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Garveyon What Did We Lose When We Lost the Stars?

I believe the U.N? had to update their guidance for this reason. Iirc, the max allowed brightness was either calculated incorrectly, or was just set too high.

Garveyon Malware on My Android Phone

Play Store > My Apps and Games > Installed, and then change the sort order to "Last Updated".

Garveyon Ask HN: Did you know Google knowledge panel can give wrong information?

I feel like it's well known that the panel can display incorrect info, but that might just be me.

You can submit feedback if you think the information is incorrect, look for the three dots at the top right of the panel.

Garveyon How marketers convinced America to eat fish sticks

At just over 1g a week, it's not out of the realms of possibility, taking into account those who abuse it. I've unfortunately known people who could use that much in a week.

Garveyon Ask HN: Best Resources to Learn Japanese?

I haven't learnt Japanese though I did start... But to get a grounding in Italian before moving there, I did use Michel Thomas CDs and would highly recommend giving them a go.

Garveyon Vodafone chief speaks out after hospital-serving phone mast torched

Yeah, as a regular El Reg reader I wouldn't consider it an attack, more playful ribbing.

Garveyon Do whatever you can't stop thinking about

This pretty much sums up my experiences.

I've noticed my frustration tends to stem from a feeling of not progressing quickly enough, or getting bogged down in architectural details before strictly necessary and then abandoning the whole thing due to the assumption it's too complex for my knowledge level...

Garveyon Graph query languages: Cypher vs. Gremlin vs. nGQL

I assume it's not mentioned because it's not one of the Query Languages mentioned as part of the standardisation project.

  'GQL is an upcoming International Standard language for property graph querying that is currently being created. 
  The idea of a standalone graph query language to complement SQL was raised by ISO SC32/ WG3 members in early 2017, and is echoed in the GQL manifesto of May 2018. 

  GQL supporters aim to develop a rock-solid next-generation declarative graph query language that builds on the foundations of SQL and integrates proven ideas from the existing openCypher, PGQL, GSQL, and G-CORE 
  languages. The proposed SQL:2020 Property Graph Query Extensions already build on these existing languages.'

https://www.gqlstandards.org/home

Garveyon Saving web pages as PDFs in 2019, a real challenge

Shouldn't the UI/UX/Whoever was responsible for the design, have supplied CSS styles for printing?

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/print-stylesheets-i...

Garveyon Google App Engine (GAE) will no longer have a standard free tier

Doesn't go into the specifics enough, if it's a school account it's probably not relevant... But couldn't they enter the card details at home then use the account in class?

Garveyon Blade Runner background wallpaper cyberpunk ambience website?

Could it be any of the links in the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20100348 ?

Garveyon Google Chrome has become surveillance software. It’s time to switch

Not on windows...

Garveyon Files UWP: An enthusiast’s take on what Windows File Explorer explorer should be

Try ctrl + alt + left, or ctrl + alt + right.

Ctrl + alt + up sets it to default rotation so far as I remember.

Garveyon Why play a music CD? No ads, no privacy terrors, no algorithms

Spotify allows you to import tracks from your computer and add them to playlists as if it was on Spotify. Obviously you can only access them on the computer you added them from though.

Not sure about the mobile app, I assume it will skip the missing tracks in a playlist as normal but it might be possible that it picks them up if they're present on the device somewhere.

Garveyon Banks Look Safer with Deposits

Pedantic I know but I wanted to check if it was in Wolf of Wall Street and having searched the script it would appear it wasn't...

Maybe another movie?

Garveyon You probably don’t need input type=“number”

I feel like this is a poor example. In this case the input should never have been number in the first place.

Garveyon Artificial meat: UK scientists growing 'bacon' in labs

I think the word fake is the issue here. It's fake in the sense it's not from animals is my interpretation, not that it's lacking in vitamin, nutritional value etc.

But admittedly, that's only my interpretation.

Garveyon A Tinder-style app called Tudder lets farmers find breeding matches for cattle

Came to say the same thing

Garveyon Artists Create “Infinite Skulls” Using GANs

My first time I looked at an artexed ceiling and it looked like hundreds of Jimi Hendrix face but in the style of Edvard Munch's scream. Surprisingly beautiful

Garveyon REST and GraphQL really aren't that different

Isn't that specific to graphiql rather than GraphQL itself? From reading the issue it seems graphiql is expecting it in that format, and the actual status code to return is down to the developer.

Garveyon US diplomat convicted over Iran-Contra appointed special envoy for Venezuela

In fairness to The Guardian, they've been writing about it for years. Online coverage seems to have started in 1999, with a few significant articles reproduced from earlier print versions.

Garveyon Steam's first uncensored adult game has been blocked in 28 countries

Any way to view the article without logging in?

Garveyon Ask HN: Anyone knows what ended with that TIFU story about Google?

Thread was updated with a response from Google Support: https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8l231x/google_banne...

Garveyon The History of the Philips CD-I, Failed PlayStation Ancestor

Don't suppose you happen to have any old documentation lying around? Long shot I know but... nostalgia

github.com/mamedev/mame/issues/3599#issuecomment-391492737

Garveyon VLC 3.0 Media Player release

Not sure about Mac but there's an option for that in the windows version at least.

Tools -> Preferences -> Playlist and Instances

"Allow only one instance" and "Use only one instance when started from file manager", uncheck both to allow more than one window at a time all the time.

Garveyon Ask HN: Great science fiction movies?

And now there's a sequel! :D

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5770864/

Garveyon Firefox Private Browsing vs. Chrome Incognito: Which Is Faster?

A quick google search suggests that yes, they would allow this.

Garveyon Ask HN: Why do you believe that your religion/faith/worldview is correct?

I imagine, because science will change to reflect the new evidence, religion doesn't...

Garveyon Ask HN: Would you consider running SQL Server on Linux?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/sql-server+linux

Why can't you get support on Stack Overflow?

Garveyon Show HN: Watch anything instantaneously, with just a `watch “Star Wreck”`

Getting the exact same thing...

Happens in both Powershell and CMD prompt.

Node -v 8.4.0 x64 Win 10 Pro