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by zeta0134 10y ago
I clicked through, and was accosted with a gigantic video. I wanted to close the tab right there, but I've seen this before, so I scrolled down to make the giant video go away. No dice, every single page element dances and animates a
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I was under the impression that older clients wouldn't send the host header over HTTPS, making it impossible to determine the correct certificate to serve in a shared IP environment. Modern browsers all support SNI which prevents exact
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I especially like the word "beta" which is the same color as the background. I tried to select the logo after you pointed it out and stumbled on that. Seems like the background color changed after they picked font colors and they
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't for an audio quality reason. VLC is designed to play back video first and foremost, which means it has an actually quite excellent feature: it time stretches the audio to synchronize with whatever's playing. I'm a mus
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by zeta0134 10y ago
As a user of AdBlock, unless it's a site I desperately need to function (there aren't very many of these), having it be broken with AdBlock turned on clues me in that something shady is going on. I'm more likely to simply lea
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by zeta0134 10y ago
As the reverse engineering communities will be glad to tell you, software basically is open source. It must eventually be decoded into instructions to run on a processor, and while it's not impossible to fully sign / encrypt the
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is a really cool idea! But I found myself instinctively hitting [Tab] to activate autocomplete on most of the longer symbols, as every IDE / Code Editor I use supports this in some form.
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by zeta0134 10y ago
There isn't a technical reason it shouldn't be able to be implemented. Mostly it's a matter of getting the UI preference hooked up; it looks like they've already done something similar with the Flash plugin for users whi
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by zeta0134 10y ago
The thing that finally worked for me was blackout curtains in my room. I didn't realize just how much the incoming light from outside my window was affecting my sleep. In pitch black darkness, I'm out like a light and have the dee
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Dropbox at least protects against deletions and encryption by storing a version history of all files for the past 30 days or so. That doesn't protect the files very well against theft, but it does serve as a nice recovery option agai
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Chrome, to its credit, doesn't automatically load extensions that are installed this way. (Or at least it shouldn't; I've seen enough malicious Chrome extensions in my tech support years that I suspect there's a way to b
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I've been using Firefox on Android for pretty much exactly this reason. I have just one extension installed (uBlock Origin) which makes most sites perfectly readable. Once I got over the minor UI differences, I haven't missed Chro
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by zeta0134 10y ago
It suffers a different problem though: Name implies your given name, possibly including your family name. Surname is much more specific (family name only) and thus not suitable in any case where that's not what you meant. This is not a
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I've always been baffled by this race to target ads to me directly. Sure, you can get a general idea of my interests, but even those change throughout the day, and advertising something to me on Facebook that you gleaned from my GPS or
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by zeta0134 10y ago
If I had to wager an uneducated guess, I would propose that the recent mainstream acceptance of Solid State Drives as a viable, affordable alternative to spinning disk drives, has created a sudden demand in Flash memory that's caused t
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Something amazing occurred to me when I got my Pebble. It grabs notifications from my phone and displays them, but it goes a step farther: it lets you choose in the app which notifications are actually important. I never sat down and thou
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by zeta0134 10y ago
The Wikipedia Article here, describing Unix Time, indicates precisely the issue. Unix time does not include leap seconds, which means that when a leap second occurs, the midnight transition to the next year needs to insert additional time.
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Honestly, I think the reason most authors tend to have so much success with the new fad diet of the week is that for the month or whatever that they run the diet, they're actually monitoring their food intake and making an effort to ea
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think there's a stronger mental disconnect here in a lot of consumers. Detecting the wake word is easy to do locally; doing natural language processing on the resulting audio recording is what must be offloaded to Amazon, as it'
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I have to wonder if their Lambda service might be worth looking into. Any reason you're using full on servers rather than some kind of a compute engine? I don't have the great fortune of getting to work with those kinds of numbers
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I'm still using Bootstrap on my own small website for nearly this reason, and I still haven't really found a reason to install the framework to customize my build of it. My traffic is simply too small, and my site unimportant enou
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I remember playing that in high school! That's really impressive use of the tech, and was staggeringly impressive to me at the time. Learning z80 assembly on the TI series got me into programming at an early age. It's worth pointi
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think that's because on most Linux-like systems, the distribution's built in package manager fills this role sufficiently. It's hardly perfect, but for many popular libraries you can just install the -dev package or equival
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I thought it was possible he purchased a mobile port? But even then, I checked the Google Play store and iTunes, and the official version from the Anki Open Source Team is free in both cases. EDIT: No, I'm just bad at looking at the iT
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by zeta0134 10y ago
Ordinarily I would agree with you except for what .json is: a JavaScript Object. Or, more correctly, its serialized-to-text form. Parsing it is a matter of invoking an extremely common function built into every JavaScript implementation in
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is part of the reason Windows Hello won't use standard webcams for facial recognition. They require a depth camera (very unusual feature on laptops, usually marketed as Intel Real Sense) so that a simple photograph isn't enou
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I don't buy that unencrypted traffic is equally trustworthy. Encrypted traffic cannot easily be snooped by a man in the middle. It's arguably the entire point of HTTPS. With HTTP, I have no hints, much less guarantees, that the
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by zeta0134 10y ago
This is a trade-off with any emulation really. The more hardware accurate your emulation gets, the more you have to keep track of in virtual registers and state, and all that extra tracking adds up in a hurry. Native virtualization dodges a
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I think at some point, we could feasibly reach a point in development where the website could also be the native app. In that case, the app store is essentially a self-contained browser, running the mobile site. The reality of that situat
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by zeta0134 10y ago
I wonder if a viable method for securing USB devices would be a pairing step, similar to how bluetooth keyboards work. Most input devices are USB-based, which means we can't require confirmation for every device, but we could require

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