xenomachina

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by xenomachina 5y ago
> Its an auction selling space on page for a supplier to provide their own textual content. Are you referring to the things that say "Ad" next to them on Google's search result pages? If so... those are ads.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
> The primary revenue model for search is micro auctions to determine ranking of product placement on search results. Google monetizes search with ads. The micro auctions are for those ads. They even say "Ad" on each of them. I
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Yeah, it feels like the author wrote all the things they wanted to say as separate sentences, sometimes multiple times, and then randomized the order of the sentences. Really weird structure.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Android has exactly the permission controls you describe.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Yeah, the bundled software for the RCX was pretty awful, and was Windows-only. That's why I used brickOS, which let me write C (or was it C++?) code to run on the RCX, and it also worked on Linux. The next generation, "NXT",
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by xenomachina 5y ago
I have a few RCX Mindstorms sets, and the software was always a problem. Thankfully, there were some open source alternatives, like http://brickos.sourceforge.net/ As an aside I'm pretty sure my RCX IR towers use seria
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by xenomachina 5y ago
> I learned Haskell a few years ago, enough to read it, but not fluent enough to comfortably write it. Several years ago I tried to learn Haskell, and while I got to the point where I could write Haskell code, I found reading it nearly i
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by xenomachina 5y ago
I haven't looked through all of the code, but since they store the (approximate) release date of each technology ( https://github.com/jsrn/howoldisit/blob/master/src/technolog... ) my guess is th
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Not sure what the number of views has to do with anything, but this one has over 80k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LwMokG2urk Search for "391533" and you can find several others with thousands of views.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
> They use it because they genuinely see Taiwan as 'that other part of China' that needs to be unified with the People's Republic of China, despite having been a sovereign democracy for over 70 years. Taiwan's officia
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by xenomachina 5y ago
> she's clearly making a bust of herself naked. I'm sure if I put my balls on YouTube they'd be more than demonetized. She's posted many examples of videos by other YouTubers (most, if not all, men) that show reconstr
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by xenomachina 5y ago
That's probably part of it. Another possible factor: When I was at Google there was a similar phenomenon where any sufficiently complicated Python system seemed to get reimplemented in something with static types. A problem we had with
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by xenomachina 5y ago
That's definitely better than command-`, thanks. It's still not as nice as alt-tab, though. Frequently most of my windows are a mix of terminals and browser windows. I may be using several web apps and several command-line tools.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
The bigger issue is that command-tab switches between apps, not windows, and command-` switches between windows in the same app, and neither work across spaces. I ended up installing https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/ which
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by xenomachina 5y ago
> Your brain has come up with a way to bring the ends of the visible spectrum together Not really your brain, more your eyes. Our eyes are not spectrographs: they don't measure the level of every frequency of light. Instead, (most)
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by xenomachina 5y ago
In the 90s, pretty much everywhere I worked used a locking source control system, where you'd have to lock a file before you could edit it. This meant no merge conflicts, but it did mean that you had to work quickly if you wanted to ma
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Yes, we held off on upgrading from 8 to 9 originally because a lot of our dependencies didn't work with 9's module system. A few months ago we jumped straight from 8 to 11, and it was easy, because all of those dependencies have s
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by xenomachina 5y ago
And this ends up breaking the site for adults as well. I have a YouTube playlist of videos I'd like to show my kids. It turns out that YouTube will not allow videos marked as "intended for children" to be added to a playlist,
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by xenomachina 5y ago
With an extension (or native browser support, which used to be common) this is not the case. Sites with feeds can link to them in their metadata using <link rel="alternate" href="...">. This would cause a subscribe
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Thanks, I'll have to take a look!
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by xenomachina 5y ago
The speed of rebase has never been a problem for me, but this feature is very intriguing to me: > It moves branches on any intermediate commits. git rebase only moves the branch pointing to the commit which was checked out at the time of
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by xenomachina 5y ago
It isn't really so much about data being "taintable", but rather about the fact that not all strings are really the same "type". In this case, the field was probably meant to be "plain text", but it was in
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Are you also talking about switching from a relational model to something graph-based, or is there some way one could use GraphQL with a relational database?
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by xenomachina 5y ago
> the #1 use-case for casting, to play movies that sit on your device (phone, laptop) on your TV Is it really, though? I've used "casting" many times, and it was always to cast something that was "on the cloud",
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Yes, it was originally named "Hangouts Meet", and was renamed about a year ago to remove "Hangouts" from the name. It's still the same app, though.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Amigas have a Help key. I can't think of any software that actually uses it, though.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
The ancestors of your comment mention Kotlin, not Lombok, which is why I asked. Kotlin's data classes are probably the analog to Scala's case classes, and they do not require annotations.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
What annotations are you referring to?
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Supposedly COPPA.
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by xenomachina 5y ago
Years ago I was building a play structure. Part of it was a mini rock climbing wall. The construction manual was very specific and went into great detail about which plastic rock went with which pair of holes on the wall. However, none of t

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