nicky0

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721.
by nicky0 9y ago
Finding music you like among all the competing possibilities is Spotify's strong point.
722.
by nicky0 9y ago
You lost me at Emacs.
723.
by nicky0 9y ago
Open solutions are always more confusing than centralised ones. End user podcast apps try to hide all the details an make it look like "here's an app with podcasts in it". But behind the scenes it is wonderfully messy. Same w
724.
by nicky0 9y ago
Well that's alright then.
725.
by nicky0 9y ago
Read this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16696159
726.
by nicky0 9y ago
I don't know, how would you inject packets into an encrypted end to end connection? Passive observation of traffic is a useful network performance monitoring technique.
727.
by nicky0 9y ago
Yes questioning the spin bit is the point of the article.
728.
by nicky0 9y ago
You completely missed the meat of the comment which was about how cars get old, worn out and damaged over time, and aren't always well maintained, and that this will apply to self-drivers too and affect their safety.
729.
by nicky0 9y ago
The first cars had to have a man with a flag walk in front of them when passing through towns.
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by nicky0 9y ago
Network engineers can use it to monitor network performance.
731.
by nicky0 9y ago
The point is that QUIC is supposed to be fully encrypted below the UDP layer. The question is why add bits in the clear on top of this to water it down and open an avenue for potential abuse.
732.
by nicky0 9y ago
Except that cheerleading it a highly skilled role that takes a lot of hard work and training, they are not just standing around looking nice. And there are male cheerleaders. Booth babes, maybe this is highly skilled too. I don't know.
733.
by nicky0 9y ago
Ah, got ya.
734.
by nicky0 9y ago
Expensive, I guess you mean.
735.
by nicky0 9y ago
The voice is reasonably clear but the loud keyboard tapping is a problem. A voice microphone not attached to the keyboard would help that.
736.
by nicky0 9y ago
You don't flag a post because you disagree with the logic of the argument.
737.
by nicky0 9y ago
Cunningham's Law in action. Thank you.
738.
by nicky0 9y ago
I think their interpretation of "tl; dr" is: "it was too long so I didn't read it, and here is what I think anyway".
739.
by nicky0 9y ago
I don't think Direct Debit is a thing in the US.
740.
by nicky0 9y ago
Personal itch scratching is one strategy but scratching other people's itches is rather a good one too.
741.
by nicky0 9y ago
Re. frozen funds. As a merchant it is important to sweep the account regularly (daily/weekly) and avoid building up large balances.
742.
by nicky0 9y ago
As a user Paypal is much more convenient than entering credit card info. With Paypal One Touch it's usually as little as 2 clicks (one to say pay with Paypal, one to approve).
743.
by nicky0 9y ago
Sure, take photographs of the pages and add the to them repo for future reference.
744.
by nicky0 9y ago
Show me who among us is not contradictory in our behavour.
745.
by nicky0 9y ago
This assumes that the purpose of the doucment is to be archived, searched, diffed and reproduced. None of these is in fact the case. The purpose is as a tool in the production of the program being written.
746.
by nicky0 9y ago
T hink the value of this is that it's part of the guy's thinking process. If it produces better designed code then it's good with me.
747.
by nicky0 9y ago
There is no such thing as a head start.
748.
by nicky0 9y ago
1. Actually that is incorrect. SegWit transactions are several bytes larger than old style transactions.
749.
by nicky0 9y ago
You have been misinformed. SegWit does not move anything off the blockchain. It just rearranges things within the blocks.
750.
by nicky0 9y ago
As long as you can trust your banks and your nation's government then that is fine. You probably live in a stable western country. Nice for you.

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