hewhowhineth

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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
I stopped visiting sites with image recognition reCAPTCHAs. It has to be one of the worst UX patterns ever devised. It's dirt cheap to automate them away so it doesn't really stop any self-respecting bot maker, and it comes at a p
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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
According to first vice-president of the European Commission, citing some internal report from the Frontex (EU border agency), 60% are economic migrants. https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/europe/most-fleei
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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
"More than half of those fleeing to Europe from the Middle East and Africa are economic migrants and not asylum seekers fleeing the horrors of war in Iraq or Syria, according to first vice-president of the European Commission, Frans Ti
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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
Outstanding documentary. Thanks.
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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
Read again: most of those countries . Now make a list of countries that had its forces on the eastern front, and the list of the ones that didn't. Still Bizarro World? Not that facts matter to you, but Poland attacked Soviets in 1920.
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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
We also seem to forget that most of those countries were part of Hitler's forces that attacked the Soviet Union a few years before that. Small example would be Hungary that sent ~500,000 soldiers to the eastern front. That invasion res
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by hewhowhineth 10y ago
If you're Firefox user go to 'about:config' and set 'media.autoplay.enabled' to false
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
You're right. That may ruin it for some. It differs a lot from country to country, I guess. Where I'm at the moment there is no import tax on <150 EUR items, and handling is 1 EUR.
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
You can get those Rockchip HDMI sticks for $50 on aliexpress, shipping included (RK3288 ones support 4K). They usually ship with Android 4.4 these days. But for $70-$80 you can get a stick with Atom Z3735F 2GB/32GB and have full deskto
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Well at least it's not the Q4 2016 :) https://xkcd.com/678/
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
It's even better idea to boycott it. Embrace-extend-extinguish may work for a big player but it will harm everyone else. We've been there before.
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Can we please stop pretending that this has anything to do with loading pages faster? Stop breaking the web. It's stupid. You can try to just shove the ads down someone's throat but you're in for a surprise, again. Any attemp
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Web for the win!
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Nothing destroyed the quality of web content as much as AdSense did. So many websites turned into "made for AdSense" and started doing stupid things that actually severely reduce their earning potential.
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Sounds like racketeering :)
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
It kinda depends. You'd have to test it yourself. Here's CloudFlare's home page accessed from Europe a few moments ago, via 3G dongle. http://s21.postimg.org/8gn6f7i2f/cloudflare_com.png Nothing to write
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
DIKW Pyramid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIKW_Pyramid Now your turn. What's the name of the book? :)
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Dismantling Russian Typhoon class submarine (47 min) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGhxGgQ-Cd4 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Not sure if this applies to the maps in question, but legal rights (and obligations) are handed down to successor country/countries. International treaties, debts and everything. Even Olympic medals I believe.
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
There was a beautiful thought yesterday somewhere on HN, on a completely unrelated subject. Forgive me for not remembering the author, or the thread. I was half drank :) Every generation thinks it invented sex, rebellion, and curiosity.
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Why not $route = new Route($pattern, $recursive = true);
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Best of luck, but is there any danger for you to get in legal trouble with Namecheap, eBay, SitePoint, etc?
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
I feel for you, but shady market, no buyer screening, plain text passwords, doxxing, ... not a lot of trust there. When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you. I hope next thing you do won't be looking for a hitm
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
Given the stated accuracy and such a low base rate it looks like it would yield ten times more false positives than true positives. To eliminate some of the trolls you effectively eliminate anyone outside the consensus trance. You might as
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
You forgot to add pedophilia, racism, terrorism, and drugs to that list. Hundreds of millions of people all over the world speak English as their second, third or fourth language. That fact alone makes them more interesting than some gramma
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by hewhowhineth 11y ago
There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. - Bjarne Stroustrup