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by zyx321 5y ago
It was your fault. IANAL, but I'm reasonably sure that under German law a contract that you deliberately enter under a wrong name is retroactively void (von Anfang an nichtig). Sorry. When it comes to names, Germany doesn't f&#x27
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Exposing fraud and deception in the retro video game market [video](youtube.com)
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by zyx321 5y ago
You need to be registered with the national patent and trademark office in one of six participating countries. These databases are financed and maintained almost entirely by the brand owners. You as a brand owner need to do your own researc
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by zyx321 5y ago
Verifying that an SVG image is 100%identical (with zero room for interpretation) to a picture in a public database (available online free of charge)? And then clicking 'renew' once per year? How could you possibly charge less than
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by zyx321 5y ago
Germany has an electronic ID card that can be used to certify identity, or only age, or only uniqueness, for a few pennies per auth. There's an app that lets you use your Android phone as a scanner, paired over wifi. Yet I've
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by zyx321 5y ago
I have to admit, I never tried Apple Pay. How do I install it on my Android phone?
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by zyx321 5y ago
Microsoft could file a DMCA claim for violating their copyright. Google usually does not verify claims before executing them, and there's no penalty for false claims.
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by zyx321 6y ago
Advanced Protection is an opt-in for people at risk of targeted attacks. Unless you have a company phone, it's unlikely to be enabled without your knowledge.
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by zyx321 6y ago
Flash Animation was made possible by technical limitations as much as by technical possibilities. 480p Flash clocking in at less than 100kB vs RealPlayer needing several MB for the same amount of content in 240p is a huge difference on a sl
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by zyx321 6y ago
Congratulations to Microsoft on successfully hiring a developer with 30 years of Python experience. Living the dream right there.
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by zyx321 6y ago
It could work on a power line, but I'd seriously recommend against it for a beginner project. Anything over 50V requires proper safety procedures.
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by zyx321 6y ago
If you need access to the power and reset, you can replace the respective buttons with a cheap relay switch controlled by GPIO. If you know what you're doing you can also solder your own circuit using opto-isolators instead of relays,
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by zyx321 6y ago
Can't you just look up the hash on DHT? Since hash is the only mandatory field in a Magnet URI.
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by zyx321 7y ago
It's not literally about property values. It's about class, and to a lesser degree race. If there was good public transit, then 'inner city' people who can't afford owning a car could come and go freely. The suburba
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by zyx321 7y ago
I have to admit I'm not a native Korean speaker. Are you? The issue brought up by the article is that neither makes sense. Reversing a string is not a semantically meaningful operation.
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by zyx321 7y ago
No. If that's how it worked, how many programs would have Arabic support at all? Everyone would use EnglishString for everything (because that was the example code they copied from StackOverflow) and the whole thing comes crashing down
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by zyx321 7y ago
It's a fancy calligraphy version of "Peace Be Upon Him" used specifically when referring to the prophet Muhammad. There are a handful similar phrases, mostly religious in nature. The most notable one would be ﷽ "In the n
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by zyx321 7y ago
An array is a data structure that can be accessed using the Array operator `[]`. C# will allow overloading the operator, Java will not.
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by zyx321 7y ago
Will not reverse languages that are right-to-left by default, such as Arabic or Hebrew. Will not reverse composed ligatures, e.g. ﷺ is synonymous to صَلَّىٰ ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ‎‎, but صَلَّىٰ ٱللَّٰهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ‎‎ with a LTR
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by zyx321 7y ago
Someone already figured out how to tell them apart: There's a small voltage regulator component that was originally near the edge of the board. In the new revision, it has been moved to the previously empty space above the word "m
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by zyx321 7y ago
>but I don't think you're entitled to someone else's software just because it exists. I think differently. IF I buy (A) in good faith (B) a perpetual license (C) manifested by the rights holder into physical media, THEN I
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by zyx321 7y ago
IIRC, Tom Fulp paid hosting out of his own pocket for a long time, but eventually he started turning a profit and paying out cash prizes for well-received flashes. Also, including your own monetization was always allowed. Ads on the loading
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by zyx321 7y ago
Apple were (and still are) openly hostile towards any sort of third-party interpreters / runtimes on their platform.
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by zyx321 7y ago
Everytime I log in on SSH, there's a message encouraging me to try Ubuntu Livepatch, which is an optional premium feature to install kernel updates without rebooting. Free for personal use, just gotta sign up for a Canonical account...
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by zyx321 7y ago
Semi-off-topic, but I recently found out that there is an even worse version of AMP, called Google Web Light. Running Firefox on an ARM device (e.g. Raspberry Pi), the results speak for themselves [1]. Notably, there is absolutely no way fo
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by zyx321 7y ago
>Even if you leave a few holes in, it’s ok if you manage to have compact rows above them that will clear out and allow to fill the holes later. This is similar to technical debt, that is ok to build up if it’s under control and you have
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by zyx321 7y ago
Hardware Kickstarters, what could possible go wrong?
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by zyx321 7y ago
Whether the market is 60:35 is favor of Apple or 60:35 in favor of Google, either way there's no real competition in the market. It's two local monopolies milking their captive audiences for everything they're worth.
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by zyx321 7y ago
The price on Amazon is based on what the market will pay. If they could charge more, they would do so. The only one losing money is Jeff Bezos.
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by zyx321 7y ago
I've seen websites using the fire emoji as part of their UI language to mean "hot (≙popular)" But of course it's all too ambiguous to be useful. A "cash REGISTER" might just as easily be a "CHECKOUT counte

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