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In my personal experience basically all spam calls in France come from a fixed set of number prefixes. [0] So phone companies could just offer to block those prefixes - it would be…

Cool to see the Invoke getting mentioned! I was the engineering lead on that product, and built a SW platform from scratch for it (Microsoft provided an SDK to Cortana which they d…

The technical term for this is multispectral imaging. Lots of applications across science and industry. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multispectral_imaging

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Disagree. I think adults with ADHD are well aware that they are not "normal" with respect to many of the symptoms, even if they don't know it's due to ADHD. At least that's my pers…

Nit: Google's project was called Soli.

This is achieved using Acoustic Echo Canellation (AEC). This essentially subtracts the output of the speaker as well as reverberations from the room from the microphone input. Here…

I think it's this one: https://opg.optica.org/jlt/viewmedia.cfm?uri=jlt-38-10-2741&... Quantum Limits in Optical Communications Konrad Banaszek, Ludwig Kunz, Michał Jachura, and Ma…

Eww, I wasn't even aware of that. I thought the filename UI issue was actually kind of a subtle fail and I was proud to find it, but that one is terrible. Here's another blast from…

Good memories from a more innocent time. The ICQ client truncated long filenames in the UI, so you could send "image.jpg (50 spaces) .exe" which would open an embedded picture and …

Is your mother tongue Finnish? I always found Japanese to have somewhat similar sounds. And as a bonus hint, you're missing a "the" in your first sentence ;)

Ah yes, absolutely agree. You were referring to the EU as a whole, and I was specifically thinking about the parliament.

I think you're probably right, but sometimes I wonder if a bit of distance can be a good thing. Perhaps a slight distance can make populism less viable while still being effective …

I'm building something that solves this exact problem, and I'll have an alpha version ready soon. Drop me a mail at marc@ my username .net, if you're interested. I'd also really li…

I'm building something that solves this problem. I'd love to hear more about your use case, is it something you'd like to discuss or join a beta down the line? If so, reach out at …

Apparently, people are on a spectrum when it comes to this [1]. Super interesting! [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/08/science/minds-eye-mental-...

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My master's thesis from 2008 [0] gives some insight into the early design and strategic considerations (from a Nokia perspective) behind eSIM technology, in case anyone's curious. …

Indeed. Cell phones are by definition location tracking devices so data can be routed to the right place. Ukrainian mobile network operators should be able to figure out the exact …

I think you are right regarding limiting English teaching to prevent the population from consuming "enemy" media. Definitely also happening in China where they massively cracked do…

> Also, there are multiple u-boot binaries with separate environments. It could be done for redundancy or different modes. I’m not sure. This is typically done in order to be able …

Your comment is factually untrue. 17 people died yesterday. Didn't have this high number of deaths since last winter before vaccines, and from the chart deaths seems to have increa…

In my school's case it was 'passwd'. No cracking needed to obtain that one though, the admin had it written on a post-it on his monitor.

What you could do was embedding the BO exe inside another exe disguised as a jpg picture. When executed it would extract and run BO in the background and also display a jpg. ICQ co…

K&R is a common nickname for the book "The C programming language" by Kernighan and Ritchie, and a reference to the authors: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Langu…