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Fej

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About Fej

Full-stack engineer in northeast New Jersey, USA, near New York City.

https://fej.io

Recent public activity

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    Comment #46687604

    Do older versions of Nova have any security flaws which preclude using them? I've been using this app for ages and it's been essentially feature-complete for several years. A part …

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    Comment #41825617

    Those threads appear to be stoking the drama more than anything. HN's stated goal is to satisfy intellectual curiosity, and even if the post topic itself is of interest, if the dis…

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    Comment #40772596

    NJ Transit uses QR codes for all train tickets and it works well enough. It's not quite as seamless as a tap card but NJT has moved largely to mobile ticketing and they're in the o…

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    Comment #36479473

    This is really cool, thanks for pointing it out! I have used Eruda and keep it in Tampermonkey in Firefox for use in a pinch but it's hacky. It's impressive that it works at all, b…

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    Comment #33834192

    How does one disable the telematics system(s) on a Honda or Nissan?

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    Comment #32546641

    Would you be willing to divulge what law or type of law your company fulfilled?

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    Comment #27724149

    This video cemented my skepticism on the topic: https://youtu.be/Hv-sbtCAz9Y Regarding one of the phenomena, > So the options are this object has the ability to warp the space arou…

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    Comment #26176742

    Has anyone tried canceling via certified mail?

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    Comment #26067905

    Not only that, there's a "plus" version that's both better and is now free, as it can't be updated anymore via Google Play. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.srowen…

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    Comment #25918785

    I am on Fios in northeast NJ, issues with some services (Netflix) but not others (Google except significant variance in ping times, Bing, AWS).

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    Comment #25583917

    The million dollar question is, how do we know which brands are the good ones? Is there a community which tackles this sort of problem alone? The best I have found so far is to fin…

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    Comment #25105011

    Many cups which appear wax-coated are in fact coated with plastic.

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    Comment #25066792

    > Not much of it actually helps me. Neither do TV or movies for the most part; there are many examples of high art in those formats but the most popular examples thereof are hardly…

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    Comment #25066650

    I loved Live when I had a chance to use it, but to quote the professor I had at the time - it's "so bloody expensive". As an amateur, it's extremely hard to justify the doubling of…

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    Comment #25064581

    Google Takeout https://takeout.google.com/

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    Comment #25064141

    YouTube generates $15b in revenue on ads, plus YouTube Premium memberships [1] and so the cost of storing and serving all of the data would also have to total in the billions, afte…

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    Comment #25062338

    YouTube allows free video uploads and ingests an incredible amount of content every day. Most of that content won't make any money, or just pennies, and yet they're storing it for …

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    Comment #25051785

    How far back is HP going with these firmware updates? Or are they only updating models that they are currently selling? They've been doing this since at least 2016, but whether the…

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    Comment #24984473

    Has there been any movement on this front since 2016? I've also heard of these security issues with Mint, since around that time, but it's been four years and I'd like to give them…

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    Comment #24916561

    There will be a media query, prefers-contrast, but it's a question mark as to when browsers will implement it.

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    Comment #24845242

    She's a League player as well. https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1282876094698401794?s=20 > Definitely. Right-wing twitter is child’s play compared to inting 13 year olds

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    Comment #24845164

    Thank you very much for your analysis and explanation. I was a happy customer and would recommend them to almost anyone, up until a few minutes ago. There was always a nagging voic…