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by jbg_ 8y ago
I don’t know much about GPS jamming, but I know a fair bit about how airliners navigate. GPS is usually not used for final approach, which is typically either visual or ILS (a radio signal transmitted from the ground). This in contrast to t
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by jbg_ 8y ago
I received this mail from Namecheap today with the subject line "Important: Potential Internet Access Issues". Apart from the weirdly misleading subject line, the advice in the mail is really misguided IMO. If your ISP fails to up
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Namecheap email regarding DNSSEC key rollover(a.uguu.se)
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by jbg_ 8y ago
Many of the products Google has already shut down would easily have passed a reasonable good faith judgement that they were too expensive to keep running. I don't see how this would be any different. I know that "reasonable good f
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by jbg_ 8y ago
... unless they decide that giving one year of notice would be too expensive or hard.
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by jbg_ 8y ago
It doesn't seem relevant to the subject of the article, and it's private, so I don't see why it should be detailed...
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by jbg_ 8y ago
Betteridge's law.
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by jbg_ 8y ago
Chances are, a smartphone isn't going to give you the DoF you want (except by "faking it" using post-processing). There's a direct relationship between aperture for a given focal length and the front diameter of the lens
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by jbg_ 8y ago
Non-AMP URL: https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/08/06/how-year-...
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by jbg_ 8y ago
On a single project, I agree. But each time I start a new pet/side project I like to use a different stack. It's a good motivation to learn new technologies, and you learn more about them by using them "in anger" than yo
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by jbg_ 8y ago
I know several people that are dual citizens of China and US. China doesn't recognise the second citizenship, but that doesn't prevent you having it. If China finds out, though, they'll apparently strip you of your Chinese ci
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by jbg_ 8y ago
There's no such thing as serverless, just someone else's server.
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by jbg_ 8y ago
Wait... people who bought into a currency that is majority-owned by one entity would like some say in how that entity spends it?
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by jbg_ 9y ago
OT but what do you mean by "English speaker with no accent"? Clearly every person has an accent, and every system that understands language must be able to understand the various accents that people have.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
which will, of course, trigger the reminder as you walk down the street away from home, forcing you to go back and get the change of clothes that you forgot.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
when in major cities in China, my experience is that Google Maps is almost unusable (not due to the censorship, as I use a roaming SIM which avoids those problems, but rather due to wildly incorrect data, missing metro lines, etc), and Appl
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by jbg_ 9y ago
yes, I've done this
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by jbg_ 9y ago
You left out the very important detail that practically speaking, your content also needs to be hosted on Google's CDN if you want to get any of the benefits that content creators are likely to care about (being boosted in SERPs).
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by jbg_ 9y ago
There's a recurring theme in the discussion of this (and actually any time there is a discussion about email), that self-hosting email is really hard. That hasn't been my experience. I've been self-hosting four mail accounts
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Just wait until Angular 2 hasn't been cool for a while and you can't find any JS developers who are interested in maintaining your software rather than rewriting it in xyz_latest_fad_framework.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I've known plenty of developers whose automatic response to `packagemanager install packagename` failing is `sudo packagemanager install packagename`.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
The article is fictional - but designed to sound plausible in order to make web developers think about a problem.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Out of interest, do you know if the game data uses XMPP or if it just uses the same port?
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Right, but the address is "One Ferry Building" which works fine on Apple Maps. Not "One San Francisco Bay Trail", which only appears on Google Maps. So the problem seems not to be the vanity address per se, but possibly
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by jbg_ 9y ago
The problem actually seems to be that "One San Francisco Bay Trail" is not the address of the building. Only Google Maps shows that address. So, ironically, what the OP thinks is an Apple Maps issue may actually be a Google Maps i
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by jbg_ 9y ago
At least for me, next to each result is a list of the engines that returned that result. I run searx through Tor, so I occasionally find that Google stops returning results for a few minutes. It doesn't happen often, but it's easy
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by jbg_ 9y ago
This is not how searx works.
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by jbg_ 9y ago
I also run searx self-hosted, configured to proxy all its queries through Tor. Occasionally one of the engines doesn't return results (probably due to blocking), which is barely noticeable since several others still work, but normally
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by jbg_ 9y ago
A fingerprint is just a really complex password that you leave on everything you touch. Your face is just a really complex password that is written on the front of your head. It should be self-evident that neither of these is "secure&q
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by jbg_ 9y ago
Well, functionally that would be the same as if you just don't grant the permission to any other app than microG. Unless you don't trust that Android's permissions work properly, but then I think you have much bigger problems

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