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This triggered for me when trying to download a podcast from Hardcore Gaming 101. The detection is clearly very accurate and good. I had no shame disabling it.

Anyone interested in the development of the ARPANET and its transformation into the Internet we know today owes it to themselves to read Where Wizards Stay Up Late by Hafner and Lyon - it’s a great read and the audiobook isn’t bad either.

It sends me to endless ‘appsflyer.com’ redirects and prompts to install Norton VPN apps from the app store on ios. Wtf.

I don’t have a problem with this. I am seeing systemd as a system management layer and as such it makes sense that it should manage as much of the moment-to-moment operation of the system as possible. It seems like a lot of people are upset because it’s a new thing to learn that’s being forced on them by their distro.

I used to feel the same way. I’m only a casual linux user and I didn’t want to climb this particular mountain but having learned just a little about it, created some of my own units and played with the tools the sense of alienation dissipated and I was fairly happy with it.

In my opinion the problem with Kinect was that it was necessarily a 1-1 mapping between your performance and the character on-screen. The Wii, in comparison, could only sense broad gestures. The direct mapping of kinect requires a great performance by the player to make a great performance in-game. This isn’t what gamers are used to - they’re used to a kind of ability amplification through the controller, where they press a few buttons or waggle the Wii remote and Spiderman does a sweet backflip.

Playing Kinect games was either frustrating because the game would not recognise your gestures, overly complicated because there were too many possible gestures and no obvious affordances to the user other than ‘move your whole body somehow’, or simply too physically difficult for some players to perform.

It’s ironic that such a high fidelity input device actually limits the kind of games you can design for it. Some of the best Kinect games were those that used the input data for purely cosmetic purposes.

https://www.lingscars.com/ - yes, this is a real car rental business. Best viewed on desktop - the mobile version is not nearly as... potent.

Not just on the Arc either - the inline assembler was also available in BBC BASIC on its predecessor, the BBC Micro. I remember you had to put the asm code in a FOR loop so the interpreter could do two passes - one to locate all the labels and one to assemble the result, I believe.

That BASIC also had proper functions and procedures as well as special fast integer variables in zero page, it offered easy access to the whole machine from graphics to sound to ADCs and tape or disk IO. It was also very fast for the time, and the manuals that came with the machine were excellent.

The BBC micro user manual section on the inline assembler is available here for anyone interested in how it worked: http://central.kaserver5.org/Kasoft/Typeset/BBC/Ch43.html

I’m not sure I’m a fan. It’s like a profile shot of a laughing bulbous head. It says supermarket brand laundry detergent to me.

For those not aware Captain Disillusion is an impressively well produced youtube series mimicking the vibe of 90's kids TV, but for an adult audience. The Captain uses Blender for the 3D effects in his videos, and did a great presentation at the Blender conference last year [0].

The type of effect used to create these candy words is covered in the "Marble Sorting Machine" video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em-pVICrnqM

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qSTcxt2t74

Which criticisms are you referring to?

Maybe it wasn't open to the public Internet, but the VPN exit is inside the datacenter and connects out to the public Internet. Is it feasible that NordVPN provided their customers with a secure tunnel into their own datacenter's management software?

Given the behaviour demonstrated (register fingerprint, everything works as expected, add screen protector, any fingerprint unlocks), I'd imagine that they're not dealing with every possible result the fingerprint reader can produce. For example, they might be assuming the result could be either a pass or a fail, but in fact there are three states: valid fingerprint and matched, valid fingerprint and not matched, and not a valid fingerprint.

Perhaps the fingerprint reader returns a result of 0 for "valid print and not matched", result 1 for "valid print and matched", and result -1 for "not valid print". If the phone vendor code simply tests for a non-zero result code and treats this as "matched", then the situation described would occur.

It would be interesting to test with other smooth objects that might activate the reader.

