MekaiGS

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Phind Is Shutting Down
7 points by MekaiGS 8mo ago|4 comments
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by MekaiGS 3y ago
This is especially true when I am actually a paying customer for the product. May be I should be given the controls to filter based on my own tolerance.
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by MekaiGS 3y ago
China is not rich but a middle income country. China's GDP per capita is lower than Bulgaria and Romania. Source: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/NY.GDP.PCAP.CD?location...
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by MekaiGS 6y ago
I honestly have no idea where all the Windows settings are anymore so I just search instead. I wonder if this is a way to boost bing usage.
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Alphabet buying Canadian smart glasses pioneer North(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by MekaiGS 6y ago|0 comments
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After 84 Years, Olympus Is Exiting the Camera Business(pcmag.com)
4 points by MekaiGS 6y ago|0 comments
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Google News is killing off digital magazines, refunds all active subscriptions(androidpolice.com)
2 points by MekaiGS 7y ago|0 comments
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by MekaiGS 7y ago
The only one I know is: https://fivefilters.org/content-only/ It works for all the major sites but it is paid but with self-hosting option.
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Hackers Can Use Lasers to ‘Speak’ to Your Amazon Echo or Google Home(wired.com)
27 points by MekaiGS 7y ago|6 comments
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
BBM was different since the PIN was baked into the device so it as more seamless than even using your phone number. The problem was when you change your device you can't migrate your PIN so I think it contributed to decline to usage as
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Don't forget about Comdex! I have never been to any of these trade shows but it was always cool to read about the new stuff that's coming out during Comdex/CeBIT on Anandtech. End of an era indeed!
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Cats are usually house trained to boot so that's a plus!
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Apple services are also not very good outside of Apple's platform: Apple Music - Only major service which requires you to install iTunes to play with all kinds of funky issues. (ex: try to play an Apple music video fullscreen on a mult
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
I find that the higher you climb in the corporate ladder the less actual work hours I have because my calendar is filled with meetings and the remaining hours are scattered everywhere throughout the day. Nowadays, I am just trying to get my
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Autoplay video that takes up almost my whole screen with full sound blasting, the video itself contains the cliff note of an article that has less than 500 words. This is beyond awful.
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Available in Canada for at least the past few months as well.
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Hi to fellow KW/Guelph YC news reader :)
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
There is a more specific term for folks like that, they are being referred as the 50 cent party. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/50_Cent_Party
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Honestly I don't know how much consideration devs are actually paying attention to when most of them are probably using fairly recent high-end phones instead of the super cheap low-end mediatek android phones. I've also noticed th
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by MekaiGS 8y ago
Slight off topic but the graphs are terrible on the site, could someone smarter than me explain what the blue/red splits on the graphs represent?
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
What if you put the oven within a gyroscope? Seems like a solvable problem.
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
What I think would happen is people with Tether stuck on those exchanges would start trying to get out by two ways: 1) Cashing out to fiat, I don't know these exchanges well enough to determine if people actually managed to cash out th
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
I work for a F500 financial services company and everyone uses Hi $name on every email.
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
If Apple knows the battery is getting to the point where this is happening, shouldn't they just let the user know it's probably time get their battery replaced and throttle? Wouldn't this kind of make everyone happy? This see
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
Speed feels the same on my top end machine but FF could handle more tabs opened and font rendering looks noticeably better on Windows 10 vs. Chrome. Chinese characters look like a bad flashback from the 90s when viewed on Chrome, I can&#x27
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
As the author mentioned, it cannot solve any boards where all unfilled cells have more than one possible value within the cell's domain. More information about the algorithm here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC-3
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
This feels like some of the ancient applications our team still have to maintain and I work for a Fortune 500 company. Sigh.
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
Second your opinion, Google hasn't been crazy good at domain specific search for me lately. Google video search is also weaker than a pure youtube search for me too, so much so that I only use youtube search nowadays which is perhaps t
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Rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia(wsj.com)
348 points by MekaiGS 9y ago|201 comments
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by MekaiGS 9y ago
I used to have both Office 365 sub which comes with 1TB OneDrive and Dropbox personal but I've since unsubbed my dropbox plan as OneDrive now has smart sync baked in with the fall Windows 10 update and they only had smart sync for the

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