Ballantara

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by Ballantara 2y ago
he's never going to move on to anything meaningful, he's fully cooked
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by Ballantara 8y ago
When GNOME 3 came out, it felt like they had this vision of a Better way to Do Things and didn't see why all their users wouldn't be excited to change their workflow. How they responded to criticism definitely makes sense given th
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by Ballantara 8y ago
This. How much lost time, panic, and rage did carelessly deleting these folders cause? It was a dire mistake.
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by Ballantara 8y ago
Well, there's a tension between the right to collect/collate/record naturally public things and being concerned about how that info’s being used by others. Does it seem reasonable to have law enforcement go through your curbs
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by Ballantara 8y ago
The expanded scale raises concerns - avoiding secure locations that scan your face is less burdensome than refraining from public air travel, and a homeland security-curated traveller face db would have a wider reach than a secure site&#x27
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by Ballantara 8y ago
Whether it's a revenue source or not, fb still owns the biometric data and is using it for god knows what (and asking "evidence?" like this comes off as a way of avoiding the point)
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by Ballantara 9y ago
It lets you quickly see which search results you're walking toward and want to check the details on. You could get the same info from reading a result list, but if this takes less attention it's a good presentation.
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by Ballantara 9y ago
It sounds like rebasing this way ensures branches will not overlap at merge time. This presumably pushes the "combination of changes" into the rebased-before-merging branch, which (if nothing else) makes sure that one committer o
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by Ballantara 9y ago
Their Polari bible translation has "unto the homie" == "to the man", so Polari for "man" is "homie"! I think the modern slang homie comes from "homeboy", so that'd be convergent etymolo
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by Ballantara 9y ago
s/barley/weed/gi
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by Ballantara 9y ago
The fun images may have seemed like a way to lighten things up, but here they're a distraction from the content.. even as still images, every section break doesn't need a happy monkey or Poison Ivy.
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by Ballantara 9y ago
Discussion from Jan: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13528599