niknetniko

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by niknetniko 2y ago
I don't get what this means? - There an option to compress images before uploading (which is probably on by default). Not unreasonable. - Content is deleted if you do not access Google Photos in any way during two years AND do not have
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by niknetniko 3y ago
As everyone is posting, a similar one exists for Belgium: https://trainmap.belgiantrain.be/ (It is not 100% live, "The train positions are calculated based on timetables, real time info and prognoses.") Also fun a
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by niknetniko 3y ago
Of the top of my head, there are also: - ISO 8601: dates and times - ISO/IEC 9899: the C standard - ISO/IEC 14882: the C++ standard > This isn't how serious comp-sci standards work (the TCP people just throw out RFCs). Thi
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by niknetniko 4y ago
Am I missing something here? I understand the "The IAB loves tracking users." part of the title, but where is the part about "But it hates users tracking them."? Based on the title, I would have expected an exception in
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by niknetniko 4y ago
> I recently discovered a big cache - in terms of file number, 6000 files - of basically every edit I did in the last 6 months in VS Code - called Local History. Isn't this a feature? I wouldn't want my editor to remove my loca
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by niknetniko 5y ago
> These apps [single page web applications] also tend to feel snappier because page loads are not required for every request. This isn't my experience at all, especially when network conditions are not great. The browsers has error
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by niknetniko 6y ago
The site mentions: > Visual Mind is an AI engine specifically designed for understanding and scoring visual appearance of a website. Visual Mind has analyzed over a million websites to achieve an accuracy rate of over 97%. How does accur
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by niknetniko 6y ago
They have an contract with MusicBrainz. They are listed on https://metabrainz.org/supporters/tiers/4 . > The Unicorn tier is for large companies or companies that would like to have a reciprocal relationship wit
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by niknetniko 6y ago
A lot of EE folks I've met _think_ they are competent in software, but I'd beg to differ. Similarly, I've met plenty of CS majors who know their way round hardware.
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by niknetniko 6y ago
This is pretty cool. However, I do agree with some of the other contents that the style is a little dry for a webpage. I think it would be very useful as the "print" style for articles or blog posts, without having to pipe through
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by niknetniko 6y ago
This is a really nice looking blog, I'm impressed.
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by niknetniko 6y ago
Works for me, what's not mobile friendly about it?
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by niknetniko 6y ago
Link to the official announcement: https://cliqz.com/en/magazine/farewell-from-cliqz
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by niknetniko 7y ago
People who want an app on Android with similar features can try Sync for Reddit, which is my go-to app. https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsync/
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by niknetniko 7y ago
I initially had the same thoughts, especially regarding the increased height. However, in Intellij (and other Jetbrains IDEs), they've recently increased the line spacing to (I currently use 1.1) With the increased line spacing, I have
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by niknetniko 7y ago
I agree with the overal sentiment, yet the examples could be better. > Modern text editors have higher latency than 42-year-old Emacs. Text editors! What can be simpler? On each keystroke, all you have to do is update a tiny rectangular
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by niknetniko 7y ago
I'm note sure about the EU part, because in Belgium you can mention competitors, e.g. "Darktable aims to fulfil the same need as Lightroom" is absolutely allowed, without problems. There aren't even rules specifically fo
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by niknetniko 7y ago
> They even have been called out by the IETF by things. Source? I'm interested in reading about this
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by niknetniko 7y ago
Thank you for this. I am very disappointed in Matthew Walker. In fact, if I were working in the same field as him, these findings would cast a doubt on most of his other work. The density of the errors almost makes me unsure which is worse:
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by niknetniko 7y ago
Android used to recommend to open the hamburger menu when people open the app automatically, until they have opened it once themselves. > Upon first launch of your app, introduce the user to the navigation drawer by automatically opening
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by niknetniko 7y ago
While I agree about Google Maps, I'm not so sure about Gmail. Take your example: - Forward is in the lowest toolbar in the hierarchy, since it applies to a single e-mail. - Archive is in the top toolbar in the hierarchy, since it appli
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by niknetniko 7y ago
This is nice :)
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by niknetniko 7y ago
And yet: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/cloudflare-cybersecurity-terr...
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by niknetniko 7y ago
This is actually a shutdown that makes sense to me: why would it need a separate app/website? I don't think it was actually really useful for most people: * As a standalone gaming streaming service, I don't think it ever had