maxton

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by maxton 6y ago
iOS has supported ALAC (Apple Lossless Audio Codec), I think since day one, but at least for a long while. You can convert FLACs to ALAC without any loss in quality obviously, but the coding tends to be a bit more efficient for FLAC.
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by maxton 6y ago
Hashes cannot be undone, so... this is just a tool to tell you how long a string of hex characters is and show you a list of hash functions with that length?
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by maxton 6y ago
If you wish to undertand and to be understood, I agree that vocabulary is very important. I assume from the class of errors you made (understand instead of understood; know instead of knowing) that your native language doesn’t have verb ten
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by maxton 6y ago
I think the bit about imitating a foreign accent in order to sound more like a native in your target language is one of the better pieces of advice in this post; at least, doing so has worked pretty well for me in the languages I’ve tried t
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by maxton 6y ago
Wow, that's extremely impolite.
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by maxton 6y ago
Assuming Apple is only using cookies for technical purposes, like providing a way to log in or use a shopping cart, then there is no need to use a banner. Google needs the banner because they are using cookies for advertising and tracking p
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by maxton 6y ago
Honestly, it looks like HN does right now, albeit with a different color scheme.
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by maxton 6y ago
In the keynote today, they did explicitly mention new fitness features like calorie tracking with what they’re calling “Oculus Move”. There’s a link to an article about it at the end of this blog post: https://www.oculus.com&#x2F
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by maxton 6y ago
You can probably read the article via the outline version: https://outline.com/https://www.wfla.com/news/hillsborough-c...
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by maxton 6y ago
The article you linked is littered with misinformation. I would not recommend that anyone read it. It asserts "facts", like the false statement that wearing a mask lowers blood oxygen concentration by 20%, using citations of Faceb
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by maxton 6y ago
It’s definitely about vowel sounds, because we don’t say “a hour” or “a herb”.
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by maxton 6y ago
Congress has not made any law prohibiting the exercise of religion.
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by maxton 6y ago
I'm not very familiar with Rust, but I don't understand why you wouldn't just use a reference-to-HeavyThing as the function argument, so that the object isn't moved and then dropped in the `get_size` function?
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by maxton 6y ago
The second argument is a Rectangle, which means you'd be repeating 'Rectangle' twice in one line with the second style.
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by maxton 7y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if this is due to FOSTA/SESTA legislation
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by maxton 7y ago
At least for wide screen ratios, there’s 1366x768 and 1440x900
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by maxton 7y ago
Stuff like this is the reason I don’t connect smart TVs to the internet. If I need web content on the TV, I can connect my laptop with HDMI. The TV should be no more than a display and speakers with a tuner.
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by maxton 7y ago
I only first heard about this company earlier this year, and was pretty excited because they were the only way to buy DRM-free lossless, CD-quality music at a reasonable price (without having to ship and rip an actual CD). But I was concern
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by maxton 7y ago
I donated a week or so ago. The Internet Archive has come in handy many times for me, not just for the Wayback Machine but also things like their live music archives. They're an indispensable resource.
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by maxton 7y ago
Julian is the person she is collaborating with. If you follow the link after that sentence there is a link to his blog.
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by maxton 7y ago
Who's to say Signal will protect you any better against targeted remote-code-execution attacks from well-funded cyber mercenaries like NSO?
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by maxton 7y ago
This piece isn't about Americans or their reactions to this horrible situation.
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by maxton 7y ago
What is your goal in bringing up these unrelated massacres? Neither one is the same as the Tiananmen massacre, as in neither of those two cases was the government killing its own people in response to peaceful protest.
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by maxton 7y ago
Youtube used to do that, until at some point they added the “bell” feature and converted all subscriptions to subscriptions-without-a-bell which means only some videos get put in your feed. Of course, if you go the extra step to click the b
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by maxton 7y ago
They are probably not saying "cleartext" because the data was still encrypted, just not hashed.
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by maxton 8y ago
It's cancerous in the sense that a consultant for 3M called it "one of the strongest cancer promoters I’ve ever seen." (quote from TFA)
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by maxton 8y ago
This isn't quite the same as what you're talking about. The lenticular displays only vary in the x-dimension, but this display seems to work in both dimensions, which would probably create a noticeably better 3D effect.
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by maxton 8y ago
Cheating in single-player games is absolutely fun and a good way to introduce oneself to reverse-engineering. The key difference, though, is that cheating in multiplayer games can directly (usually negatively) impact the experience of other
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by maxton 8y ago
A monthly visit is not the same as a user. Facebook has ~1.4B daily users, each of whom visits many times a month.
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by maxton 9y ago
I think a better comparison would be the lover of an old e-book whose publisher has shut down their DRM validation servers wanting to be able to read the book again in the future.

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