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by nimbix 7y ago
Just yesterday I was reading an interview with the CEO of a German company which produces coronavirus tests about how they charge 2.5EUR for a single testing kit and that reasonable cost for processing it should be around 10EUR. Where does
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by nimbix 7y ago
I gotta give it to Signapore Airlines PR machine - they sure manage to get them some good press. Too bad the actual experience flying them is not that exceptional. And don't get me started about their food... Out of 20+ airlines I&#x27
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by nimbix 7y ago
What ever happened with continuations in Scala? A lot of people were excited about them back in 2009, but if I google them now I still only get pages from 10 years ago. I haven't used Scala in a very long time, so I stopped paying atte
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by nimbix 7y ago
A friend of mine used to work at a junkyard. People would bring in old computers all the time and he could buy working parts from the company by the pound (literally). He made a lot on the side selling them online to people who needed spare
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by nimbix 8y ago
And suddenly it becomes clear why they care so much about blocking advertising cookies in the browser - in order to drive programmatic ad revenue towards the apps where the device specific advertising ID is available.
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by nimbix 8y ago
Laphroiag Quarter Cask was the first "proper" whisky I bought. You can imagine my disappointment over the following months as I was trying to find one that would be even more distinctive... nothing came even close. Though Caol Ila
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by nimbix 8y ago
The last time I checked it was still possible to buy a computer without Windows, as well as buy Windows that can be transferred between machines. Most people just don't bother with that.
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by nimbix 8y ago
It's because they want your device's advertiser ID so they can associate it with your interests based on subreddits you visit. There's gold in them ad targeting data hills.
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by nimbix 9y ago
Had to use WebEx on a client call once. Had to install two different packages because audio was "provided by Comcast". It was the only time ever that I saw the video, but couldn't get audio, so a coworker had to update me on
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by nimbix 9y ago
For me the most important part of reviewing any nontrivial changes it actually check out the branch and test every change I see. This keeps a lot of issues from reaching the QA team and catches issues they could have missed since they don&#
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by nimbix 9y ago
This complete disregard for speed limits was a huge shock to me when I was driving in Florida 2 weeks ago. In quite a few EU countries we stick to the posted limits quite strictly. But in the US I was literally bullied into driving way abov
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by nimbix 9y ago
The JS tools/libs ecosystem really reminds me of crypto currencies. There's a million of them to choose from and if you jump on one during the height of its popularity you just end up losing a bunch in the crash that inevitably fo
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by nimbix 9y ago
Do most people just simply ignore the outer roundabouts? Otherwise I don't know how to explain this picture: https://www.wired.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/wired_see-h... There's a group of c
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by nimbix 9y ago
Sounds like what a friend of mine likes to call "the pain of easy living".
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by nimbix 9y ago
AMP ads are still served from other domains; but you have the option of writing them in AMP and having them validated & signed by a service to qualify for faster loading.
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by nimbix 9y ago
AMP still requests ads separately from the page and it still loads any ad without objections. It's just that if the ad is also written in AMP and signed by a validation service, it qualifies for faster loading instead of being delayed
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by nimbix 9y ago
I thought so too, but it turns out mu-so only supports AirPlay, but not also Google Cast, even though it supports Spotify Connect and Tidal. I suspect it might have something to do with it also being sold in Apple stores (pure speculation).
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by nimbix 9y ago
My Naim mu-so single speaker was over $1300 and I don't regret the purchase. I also have a Google Home (got it at IO this year) and I can tell you it sounds pretty awful - way too much bass at any volume level. So whether HomePod is wo
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by nimbix 9y ago
It must be pretty good. I was at the IO keynote and when they announced Kotlin support for Android, the guy sitting in front of me had to remove his sunglasses and wipe away tears of joy. Twice.
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by nimbix 10y ago
Click fraud is a standard industry term for robot initiated clicks, which this is a case of. What this extension generates are certainly not legitimate clicks form interested users, or even unintentional clicks that happen due to various re
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by nimbix 10y ago
The users of this extension have a clear case of the "I'm allowed to poke the dog with a stick, but the dog is not allowed to bite me" mentality, so it's a complete surprise to them when it happens.
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by nimbix 10y ago
"Company which makes its money from advertising bans automated click fraud extension from being used in its browser."
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by nimbix 10y ago
I think it's only a matter of time before Google starts fighting back and asks ad blockers to allow AMP ads or face being kicked from the Chrome extensions store. AMP ads are relatively lightweight, built from a short list of approved
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by nimbix 10y ago
What you said has been repeated so many times everyone just accepts it as true. But if you look at the new age hippies, they're playing the same game, but having a better car is replaced by having a nicer 30 yr old van, or nicer dreadl
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by nimbix 10y ago
Self hosted ads would change nothing when it comes to blocking. Some ad servers allow you to proxy all the requests through your subdomain, but ads still get blocked. CSS selector based blocking is widespread and adding another `.sidebar &g
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by nimbix 11y ago
Unfortunately, being incorporated in Malta just screams "shady business" - at least here in Slovenia where such companies belonging to questionable characters are constantly in the news.
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by nimbix 11y ago
But be careful if you find yourself in Switzerland or Norway. It's easy to forget that those two are not in the EU and that can easily end up costing you a lot. I had a layover at the Zurich airport yesterday and I almost enabled data
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by nimbix 12y ago
So how does flexbox compare to the tools we were using in the late 90s/early 00s? Is layout finally as simple again as it was when it was still OK to use tables and a transparent spacer.gif for everything?
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by nimbix 12y ago
To me, nothing sums up IRC of today better than the following line: * No one in your notify list is on IRC
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by nimbix 12y ago
> there's a usable alpha, ready to download and use right now. Back in 2004 we had to choose the programming language for a new project. PHP5 (which was just released at the time) was the top candidate, but I really wanted to use Pe

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