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by xkxx 10y ago
OMG, that's very funny. I use neither Google Search nor GMail. But I do use the 8.8.8.8 DNS server. When I need to check if my internet connection is down, I ping 8.8.8.8. Very useful.
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by xkxx 10y ago
> Funny how these details change. Not funny, but weird.
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by xkxx 10y ago
A better way is to implement a logging function, which will be recording unknown exceptions the way you prefer: sending an email, writing to a text file, whatever. Then you just write: try: [...] except Exception as e:
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by xkxx 10y ago
Maybe it's partly because of anti-intellectualism, the idea that being very smart is bad. I had never heard about the idea, until recently. It was some article about American anti-intellectualism and why it is so popular. Reading that
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by xkxx 10y ago
This paragraph? Which one? I see three.
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by xkxx 10y ago
Hmm, and their last activity on Twitter was 3 Nov 2015: https://twitter.com/MineFilecoin/with_replies . Why is it important? They provide Twitter and email newsletter as main ways to follow their news. If there was no a
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by xkxx 10y ago
> abstracting ideas is core to problem solving Sure. But don't confuse abstractions with analogies. Here is a good proof about both the integers and rational numbers. Every integer and rational is a real number (abstraction). When y
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by xkxx 10y ago
> Can you even imagine where our medical field would be if we expected surgeons to talk amongst themselves as if they were speaking to the general public? The Git devs are not heart surgeons, software development is not a medical field.
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by xkxx 10y ago
> What's shocking is how badly people understand the purpose of an analogy. The purpose of an analogy is to simplify something that's too hard to understand for the person you try to convey your idea to. Sometimes analogies are
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by xkxx 10y ago
A better counterargument to his argument would be: hashes are not "my plane", potential adversaries are not "a meteorite". Using analogies is okay when you try to explain a difficult idea to somebody who wants to learn a
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by xkxx 10y ago
> FSB ones might be fun too. There is a certain class of grammar mistakes Russians make when writing in English. You could filter by that in addition to other stuff. Cool, you would filter me out too. Or would you not? If my English is g
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by xkxx 10y ago
> we had issues with some people not having access at work. Do you know why it happens? Do those companies block Discord as an "unprofessional" website?
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by xkxx 10y ago
Can you name your IRC network and elaborate on how you are planning to integrate Matrix into it?
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by xkxx 10y ago
It would be much nicer if everything were on one page instead of 12. Scrolling down is easy and relaxing, moving your mouse and clicking on the next link breaks the flow.
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by xkxx 10y ago
Can you elaborate on your technology stack? How do I get the phone numbers you provide for your users?
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by xkxx 10y ago
> 🇦🇺🇦🇹🇧🇪🇨🇱🇨🇿🇪🇪🇫🇮🇫🇷🇩🇪🇭🇰🇭🇺🇮🇪🇮🇱🇱🇹🇳🇱🇳🇴🇵🇱🇸🇪🇨🇭🇬🇧 What does all those letters I see mean? I see only flags of France, Germany and the UK. Maybe it has to do something with fonts installed on my computer.
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by xkxx 10y ago
> Email’s fourth advantage is that it’s a store and forward system. People don’t have to be online at the same time to exchange emails, and the emails can be kept for future reference. They can also be forwarded to other people, or print
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by xkxx 10y ago
The author of this article is Andrey Karpov. He develops his own static analyzer called PVS-Studio. This article was originally published on his company's website: http://www.viva64.com/en/b/0391/ . If an
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by xkxx 10y ago
> If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. > build upon the material Is there clearly defined difference between "build upon the material&
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by xkxx 10y ago
If it's not free, it doesn't mean you are not a product.
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by xkxx 10y ago
> Socialite is a paid application. We made this choice in order to give you peace of mind. With no advertisers involved, you won't have to worry about who is getting their hands on your information. Pricing will be targeted at $10&#
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by xkxx 10y ago
There's no evidence supporting the idea that every upvote brings additional 100 visitors to the upvoted link. Even if there's such evidence, it's not immediately clear from the article. The author doesn't consider the fa
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by xkxx 10y ago
"He was sneaking from behind. How did you see that?" translates to "Он подкрадывался сзади. Как вы это увидели?". "Он предложил это. Как вы на это смотрели?" could be literally translated as "He proposed t
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by xkxx 10y ago
Nice. I didn't know it was that easy. Using Tor Browser + VPN is definitely a good idea. Especially, if you don't want to be constantly solving captchas because of those hosts who don't trust Tor exit nodes. Some hosts even b
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by xkxx 10y ago
Hmm, a good idea would be to make it possible to use Tor Browser without Tor, for those who don't need strong anonymity, but still want to resist browser fingerprinting.
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by xkxx 10y ago
I bet it's not TL;DR. :) Because if I asked something and got a reply, not reading it would be disrespectful to the author, no matter how long the reply is. > In order to receive notifications Your answer would be absolutely perfect
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by xkxx 10y ago
I'm asking more about what "Push notifications via Google Cloud Messaging" are and why they are unavoidable. I think I will be able to infer what minimal identifying data is required from that.
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by xkxx 10y ago
Have you tried running Uber or Tinder under microG mentioned by JulienSchmidt in this thread?
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by xkxx 10y ago
> * Optional completely offline geo location service via an on-phone database which often preserves battery and even works when no internet access is available. Online backends using e.g. Mozilla Location Service are also available Sound
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by xkxx 10y ago
Not everybody is in a monogamous relationship. Is it possible to use the app for more than two devices (i.e. more than two people)?

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