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by teraflop 5y ago
Just based on a bit of googling, the parent commenter might have been meant to refer to this: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2785.The_Old_Way_of_Seei...
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by teraflop 5y ago
I ran into the same thing. It turns out that if you turn on the "auto-expand media previews" option in your user preferences, the content shows up as expected. I reported this as a bug about a year ago and never got a response.
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by teraflop 5y ago
There was a similar issue a while back, where an open-source system used by a number of CAs was by default configured to generate serial numbers with only 63 bits of entropy, when the CA/B forum rules require 64 bits: https:/&#x2
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by teraflop 5y ago
Content scripts can be loaded into a page either statically, when the page URL matches a regex listed in the manifest, or dynamically, by calling chrome.tabs.executeScript (in V2) or chrome.scripting.executeScript (in V3). Once the content
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by teraflop 5y ago
> Because if they are allowed to write to the DOM, they can just add a script tag that loads a script from an arbitrary URL. By my understanding, this is still possible. If you dynamically inject a script tag, your code runs in the JS co
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by teraflop 5y ago
It's not mentioned in this page or the Manifest V3 design document[1], but buried in the "Migrating to Manifest V3" article[2], there's a slightly cryptic note: > In addition, MV3 disallows certain CSP modifications f
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by teraflop 5y ago
> I think a simple apology and some self reflection would go a long way here. The CEO is continuing to double down today, more than 2 months after the original conversation, so I'm not sure that's likely: https://twi
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by teraflop 5y ago
Not a lawyer, but: Intellectual property rights fall into specific, legally-defined categories, such as copyrights, patents, trademarks, and trade secrets. I don't see any hints that patents or trademarks are involved in this dispute i
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by teraflop 5y ago
I'm really curious what makes you so confident about this. If nothing else, your conflation of "design" and "idea" doesn't make much sense, because the two are treated vastly differently by the legal system.
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by teraflop 5y ago
Aside from maybe the "admit you understood your actions" part, nothing in this blog post provides any additional ammo that the opposing lawyers' side wouldn't have had already. "Private correspondence" and &q
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by teraflop 5y ago
Maintaining a "pile" of not-yet-selected items, and randomly removing elements from it, turns your shuffle from an O(n) algorithm into an O(n^2) one (unless you go out of your way to use a more sophisticated data structure than ei
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by teraflop 5y ago
The first image, from the Perseverance rover's MastCam-Z, is at least as much "true color" as any ordinary camera. (That is, the precise color might be slightly off due to differences between the camera's sensitivity and
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by teraflop 5y ago
If individual users are being persistent and causing problems, you can ban them. But if your problem is caused by a large number of different users, each coming across the project for the first time and creating annoying issues/PRs, ba
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by teraflop 5y ago
From looking at the code, seems like it would be a pretty simple change to make the server accept several addresses, derived from the current time plus or minus a small number of 30-second intervals. That allows you to tolerate a small amou
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by teraflop 5y ago
I like the idea, and decided to try doing some validation. The first thing I noticed is that it asks me to make a yes-or-no judgment of whether the sentence was spoken "accurately", but nowhere on the site is it explained what &qu
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by teraflop 5y ago
I like the part where it says that a classified ad showing the entire photo of the product being advertised is "wrong", and the version that crops the image and hides meaningful content is better because it has a "correct asp
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by teraflop 5y ago
Well, it depends. Over short distances and timescales, relative motion behaves pretty much as you would expect for objects in free-fall. It's only over significant fractions of an orbital period that counterintuitive things start happe
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by teraflop 5y ago
The first installment of Ursula K. Le Guin's Hainish universe is a time dilation story in the style of a folk tale: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dowry_of_Angyar
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by teraflop 5y ago
Here's a very simple one-axis tracker using a 24-hour clock movement and a 3D-printed GoPro mount: https://hackaday.com/2018/06/03/3d-printed-clockwork-star-tr...
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by teraflop 5y ago
> I am not sure if it could be done with conventional rockets with current technology, without multiple gravity assists. Yes, it can. New Horizons is escaping the solar system only a little bit slower than the Voyager probes, and it was
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by teraflop 5y ago
This may well be true, even if you don't assume that Tesla owners are "smug" as some commenters are doing. I've often thought that this is a major inherent problem with trying to estimate the "quality" of a pro
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by teraflop 5y ago
I love this project, and this is meant as an honest question rather than criticism: has the creator given any thought to FCC certification? My understanding is that in the US, this device would be classified as an "unintentional radiat
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by teraflop 5y ago
It's great that PG is donating to a good cause, and anyone who donates that much money is welcome to brag about it, but that doesn't make the explanation any less baffling. Imagine a very slight modification of this scenario: >
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by teraflop 6y ago
My theory: the OP originally posted it as "composting > garbage dumps" and HN stripped out the angle bracket.
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by teraflop 6y ago
Right, to be more accurate I should have said that the feature as designed requires trusting Google.
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by teraflop 6y ago
The whole point of this feature is to allow Google to modify the APK by stripping out unneeded resources to reduce file size. If you require both a signature from Google and a signature from the developer, the modified versions would not pa
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by teraflop 6y ago
> An IRB did in fact approve the research as part of the peer review publication process. The IRB did not approve the research, it declared that it was "exempt". That's essentially a determination that the research poses a
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by teraflop 6y ago
If I'm correctly understanding what you mean, I'm fairly sure that's a deliberate optimization/design choice. In the real world, a spacecraft or other object in orbit around Earth is also being constantly influenced by o
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by teraflop 6y ago
"Screen space" refers to the coordinate system. Regardless of whether you were doing tessellation on the CPU or the GPU, you would want to use screen coordinates to make your decisions about which segments to subdivide, because wh
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by teraflop 6y ago
On a popular social discussion forum, a group that follows said format's constraints: https://www.reddit.com/r/AVoid5/

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