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by srg0 5y ago
You can also pay $2.40 for a domain name for a year and have your own disposable email service.
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I love the title photo. It really resonates with me. As for the topic of the article, what encorages me personally are two ideas. First, I believe that "me" is not actually something permanent. It cannot be used as a reference. It
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I pity the guy who just paid a ransom 5 minutes before the raid. No bitcoins, and no data, and customer service is not available.
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I would be happy if no one could speed under my windows. Difference between 50 kmh and 30 kmh is equivalent to 50% noise reduction (~ -5 dB). And tyre noise becomes dominant just a little over 30 kmh (20 mph). https://workinggrou
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I like this typo in the article: "*Monkeytpe* won’t let Keen run up the leaderboard". The author is a fsat tpyist.
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A bottle of whiskey from a duty free shop can be just as deadly as a knife. And any battery can be used to start a fire.
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Suggestion: add a switch to convert American units (cups, lb, inches) to international units (ml, g, cm) and vice versa.
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The original Google algorithm was a clever hack but it relied on web being a hypertext, and links being used contextually. The algorithm made linking valueable. So instead of writing hypertext people tried to create isolated sites and boost
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> I live in europe and basically all mc/visa are actually debit cards. That's not true. I'd expect that most of the credit cards are MC/Visa, and there are more debit cards in EU than credit cards, and among debit car
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I used Avis in Italy many times, and don't remember that it ever were possible to get the car without a credit card. Actually, it's in their FAQ: https://faq.avisautonoleggio.it/Res-Channeling/Reservation-E...
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It's a nice filter, but not a glitch. True glitch should unpredictably damage data or device. The point is to seek aesthetics in malfunction. The generator mentioned in other comments https://snorpey.github.io/jpg-glitc
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According to electricityMap, France is importing 3.58GW from Germany right now. And from all other neighbors, except Great Britain. https://app.electricitymap.org/map
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I think it was a conscious design decision to reduce false alarm rate. Assuming that this low cost device can be/become very inaccurate, then the designers had two choices: 1) Report all alarms as detected. Eventually, the device becom
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Yes, indeed, if you click any photo, there is a description which mentions the lens.
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LWN is a nice site, but to save you a couple of clicks, this is the original post by Trinity College Dublin: https://www.tcd.ie/news_events/articles/study-reveals-scale-... And this is the paper it talks about (PD
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There are hundreds of vpn services, but as the topic article tells us more and more of them are owned by the same entity. And this same entity tries to obscure this fact. And this same entity under a different name was allegedly "invol
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You may find links to EU Commission studies on this page, downloadable as PDFs, distributed under CC-BY license. https://ec.europa.eu/growth/sectors/electrical-engineering/r... 1. Impact assessment study: com
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The valuable part of the charger and the cable is not actually plastic. The point is that replaced chargers account for ~ 1_000_000 kg of e-waste per year. Cable is 30% copper, 24% stainless steel, 16% other non-plastic materials. EPS is 13
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I do not know what technique this app used, but in practice apps are more resilient. It has been shown by Telegram which more or less successfully evaded blocking in Russia. I think it's a combination of lower-level network API, traffi
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Ordinary web sites are quickly blocked and are not accessible without a VPN. Some popular VPN providers are blocked too. The app, once installed, appears to be more resistant to state-level disruption. At least until law enforcement pays a
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Given an address, the app provides the name of the suggested candidate in the corresponding voting district. The idea is to consolidate votes around only one candidate who does not belong to Putin's party. In Russia, many potentially p
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I'll try to argue that most of these don't benefit much from a wearable HUD. Maps and navigation seem to be good enough when they are handheld or mounted on a vehicle. When you are on foot you're moving slowly so no need to h
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Tell the names of people... that's actually a very good use case for AR!
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The pitch of how useful AR can be in a professional setting is always about superficial things that are usually non-problems. Car mechanics can recognize components. It's the easiest part of their trade. And doctors know how organs loo
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Looking at the examples page. A possible application which is not about completely faking identity, Deep Live Makeup / Deep Live Haircut / Deep Live Dress might be something people will pay money for.
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"htmlq: like jq, but for HTML" "jq is like sed for JSON data" sed: "While in some ways similar to an editor which permits scripted edits (_such as ed_), sed works by making only one pass over the input(s)" ed:
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Payout proportional to the track count favors short tracks. The payout proportional to the air time favors longer tracks. As long as payouts are calculated on an account per account basis, any approach is fair. A TOOL fan will probably list
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I don't think it works like this: a fixed rate times the number of streams. It is probably the other way round. They get _some_ revenue per user per month, which can be ads or a premium fee (which again can be different, because there
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Percentiles are order statistics, they are robust and not sensitive to outliers. This is why sometimes they are very useful. And this is why they do not capture how big the remaining 0.01% of the data are. Let's take a median, which is
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As a cyclist, I believe that bike lanes do induce demand, but there are some important differences. A single road can attract travels which begin or end far away from the road. So its effect is felt on a larger territory and further away. A

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