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by tetrep 8y ago
How do you know it's deceit? It seems like you could get similar behavior if you filled two trays, one with food and the other with trash, and never provided food unless the trash tray was empty. You're training the rat to empty t
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by tetrep 8y ago
you can use the same argument to tell people not to vote. it's not a good one.
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by tetrep 8y ago
Here's my favorite: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/2553549/all-the-tcp... article about it: https://blog.ctm-it.com/it-support/blogs/matt-cannon/2013/49...
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by tetrep 8y ago
> images are meh, just press shots. Was hoping for more on how it was built If you scroll to the bottom of the page there's a few links to "raw video clips" and "how we did it". I'm downloading them now but
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by tetrep 8y ago
If you find the default font size too small, I know at least Chrome and Firefox support a minimum font size in their settings. I personally set my minimum font size to 9. While I can't easily read font that small, I can at least notice
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by tetrep 8y ago
And Apple forces you into this exchange. You can't ask them to simply host a product page like Amazon and leave everything else to you, the app developer. There's many good UX reasons why Apple does this, but you can't seriou
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by tetrep 8y ago
> An older parent might not "fit in" with a team of 22 year-old fresh grads, but still provide valuable experience and perspective in a way that an additional 22 year-old might not. You can probably extrapolate how this might a
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by tetrep 8y ago
Hell, it's not different than being in the same room as other players. I've yet to hear of any games that ban teams sharing the same IP address.
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by tetrep 8y ago
Presumably because the "fake it" time is invested in a fake solution that is scalable, so they can fake many projects at once.
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by tetrep 8y ago
And then your boss will ask you why your phone is on silent/in airplane mode. Don't think the app can't or won't track such juicey details ;)
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by tetrep 8y ago
But how can we prevent situations like what happens to coyotes who learn not to be scared? http://www.epsilontheory.com/too-clever-by-half/
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by tetrep 8y ago
> US Freedom is misinterpreted to mean individual freedom at all costs. US Freedom is not just individual freedom, it's local rule and local soverignity. Not even that local. With the few exceptions from the Constitution, U.S. state
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by tetrep 8y ago
TL;DR: This doesn't really do what it claims to do (prevent injection), but it does slightly mitigate some attack vectors. It's security through obscurity, which is useful as defense in depth (see: ASLR), but hardly stops all
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by tetrep 8y ago
Critically, that option only appears after Maps hijacks your view to wherever it pleases. The same applies to other filters too, such as "open now." I'm stil amazed how hard Maps makes it to view a street name. I can fill m
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by tetrep 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_Phone
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Spinning glass ball rejects light from one direction(arstechnica.com)
2 points by tetrep 8y ago|0 comments
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by tetrep 8y ago
an update to the title would be nice. these security holes are for "git-annex" and the new library is "http-client-restricted". i don't think the library's name needs to be in the title, but at least "git-
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by tetrep 8y ago
There's not a lot of comments here, so I'll give a tl;dr: They found a "use after free" bug in JavaScriptCore due to some asnyc GC and used it to get RCE in Safari at Pwn2Own. By making a large array of arrays, and then
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by tetrep 8y ago
> That’s one of the reasons you’re required to open them when you take off and land. I fly pretty regularly in the US and am unaware of this rule, where have you encountered it? I've only ever heard crew request windows be closed
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by tetrep 8y ago
I think it's decently plausible if your Alexa hears you, but you don't hear your Alexa. So you continue on your conversation, and you say enough to keep progressing the flow. I would assume any failed speech recognition attpempts
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Uber Shuts Down Arizona Self-Driving Vehicle Operations(wsj.com)
5 points by tetrep 8y ago|1 comments
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by tetrep 8y ago
> I love the ability to batch up the notifications. In my ideal world, I would get notifications at 8AM, 12pm, 5pm and 9pm. And that's all. Couldn't you do this manually by silencing your phone except for alarms, and then setti
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by tetrep 8y ago
If you could reject junk mail, junk mail senders wouldn't pay to, well, send it. And the USPS would lose a lot of money. Imagine how terrible GMail's spam filters would be if spammers paid Google for delivery... Oh wait, Google li
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by tetrep 8y ago
There's a wealth of public transit options that will reliably get you from Manhattan to JFK in about an hour. I haven't waited in a security line at an airport for more than 30 minutes in years. When lines get long they drop the s
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by tetrep 8y ago
But you're not stopping pixel. You're going to be tracked again. All you're doing is resetting the clock. How long after pixel was implemented did it take for the value of Facebook ads to skyrocket? A few years? And Facebook
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by tetrep 8y ago
> If a significant percentage of users actually exercise this option, that will be the end of Facebook as a significant channel for ad spend. It will decimate revenue. I don't think it would have a significant negative impact on Fac
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by tetrep 8y ago
That's pretty much WhatsApp. They use their own weird "Fun" version of XMPP with Signal's Noise protocol. But they don't federate. Which I think is a pretty clear example of why not having one true solution isn&#x27
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by tetrep 9y ago
I played Riven about a year ago (never played Myst), and it held up pretty well. I think the biggest shortcoming is the standard 90s adventure game trope of arbitrarily obtuse solutions to some puzzles. I ended up needing about 2 or 3 vague
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by tetrep 9y ago
I've been drawing a horizontal line, sometimes with a slight arch, for years now. I almost never get a reaction and when I do, it is at most a laugh or giggle. Nobody cares (not that they should). Anything I scrawl is (more or less), b
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by tetrep 9y ago
Well, if you were following along, they mention that the market has not remembered those transgressions, which heavily implies the stock price before this incident will be reached again. The stock will hit a local minima, and then bounce ba

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