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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
TL;DR: We think of the 'electric eel' a single species, but it could be considered three distinct species.
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
> So is this just a VPN that's baked into the browser? No, it's a secure connection to an HTTP/HTTPS proxy being run by Cloudflare. It isn't a general-purpose VPN. I would love it if Mozilla offered an email service.
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
That's an unrelated offering: https://premium.firefox.com/vpn/ The article describes Firefox Private Network[1], which gives you a secure connection to an HTTP/HTTPS proxy server being run by Cloudflare. It&#
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
This article is terrible. The change mentioned in the headline isn't explained until the fifth paragraph and beyond. > Apple’s change involves an API called PushKit, which was originally designed to be used in apps that let people m
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
> The 1619 Project is a major initiative from The New York Times observing the 400th anniversary of the beginning of American slavery. It aims to reframe the country’s history, understanding 1619 as our true founding, and placing the con
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
Abstract: > Security analysts need to classify, search and correlate numerous images. Automatic classification tools improve the efficiency of such tasks. However, no open-source and turnkey library was found able to reach this goal. Git
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
How was your onboarding experience? I'd love to join the mesh, but I'm pretty far from the supernodes. If you live in an apartment, did you have any issues running the wires into the building?
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PartiQL: One query language for all your data(aws.amazon.com)
241 points by portmanteaufu 7y ago|84 comments
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
'Sharklet' is a material used in the hulls of ships that inhibits bacterial growth. It was inspired by shark's skin. From their homepage: > Sharklet is the world’s first technology to inhibit bacterial growth through patte
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by portmanteaufu 7y ago
> PLT Redex is a domain-specific language designed for specifying and debugging operational semantics. [1] [1] https://redex.racket-lang.org/index.html
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
It doesn't need to announce it verbally, just including capability updates in the (currently useless) emails that they already send their customers would do.
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
> The problem is that Alexa is just a consumer voice command line. UI discoverability is impossible, and everything that you can do is just a utility that does something else. In a way, I think it's even worse than that. I've u
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
You can track the progress of the remaining issues here: https://areweasyncyet.rs/
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
From the README: brain.js is a library of Neural Networks written in JavaScript.
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
I always instinctively click on the `[dupe]` tag assuming that it will take me to the original, preferred post. Someday, perhaps.
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
I was really bummed to see that the partnership only allowed you to subscribe to ProtonVPN at the full $10 per month price. It's $8 per month if you subscribe for a year and $4 per month if you get the Black Friday / Cyber Monday
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
> The country where 96% of homes are privately owned Romania. The country is Romania.
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
"Rust 2015" and "Rust 2018" are referring to editions[1] of the language. > Rust ships releases on a six-week cycle. This means that users get a constant stream of new features. This is much faster than updates for ot
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
Can you share the code? Are you using the `--release` flag to build/run it?
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
The title suggested this would be about the dish's ability to cure a hangover, but it was mostly a human interest piece about its history and a chef who's known for making it. The only paragraph to address its role as a hangover c
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
From the article: > In recent years maintenance has become a burden. Most of the site is running 2005 era Perl code. Luckily, there is now a viable alternative: MetaCPAN.org. The MetaCPAN team has been getting ready for the transition
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
Watching TV on an airplane is the #1 reason I would buy a VR headset. The in-seat screen UIs are atrocious and they tend to only have ~4 or so episodes of any given show. Unfortunately, the Oculus Go's battery life is only about 2 hour
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
It is. The Ars Technica review[1] is pretty thorough. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2018/05/oculus-go-review-the-...
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by portmanteaufu 8y ago
While I love the new functional features (Calendar view, snooze an email, add an email to your task list, etc.), the new UI has a lot of problems. First and foremost, the "Feedback" modal dialog is completely broken in Firefox. Th
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by portmanteaufu 9y ago
> Consider, for instance, that you pay different sales taxes in different parts of Disney World. Whoa, what? This sounds interesting--do you have a link you could share?
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by portmanteaufu 9y ago
From the project homepage[1]: "Zstandard, or zstd as short version, is a fast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios. It's backed by a very fast entrop
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by portmanteaufu 9y ago
The 2nd generation full-sized Echo has Bluetooth/line out support[1]. [1] https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Generation-improved-powered-d...
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by portmanteaufu 9y ago
Ah, perhaps you were referring to this[1]? [1] https://www.engadget.com/2017/12/14/amazon-start-selling-app...
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by portmanteaufu 9y ago
> The chromecasts are back on the site! The cold war with Google is thawing I got excited and searched Amazon for "Chromecast," but came up empty-handed. Could you share a link to the product page?
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by portmanteaufu 9y ago
EHR = Electronic Health Records

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