AmblingAvocado

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by AmblingAvocado 2mo ago
I bought Maps.me Pro in 2012, used it while traveling then and was happy. Fired it back up for a similar trip this year and in spite of having paid for it already, I don't have Pro features and I get aggressive "Sale ending in 4 h
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by AmblingAvocado 2mo ago
> the same people, who created MapsWithMe/Maps.Me app Ah, the same people who I bought Maps.Me from in 2012 - that when I went to use it recently now bombards me with "sale ending in 4 hours!" pro subscription ad popovers
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by AmblingAvocado 3mo ago
It seems like ... it's not illegal to find exploits, it's illegal to use them. Enforcement should start there, not the nanny state approach that you might do something bad with information. It breaks down a little bit because it m
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by AmblingAvocado 3mo ago
The big initial hump I recall was syntax for writing main and what to #include, then header guards. That, and getting clang up and running in a docker on windows so I could use new C++ features and flags that were blowing up with whatever c
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by AmblingAvocado 3mo ago
For context, I was working in C++ when C++0x was considered exotic and a bunch of actually useful stuff was in boost, basically making boost mandatory - and the headache of setting up a project and tooling to do that was enough to push me t
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by AmblingAvocado 3mo ago
Coming at this as someone who has stepped away from coding more than once for multiple-year long stints due to various career choices - I think the concern of "skill rot" is overblown. I stopped writing C++ professionally in the e
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by AmblingAvocado 4mo ago
They used iPhone pick up and orientation data to build a narrative in the trial of Alex Murdaugh, so I imagine something similar.
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by AmblingAvocado 4mo ago
Yes, just like the "don't say HN is becoming reddit" rule. If you think it's AI downvote or flag and move on, reading "this is AI" over and over all over the internet without any substantiation is tiresome.
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by AmblingAvocado 4mo ago
DKIM signature could be used to verify that Canvas' server sent the email with the given content
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by AmblingAvocado 5mo ago
yea dawg maybe if you graduated in the last 4 years lmao
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Ask HN: Why did Microsoft, Meta, and PayPal update their ToS today?
197 points by AmblingAvocado 3y ago|183 comments
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by AmblingAvocado 4y ago
Legoland in my city still requires adults to be accompanied by children to enter. Kind of bizarre.
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Stable Diffusion based image compression(matthias-buehlmann.medium.com)
498 points by AmblingAvocado 4y ago|199 comments
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by AmblingAvocado 4y ago
> Certainly a lot of cancer patients died that way. This was not my experience, n=1 of course. My SO came down with lymphoma in November 2020. All of the appointments with the oncologist and all of the appointments for treatment took pla