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by wtmt 7y ago
Yes, Apple Maps is inferior in Asia (speaking from India here). But it seems to be improving. I noticed that it uses many sources for maps, including TomTom. [1] I’d read maybe a year or two ago that Apple was working on improving maps in o
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by wtmt 8y ago
Can someone list good resources (preferably free or low cost) to learn touch typing on a QWERTY U.S. English keyboard?
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by wtmt 8y ago
> If your site has AMP Real URL enabled Cloudflare will digitally sign the content we provide to that crawler, cryptographically proving it was generated by you. That signature is all a modern browser (currently just Chrome on Android)
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by wtmt 8y ago
Next year Intel will be hit harder when Apple announces Macs based on its A series ARM chips and transitions its entire Mac line to it by 2023 or 2024. This move by Apple will also prompt other PC manufacturers (a lot more than before) to m
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by wtmt 8y ago
India officially has four seasons, but they are winter, summer, monsoon and post-monsoon (autumn). Depending on the place, the year may also have six seasons of two months each. [1] In general conversations, you may find people talking abou
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by wtmt 8y ago
Both are qualified to give life advice based on their experiences. In fact, others are also qualified. Good life advice usually stems from struggles that one has gone through. There doesn’t need to be a scale or measure on who is more quali
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by wtmt 8y ago
Why is that a disclaimer and why does your comment sound like knocking on something good? If you haven’t watched the documentary “The Internet’s Own Boy” [1], check it out. The amount of harassment (mental and emotional) he faced could also
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by wtmt 8y ago
> It allows us to be able to pay for resource use rather than provisioning. Not arguing against the choice, but at some level, you are paying for the provisioning costs of the cloud provider. The higher initial costs of provisioning is
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by wtmt 8y ago
Off topic, but I found this circular reference apt for a post about learning programming, and thus quite amusing too. This post links to "Why I started the Summer Hackers Program" [1] and that post has a link to this one. http:&#
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by wtmt 8y ago
From Glenn Greenwald’s tweet [1], which is quoted in this article: > “Both Laura & I have full copies of the archives, as do others. The Intercept has given full access to multiple media orgs, reporters & researchers. I've b
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by wtmt 8y ago
> For signing there’s more margin; it’s okay if half the people never verify your signatures. The problem that people may not verify signatures is one, but what's far worse is that bad email clients won't show the email conten
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by wtmt 8y ago
Does this paste [1] help? If not, I'll delete it. It's set to expire in 12 months. [1]: https://framabin.org/p/?fc98aeebe5cb2585#Pa6OgUybxSWBWFGHlek...
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by wtmt 8y ago
> I've managed to find workarounds for everything except 1Password I haven't personally used it, but I've seen Bitwarden being highly recommended here. It's free and open source. It has a free option (with an account
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by wtmt 8y ago
It's the free plan where you get 2GB or whatever, depending on when you joined and any freebies you got through referrals and/or contests.
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by wtmt 8y ago
> If you're a Basic user and you linked more than three devices prior to March 2019, all of your previously linked devices will remain linked, but you can’t link additional devices. For how long will the previously linked devices re
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Further, users who have tried changing their user-agent—the identification string, sent by browsers, that tells Web servers what version of which browser they are—have reported that much of the app works in both Safari and Firefox, wit
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by wtmt 8y ago
* Setting a timer or an alarm * Asking for the weather * Play some (desired) music Are there other things that these devices ("smart speakers") are really useful for? A voice activated browser or computer, on the other hand, is ex
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by wtmt 8y ago
> The good news is that this possibility, too, has been foreseen in the constitution. In the absence of a project leader, the chair of the technical committee and the project secretary are empowered to make decisions — as long as they ar
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by wtmt 8y ago
Could you expand on this or share pointers to any articles/posts on this?
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by wtmt 8y ago
"A Plastic Ocean" [1] is also a good documentary that deals with how most of the plastic that's used and thrown gets into the oceans and affects people. It touches upon some communities that try to recycle these, much to the
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by wtmt 8y ago
No. Even these people in this village would wash their feet before entering the house since they've been walking barefoot and have had their feet carrying dirt and what not. Washing one's feet before entering your home (or a templ
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by wtmt 8y ago
Will there be enough political will to get this done even if she becomes president? It seems unlikely that such severe measures would be able to pass unless the named companies help dig themselves deeper by not caring about the distrust and
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by wtmt 8y ago
> “In a country where people often go barefoot indoors – considering it a gesture of respect and a nod to hygiene...“ It’s not “often”, but “almost always”. It’s highly uncommon to wear footwear indoors (except in cold places where peopl
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by wtmt 8y ago
Does Lavabit even have any trust remaining with users after all these years, having removed customer accounts when it shutdown abruptly?
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Lavabit seeking investment for end-to-end encrypted email(republic.co)
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Quick Summary: This is a local process escalation bug. Serious, but it seems remote exploitation would require an additional bug. The "additional bug" could just be a compromised update of any popular application available as
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by wtmt 8y ago
Ok, so Facebook has yet another appalling practice that's been known for quite sometime (see the Telegraph article linked in this one). The percentage of users boycotting the company and its products don't seem to materially matte
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by wtmt 8y ago
You can't be sure that Facebook doesn't have your number unless you have never given your phone number to anyone who uses Facebook and has your name and phone number. They could be friends, co-workers, relatives, delivery people,
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by wtmt 8y ago
What are the desktop GUI environments or window managers available on OpenBSD that are comparable to those on Linux? I see a mention of running X as a user, but nothing more. What about desktop hardware support? Does it have working drivers
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by wtmt 8y ago
The mods can (and will) fix it. You can also email hn@ycombinator.com and let them know about this error.

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