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by putlake 3y ago
The US already has a repairable, sustainable smartphone. It's called Teracube. https://myteracube.com/ 4-yr warranty, stock Android.
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by putlake 3y ago
Another problem with text rendering that's not mentioned in TFA is hyphenation. I have a table on a webpage that can have some long text in some cells. I have 2 simple requirements: # If a word will fit by moving it to the next line,
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by putlake 3y ago
This is false. In Canada, 50% of your capital gains are considered tax-free and 50% of the gain is taxable. The tax rate on that 50% is whatever your marginal tax rate is. So if you have capital gains of $100,000 in one year, you don't
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by putlake 3y ago
Thanks for sharing the link. It is a testament to Google's failure marketing its cloud offerings that, despite wanting to try out this API, I had been unable to find it until you helpfully shared the link. I went down the cloud console
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US food pesticides contaminated with toxic ‘forever chemicals’ testing finds(theguardian.com)
12 points by putlake 3y ago|2 comments
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by putlake 4y ago
You're absolutely right. It actually doesn't understand letters very well. See what happened when I asked it to give me seven-letter words that start with E and do not have the letter A: https://twitter.com/thisisl
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by putlake 4y ago
I built an Hreflang testing tool. https://app.hreflang.org Hreflang is an arcane SEO concept. If you have sites in different languages then you can tell Google/Bing that site.com/page.html and site.fr/page.html ar
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by putlake 4y ago
Do you supply a feed of your products to Google Shopping? It's free now.
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PhotoGuard: Defending Against Diffusion-Based Image Manipulation(github.com)
3 points by putlake 4y ago|2 comments
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by putlake 4y ago
Here's the inside story of how the ban was years in the making and all the effort it took. From someone in the government at the time the process started: https://twitter.com/JoshuaSteinman/status/159637064508
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by putlake 4y ago
From what I've heard, AWS prices for large customers like Netflix are a lot lower than for Alexa or Amazon Retail. Netflix has the option to switch to GCP or Azure; Alexa doesn't so they don't get those discounts.
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by putlake 4y ago
Because there are different types of bacteria that are vying for domination. The "good" bacteria are fine with antibiotics because they usually only get used when there are too many "harmful" bacteria that threaten the l
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Why does this lady have a fly on her head?(youtube.com)
1 points by putlake 4y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 4y ago
I'm South Asian, have lived in the US for over 15 years, and don't know wtf you're talking about. Neighborhood doesn't ever mean caste. The reason you never hear people talking about caste is because they don't.
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VP allegedly duped Qualcomm into paying $150M to acquire tech it already owned(sandiegouniontribune.com)
9 points by putlake 4y ago|0 comments
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Does TaskRabbit get hacked every 2 years?
5 points by putlake 4y ago|5 comments
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by putlake 4y ago
I use both Cloudflare and Fastly. Haven't done a deep comparison of their pricing, but Fastly at my teeny scale (<$100 per month) is affordable for the benefit they provide. Is CDN bandwidth your only need or do you also need featur
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by putlake 5y ago
This illustrates the reverse lookup problem with these services. You can take pains to use a Google account with zero contacts. That safeguards the information of your contacts. But Trucaller already has your information because they get it
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by putlake 5y ago
exdsq is right in the sibling comment. Alameda also made a lot of money (probably still does) with arbitrage. BTC in Korea costs more than BTC in the US. It's not easy to convert KRW to USD freely but they seemed to have found a way ar
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Zero-knowledge proofs explained in 5 levels of difficulty(youtube.com)
2 points by putlake 5y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 5y ago
One month ago today, this poll was very bearish on Facebook and Netflix. These two companies saw their stock crash after earnings in the last 2 weeks. Apple and Amazon reported strong earnings, and Google blew it out of the water. I'd
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by putlake 5y ago
>> SEO: if your content exists at two (or more!) distinct URL endpoints, it is a SEO no-no. […] You need redirects. > Or you could just only serve it from one of the two URLs and let the other 404. That's not a good idea. The
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by putlake 5y ago
The plugin author seems like a standup guy who responded cordially and even returned money, which is something no scammer would ever do. Your platform, your rules. But I feel you're being unfair to him with this knee-jerk reaction.
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by putlake 5y ago
NPR's Marketplace had a fascinating story about something similar in the apparel business. They design pockets in various types of clothing to reduce tariffs. https://www.marketplace.org/2019/05/29/theres
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by putlake 5y ago
Cozy did the exact same thing, at least before their merger with Apartments.com. Tenant pays last month's rent via someone else's (ex-spouse's) credit card, then moves out, collects their security deposit, then disputes the c
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by putlake 5y ago
I've not understood why one wouldn't use Chrome or Edge's built-in password manager. Is there a compelling reason to use a separate password manager app?
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by putlake 5y ago
I ran this on my Mac and it found 2 instances of log4j jar files, both related to Xcode: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/SharedFrameworks/ContentDeliveryServices.framework/Versions/A/itms/share&
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Is Xcode vulnerable due to Log4j?(security.stackexchange.com)
3 points by putlake 5y ago|0 comments
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Using Cloudflare Workers to prime Fastly's cache(blog.diffen.com)
4 points by putlake 5y ago|0 comments
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by putlake 5y ago
PSA: Please don't download random binaries. Ungoogled Chrome already exists. It's called Microsoft Edge. And it has a cousin called Brave.

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