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Comment #18298134
Westpac's interface is quite funny. Only very recently did they allow pasting passwords from a password manager, previously you had to use an on screen keyboard (presumably to stop…
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Comment #15778362
> inbuilt native DOM nodes and custom DOM nodes from JS code What does that mean? What are "inbuilt native" DOM nodes, or "custom DOM nodes"?
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Comment #15633844
I genuinely don't understand why you would want ipv6nat. It seems like a bog-standard firewall; but instead of being able to configure rules about incoming traffic, everything is b…
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Comment #15470957
If it is a GET request, just open it in a new tab. Firefox has a built-in json viewer (no extensions required). Eg. open this in a new tab: http://httpbin.org/get
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Comment #15283021
Signal is built on top of the phone number system (ie. falling back to SMS, phone numbers as ids). Telephony is pretty clearly a federated system - somebody on one carrier can talk…
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Comment #14926262
I believe it is a Samsung Galaxy 2. A quick search yielded: http://bgr.com/2017/01/26/donald-trumps-android-phone/ https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/29/donald-trump-apple-iphone-an...
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Comment #14879524
Facebook has a lot of things called the "Open Graph" [1]; most of which pre-date GraphQL. Some aren't even APIs as such. [1] eg. http://ogp.me/
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Comment #14818264
You'd be surprised by how many apps support Wayland natively. Gtk+ and QT support it transparently for app developers, and I assume other frameworks do as well. And Wayland is a hu…
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Comment #14803611
Yes, all modern AMD processors have this. But Intel processors have an equivalent ""feature"", called the Intel Management Engine (ME). So take you pick really. A good FAQ is done …
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Comment #14803601
Well, you can get a POWER{8,9} workstation [1]; which has a big selling point of having no ME/PSP processor. But it looks a bit expensive. [1] http://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/prereleas…
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Comment #14803463
It is literally training users to dismiss these kind of errors. In Chrome, these errors are really bad, like a safebrowsing warning or a TLS error. On the other hand, this warning …
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Comment #14628015
The Nokia tablet is the first that comes to mind: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_N1
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Comment #14610466
They mentioned the cost of storing all the articles in a database at the start. I wonder how much of the cost decrease was from removing that?
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Comment #14580192
Lego hasn't reacted yet, and if I remember correctly this has been around for ~4+ years
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Comment #14548943
Success rate is the % of people who we can find a name for. So you didn't encounter a success :)
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Comment #14535471
I just launched Inkscape, and noticed the port seems to be done! In Fedora 26, they ship Inkscape 0.92 which uses Gtk+ 3.
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