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timando

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    Comment #48986696

    It could just be the particular type of my colour-blindness or my monitor settings, but the red and amber colours look so similar that I couldn't tell that I had even clicked the b…

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    Comment #48759594

    Just make the button transparent over the whole site and make it so you have to accept before it will let you do anything.

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    Comment #48484854

    Or really bright break lights

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    Comment #48469206

    It used to be that you did the ID check when you bought the SIM, but now you have to do the ID check when you activate it.

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    Comment #48164680

    In HTML 4. HTML 5 redefined it.

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    Comment #47329532

    I don't see any cars racing in the Melbourne Cup.

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    Comment #46101991

    What product should I buy if I need a smartphone to e.g. pay for parking but I don't want a smartphone that tracks me?

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    Comment #45985310

    Turn off S3 requests, but keep the data.

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    Comment #45985256

    2 caps: 1 for things that are charged for existing (e.g. S3 storage, RDS, EBS, EC2 instances) and 1 for things that are charged when you use them (e.g. bandwidth, lambda, S3 reques…

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    Comment #45285348

    Why does it use version 4 instead of version 8? Version 4 implies that it's random bits, but it's actually not random. Version 8 doesn't imply anything about what the bits mean.

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    Comment #43778403

    I'm thinking something like a switch on the side to switch between slow, fast, and using the app.

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    Comment #43552999

    Some way to simulate a slow CPU

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    Comment #43277308

    It automatically resizes so even though I have a tall screen, I didn't think to scroll down because it looked like a basic landing page and had links at the top.

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    Comment #41714751

    You don't need to construct sand by induction. Just notice that snow has the right particle size to be considered sand.

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    Comment #41561784

    Their email server likely signs their emails using DKIM.

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    Comment #41105282

    The problem is if one channel only uploads once a month and another channel uploads twice a day, I will see many videos from the frequent upload channels and might miss the infrequ…

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    Comment #40862442

    Can you use the ELVM backend to compile Emacs into Vim script?

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    Comment #40193224

    Iterate through /proc/ /fd and check for the pipe id in the symlink target.

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    Comment #39911847

    Whisper can transcribe/translate non-english speech to english text

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    Comment #38284991

    Point a camera at a monitor showing AI generated video and you now have signed video of AI content.

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    Comment #37502684

    > Not to mention if your threat model includes attacker has hacked the server and added javascript, why doesn't the attacker just take over the server directly? If the attacker can…

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    Comment #37330094

    "S3" is often used to refer to any S3 compatible object storage system. You can even self-host it with something like MinIO.

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    Comment #37056534

    I weighed 4 sunflower seeds and got 170mg.

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    Comment #35562922

    I have no idea what a gigabit per siemens is supposed to mean.

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    Comment #34178823

    You can use SET ROLE to become another user you have permission to become (I think you need to be in the same group or something) and RESET ROLE to go back to your original user. I…