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11y ago
I was curious about the fire-resistance and found these videos: Cross laminated timber barbecue (loud music!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbvxQDTfhzk CLT fire performance testing: https://www.youtube.com
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"Spotify's fraud detection system is a very good thing for artists." It isn't if anybody can remove an artist's songs just by click fraud/too much listening. If they can detect the fraudulent plays then they
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11y ago
But only in Chrome. So the best would be show the demo button only in Chrome and the video in other browsers.
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11y ago
Eh... https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/m-TgJo...
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11y ago
http://www.marketingmagazine.co.uk/article/1335134/youtube-k...
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11y ago
Another minor ones: 1. If I click on the background with the mouse so the input lose the focus, I cannot use the tab key to bring back the focus on any of the input elements (in Firefox) 2. Cannot use Ctrl + mouse wheel to Zoom the page, b
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11y ago
No DRM yet, but Google doesn't allow YouTube downloader extensions in their Chrome Web Store (but allows downloaders for other video sites, how strange :-/).
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11y ago
"Forbes asked readers to turn off adblockers then immediately served them malware" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10870892
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11y ago
First: WebAssemly will have a readable text format for view-source functionality: https://github.com/WebAssembly/design/blob/master/TextFormat... Second: "...so much easier to spy on people and hid
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11y ago
In Firefox: "Page load failed! The application could not be fully loaded. Please try again later." But it loads in Chrome.
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11y ago
Just make sure that nothing interesting is happening outside otherwise you will loose focus watching that :). And if I remember correctly then focusing close for a long time doesn't affect your vision but can cause headache.
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11y ago
In Firefox the gradient is not as smooth as in Chrome, looks like they are using different scaling algorithms. It's more noticeable with higher sample area settings: http://i.imgur.com/notR7Jc.png
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11y ago
This doesn't sound right: You are suggesting to use your more expensive service when even your basic service wasn't working well for him. Why aren't you saying him to try the basic Magic service again, is it because it's
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11y ago
It's called "ribbon" UI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ribbon_%28computing%29 And from the bottom of the wiki page: "The Microsoft Ribbon Licensing Page has been retired, therefore it is no longer
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11y ago
From the article: "A deep-learning system can be trained to recognize particular species of birds, but it would need millions of sample images and wouldn’t know anything about why a bird isn’t able to fly." Deep-learning ≠ only
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11y ago
They also started to insert their ad in e-mails sent from gmail ( something like "scanned by Avast" and their logo) and even when the e-mail shield wasn't installed. It wasn't easy to disable because the disable option
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11y ago
I think it's supposed to be cheaper to own one powerful device + screen and keyboard, than having to buy two separate powerful device.
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The UI can be changed on Android and there are a lot of launchers which has a windows phone style: https://play.google.com/store/search?q=windows+launcher&c=ap...
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11y ago
Yep: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22firefox+os%22+billboard+a...
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Why don't they do the background check before the interviews so they don't waste eachother's time and money just to later have a background check fail. Does a background check costs more than an interview and paying for the f
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11y ago
The next test could be: Does google crawl hidden text (display:none, very small, very transparent colored text)? My guess is they do crawl it because it can have legitimate uses, but if there is to much of them on a page then they give it a
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11y ago
It's already possible to do it with any drone that can take good quality photos: http://www.makerbot.com/blog/tag/uav The resolution depends on the quality of the pictures and the number of them.
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11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teletransportation_paradox
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11y ago
With a quick google search I found this stackexchange answer to preload data into cache with the pg_prewarm extension (from Postgres 9.4) http://dba.stackexchange.com/a/116536 But this doesn't guarantees that the
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11y ago
You should try to gradually decrease the amount you drink and not just suddenly stop drinking.
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11y ago
There are lot of washable and even medically approved keyboards if you worry about that and willing to pay more: http://www.keyboardspecialists.co.uk/shop-shopbytypeanti-bac... For medical use there is even one with UV ster
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11y ago
Depends on what are the alternatives: if there is an open alternative with the same features for free then sure use it, but if there is no alternative with the features you need then you have to invest your time/money to build that fea
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11y ago
you are not supposed to use minimize so often. So you are saying he is "holding it wrong"...
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11y ago
http://sourceforge.net/projects/lightfirefox/
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11y ago
Arsenic? So they not only using mercury in fillings but arsenic too for killing the nerve, nice :(.
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