theclaw

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by theclaw 5y ago
This triggered for me when trying to download a podcast from Hardcore Gaming 101. The detection is clearly very accurate and good. I had no shame disabling it.
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by theclaw 7y ago
Anyone interested in the development of the ARPANET and its transformation into the Internet we know today owes it to themselves to read Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Hafner and Lyon - it’s a great read and the audiobook isn’t bad either.
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by theclaw 7y ago
It sends me to endless ‘appsflyer.com’ redirects and prompts to install Norton VPN apps from the app store on ios. Wtf.
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by theclaw 7y ago
I don’t have a problem with this. I am seeing systemd as a system management layer and as such it makes sense that it should manage as much of the moment-to-moment operation of the system as possible. It seems like a lot of people are upset
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Advent of Computing Podcast(adventofcomputing.com)
3 points by theclaw 7y ago|0 comments
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I Bought 1970s Data General Mini Computers [video](youtu.be)
3 points by theclaw 7y ago|0 comments
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by theclaw 7y ago
In my opinion the problem with Kinect was that it was necessarily a 1-1 mapping between your performance and the character on-screen. The Wii, in comparison, could only sense broad gestures. The direct mapping of kinect requires a great per
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by theclaw 7y ago
https://www.lingscars.com/ - yes, this is a real car rental business. Best viewed on desktop - the mobile version is not nearly as... potent.
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by theclaw 7y ago
Not just on the Arc either - the inline assembler was also available in BBC BASIC on its predecessor, the BBC Micro. I remember you had to put the asm code in a FOR loop so the interpreter could do two passes - one to locate all the labels
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by theclaw 7y ago
I’m not sure I’m a fan. It’s like a profile shot of a laughing bulbous head. It says supermarket brand laundry detergent to me.
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by theclaw 7y ago
For those not aware Captain Disillusion is an impressively well produced youtube series mimicking the vibe of 90's kids TV, but for an adult audience. The Captain uses Blender for the 3D effects in his videos, and did a great presentat
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by theclaw 7y ago
Which criticisms are you referring to?
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by theclaw 7y ago
Maybe it wasn't open to the public Internet, but the VPN exit is inside the datacenter and connects out to the public Internet. Is it feasible that NordVPN provided their customers with a secure tunnel into their own datacenter's
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by theclaw 7y ago
Given the behaviour demonstrated (register fingerprint, everything works as expected, add screen protector, any fingerprint unlocks), I'd imagine that they're not dealing with every possible result the fingerprint reader can produ
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by theclaw 7y ago
Yeah agreed. It's almost certainly some code that needs to change from this: testResult = TestFingerprint(fingerprint); if(testResult) return UNLOCK_OK; else return UNLOCK_FAIL; to this: testResult = TestFingerpr
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by theclaw 7y ago
> In fact there are already articles showing how the unlock feature works while you’re asleep Hah, this was the first thing I tested with Face ID when I got my iphone 10. If you look at it with your eyes closed then it won't unlock.
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by theclaw 7y ago
Maybe I’m living in the 1970s but I always assumed pagers just showed a phone number and you were supposed to call back?
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by theclaw 7y ago
I didn't appreciate physical albums when I was younger but now I find it difficult to throw them out, especially if they were bought in a store. Just looking at them reminds me of the time in my life that I bought them, who I was with
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by theclaw 7y ago
May I recommend Keypirinha [1] over Launchy? I recently tried all of the launchers I could find for Windows and KP was by far the best, and does not get enough recognition in my view. [1] http://keypirinha.com/
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by theclaw 7y ago
It now looks as though it might be Google Chrome. Whoooops. https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-... e: hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663
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by theclaw 7y ago
Sounds unlikely to be a virus. Certificate expiry seems probable if it’s happened suddenly to everyone using this software and dongle.
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by theclaw 7y ago
There is already a Microsoft library for this - System.Numerics.Vectors, see documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics?... Not sure how MathSharp compares in performance or
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by theclaw 7y ago
You can save downloads to the Files app, which then has folders for all the storage apps you have installed, like dropbox or icloud or whatever. You can also save to the device local storage, but for some reason only in folders created by o
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by theclaw 7y ago
Save it to Files, tap ‘preview content’ then swipe over to the second document.
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A History of Computer Art(vam.ac.uk)
1 points by theclaw 7y ago|0 comments
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by theclaw 7y ago
Windows firewall will actually block the telemetry requests if you add all the telemetry hosts to it. Hosts file hacking doesn’t work because it bypasses that somehow.
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by theclaw 7y ago
I also learned regex from that book and had the same experience as you, so although I can't remember how that book worked it's magic (it's been nearly 20 years) I can corroborate your recommendation. I also found the various
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by theclaw 7y ago
I consider myself to be fairly well versed in regex having used it for years, but a recent task to match only stored procedure definitions including the optional block comments immediately preceding them (if any) in large SQL scripts proved
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by theclaw 7y ago
... Says a single German PC enthusiast retailer. Hardly representative. They could have just run a big Ryzen ad campaign or something. The clickbait headline suggests this is based on official numbers.
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by theclaw 7y ago
Reminds me of a story from my home town about a woman found in the trunk of a wych elm tree in the 1940s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm%...

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