bisRepetita

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by bisRepetita 1y ago
If only there was no app stores... sigh... I would only download apps from the reputable company I like (myfavoritebigbank.com), trusting their brand and reputation for my security. If a client-side app can threaten their security, that&#x2
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
I find this such a strange comment, to be able to reach such a conclusion so quickly without any idea what my side project is, how much passion I have put into it, and how much still have in me, with no idea how many people I've helped
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
Thank you so much Kyle for sharing all this. This is very inspiring. I will put a few more extra hours today in my project thinking about you. I'd love to have some info about the hiring of Jon, anything you may feel like sharing, whil
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
Yes. And this is very helpful. If you are young and you suck at something, more people will give you the benefit of the youth and envision you may improve. If you're old and you suck at something, many will think you're just old,
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
>it's comfortable to be homeless in a rich society Do you know this first hand? Have you tried it?
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
Was it mandatory to be out of the streets, police enforced? Were the hotels free for the homeless population? Trying to figure out whether it was the increase of availability only, or combined of forced housing/low price point.
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
Hong Kong https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_light_bus
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
>I'm not going anywhere, so you'll have two of us to put up with going forward :) I thought that sctb was another one? No longer I guess?
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
I read that 9 European representatives, plus 12 assistants, plus 4 other members of the party were found guilty as part of a scheme to earn illegally EUR 2.9M for the party. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affaire_des_ass
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by bisRepetita 1y ago
Then I'll claim Leonardo da Vinci almost did it with his aerial screw in the 15th century ;) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo%27s_aerial_screw
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by bisRepetita 2y ago
Kiplomo now has his sights set on the marathon, and said he will be resting until the London Marathon in April I'd love to know what "resting" means for this guy practically.
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by bisRepetita 2y ago
This is not so much than human are "really bad" at this. Here they're facing other human (scientists, psychologists, artists, marketers), computers, algorithms, spending all their waking hours devising scheme to make them add
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by bisRepetita 2y ago
Reminds me of the people who looked for time travelers, hoping they would have betrayed themselves through chronologically wrong Google searches or tweets. https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/google-search-fai
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by bisRepetita 2y ago
Most iconic cheating I can think of is taking the subway during the NYC marathon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosie_Ruiz
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by bisRepetita 3y ago
in full screen mode, even after people turn their phone 90 degrees, you have not much space for visible control on a 16x9 video.
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by bisRepetita 3y ago
> it obscures the actual content when you're interacting with the controls (a problem that's particularly acute on smaller screens) What's the right trade-off here in your mind then? Leave the controls always-on/vi
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by bisRepetita 3y ago
And one still cannot in 2024 ;). Almost all red-eye flights go from east to west. There are none from Paris to NYC. There are some from America's west coast to Asia though, because those are super long flights. https://en.wi
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by bisRepetita 3y ago
because if you are the single payer (govt), you can negotiate much much better rates.
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by bisRepetita 4y ago
Thank you!
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by bisRepetita 4y ago
Thanks for sharing this. If I wanted to use one of those animations as overlay on a video I have (with transparency), what export would you recommend? Based on your intro video, is seems it would be a series of PNG, or is there some other o
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by bisRepetita 4y ago
Even back then, you did not have to grow as fast as VC made you think. It was a choice by Zuck to grow fast and take a lot of investment, he did not have to grow that fast. This is Zuck's interview in 2005 in Stanford: >So, I mean w
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by bisRepetita 4y ago
Little usability nitpick: it is really hard for me to see the connection Paris - London (less than 2.5 hours in real life thx to Eurostar). You need to very precisely mouse over Gare du Nord, which is hard, since it seems hidden by the othe
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by bisRepetita 4y ago
Yes, but the website owner can change its source code at any time, and even serve differently JS for each user, puting the entire responsibility on the user shoulder to check the code behavior all the time. It's not as demanding with a
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
I had single dynos affected.
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
Some of my apps are back up. Others are not.
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
For metric system people, if the Sun and the Earth were 1 meter apart, the probe would get as close as 11cm from the Sun. (site writes: "If Earth was at one end of a yard-stick and the Sun on the other, Parker Solar Probe will make it
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
Yes, they said it in 2011. With just one data point and no trend. Nothing shows here it exploded since. So the FBI and the whole society may have found somewhat effective ways without scanning phones.
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
Are you falling into their trap knowingly or not? There is a child molestation problem everywhere in the world, including online. I have seen nothing explaining it is getting bigger / worse. I have read that most of the cases are famil
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
>if we care about privacy we have to accept that people other than ourselves think the problem is big enough to warrant these measures. Not sure what you mean here by "accept". Accept the fact those people and opinions exist? S
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by bisRepetita 5y ago
>you aren’t the decision maker. That is only partially true. If we both write, other people may read, then you and me possibly influence people. Wa are social beings, we are influenced by people around us. So we're both a tiny part

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