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aw3c2on Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark

Thanks!

aw3c2on Examples to compare OCR services: Amazon vs. Google vs. Microsoft

FYI that link just gives a log-in screen.

I want to see all tweets of the people I follow. Precisely because I decided to follow them. It's the whole point of the site for me. Seeing all the updates from accounts I care about.

aw3c2on EU's GPS satellites have been down for four days in mysterious outage

No, that gives almost zero information as to the known cause:

> A technical incident in the Galileo ground infrastructure is affecting the functioning of the Galileo system, as a result of which there is a temporary interruption of some of the Galileo initial services.

> The cause of the technical incident is identified and recovery actions are implemented to ensure that the nominal service is resumed as soon as possible while safeguarding quality of the services.

aw3c2on Intel Core I9 9980XE vs. Ryzen 9 3900X Benchmark

There are lots of opposites in the features table. Which of those are important to me as a data analyst and gamer?

aw3c2on Avoiding Webscraping Throttling Using Python and Tor as a Proxy

In Germany there was a recent ruling that scraping, even for competing purposes, is fine.

https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Urteil-zu-Screen-Scr...

aw3c2on VAIO announces tiny laptop with tons of ports

Yeah, I am not sure what is so special about this. I expected some truly unique ports. My 13.3" Fujitsu Siemens S936 has no USB-C (age) but all the others plus a smartcard and a sim card slot. 12.5" is not exactly a magnitude smaller.

aw3c2on C. Hoare and Co., a British banking dynasty in business for more than 300 years

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Hoare

> He developed the sorting algorithm quicksort in 1959/1960. He also developed Hoare logic for verifying program correctness, and the formal language communicating sequential processes (CSP) to specify the interactions of concurrent processes (including the dining philosophers problem) and the inspiration for the occam programming language.

aw3c2on Fast, Offline, Reverse Geocoding; Or, in Which Polygon Am I? (2015)

2015

aw3c2on More than 1k Android apps harvest data even after you deny permissions

Does iOS do anything to prevent this?

aw3c2on British Airways faces record £183M fine for data breach

The state is made up by the people it represents so by this, society benefits as whole.

aw3c2on Huawei staff CVs reveal alleged links to Chinese intelligence agencies

They do it because you should let them spy on you.

aw3c2on Backing Up My Kindle Ebooks (2018)

Once.

aw3c2on Satellites threaten privacy

FYI before you scroll down to gauge the length and interestingness of the story, you have to click "read more" on the top. What a messy website.

aw3c2on Open Source Game Clones

Not too useful in its current form as it freely mixes third-party engines with actual free games.

aw3c2on Alexa shows private Wyze Cam feed to stranger [video]

And rightfully so! Privacy is a right of utmost importance and for a surveillance product should be a cornerstone of its design.

aw3c2on Pi-hole: A black hole for Internet advertisements

Pi-Hole is a very simple DNS based blocker. You can not whitelist ad providers on a origin basis.

aw3c2on Google relents slightly on blocking ad-blockers for enterprise Chrome users

There is no damage being done by ad blocking, please don't use such language.

aw3c2on Host Your Own Blog with Gitlab and Netlify

GitLab

aw3c2on It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

You were lost some where in the thread above. I totally agree but that's not what we were discussing here.

aw3c2on Scientific Errors in Nat Geo Milky Way Photos

Direct link to actual source of Medium "regurgitation": http://www.alteredimagesbdc.org/national-geographic/

aw3c2on It's time to replace GIFs with AV1 video

> Try downloading a video from a popular social network.

That's the site's decision. You also cannot easily download images from Twitter if there are more than one in a tweet for example. On Instagram it is blocked all in all.

aw3c2on Alpine Linux Docker images have NULL for root password

That is very likely due to processor/architecture optimized precompiled Python. See e.g. https://clearlinux.org/blogs/transparent-use-library-package... and https://clearlinux.org/blogs/boosting-python-profile-guided-...

aw3c2on Estimating Number of Jupyter Notebooks on Github

You made Kyso for making GitHub-hosted Jupyter Notebooks render when accessed with a web browser on github.com?

aw3c2on I made a smart watch from scratch

Ouch, stupid me. Sorry.

aw3c2on I made a smart watch from scratch

Bottom images seem photoshopped.

aw3c2on SuperTuxKart 1.0 Release

Nope, Irrlicht

> which took even longer than the port from PLIB (anyone remember that?) to Irrlicht in 2010

aw3c2on OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection

You are right, I would not say that to a person in meatspace and I should not say things like that to people on the internet either.

But:

Looking at their other articles gives me the impression of a content creator that just pollutes the internet for keywords, potentially paid-for.

Just look at https://heartbeat.fritz.ai/ , which this random assortment of code snippets was compiled for, it's all just keyword stuffing as promotion for fritz.ai, plain and simple.

And oh look, nicely delayed submissions of article after article by OP: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=salma-ghoneim

aw3c2on OpenCV-Python Cheat Sheet: From Importing Images to Face Detection

I find this extremely unnerving to look at, let alone trying to process its contents. There is huge amounts of whitespace, huge fonts, huge images, single lines of text with more whitespace, a wide variety of font styles without any clear hierarchy. Hardly more than 3-4 sentences on the screen at a time. And of course useless, persistent header and footer banners that induce a feeling of looking through a closing garage door.

And then it hit me, this is just another TED talk style Medium publishing influencer.

Nothing of value here, just a bunch of random OpenCV examples you can just as well find in the official docs https://docs.opencv.org/master/d6/d00/tutorial_py_root.html

aw3c2on IPFS Project Roadmap

That's not much different than changing my files, making a new torrent file with a small blocksize and having users use that.

What is the benefit here?