redwards510

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by redwards510 6y ago
In lieu of an actual Googler, how about some educated speculation? It blows my mind that Google can even have problems like this. Aren't their apps highly distributed across tons of CDNs? Don't they have world class Devops people
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by redwards510 6y ago
Agreed. it drives me absolutely berserk that Reddit forces you to "Click to view more comments" just to see like 3 more comments.
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by redwards510 7y ago
Then why does it say this: we also settled on the number, and the implementation of, privacy switches on the phone – there will be 4 switches in total: for the i) BT/Wifi module, ii) the modem, iii) cameras (front/back) and
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by redwards510 7y ago
You aren't buying a phone, you are buying an Experience.
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by redwards510 7y ago
Without a browser, it kind of ceases to be a smartphone. It's just a flipphone. So I don't see how that is really something you need to note. For me it's Google Maps. There is just no comparison. I don't want to imagine
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by redwards510 7y ago
I can't find the info for the price, but I remember seeing it before and it was very low, like $200, which would make this a very exciting entry into the notAndroidOrIOS market. The Librem 5 was cool at first, until they started delayi
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by redwards510 7y ago
Really want to pull the trigger on this, the Privacy Switches to disable camera, mic, wifi at the firmware level appealed to me. If you search around you'll find a video the creator made demo'ing skipless 1080p/4k video playb
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by redwards510 7y ago
Well said. In addition to simply being naive, I think there is also the self-delusion that everyone subscribes to when they convince themselves that their job (no matter what it is) is somehow helping contribute something good to the worl
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by redwards510 7y ago
Why do you say "HN" is falling for it? Hacker News did not write the article. Buzzfeed did. We're simply commenting on it.
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by redwards510 7y ago
Even if you avoid providing your DOB, you almost always have to put the year you graduated college, and that makes it pretty easy to ballpark age.
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by redwards510 7y ago
demonstrate technical prowess = be able to regurgitate your last Data Structures and Algorithms college course. This is how they get away with their blatant ageism, ask questions only young, recent grads would know. Why don't they just
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by redwards510 7y ago
You can claim anything with a survey these days. This one says 40% of couples meet online, and 60% of same-sex couples. And that is from 2017. Anecdotally I think you are out of touch, probably because you've been out of the dating gam
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by redwards510 7y ago
LOL I do not envy the weird emails you are going to get from psychotics and ghost-hunters around this thing..
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by redwards510 7y ago
I can't think of a single subscription service that does not auto-renew. Can you? Companies consider that a "feature" because it provides uninterrupted service. Is your beef with them because they didn't email you to let
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by redwards510 7y ago
Cool fan but it says "not heatsink compatible", so if you are like me and attached the heatsinks that came free with your Pi case, you will be out of luck.
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by redwards510 7y ago
This review is very disappointing. He's simply parroting all the marketing hype from the manufacturer and adding very little original thought. He doesn't even have a 4k monitor to test the Pi 4. That's one of the biggest new
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by redwards510 7y ago
I'd love to see a VS Code extension that does this. Anyone heard of one?
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by redwards510 7y ago
Custom ROMs are rarely developed for Samsung devices these days because Samsung locks the bootloader and makes everything extremely difficult. Buy a device that is more developer-friendly like a Nexus, Pixel or OnePlus and you'll see a
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by redwards510 7y ago
If the US started doing this (scanning phones for islamic terrorism files) to foreigners at the border, would you care? If it was just a scan and no data was harvested? I believe strongly in the right to privacy, but I have to admit, I do n
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by redwards510 7y ago
What I don't understand is why they leave the app installed on the person's phone after the scan if it does not do any further scanning in the background.
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by redwards510 7y ago
Not denied access, they just keep serving up challenges to you until you give up, WAY worse than saying "You appear to be a bot, sorry".
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by redwards510 7y ago
This sounds pretty good, but you still have to pass a captcha in order to get a pass, and sometimes that is impossible (or at least I just give up because I lost interest after 20 puzzles). If it was developed in conjunction with Tor, how c
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by redwards510 7y ago
Running Start alumni here. It's an amazing program, but I often wonder if it was the right decision. Leaving high school at 10th (of 12) grade had a major impact on my life. I lost out on those long term friendships, prom, senior year,
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by redwards510 7y ago
Didn't I just read a story about the Amazon retail stores in SF being forced to accept cash, not just credit cards linked to someone's amazon account?
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by redwards510 7y ago
Don't forget there is a Firefox Developer version that includes additional devtools. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developer/
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by redwards510 7y ago
Google is essentially saying that Chrome will still have the capability to block unwanted content, but this will be restricted to only paid, enterprise users of Chrome. Never heard of a paid version of Chrome before! Can any
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by redwards510 7y ago
Don't forget killer bees!
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by redwards510 7y ago
Wow, it's always funny when articles written for laymen dance around simple technical terms with fluffy language ("device", really?). I'm really curious if this would have been considered an issue if it was just a visibl
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by redwards510 7y ago
As much as everyone wants to believe this is because all the applicants are suddenly taking strong ethical stances, I bet it has more to do with Facebook simply not being considering cool or exciting anymore.
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by redwards510 7y ago
> made the photos uh, the pictures of a tiny rice-sized chip from the story were just photo illustrations. They were not supposed to be evidence of anything. It said so in the margins.

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