overheadnoise

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by overheadnoise 6y ago
WhatsApp works so well because it is tied into the same contacts that you already have on your phone. Without access to your phone’s contacts you would need to set up and manage an entirely separate set of contacts. Right now, Grandma could
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
Then you need to realize that you are a special case and not representative of the general public. Most people who meet each other in real life and want to exchange contact information exchange… you guessed it… a phone number. Maybe you e
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
That’s wild. I had no idea that the original feature of WhatsApp is a feature that I have literally never even looked at and forgot even exists lol
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
What about just “apping” is that a word? On a business trip earlier this year my colleague told me (in English) “I’ll meet you down at the bar after apping with my daughter.” Now that I think about it I’m not sure if “apping” implies textin
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
It’s really simple, really. When WhatsApp first came around sending SMS in many places like in Europe was not free. It wasn’t free to send SMS to other people from the same country, and Europeans, especially European Students going to unive
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
I got my first smart phone around 2011. In 2011 I was a student in university and I had friends in my circle from Erasmus so they kept their phone number from their own country. In 2011 it wasn’t even free for me to send a sms to people fro
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
In my experience as a researcher in computational numerics, the “standard library” is going to be defined by the in-house code that I use. That code is going to use other scientific libraries like for example PETSc, Atlas/blas/mkl
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
I’m not sure if that holds. Every university I’ve ever done research in has no issues paying for software like MATLAB, ANSYS, Mathematica, Intel MKL, Intel Compiler Suite, and the like. The people I know that still use Fortran (including my
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
I moved to Germany in 2010 and experienced a winter for the very first time. I remember having to wear “pants under my pants” (thermal layer), I bought a thick wool coat, I wore scarves for the first time in my life. (I grew up in Southern
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
I think the attackers had Mitch’s bank card and PIN and was making those fraudulent charges to see if Mitch would notice. If he did, the attackers would have been shut out then and there. Mitch didn’t notice, so the attackers called Mitch p
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
Mitch was satisfied thinking that the bank was already looking into it, since the attacker pretending to be the bank didn’t ask for any details /raise any flags.
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
I think the attacker called the bank and Mitch at the same time. The attacker knew that the bank would send Mitch a SMS code so the attacker asked the bank to send it, Mitch told the attacker, the attacker told the bank. The bank was on the
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
I don’t know if I’m just really tired or if the post was just badly written, but I’ll go with the latter since you were confused too. My understanding is this happened: 1. Attacker got a hold of Mitch’s bank card, PIN, and some personal det
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by overheadnoise 6y ago
So in German the number “21” is spelled “einundzwanzig” which means “one and twenty” compared to “twenty (and) one” in English. If you were to say “einundzwanzig” to me I’d most likely write down the 1 immediately and then put the 2 in fron