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heffer

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About heffer

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/fk; my proof: https://keybase.io/fk/sigs/9TuZef8KsIsAxbigRONpST7drGEHoMLAvRX0XHY10gY ]

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    Comment #49206025

    More like https://www.printables.com/model/1148683-stacking-storage-ba... No handles.

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    Comment #49187371

    I play GeoGrid quite regularly and Western Sahara works well to score rare low-point answers. So I was a bit surprised to see it here as well.

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    Comment #48719776

    In Canada (which I assume you were referring to, as you didn't specify a jurisdiction) this claim is currently in litigation, so there is no definitive answer as to whether AI gene…

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    Comment #48614110

    That tracks with reality, as the majority of people don't have English as their first language. Depending on data sources used for training that could well reflect into AI detectio…

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    Comment #48207648

    I don't think it explains the "cat walks on keyboard" brand names for cheap Chinese goods on Amazon.

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    Comment #47541909

    Please, it's actually Cambodian Dollhairs or Canuckistan Pesos.

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    Comment #47131872

    It's clickbait. The "driver" is actually a rather comprehensive kernel patch that modifies existing GPLv2 kernel code, so by its very nature it is at least GPLv2 (original parts ma…

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    Comment #46597175

    My local Indian restaurant offers tiffin service for CAD 250/month. That's enough food for my wife and I for lunch on the 5 out of 7 days of the week included in the price (and we …

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    Comment #45945692

    You're absolutely right! Every Apple user knows they shouldn't be holding it wrong.

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    Comment #45866263

    Same here. My Google Account is something along the lines of jose86@gmail.com (a common hispanic first name + birth year; I'm German). It's unusable. I have received full blown mor…

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    Comment #45355742

    Pretty sure we don't know each other. I am a fairly recent addition to the country (2019) but we've worked with Dan and Beanfield during COVID when we put together a server for Fol…

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    Comment #45351440

    > I also happen to know this data is being transferred out of country to CDSI; ASN 23498 CDSI is Cogeco Data Services, Inc., a Canadian ISP, which later became Aptum, which in turn…

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    Comment #45236631

    Germany had this principle in place for a while for internet. It's called "Störerhaftung". Just google it and see the craziness that ensued. Led to exactly the kind of court cases …

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    Comment #44416435

    CloudFlare and friends use a multitude of factors, AS being only one of them. I am a TekSavvy customer (Canada's largest independent, i.e. not owned by one of the incumbents, ISP).…

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    Comment #43422872

    The link is about 2^n not n^2.

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    Comment #43269250

    Pantum is a brand of Ninestar, a group of companies that pretty much make every major component across the entire value chain of laser printers. They bought Lexmark in 2016 (which …

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    Comment #42905247

    In similar news: The German regulator (BNetzA) just re-confirmed two weeks ago [0] that passive optical networks are not exempt from § 73 (1) of the TKG (Telecommunication law) whi…

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    Comment #42882429

    That's who I thought as well, but I think it's more likely https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Sim

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    Comment #42129877

    You can start with this: https://github.com/vasturiano/globe.gl I've built a few visualizations with it. You'd have to extend it a bit to copy exactly what Shopfiy did, but all the…

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    Comment #41971930

    I've had a lot of fun with this reverse engineering my Napoleon gas fireplace BLE controller for the purposes of integration with Home Assisstant. In the process discovered the UAR…

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    Comment #41754430

    At least for the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen10 I know that they use a hybrid FFP/micro coax design. FFP to fit behind the display panel as the cable runs up to the sensor assembl…

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    Comment #41734807

    If you work Monday to Saturday. The law requires 20 days for people that work Monday to Friday. The effect is the same though: In both cases you get 4 weeks off.

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    Comment #41609704

    Lenovo grew unhappy with MediaTek as well and started soldering down Qualcomm chips for WLAN on their AMD platforms only to be burned by buggy firmware/driver interactions on Linux…

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    Comment #41101780

    Interesting to see how much (or little) the positions of the players in the lineup are reflected in the play. As someone that was born in Leverkusen I can appreciate you using a Ba…