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by zamber 7y ago
Extensions for Firefox on Android are a godsend feature. Pretty much the sole reason I use Android instead of iOS. That + ease of doing backups and migrations on an unlocked device.
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by zamber 7y ago
Anecdata: people are spoiled with google. Context-aware search queries are rampant in younger folks. Older G users also rely on it but to a lesser extent. Having a couple weeks of appending !g when a search query does not match eventually h
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by zamber 7y ago
Sounds like an interesting story. What made you snap - if I may ask? No judgement. Had episodes too but w/o hospitalization.
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by zamber 7y ago
The lymphatic system itself can have severe issues. Consider this spiral one of my family got: back hurt, get a chiropractic, no exercise, bed-ridden for weeks, eventually recovered, but obtained lymphatic swelling of feet. EDIT: Fact-check
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by zamber 7y ago
Location: Wrocław (Poland, Europe) Remote: Can do Willing to relocate: Not really (at least now) Technologies: JS, jQuery, React, Angular, Gulp/Grunt/Webpack, Python, Flask, Django, matplotlib Résumé/CV: Availab
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by zamber 7y ago
I respectfully disagree with your disagreement of that disagreement. Abstractions have far more roles than reducing cognitive load. You're completely overlooking platform realities, code reuse, usability and other benefits of reduced&#
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by zamber 7y ago
I'm convinced that unionizing at this scale does not work. They'll always find cheaper people to do the grunt work which presumably is there only to teach the AI. Maybe when the AI is stable enough this AI "caretaker" po
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by zamber 7y ago
Global market share stats are applicable for global target websites. Consider any medical equipment company for example - their clients will browse the catalog from archaic, unmaintained PCs they have laying around. Always get data about br
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by zamber 7y ago
Adguard is getting discontinued due to app store policy changes: https://www.macobserver.com/news/adguard-pro-discontinued/ For Android there's a FOSS alternative (no root needed) - DNS66, alternatively if on
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by zamber 7y ago
That reminds me of an instance where a not-too-bright fellow was stressed out about some exam. He strapped a LED blinker to a clock and a box with rocks, put it at the basement floor corridor and informed teachers about a bomb he "foun
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by zamber 7y ago
It's not a US-only phenomenon. I've got lots of similar incompetency stories from Poland. My mom was a math teacher in primary school for 6 months after which she had to stop doing it because the kids drove her close to a mental b
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by zamber 7y ago
> Overview of changes in EtherApe 0.9.18 (Sunday, June 3, 2018): > EtherApe now is a pure GTK 3 application, with canvas supplied by GooCanvas. It's still in active development! Will have some fun with it :).
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by zamber 8y ago
This CCC presentation was an eye opener for me https://media.ccc.de/v/35c3-9370-hacking_how_we_see
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by zamber 8y ago
Same here and I tend to sleep for long stretches if I can (this usually ends in me getting up barely rested after a 10h night). I'm planning on moving my wakeup time to some super early hour like 6am so that I'll have more time af
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by zamber 8y ago
Depends on the price range and quality but in general it's highly processed, designed to addict, pumped with grains as filler/fiber. Dry feed is linked to kidney failure in cars and small dogs. Veterinarian food is marginally bett
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by zamber 8y ago
I'm waiting for a massive exodus of US citizens to Europe for healthcare. Also the perceived society crumbling is self-imposed. Raging culture wars, terrorism as an excuse for totalitarian paranoia, freely accessible firearms, school s
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by zamber 8y ago
Microphones aren't plainly obvious and they can provide far more interesting data than a selfie. Also tape barely impacts the pickup quality for mics. I have seen people cover laptop cameras but company-owned phones are usually ignored
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by zamber 8y ago
Monitoring can be done on multiple levels. Consider: DNS hits, traffic intensity per domain and LDAP logins. All of this can be done transparently if you work from an office or use a VPN to access intra or client stuff. If your company is s
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by zamber 8y ago
There's hnreplies.com for that ;).
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by zamber 8y ago
Please ping me if you do find it :).
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by zamber 8y ago
> other languages might cause overflowing UI elements because the translated text is longer than accounted for. Ignoring the China context, it's good to take char count (possibly correcting for char width) for all strings in all tra
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by zamber 8y ago
I guess like Smith, Miller, Taylor, Walker, Baker, etc. are in the US.
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by zamber 8y ago
Right after a brain rollercoaster and a brain brothel ;).
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by zamber 8y ago
> Also if you want to use iTunes you do not need to have the phone plugged into anything. Titanium Backup on Android allows for pretty much seamless updates across ROMs (if you know what you're doing). Try doing the same on iOS... o
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by zamber 8y ago
I came from the context of data compression apps (worked on one). Before the Onavo acquisition FBs internet.org was on full blast. Made sense FB would want to incorporate compression with it. Looks like it was just a smoke screen. Onavlo fr
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by zamber 8y ago
When they bought Onavo I didin't see that coming. Thought they wanted to assimilate it with the brand in some way. Thanks for the insight.
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by zamber 8y ago
I think skepticism then is one of the devices of the Socratic method. You can't build on other people's work if you don't question and verify it's validity (or the lack of) on your own and build on top of that. Art histo
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by zamber 8y ago
> The statement is an appeal to empathy. Apparently, I'm a highly functioning sociopath then ;).
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by zamber 8y ago
> You just added and deleted 100k lines of code. Congrats, you have a "churn" and stuff like that. But the reality is that you neither "wrote" nor "rewrote" these lines of code. I've seen that in some p
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by zamber 8y ago
> some scientific studies have shown a link between vegetarianism and a variety of mental health issues including OCD Could you provide links or keywords? My close family went full-vegan ~ 2y ago and I'm worried they may be doing th

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