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Activity for Olin Lathrop
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| Comment | Post #286323 |
OK, I'll add detailed app info to the question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286290 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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Android phone, name associated with incoming call? This is regarding the regular phone app that came with my Android phone. Under App Info, it says App installed from Google Play Store and version 78.0.437276706. I haven't done anything deliberate to change the phone app from what came with the phone, although there have surely been automatic updat... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #286214 | Initial revision | — | about 3 years ago |
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A: Computer whining (~16khz noise coming from somewhere in the case) This is from a meta-stable oscillation of one of the switching power supplies. The switching speed is almost certainly much higher than this, which is why you don't hear it most of the time. Under just the right conditions of input voltage and load current, the control algorithm of the power supply... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284261 |
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| Comment | Post #285868 |
Define what you want, not what specific product you want that many here don't know. Also, this doesn't seem like a user-level question in the first place, although maybe it is valid depending on what this AdSense thing is supposed to do. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285835 |
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| Edit | Post #285835 |
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| Edit | Post #285835 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Get unique list of all files in a git repository, which I modified You could take the list you have, then sort it and remove redundant lines. Sorting programs come with the OS nowadays. I've had to do such things occasionally, so I created a program to eliminate adjacent redundant lines from a text file. For example, I copied your GIT output above into the fi... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285791 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can I heighten the Security window? Unquestionably, I wrote the original links to Microsoft in my post. I thus attributed. This if flat-out wrong. Here is all the text in the post you reference: I actioned all these steps to Take Ownership of my Drive D, like adding Everyone to permissions and choosing "Never notify me when" in ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285790 |
I am not, nor ever claimed to be, a Dr. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285766 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Can I post this question — now REwritten and citing Super User — similar to one deleted by moderator? No, you should not post that question, at least not in this form. Here are some problems: Can I await Mozilla or Firefox to unearth the awry Add On(s)awry, before attempting myself? How long needs Firefox? That's too long for a title. The title should be a concise summary. More importantly... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285726 |
-1 for expecting others to clean up your mess for you. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285699 |
Or even just hover over it. Often a "tool tip" will appear.
The real answer to your question, @#53919, is apparently <i>"I didn't think of it, and I'm looking for instant gratification. I've found asking here is less work than actually reading documentation or otherwise trying to solve the probl... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285599 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Camera USB device in file explorer - why so slow? This is a function of how the device presents itself over the USB, and also possibly what file format it stores pictures in. Some modern cameras can be switched between being a "camera" or "file system" over the USB. Check the user manual. To guarantee you see the pictures in part of your file s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285408 |
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| Comment | Post #285408 |
@samcarter: OK, I added some weasel words. That doesn't change the fact that this is either a very dumb question, or a very badly written one. It's not clear whether the issue is that anything happens when you click a link, that Chrome specifically run versus some other browser or app, or that the ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285408 |
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| Edit | Post #285408 |
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| Edit | Post #285408 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can I halt Windows from forthwith switching to Google Chrome, after I click on URLs on Skype? This answer is to the question as originally asked, not what it was edited to several days after this answer was written. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? Don't click on the link! Clicking a link without any additional keys or unusual setup in just about any s... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285386 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can the total size of all frames of a video > that video's size? Due to "compression". The video is highly compressed. Some of that compression makes use of the picture not changing much from one frame to another. When you extracted individual frames, such compression couldn't be applied. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285385 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Distinguish like I'm 9 years old — Bit rate vs. Data rate? Very briefly, bit rate is the rate at which individual bits are sent. Data rate is the rate at which data is effectively transferred. Not all bits carry data. Some are used for various out of band signalling purposes, like synchronizing both ends, delimiting bytes, indicating that there is curre... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285182 |
@elgonzo: So what do you suggest, allow anyone to post all over the internet and have the volunteers in all those places duplicate effort? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285220 |
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| Edit | Post #285220 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How to handle crossposts Another one just showed up: How can I record 2 simultaneous Teams meetings, on the same computer, without audio cross interference? In this case, a mod found the duplicate and posted the link in a comment. I think the correct action would have been to close the question because of it being a cros... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #285182 |
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| Edit | Post #285182 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How to handle crossposts This isn't really a license issue. You are assuming that the post was written elsewhere first, then copied here. However, since the same user posted all of them, we should assume that user wrote the post once locally, then copied that to all the sites. In any case, it's the user's IP, and the us... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284884 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: What should our take be on software recommendation questions? Requesting recommendations for particular apps is not a good fit for this site. These are essentially "shopping questions", which are disallowed on other Q&A sites for good reasons. These reasons have been discussed at great length elsewhere, but briefly, the drawbacks of such questions are: The... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284876 |
This question is apparently about a particular software application, but you never said what that is. Or perhaps these words have particular meaning in some context, like type setting, which you also didn't specify. This really should be closed as <i>unclear</i> until the relevant context is provid... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284706 |
Whoever downvoted this, please explain what you think is wrong, misleading, or badly written. Silent downvotes do the site a disservice. The author doesn't know what to address, and other users don't know what shouldn't be believed. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284706 |
We are seeing the same problem here as there was on SE, which is silent downvotes for no apparent reason. If someone thinks this post is wrong or misleading, they should explain what that is. I can't fix what I don't know is wrong, and other's can't learn from a silent downvote either. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284706 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Does Wireless receiver increase internet speed? There is much confusion in this question. What you call "wireless driver" is apparently the built-in WiFi transceiver in your computer. If so, this has nothing to do with a driver. Whatever device you use to access WiFi will need a software component called a "driver". The thing suggested to yo... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284598 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How can I, most effortlessly, whiten or white out yellow or brown Tint? What you want to adjust is called the white balance. That's a very common issue, so I expect just about any image editing software has a feature to manipulate the white balance. I'm not familiar with Infranview or Gimp because I have my own image editor. I'll use it to demonstrate. Here is th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284373 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A You were probably not logged in. You can sometimes get logged out when something changes on your machine, you get to the site from a different machine, etc. The view is very similar, and often it's not immediately obvious. I usually only notice when features are missing. When this happens, ta... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284261 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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