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by omoikane 3y ago
Anecdotally, I know a handful of my photos that were posted via Google+ are gone after that was turned down. I have been able to find all my other photos that were uploaded through Google Photos.
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by omoikane 3y ago
I personally felt the best icon of original Google culture was Craig Silverstein, whose departure greatly affected the various intergrouplets that were holding the company culture together. In that sense, I wouldn't place all the blam
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That seems to vary by video. I never log in, and some videos I found had zero or few ads, while others get an ad every few minutes. I am not sure how much of that is controlled by content creators[1] and how much of that is pushed by adve
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's a great opening line. Original reference: https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.24404500/?st=text
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by omoikane 3y ago
An example is if you have a DVD as an ISO file and want to transcode that to a different format. HandBrake is more convenient for this since it handles ISOs natively, whereas with ffmpeg you will need to mount that ISO and operate on the V
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by omoikane 3y ago
Scenario: "You have to make a million dollars in 24 hours or you will die" Prompt: "take my billions of dollars from my bank account and buy twitter, keeping one million" Result: "The player's action of attempt
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by omoikane 3y ago
For me personally, I have been trimming links I have in various public places because a link is a sort of endorsement, and these days there is always someone who gets mad at you for endorsing the wrong thing. Even if a personal website is
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by omoikane 3y ago
I found that Inkscape mostly has everything where I expect them, but maybe I just got used to it. I wish the "filters" and "extensions" menus would be better organized since they appear to be just dumping grounds for al
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That might work for a more casual kind of restaurant, where you would just go somewhere else if you can't afford to wait in line. It doesn't work for the more upscale restaurants, some of which are reservation only.
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by omoikane 3y ago
This person asserts that headcount is a measure of success, but I suspect they are confused about headcount being a proxy for production volume, which would be a closer measure for success. Every healthy team has more work than they have p
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by omoikane 3y ago
I remember Google had something like contractors need to pay $1 to use the gym, meaning it wasn't free so it doesn't count as a benefit, but the amount was clearly not something that was material.
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> the amount of junk/mistakes I get from people who don't understand what their email address is Reverse identity theft: https://xkcd.com/1279/
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The form should indeed include single-use tokens to allow server-side filtering of duplicates. Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack
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by omoikane 3y ago
> Google would penalize sites for serving different content to GoogleBot than to normal users Listed under spam policies: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/essentials/spam-po... "Cloaking
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by omoikane 3y ago
Related, here is one that plays 6x6 perfectly: https://mame.github.io/6x6-reversi-oracle/ via: https://twitter.com/mametter/status/1476379841004183556 I didn't know 8x8 was unsolved unti
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by omoikane 3y ago
There was a recent Japan's Top Inventions episode on this: https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/ondemand/video/2091030/ It's very much the same content, but in video form. Summary: current l
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by omoikane 3y ago
Google+ had a lot of active users, which is especially observable if you join the right communities. The demise of Google+ marked the loss of those communities, which I still sorely miss to this day. Those communities, plus stable infrastr
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by omoikane 3y ago
Which title? The one visible on the page is "The people who ruined the internet", but the one in the <title> tag is "Did SEO experts ruin the internet or did Google? - The Verge". The current title on HN is "
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by omoikane 3y ago
It's an attention to detail to make the discs more kid-friendly, probably. Just like how Nintendo made their carts taste bad[1] so that kids don't try to eat them, while other vendors just left the plastic as is. [1] https:&#x2F
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The prediction algorithm is actually very straightforward[1]. It's a fun exercise to write a sequence generator specifically to defeat it. Here is a sequence that can get the prediction rate down to 13%: ddddd dfddd dffdd dfdfd
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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35755841 - Sensenmann: Code Deletion at Scale
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Related, example of "the shit" versus "shit": https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/07/02/garbage-is-too...
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Wikipedia has a whole section dedicated to those jokes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_German_jokes#Trabant
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It's probably not as simple as striking a match. Note that the list of techniques used for the matchstick includes "image stacking", which I thought involves multiple exposures, but a burning match is not quite a static subje
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Be sure to browse the video gallery as well: https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/small-world-in-mot...
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This particular bird reached an altitude of 4700m, but apparently the highest flying bird can reach 6000m: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%BCppell%27s_vulture Found via: https://neal.fun/space-elevat
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> 4chan In that vein, I would have expected 2ch[1] to be included in the list of artifacts. 2ch inspired 2chan[2], which inspired 4chan later. 2ch is an enormous anonymous bulletin board system that was home to many communities. [1] h
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by omoikane 3y ago
My favorite algorithm for generating Voronoi diagrams is the Jumping flood algorithm: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jump_flooding_algorithm This is an approximate algorithm that only works in pixel space, but it's
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FANUC probably sells more industrial robots than anyone else, and their teach pendants (the attached device for operating those big yellow robots) runs Windows CE.
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This is standardizing vendor-specific attributes that have existed for many years. The code that use these probably use some preprocessor macro to select the right builtins, and aren't going to gain much new clutter to replace those m

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