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   by axby 4y ago

   How big is their dev team? Does their app change much? Could they have contracted it out and now only have one or two people who still push updates to it?
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   by axby 4y ago

   As another commenter mentioned, it's at least a good marketing campaign, causing me to open the app for the first time in months. Or it might be to gather a baseline of how many people react to their notifications, regardless of their
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   by axby 4y ago

   Oh could the attacker get information about whether or not I opened the app? Is the same key used to send notifications and access metrics that Firebase collects?
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   by axby 4y ago

   Haha I considered this as a possibility for why it was sent... I don't ever open their app otherwise, I only ever installed it to receive messages from a host on a trip. At the very least they might have wanted to understand a baseline
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   by axby 4y ago

   But if so, why not try to camouflage it as something more generic, to try to avoid notifying Airbnb? I am tech savvy enough and have marketing notifications turned off, but I would assume that they are simply not honouring the setting someh
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   by axby 4y ago

   Interesting, but why would an attacker push a notification like this to so many people? Or did not many people get it? Could I be targeted, along with the others in this thread? If the attacker really intended to send the notification to ev
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   by axby 4y ago

   Thanks, this looks great. I'll definitely read this later. But why doesn't the base macbook install support more of these features? I was led to believe (perhaps incorrectly) that I wouldn't have to tinker with a mac as much
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   by axby 4y ago

   I've seen a lot of people recommend this approach when searching for solutions online. I was trying to embrace the apple way, rather than forcing it to match what I'm used to. Your comment might be the push I need to just give up
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   by axby 4y ago

   I recently got a macbook for work and I can't believe how many minor things just can't be changed. I don't think you can change the date format in the top right. It seems like you can't get rid of that damn dock entirely
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    by axby 4y ago

    Agreed about the intro question, it took me from "I should know more about what tty means (after seeing it for many years)" to "I want to know!"
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    by axby 5y ago

    In 2010 I first got into Linux because of Microsoft making (what seemed to me at the time to be) user hostile decisions: my netbook came with "windows 7 starter edition", which did not allow you to change the wallpaper. They claim
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks a lot! I see now, I am able to reproduce the issue if I go into chrome://flags, search for "Auto Dark Mode for Web Contents", and select "Enabled with simple HSL-based inversion". Just choosing "Ena
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks for letting me know, is this in the web version? If so, what browser? I tried Chrome and Firefox and I don't see this issue. I use a plugin to make sites dark ("Dark Reader") and it seems to work for my web calculator
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks! And that is so cool! It looks like the intended use case of this is to generate documents or short snippets of LaTeX, but not have to hard code the answers? I wish I had something like this back when I actually wrote reports and stu
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    by axby 5y ago

    > I've setup my keyboard (on linux) so that the CAPS-LOCK key acts as a "dead greek" composer. If I press "CAPSLOCK+a" it types "α", and so on. Cool! Is this because you type a lot of Greek (or math)? &
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    by axby 5y ago

    Wow, thanks. This is way more complex than I expected. When I started working on this I thought that I might want to switch to "binary coded decimal"[0] to avoid issues with inputs like (0.1 + 0.2 - 0.3). I haven't had a chan
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks a lot for trying it and the feedback! Assuming C++ standard regex supports unicode, then this should be easy enough. I never thought to try this. I'll see if I can implement it later today or this weekend. Do you think the spell
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks! If you right click on any LaTeX you can access the raw TeX code. Admittedly this is just the default MathJax behaviour though haha. If people wanted it then I could probably make it easier to get the TeX in fewer clicks. I thought t
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    by axby 5y ago

    TL;DR: try pressing the "vars" and "units" buttons. Also complex numbers by "i" button or pressing "alt" then the now shown "angle" button. For choosing the desired output unit, press "
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    by axby 5y ago

    Hi all, as a hobby I've been developing a scientific calculator with some neat features. Available on: * web (mobile or desktop): https://alexbarry.github.io/AlexCalc/ * Android: https://play.google.co
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    Show HN: AlexCalc, a scientific calculator with LaTeX equation display(alexbarry.github.io)

    58 points by axby 5y ago|20 comments
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks, I actually hadn't heard of a logistic growth curve before (it looks like something I somewhat remember from high school chemistry). Can you recommend anything to read about this that apply it to the pandemic? I guess I'm b
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    by axby 5y ago

    Thanks for the source, I've been so curious about this information but it's hard to find. I should have said "relatively effective", since I'm also under the impression that the vaccines weren't super effective
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    by axby 5y ago

    TL;DR: I agree that the public thought vaccine = no more virus. But I'm not sure if traditional vaccines actually mean that you're incapable of spreading it, or even getting sick in some cases. I agree that the public was misled a
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    by axby 5y ago

    > The vaccines will become decreasingly relevant, unless we can provide technology to update vaccines as quickly as they mutate. Even then, it'll be like flu vaccines. They'll help, but won't stop the spread. Interesting,
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    by axby 5y ago

    Other ideas as I struggle to understand the current state of affairs: maybe the vaccine is really effective at preventing transmission, but only for some period, say 1 month to 6 months after vaccination? Maybe people in Canada received the
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    by axby 5y ago

    TL;DR: How did a vaccine with a reduction of hospitalizations by a factor of 20 (94%) take us from "shut everything down" to "cases no longer matter"? (Caveat: maybe for omicron it's even less severe?) Edit: specifi
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    by axby 5y ago

    This is really well done, I like the UX and the messaging categories. I also like how you allow creating an account with just an email and the received auth code. Also very refreshing to try something as a web app and not have to install an
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    by axby 5y ago

    also sometimes it lets you bypass paywalls. Why is that? SEO maybe?
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    by axby 5y ago

    Firefox reader mode (mentioned in the article to help print articles without bloat) is also a great way to read the articles without physically printing them. It also lets you have the article read to you via TTS (text to speech). It seems