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Perhaps it's a bit silly, but it amused me that this line: "<a byte that contains an header>" made me ask whether the author was French. A very quick search for his name comes up with predominantly French (language, at least) results, so I'm comfortable enough leaving it at that.
I have found the exported data to be extremely spotty in certain areas. Especially the YouTube history.
Not to mention that it appears completely broken in Firefox. https://i.imgur.com/1wgZlgv.jpg
I found out, in a happy little accident, that dgg.gg also works.
Just out of curiosity: how often do you find yourself using !g and then actually finding a better answer?
Why would France ever pay for the "privilege" of having US citizens living in France?
It's a deep, and scary, rabbit hole. If you're at all curious, it seems Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t on YouTube are not just slinging shit. I've watched some, and sources have always been included.
Don't get me wrong, they clearly kick things up a notch in the drama department, but they do the ground work in sourcing articles for you.
I've found NoScript a bigger part of my browsing habits lately. I wait for the moment when a site just goes haywire, maxing CPU cores, at which point I just nix its script privileges. This isn't nearly as disruptive as distrusting all websites.
Not in the least. I spent a good portion of the past 15 years trying desperately to rekindle the flame that brought me into the business, but I just couldn't seem to do it. As of November last year, I quit, and I'm now back in school at the ripe old age of half_dead.
At present, I have no idea what the future has in store for me, but whatever it is I hope it grants me some level of satisfaction at least.
You'll have to wait many years for that. The cow is noticeably thinner, but by no means dry just yet. They'll keep milking it!
It's interesting to me, seeing how many people are so deeply dissatisfied with the results. I switched a couple of years ago, and only had a very small (two-three week) period where I'd check back on the mighty GOOG, only to confirm that they didn't have any better results either.
Might it be due to the way I format my queries?
Which it seems is precisely what this addon solves.
A rather interesting use case, and one that I haven't been forced to deal with just yet. On a rather cursory search, however, I came across Switchy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchy/
Are these two solving the same problem?
Ultimately there are very simple explanations for most things. You'll have developer/mapper playgrounds where they model new stuff and try things out before cutting them or implementing them. Sometimes these things happen in production maps, and are simply overlooked when they are no longer interesting. It's cruft, but for explorers they are so much more.
Other times they are really nicely fleshed out, but locked away behind flimsy "gates", and really were intended to go into the full game, but had to be abandoned at the very last minute.
And then there's the cinematic areas that are made for show, implemented as they were intended, which never included being accessible to players.
What's really the most rewarding thing about this is that you, as a player, as an explorer, get to puzzle things out; you almost get to write the narrative yourself.
They both transform to the most sensible html given the input.
I'm going to have to disagree with you. Long before Markdown came along, the convention was to use asterisks for * bold *, slashes for /italics/ and underscores for _underlined_ text. And that's just for starters.
Those three examples perfectly convey the intended effect, quite unlike the Markdown versions where asterisks will somehow imply italics, but only if they're single asterisks? It's a strange thing!
Not sure what you mean; Windows 10 is exactly like Windows 7 and Windows 8 here. You hit the start button / start key, you start typing, and the things you want start popping up.
I can assure you, that is not the way it currently functions on my Win10 machine. For me the search bar is a magnifying glass next to the start menu, at a minimum, or a full-blown text field. Regardless of which state, I have to click it before being able to type and search.
People bitched about the new start menu because they weren't willing to see that there were better ways to find their programs.
What exactly was the better way though? I'm still on Win7 in my primary computer, having Win10 (and previously Win8) installed on my secondary.
On Win7 I press the start button and type the name of what I want to run (or find) - this lets me do what I want very quickly with a minimum of interruption.
Win8 was similar, but it threw a jarring fullscreen slab of apps in my face. I say it was similar because it still let me start typing right away and get to the stuff I wanted with minimal hassle.
Win10 is a whole different beast, I feel. The search was decoupled from the start menu; but the start menu itself returned to most of its former glory (unintrusive, no jarring screen transition). The key factor here is that I can no longer just start typing to get to an app, and I have yet to invest the necessary time into seeing if it is at all possible since it's still my secondary machine.
Right now, amidst all of the anti-Microsoft scaremongering, I'm also finding it less likely that I'll keep going down the Microsoft path. Linux is starting to look more and more attractive, with OS X a strong second place contender. And not just for the start menu.
There's an addon for Firefox that does the job for you. It's depressing for people like us, but if you still want to get an accurate count, the name is simply "Open Tab Count". Proceed with caution... :|
But I think you underestimate what many people are willing to put up with as their daily protein source.
As far as I'm concerned, it's not even about putting up with anything. Real meat is cheaper and tastes better.
That's two reasons to keep eating meat, and depending on your beliefs it's either one or zero reasons against.
Swedish here, I write Z with the line, as well as the number 7. My first teacher was ancient even in the 90s, so that may have something to do with it?
Given that, around here anyway, solar powered "night lights" for use outdoors are very prevalent and only set you back about a dollar a piece... $5 certainly seems very possible.
Now these lights I'm talking about are really quite dim (and omni-directional), but they really are disgustingly cheap as well.
A product designed to be of practical use rather than almost purely for decoration, and at 5x the price point, would most likely fare a lot better.
Edit: Would "likely" fare better? Obviously it does. I seem to have lost track of the point I was trying to make, namely the price. XD
I think the only actual Windows app I still really need is Total Commander. I know there's lots of commander apps available for just about any platform, but I've used Total Commander for... 15 years? I know it inside and out; even a small change at this point would be jarring. :(
Don't reward this behavior by buying Windows 10. Or at least delay the purchase as long as possible.
There's no buying if you've already got a valid Windows 7/8 license; it's a free upgrade. And as long as it's optional, I don't mind this instance of a notification for a very generous offer (at least generous in terms of regular Microsoft pricing).
Assuming you've clicked the Reserve-button in the little notification application that was rolled out via Windows Update, you'll just have to sit tight and wait.
Check out the FAQ: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/windows-10-faq
Cryptonomicon was my first contact with Stephenson, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It also opened my eyes to WW2 crypto and a whole lot of other very interesting things!
I spent a long time pondering the premise of the subsequent planetary bombardment. Would the moon fragments really bang into one another the way they do in the book? Would it lead to massive fragmentation and ultimately the aforementioned bombardment?
Yeah, I read Seveneves, then The Martian and many things felt very familiar. I have to say, however, I was very annoyed with the style of The Martian.
"Open Tab Count" works nicely for me.
I use one called UnloadTab. Works a treat, and does exactly what it says on the box!
Once you get used to the tab groups they can be very powerful. I use them for contexts myself; one for casual browsing, one for development for client x, one for client y etc, one for research, and the list goes on.
Obviously you can easily achieve the same thing in separate windows as well, so ultimately I suppose it doesn't make a huge difference, but it's the way I find makes for the biggest difference in separating workspaces.