Yeah agreed. It's almost certainly some code that needs to change from this:

  testResult = TestFingerprint(fingerprint);
  if(testResult)
    return UNLOCK_OK;
  else
    return UNLOCK_FAIL;

to this:

  testResult = TestFingerprint(fingerprint);
  if(testResult == RESULT_OK)
    return UNLOCK_OK;
  else
    return UNLOCK_FAIL;

> In fact there are already articles showing how the unlock feature works while you’re asleep

Hah, this was the first thing I tested with Face ID when I got my iphone 10. If you look at it with your eyes closed then it won't unlock. Open your eyes and it instantly unlocks. It spent about five minutes playing peek-a-boo with it.

Maybe I’m living in the 1970s but I always assumed pagers just showed a phone number and you were supposed to call back?

I didn't appreciate physical albums when I was younger but now I find it difficult to throw them out, especially if they were bought in a store. Just looking at them reminds me of the time in my life that I bought them, who I was with and where I was.

I think it's meaningful to surround yourself with objects that remind you who you are, and your ability to shape your world. I do not get this sense with Spotify or Apple Music or Youtube. I still use those services but there's a sense of detachment, like listening to an song in a store.

May I recommend Keypirinha [1] over Launchy? I recently tried all of the launchers I could find for Windows and KP was by far the best, and does not get enough recognition in my view.

[1]http://keypirinha.com/

It now looks as though it might be Google Chrome. Whoooops.

https://mrmacintosh.com/google-chrome-keystone-is-modifying-...

e: hn discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21064663

Sounds unlikely to be a virus. Certificate expiry seems probable if it’s happened suddenly to everyone using this software and dongle.

There is already a Microsoft library for this - System.Numerics.Vectors, see documentation at https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.numerics?...

Not sure how MathSharp compares in performance or usability, however.

You can save downloads to the Files app, which then has folders for all the storage apps you have installed, like dropbox or icloud or whatever. You can also save to the device local storage, but for some reason only in folders created by other apps.

Save it to Files, tap ‘preview content’ then swipe over to the second document.

Windows firewall will actually block the telemetry requests if you add all the telemetry hosts to it. Hosts file hacking doesn’t work because it bypasses that somehow.

I also learned regex from that book and had the same experience as you, so although I can't remember how that book worked it's magic (it's been nearly 20 years) I can corroborate your recommendation.

I also found the various perldoc pages on regex to be very helpful resource that I referred to frequently back when I was writing perl. Notable pages are perlretut [0], which serves as an intro to regex, perlre [1] which goes into considerable depth, and perlreref [2] which is a handy quick reference for day-to-day work.

[0] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlretut.html

[1] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlre.html

[2] https://perldoc.perl.org/5.30.0/perlreref.html

I consider myself to be fairly well versed in regex having used it for years, but a recent task to match only stored procedure definitions including the optional block comments immediately preceding them (if any) in large SQL scripts proved completely exasperating. I was deep in the weeds trying to get it to do optional positive look-behind assertions before I just gave up and wrote some code to do it.

The gory details of how to just match block comments are best outlined by this blog post detailing one kindred spirit's journey through the wilderness: https://blog.ostermiller.org/find-comment, although this wasn't particularly helpful to my situation, it was reassuring to know that I was not alone and might prove interesting to the crowd here.

... Says a single German PC enthusiast retailer. Hardly representative. They could have just run a big Ryzen ad campaign or something. The clickbait headline suggests this is based on official numbers.

Reminds me of a story from my home town about a woman found in the trunk of a wych elm tree in the 1940s:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_put_Bella_in_the_Wych_Elm%...

I agree, as someone who spent quite some time building fancy admin dashboards for our team, in my most recent project I chose to abandon this and just write an Excel exporter and importer so they could edit the data in a familiar tool. The flexibility of this was huge for our team - everyone in an office has some experience of Excel and they were more productive with it than they ever were with my previous data grids and clunky web based editors.

It’s a signed type so dates before 1970 can be represented

Why can’t he be both?