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by pawelk 7y ago
For now. Let's throw some money their way to make search by phone number happen? I have donated just last week and I will do that again next month.
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by pawelk 7y ago
> A friend was telling me that when she thinks of a number, a particular visualization of it automatically comes into her mind. From how she described it, I recall thinking it sounded like an accidental approximation of something like a
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by pawelk 7y ago
> I'd argue >95% of mail comes from businesses, and most of that are ads in some form or another. It's ridiculous to me that I can send a piece of mail to the other side of the USA in 2 days for less than $0.50 Don't yo
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by pawelk 7y ago
Remote work environment involving screen sharing during calls/meetings. As a Firefox user I don't need an extension for this, but I set the new tab page to blank. I have a separate work profile on my machine, but still, the defau
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by pawelk 7y ago
> If you meet a boy named Jayden (the present day Dutch Kevin I guess?), you can be pretty sure his parents didn't go to college. In Poland it's Brian for a boy and Jessica for a girl. Often spelled phonetically (Brajan, Dżesik
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by pawelk 7y ago
This is a fantastic idea. I imagine similar form to "Some Kind of Monster", the documentary about Metallica. It's mostly the band meeting, discussing ideas, playing some music, struggling with internal tensions and personal i
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by pawelk 7y ago
The fact that it has changed hands or not is irrelevant, there are valid use cases for ownership change, and there are many ways to "monetize" via malicious partner without selling the extension itself. What should be monitored
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by pawelk 7y ago
I met many developers who thought that CORS can guard access to API endpoints, completely missing the fact that one can just use a client that doesn't follow CORS. E.g. "lets restrict access-control to our API endpoints so it only
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by pawelk 7y ago
Name it AirB2B and go get your initial founding round!
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by pawelk 7y ago
This is the reason they exist in the first place, but doesn't answer the question why they're implemented this particular way.
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by pawelk 7y ago
I have recently became interested with the inner workings of watches and found this 1949 video to be a perfect explanation of the underlying concept of a watch movement mechanism: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYBvt9kA3bE
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by pawelk 7y ago
> Why would people who care about privacy interview with Facebook in the first place? I believe this may come from the responses to cold e-mails. A recruiter working for FB presents an offer. They want to tell them to GTFO and they high
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by pawelk 7y ago
I really like this idea. I used to work in advertising/marketing and we were launching a lot of purpose built, short-lived landing pages, e.g. to collect entries in a contest, then announce the winners. These websites were live for a p
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by pawelk 7y ago
> I found myself doing it when I get quotes for home repair or construction. My quite recent conversation with a contractor about estimating our home renovation project went more or less like this: "Demolition: 2 days, foundation: 3
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by pawelk 8y ago
It could be done using `input:checked + sibling` selector e.g. like this: https://jsfiddle.net/6bgemn0s/ For something fancier it would be possible to style a label with appropriate for="" attribute and hide
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by pawelk 8y ago
> If you are seeing toxic content in your feed, it's because your friends put it there. Not really. Facebook put it there for me. Time and again it shows me items like "[Friend] replied to a comment on [toxic thing]", whe
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by pawelk 8y ago
A system like this was launched this year in Poland, this year limited to employees and contract workers, but it's planned to expand to self-employed / business owners as well. If one doesn't log in / doesn't do any
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by pawelk 8y ago
Yes, Poland has one of the highest percentages of ad blocking users in the world. Historically it was also a bastion of Firefox - in pre-Chrome days it has had >50% market penetration, and Opera was also widely popular compared to other
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by pawelk 8y ago
I used to work in advertising. On the rare occasion we were deploying display ads the most common complaint was: it doesn't show up. The reason was that literally everyone, from developers, designers, to project managers, account manag
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by pawelk 8y ago
> pitfalls of having insufficient training data Also when you use a dataset containing watermarked stock photos and the watermark is treated as a signal instead of noise :) https://i.imgur.com/O1ZRwSF.jpg
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by pawelk 8y ago
There's no voltage. Maybe your meter could register drop in resistance (from ~∞ to ~0). Think of it as simple push button. Or, to put it differently, you need to supply your own voltage and it will flow for a moment when the camera tri
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by pawelk 8y ago
Yes, it should be a short blip. It's just closing the circuit for a brief moment to allow the discharge of power from a capacitor into the bulb. Hard to detect by a meter, but should be easy to pick up by an Arduino or something like t
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by pawelk 8y ago
> you can use the camera's hot shoe Or even better the PC Sync port - it's quite a simple plug, easy to get one and connect to the camera, the hot shoe is a bit fiddly to connect to (unless you have a spare shoe and are willin
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by pawelk 8y ago
> e.g. if I click-through to a flat earth conspiracy video for a few curious laughs, it naively thinks I must have an appetite for more. Every time I'm about to click on a youtube link / watch an embedded video I ask myself if
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by pawelk 8y ago
I wouldn't call this abuse - it's a marketing tactic, and it's rarely hard coded, more likely selected by default - at least that was my experience. Just to add some numbers for perspective. In 2018 there was 763M PLN (~$200M
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by pawelk 8y ago
Where I live (Poland) it's possible to opt for cheaper electricity at night (10PM - 6AM), and over the weekends (Friday 10PM - Monday 6AM), in exchange for premium pricing during peak hours. Example prices (probably a bit outdated, but
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by pawelk 8y ago
Niche collectible markets can be really fragile. Just a few people interested in a particular topic can skew the price expectations, and then someone trying to liquidate a large collection while prices are high can single-handedly burst a b
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by pawelk 8y ago
From the TOS of the company website: > These terms are interpreted and are subject to the jurisdiction and the laws of Poland Which is really intriguing, since organizing any form of lottery or chance-based game is so complicated, that v
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by pawelk 8y ago
> Had this happened in 1919, I think it would have been forgotten already, as it would seem pale compared to WW1. In 1912, people were quite innocent, so this was seen as a big event. Also because of this I think it became sort of a shar
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by pawelk 8y ago
Given enough advancements in computer science we could simulate millions years of apes evolution within a span of days or hours and observe the results. Which is the basis of the argument for simulation hypothesis [1] [1] https:/&#x2F

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