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by bla2 8y ago
See my reply to NeedMoreTea.
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by bla2 8y ago
That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode".
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by bla2 8y ago
"Google developers claim this will not actually start synchronizing your data to Google — yet" It sounds like you got up in arms because you thought that chrome now auto-syncs when you sign in to gmail, and wrote the blog post dra
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by bla2 8y ago
DuckDuckGo is mostly a skin on Bing search results. By using it, you're saying you trust Microsoft more than Google. If that's your intent, cool, but you're not really getting away from the big tech companies by doing this.
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by bla2 8y ago
> But it brings users within an accidental click of sharing their bookmarks and browsing history with Google. It's two clicks, you need to be really explicit about it. The first click opens a huge "You're about to turn on
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by bla2 8y ago
Don't self-destruct. This may seem obvious, but surprisingly many people get this wrong. There will be moments where you have incomplete data on some situation, yet feel strongly about it, and have a strong urge to do some symbolical c
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by bla2 8y ago
That was 11 years ago. All other big tech firms are doing business in China, by China's rules. Google used to be better than that. It's very sad that that's changing, but again it doesn't seem like something that's
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by bla2 8y ago
Why would the US House care about Google's business practices in China? I think Dragonfly is horrible, but why would the House care?
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by bla2 8y ago
> You can personally decide not to use Facebook, which is good. But you can't convince everybody to do that. Pretty scary. Which means Facebook has a shadow profile of you even if you don't use it at all: http://thec
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by bla2 8y ago
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/c... suggests that rendering in Chrome and Chromium is identical, so as long as Vivaldi and Brave keep their Chromium updated it should ren
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by bla2 8y ago
I don't understand what "because of this" means. Chrome made some change that some famous blogger misunderstood, and everyone got up in arms over nothing -- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article&#x2F
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by bla2 8y ago
"When Google acquired Boston Dynamics, it ended the company’s military contracts. Now that the company is owned by SoftBank, Mr. Raibert said, it could also return to military work." Sounds like they haven't (yet).
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by bla2 8y ago
Safari isn't open source, only the rendering engine is. Doesn't matter to most, but does matter a great deal to some.
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by bla2 8y ago
The best way to define the problem is iterating on it. This (and other tools) allows you to iterate faster. That's why tools like this are useful.
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by bla2 8y ago
It's because the notation is pronounced "order of", which is also the vocabulary used when you do Fermi estimation: you don't care about exact numbers, but you want to guess the order of magnitude / power of ten cor
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by bla2 8y ago
The GP is factually wrong, this isn't "semantics". Your comment moves the goalpost to "well the aerodynamics help". This is true: The slipstream moves at the speed of the car ahead, so it's like she has no head
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by bla2 8y ago
From TFA: "Mueller-Korenek sat on a bike with gearing so steep that she needed to be towed to around 100 mph before taking over under her own power." So no, she didn't just maintain 184 MPH.
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by bla2 8y ago
That links "more than 400 sources" to https://duck.co/ia which in turn links to https://docs.duckduckhack.com/#improve-a-live-instant-answer saying "DuckDuckHack is in Maintenance Mode".
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by bla2 8y ago
DDG is an ok skin on bing search results, but their pushy and misleading marketing is a huge turn-off to me. And I'm very very sympathetic to the "we don't track you" cause in general.
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by bla2 8y ago
> would jump This used to exist: https://contributor.google.com/v/beta Not many people were interested, so it got scaled back to an opt in model. So it's not that many others willing to pay for this.
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by bla2 8y ago
That's just a bit over 1k / month -- similar to rent in SF :-P
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by bla2 8y ago
I was in continental Europe at the time and the sentiment here was "they're going to do something stupid" and far from a free pass.
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by bla2 8y ago
The domain is called "polemic digital" and -- surprise -- offers a polemic view to cash in on amp hate. That it's doing so well over here is a nice example of polemic half truths doing well on social media.
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by bla2 8y ago
What's DDG's moat? Its search index is bing so they don't have significant own tech. Is it just the brand?
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by bla2 8y ago
Why the throwaway?
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by bla2 8y ago
How do I read this? Click the manuscript folder and then click through the md files in an arbitrary order? Or is there some better way I'm missing?
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by bla2 8y ago
(2002)
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by bla2 8y ago
Reading that bug, it sounds like it was fixed in https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/51cd319fd6a... and the bug status is just incorrect?
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by bla2 8y ago
"Hm I should check it out, are there docs?" https://docs.julialang.org/en/stable/ Julia 0.7 Documentation Sounds like 1.0 hasn't propagated everywhere yet :-)
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by bla2 8y ago
> not being asked which app I want to open a link in all the time Huh? Just tap "always use this app", you can the default later if you want. That button is right there every time :-)

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