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by stinky613 9y ago
> Which gets at the real question.. what is the scanner actually checking? That's the question that's been nagging me since the day I read about this particular mistake. I wonder if there are any active public subreddits of ai
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by stinky613 9y ago
...and as the gates change the changes are reflected on screens displayed throughout the airport; it's not like the correct gate information is only stored in the minds of the employees working that day
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by stinky613 9y ago
Speaking of tech failings among airlines... Can anyone tell me what the hell the ticket scanning machines at the gate are doing? In the past week United sent a French woman 2,000 miles in the wrong direction; even though her flight had chan
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by stinky613 9y ago
The sibling comments here give good details, but here's a 50,000ft view: https://xkcd.com/463/ The comic compares running McAfee Antivirus on a voting machine to a teacher wearing a condom to work every day; &quot
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by stinky613 9y ago
Here are screenshots from my various tests: http://imgur.com/a/eRxd4
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Google Ads is currently serving malware
3 points by stinky613 9y ago|1 comments
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by stinky613 10y ago
I think the 800k figure may be a global number. This 2012 Forbes article has a global average 100,000 deaths _per trillion kWhr_[1]. I have no clue if the the world uses 8 trillion kWhr of coal power in a year though. [1] https:/&#x2F
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by stinky613 10y ago
In case anyone is having trouble keeping track of the state of Google's communication apps, I made a handy visual guide: http://imgur.com/a/BgAuc
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by stinky613 10y ago
But, on the flip side, faster-learning kids need to learn how to live/work/deal with slower-learning kids and vice versa. The purpose of schooling goes beyond the accumulation of facts.
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by stinky613 10y ago
I think you're missing the point that it's fundamentally un-Apple-like to have two new products that out-of-the-box can't connect with each other.
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by stinky613 10y ago
It only opens as a command prompt if you open a command prompt; you can launch powershell.exe directly. Also, as of Win10: - CTRL+A, CTRL+C and CTRL+V shortcuts work (as does CTRL+C as a BREAK command--it understands by the context of wheth
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by stinky613 11y ago
My Prime deliveries used to arrive in 1-2 days. Ever since they started diversifying their shipping partners, I have been getting my Prime packages in 2-3ish days. I think the real standout was the time where they jammed the package into my
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by stinky613 11y ago
That sounds awful. LaserShip was very prompt for me. They promptly lost my package. "Thank you for your tracking inquiry. Unfortunately, Lasership is unable to confirm control of your package at this time. So that you may be promptly a
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by stinky613 11y ago
Yeah, if anyone from nanobox is reading, I found a broken link on the Node.js Engine page: On page https://engines.nanobox.io/languages/nodejs the link for Create Custom Engine leads to a 404 on https://nano
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by stinky613 11y ago
It seems like some B2B software vendors use it to keep people from seeing/manipulating their frontend code in web-based applications.
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by stinky613 11y ago
This is pretty cool. Does anyone think this would work well for some network topology mapping?
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by stinky613 12y ago
I had no idea that LibreOffice can't be forced to recognize that a .txt file is CSV; that sounds annoying. Watch out, though, for handling CSV files in Excel if you're using an encoding other than ANSI. Excel for Windows does not
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by stinky613 12y ago
> clearly even the smallest changes upset people {glances at this HN thread} Yes, clearly :) I get that these changes are pain points for lots of people, and no one wants to be frustrated using the devices with which they have everyday,
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by stinky613 12y ago
> If you're just starting out and don't have a feel for the mobile paradigm, those gestures may as well be magic. Maybe you're simply not supposed to refresh anything by hand any more. Maybe it's supposed to be magic.
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by stinky613 12y ago
> If the change isn't needed then change can't be better I'm curious... when you say 'change' is there a contextual limit to what counts as a change? That is to say, am I taking you too literally if I consider an
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by stinky613 12y ago
Please, please allow passwords longer than 10 characters
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by stinky613 12y ago
Doing this with JSON is a neat idea. I recently learned that Excel workbooks do this using a sharedStrings.xml file in the .xlsx package.
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by stinky613 12y ago
Excel doesn't support dates before 1900-01-01, and it incorrectly treats the year 1900 as a leap year[1]. This bug-as-a-feature started in the first Excel for the sake of compatibility with Lotus files. [1] http://support.mi
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by stinky613 12y ago
Light beers are usually higher than 4%. Bud Light is 4.2% [1] http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/1320/ EDIT: Ah, here's the confusion. I'm pretty sure the 3.2% is ABW instead of the us
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by stinky613 12y ago
That is pretty bizarre--though I don't know if I'm ready to concede that it's more bizarre than Pennsylvania. Until recently you couldn't buy liquor or wine (but beer was okay, for some reason) on Sundays in Pennslvani
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by stinky613 12y ago
Ridiculous? Pshaw! Obviously we'll just have a pot shack inside of the booze shack inside of the Whole Foods. All kidding aside I find the PA alcohol laws just ridiculous. If I'm planning a party and want a few bottles of wine, a
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by stinky613 13y ago
I think if Microsoft made more of an effort to encourage users to filter the start screen by typing then this would all be less of a sticking point for people. If I have a word processor open and I want to use the calculator I press the win
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by stinky613 13y ago
Have you tried Slacker? You can adjust artist/album/song stations[1], there are staff-curated stations, and you can filter stations by mood. Three user tiers ranging from free to $10 monthly. They won my affection when they made a
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by stinky613 13y ago
Oh I'm not advocating that this actually being used as a captcha. Though, as a thought experiment, I think it would be more effective if you had, say, eight gifs. Instead of an either-or choice you could ask the user to choose all that
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by stinky613 13y ago
This could make for a twist on CAPTCHA. If you took pairs of gifs with huge vote disparities you would effectively have a right answer and a wrong answer.

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