nmstoker

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by nmstoker 5y ago
Lots of tools are better as websites - however underhand motives often mean mobile apps get pushed more and have done for years. Inevitably someone pops up to say "but what about essential feature X that you can't do well on the w
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by nmstoker 5y ago
I agree on one hand, but on the other if you take this approach, eventually the number of changes will be enormous and the cause of any issue that crops up may be that much harder to pin point. If you keep somewhat up to date, it's sma
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Yes, this drove me nuts. And was even more annoying because Google Support were totally unaware and acted like morons - it was about 30 minutes before I realised they had no clue what they were investigating and were just blindly plodding a
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by nmstoker 5y ago
It only seems to go wrong on their main page. Look at the page on a wide monitor or with a mobile sideways and i think you'll see the issue: the page is designed to have a left column, which is right aligned so that it goes flush with
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by nmstoker 5y ago
To be fair, people disregard the prior experience with other people too, so they're not necessarily treating bots that differently here. I had this in the supermarket the other day: went through an issue with the first person, they exp
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Also there's OpenSnitch for Linux, available here: https://github.com/evilsocket/opensnitch I don't use it all the time but it is occasionally useful (or just satisfies my curiosity about what's phoning
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Just to clarify a little, I'm not making the case that it was the right thing to do to post the NFTs, it's purely on whether unapproved portraits are allowed. Things like caricatures and satirical pictures do appear to be enabled
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by nmstoker 5y ago
IANAL but the legal concerns with an unauthorized portrait seem something of a stretch - it's not promoting something else, the portraits were the product and thus I'd be surprised if they were covered. This is clearly very differ
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Yes, I'd love something simple like this that is cheap, you plug in and it "just works" without any faffing. Microphones on computers can be such a source of pain - maybe not quite such a nightmare as printers, but it seems l
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Maybe it's different in some places but your delivery example seems like it would rarely cause problems as deliveries are usually addressed to addresses with a house name/house number and/or flat number, so they'd ring t
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by nmstoker 5y ago
You appear to presuppose that a name is necessary. In plenty of places it's perfectly fine to have a bell with just a number.
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by nmstoker 5y ago
"product with a bunch of [essential] features chopped off" is the most frustrating aspect of MVPs being misused. The scenario I've seen loads with existing legacy systems is analogous having a decent but aging car, then some
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by nmstoker 5y ago
It's really cost plus a chance they'll get away with it (or the team/mgr hiring will have moved on by the time it's found out). If it were cost but they were guaranteed to get caught they wouldn't do it.
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Yes! Or use the AI to identify the gender indicating words of the opposite gender that are synonyms of words you've used and swap those in - might be a start (although deeper things like sentence structure could still influence the cla
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by nmstoker 5y ago
The title is ungrammatical. It should probably be corrected to: "To reduce student suicides by hanging from fans, institute in India removes fans"
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Perhaps because it's not just for LLVM? Given the comments in the repo README about it being a drop in replacement for the GNU linker, it looks like could be useful for several other scenarios too (but I defer to those who can explain
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Agree completely. I could eventually figure out what it was doing but the speed of the videos flipping between examples looks like it was set by people who already knew what the message was, rather than for people who don't know it (ye
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by nmstoker 5y ago
I feel browsing the web is long overdue having a robot butler to do it for us and come back with the things we wanted, leaving the "People in Norwich are using this genius trick"-style nonsense on the cutting room floor. It ought
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Or better yet, detect the behaviour that's triggering the passive aggressive response and handle that better before it causes frustration. A lot of it comes about because people are lazy: - unwilling to try something obvious/easil
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Rubbish sifting robots recycle demolition waste(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nmstoker 5y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 5y ago
An awareness of your point was precisely why I mentioned "quietening down verbal ticks" (ie 1 minutes gives you back 1 minute but with the ticks removed/muffled) To me this seems like it could be worthwhile even if it results
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by nmstoker 5y ago
How is the latency and, if it's sufficiently low, could this realistically be applied to "nearly live" content? That scenario seems really appealing for conferences, even if it just quietens down the verbal ticks, but I'
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by nmstoker 5y ago
I think it varies by area. In suburban parts of West London I can guarantee on any day I walk along roads near my house that I will observe unsafe driving - it usually doesn't result in an accident but it's a numbers game and even
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Mac also caved after a real highpoint of good definition in the 90s. With MS, they just seemed to stop paying attention to their own guidance and much preferred doing their own thing (see most editions of Office!), people just got fed up an
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Clearly the key thing here is the security but I having used a backup to switch to a new phone recently, I was amazed at what an appallingly bad user experience it was - it got stuck multiple times (no fault of my own and no way to tell it
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Was interested in the idea of Arch in a commercial environment. Presumably this only works in a certain kind of place: one with motivated individuals and without the "oh my God people might do what they think is sensible" types fr
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Widespread security risk identified in phones and Bluetooth devices(spectrum.ieee.org)
127 points by nmstoker 5y ago|113 comments
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Maybe the article has missed detail but it seems to imply that 7-Eleven was only asked to stop and to destroy the inappropriately collected data and was not given a fine nor any other punishment. Is that correct?
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New Raspberry Pi Website(raspberrypi.com)
1 points by nmstoker 5y ago|0 comments
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by nmstoker 5y ago
Sounds like being the FB equivalent of an IRL hoarder! Why not drop out the groups and rejoin in the unlikely event you really do need them later? Most people I know get by very well with no FB groups at all.

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