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Russia will build its own DNS, cites US information warfare (2017)(defenseone.com)
9 points by wolpoli 5y ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> "what would happen if everyone did X?" I don't understand when this rule should/should not be used. Clearly, the rule breaks down in certain situations. For example: What if everyone decided to go into tech? That&#x
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by wolpoli 5y ago
It's really hard to notice the grey slider when the content are already red, green, blue, and black.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Last time I looked at Postman and Insomnia, the exported xml files were not compatible with each other. I hope we end up with data portability at some point.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
It wouldn't be fair for the cost of this national objective to fall onto Hawaii alone.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
It's worth mentioning that Bank of China is a bank in China. The central bank of China is actually called People's Bank of China.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I had an iPhone at that point. I remember playing with Windows Phone 7 at a store and my gut feeling wasn't great about it. Perhaps it was a combination of that text based tab control or it was the black & white + flat + text desig
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by wolpoli 5y ago
As if the 2.5 years delay to market wasn't enough, Microsoft also decided to invent a whole new UI paradigm for Windows Phone 7. I really want to know what went on when they made that decision.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I was able to run this in Windows Sandbox by simply installing the JRE, so no Ruby is required.
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Tabula: Convert PDF Table to CSV(tabula.technology)
86 points by wolpoli 5y ago|18 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The order is retroactive. It simply specifies that institutions have a duty to cease dealings with people involved. https://orders-in-council.canada.ca/attachment.php?attach=41...
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by wolpoli 5y ago
They are testing a desktop watermark for unsupported configuration, so it does seem like someone in Microsoft isn't happy with people bypassing the cpu and Tpm requirements. Perhaps that cat is out of the bag for Windows 11 and so the
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Yes, simplified writings are more readable. However, it isn't clear when it is appropriate to use simplified writing and when it is appropriate to use more complex sentence structures.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Many countries have already made that more painful that by eliminating large bills.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
This is it. I also find myself accidentially interacting with inline ads more than banner ads.
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Google Hummingbird Search Algorithm (2013)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by wolpoli 5y ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Google started adding other quantitive measures for ranking results. That's how some of these crap web sites manage to rank so high.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Yeah. PageRank worked because web site owners were linking to each other as a service to the "Surfers", signaling what they think are high quality sites. There is an incentive to keep sites high quality or it'll risk being de
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> It's my opinion that those who complain about Google search results are frustrated that Google can no longer find a web that no longer exists You ever try to search for a niche piece of software for your computer? Google surfaces
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MDGx Max Speed WinDOwS Tricks and Secrets(mdgx.com)
1 points by wolpoli 5y ago|0 comments
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Mozilla itself didn't think the Gecko engine itself has a long term future either. After all, Mozilla funded the development of the new Servo engine for eight whole years, and it slowly replaced pieces of Gecko with Servo. After Mozill
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by wolpoli 5y ago
It's also trivial example with 3 boxes. A more complex diagram with curved lines will start to look very inconsistent without a graphics designer cleaning things up.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I would instead argue that Firefox's Gecko engine is beyond saving and that any money invested in it now would be better donated to other community projects because there isn't enough resource to catch up. Sticking with Gecko wil
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by wolpoli 5y ago
How do you distinguish between D/O/0 on a 7-segments display?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
In a perfect world, it would work great. A world where hotels and workplaces have available phone docking stations that allow the travelling business people to plug their phones in, and their phones boot up an OS where we could have access
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> It's important that errors be promptly corrected, and expectations about future policy remain properly "anchored" to the right target. It would be interesting to know if inflation expectation has become unanchored in the
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by wolpoli 5y ago
There used to be a simulator called Chair the Fed [1] that shows the effects of various economic shock and the interest rate movements that's required to stablize the inflation rate and maintain full employment. In a negative demand sh
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Recent events indicate that the G Suite team is under pressure to cut storage cost. I wonder what's next.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
We'll see the storage space for Google Drive being cut down drastically or features held back, long before they'll start thinking of charging for Gmail. The reason is that Gmail is part of their advertising platform. For Gmail, I
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by wolpoli 5y ago
And this is a video of Flitetest flying a circle plane. I doubt it's very efficient but it still flies with the help of their powerful motors. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YP9PizYicxY

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