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by nacs 11y ago
Straw Poll [1] is pretty popular already (a lot of Twitch.tv streamers use it to get live poll results) and seems to do have a similar feature set. Is there anything Deckrank offers over Strawpoll? [1]: https://strawpoll.me/
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by nacs 11y ago
An easier way on Mac is to start the built-in Keychain app and search for your Wifi name there.
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by nacs 11y ago
The hash they use is more complicated than that: converts images into a common black-and-white format and uniform size, then divides the image into squares and assigns a numerical value that represents the unique shading found
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by nacs 11y ago
So apparently, it's a cloud only service -- you have to upload all images to Microsoft to use it. Also to be able to use the service you have to apply as a business and be approved manually. This would have been more useful as a softwa
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by nacs 11y ago
I'm sure there are other hardware upgrades involved to achieve that than just a single fuse.
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by nacs 11y ago
It doesn't degrade gracefully on my Lynx browser and doesn't use any form of encryption when submitting comments, making it vulnerable to 3-letter agency interception.
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by nacs 11y ago
They do already. Some users' comments aren't visible to the public unless you have the "showdead" setting in your HN user preferences enabled.
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by nacs 11y ago
Agreed. I was looking into this streaming/live video issue as well and there really is no cross platform method of doing this without having a Flash fallback. For everything else however (like pre-recorded video, games via WebGL), Flas
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by nacs 11y ago
Correct: India is the first country in the world where McDonald's does not offer any beef or pork items. McDonald's has developed a menu especially for India with vegetarian selections to suit the Indian palate, and ha
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by nacs 11y ago
I think you're vastly underestimating the amount of tweets that are typed every day.
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by nacs 11y ago
There's a (currently) 178 response thread for this bundleware in the Mozilla "governance" forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/mozilla.governance/2PY...
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by nacs 11y ago
You'd think Adobe would at least have an auto-update tool by now. But no, every time, we have to goto their download page, uncheck Mcaffee bundleware and run through the installation wizard every time. I think it's time to com
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by nacs 11y ago
> there's something soothing/cathartic about running a frantic "Euro Truck Simulator 2" was the same way for me. At first, I thought, "That's stupid, who wants to drive a truck (around a virtual Europe) for
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by nacs 11y ago
"Criminal" is a bit excessive.. If my employer suddenly published salaries then it may be an issue but they've been publishing these reports for years. I'm sure everyone who works there is both aware and accepting of the
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by nacs 11y ago
And profits were only 181 million for the quarter..
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by nacs 11y ago
Why not? Unity3d has been using Xamarin's .Net to build for Android and iOS (and many other platforms) for years now.
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by nacs 11y ago
I'd bet that 'one client' getting the ~200gbps DDoS has a massive monthly bill (likely hundreds/thousands of servers) so they're happy to mitigate short term DDoS. Most dedicated server providers won't go that
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by nacs 11y ago
Which VPS providers are you referring to? I know from personal experience that, Digital Ocean, the largest VPS provider null routes your VPS IP for 3 hours minimium for even the tiniest of DDoS's. I doubt most of the smaller VPS prov
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by nacs 11y ago
> That's the problem. Google can regularly update Chrome without updating the OS If you're referring to Chrome on iOS, it uses Apple's Webkit/Webview as the rendering engine. The only thing Google is updating with app
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by nacs 11y ago
Just curious, was the "hack" in the Live AMA someone just incrementing the upvote endpoint with a larger int or an actual exploit someone found.
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by nacs 11y ago
Well Verizon (DSL, fiber-optic) bought AOL out recently.
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by nacs 11y ago
Check out nginx-rtmp [1] and ffserver [2] (from the ffmpeg team). [1]: https://github.com/arut/nginx-rtmp-module [2]: https://www.ffmpeg.org/ffserver.html
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by nacs 11y ago
Sounds like a legitimate concern but my install of NoScript on Firefox (Ubuntu) which hasn't been customized in any way, shows only a bunch of local ('about:') pages in the "Whitelist" section and nothing else: htt
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by nacs 11y ago
> not really sure if the author really believes in what he's complaining on fully The author is a lady.
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by nacs 11y ago
Erlang microservices is clearly the ideal way to go.
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by nacs 11y ago
Their algorithm page [1] contains this: > The site's password counter (default: 0): This is an integer that can be incremented when the user needs a new password for the site. So it looks like you can generate new passwords anytime
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by nacs 11y ago
The organization from the linked site -- ARIN -- American Registry for Internet Numbers.
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by nacs 11y ago
If you want a better comparison, Sublime Text's installed size is 1/10th of the size of Atom at 23 MB.
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by nacs 11y ago
It appears you're one of the few that had the foresight to take a screenshot of the results instead of direct linking to the already-hammered dynamic link that appears to have no caching.. For those posting sample results: take a scree
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by nacs 11y ago
This is mentioned in the linked article but a lot of the rendering work is done in the Level of Detail system that is standard in most game engines now. As the player camera moves further from an object, lower resolution versions of the 3D

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