all doing an incredible job for Apple discussing the price tag of an unannounced phone. That alone is worth millions and millions for Apple PR. Nonetheless I belie
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Have you or your wife googled for a replacement bulb? These are sponsored listings, maybe they are triggered by a cookie set by an ad network. (This might even happen across different devices.)
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That's not even a readable german language article, more a crude auto-translated or auto-generated text.
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You have started working on this platform, so I'd like to return the question to you: Do you see any useful purpose of creating twitter bots? If so: Try focussing on these useful bots and try to minimize the misuse of your platform f
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Shouldn’t this submission have the original title: „Speculation Regarding the Pricing of and Strategy Behind This Year’s New iPhones“?
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Some problems: Collecting small sums of money from lots of people isn't very cost efficient. OS teams don't have the manpower and tools to handle this at scale. There is no penalty for not paying (or enforcing something like that
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Give it a try. Good luck. Some remarks: You might want to use a preroll/postroll for branding and establishing the theme. That already eats some ten to twenty seconds. Next: Don’t underestimate the time you need to address a topic. An
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In general, I agree with your warning that Alexa and co. could limit choice. But is really anyone ordering just "a pizza" or "a lightning cable" by voice without further specification? Isn't customer satisfaction ke
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Parents asked "how the book recommendation works". Your answer isn't really enlightening: The key here would be how you find similar books that are really recommendable and (especially if you are addressing vivid readers) h
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So, why do you use jc_811 and not "Matt Smith" or whatever? Isn't it all public?
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Site mentions "Free Lifetime Updates" but Codecanyon sales page says "6 months support from QuipCode" with a paid option to extend to 12 months. That seems somehow misleading and may potentially damage trust and cost cus
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10y ago
So, the next step should be to tax executives and their bonuses accordingly.
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It generates graphical menus for the russian site VK, sort of a facebook clone, so that the owner of a group/page inside VK can point visitors to subsections of his content.
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> Assuming 2 cents for Blendle, 2 cents for Medium and 1 cent for the author. An article with 80,000 'reads' would pay the author $800. I "love" these calculations: So, you suggest it is okay that the content generato
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> You can already see these methods being applied at scale in industries where "beat the other guy by a month" isn't important, but "don't crash the thing and kill 100 people" is. This sounds to me like impl
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Sorry, but rollout.io knew the rules and got caught red-handed. Do developers wish for a solution to circumvent Apples review process for "updates and bug fixes"? Maybe. Should users be happy about a "solution" that all
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Swiss Air 777 engine repair at Iqaluit airport (Canadian Arctic)
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And this "it took Apple one and a half years to refresh" hasn't anything to do with Intels lackluster product cycles and product refreshes? Why update products if the update is only marginally faster/better/newer th
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At any given time, some (heavy) users were critical about new Apple products and Apple decisions, lamenting that they forget about their most valuable and vocal fans. Apple killed the floppy drive, multiple connectors, "great" pro
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The problem with paywalled links for a forum that is all about discussing the linked content is simple: If most users aren't able to read the content, the discussion either can't happen or is worthless. Workarounds help, but if th
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But every player of Pokémon Go that really tries to play the game not just for 30 minutes disables the AR camera first to save battery and because it doesn't add value. People using Pokémon Go with the AR cam enabled are young kids (it
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Help me understand the numbers: "Amazon Associates" means you got a new Amazon Affiliate account seven days ago, not a merchant account, right? And you made $1k with referrals per day since that? Amazon pays its Affiliates roughly
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My opinion might not be popular here, but when I studied computer science, there was a big discussion about the ethical aspects of our job. Especially, I had the opportunity to speak with Prof. Joseph Weizenbaum [1] a couple of times, who a
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