Medicineguy

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by Medicineguy 5mo ago
Almost certainly /s. "Danke Merkel" ("Thanks Merkel") was once a sincere criticism from conservatives regarding her policies (esp. during 2015 refugee crisis), but it quickly evolved into a sarcastic, deadpan joke
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by Medicineguy 1y ago
Tbh, I like it! Yes, crypto has a bad taste. But from my pov, the research paper situation is so broken, that anything that improves upon the status quo is highly welcomed. But I'm with you with the penalties. Maybe they can add an opt
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by Medicineguy 1y ago
I think you right. But researchers can upload their own papers. Seem to require a paying requester and the researcher has to notice the request.
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by Medicineguy 1y ago
I understand the confusion as I was confused myself for the same reason. I also attributed that to my english language level. But I think they just used title-case[1] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Title_case
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by Medicineguy 1y ago
While I'm sure the new Gemini model has made improvements, I feel like the user experience outside of the model itself is stagnating. I think OpenAI's interfaces, both web app and mobile app, are quite a bit more polished currentl
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by Medicineguy 2y ago
I'm not sure why others have problems, but I love it! Once, in a similar situation, I had the thought that "somebody should build that" and never imagined that somebody actually would. With your tool, I learned that our home
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by Medicineguy 2y ago
> I'd strongly recommend trying a framework other than React for your next project. This gave me a good chuckle (if you read it as next .js )
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by Medicineguy 3y ago
The Firefox Mobile (Android) page is really slow which is ironic as they advertise speed prominently. iOS Safari and Android Chrome work great though...
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
I use "HighlightAll by Jerome Goudey". If you use this, you might have to tweak your addon preferences. I have set "Always enabled", "Native Highlighting" (without whitespace) and a minimum number of characters
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
Yeah, it's to prevent click-hijacking (correct term?). I assassed the risk as very minimal.
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
My two cents for FF about:config changes: 1. disable Fullscreen "XY is now Fullscreen" text. Set full-screen-api.warning.timeout to 0 2. disable Alt key: set ui.key.menuAccessKeyFocuses to false 3. don't select space after do
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
I like the human-relatable story behind it. I think many kids experience a similar situation that sparks this life lesson. My younger self condemned my father's printer as "dumb" for printing a multi-page print job in reverse
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
I think so, yes. I could also imagine that business people: 1. see effort in integrating Slack/Matrix/.. . into their landscape 2. think MS is a big name and thus will build a proper product 3. see no big difference in terms of
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
While scrolling, the web page shifts up a couple dozens of pixels (Android, Firefox) . It's very annoying. I had to stop reading after the second paragraph. Am I the only one?
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by Medicineguy 5y ago
The fight against facial recognition will be a back and forth between the facial recognition itself and algorithms trying to prevent it (like this one). One issue is that parties using facial recognition have a big advantage: They can run n
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by Medicineguy 6y ago
For completeness sake: The BTC network is, by design, setting the difficulty of mining a new block so that its 10 min on avg. Currently there fitting ~2200 transactions in one block [0]. That makes 3.6667 transactions per second. BTC needs
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by Medicineguy 6y ago
The problem is not the option to place cookies per se. The issue is its misuse which aims to de-anonymize users (in order to place ads). I don't see how saving the user data somewhere else (in a browser add-on or in the browser nativel