Thasc

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by Thasc 6y ago
Friendly fire isn't friendly, but critical thinking is critical.
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by Thasc 6y ago
I wouldn't have been bothered by this at all (including the splash), if Windows hadn't reassigned Edge as my default PDF handler. Delving into the dark guts of the default programs settings, and finding a way to convince Windows t
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by Thasc 7y ago
Same here. I have a work GitHub account, and a personal GitHub account, and am signed into each in a different container. Saves constant logging out and in, or using different browsers for each.
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by Thasc 8y ago
Progressive web app. They're kind of like JavaScript-driven websites that think they're native apps. They tend to be characterised by their use of modern web standards to do some useful things, like being available offline, and ca
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by Thasc 8y ago
Even with Prime, the couriers Amazon uses to service some areas take long enough to deliver that most other online retailers are preferable.
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by Thasc 9y ago
I give it less than a hundred orbits until someone takes a rocket over and nicks it.
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by Thasc 9y ago
It's not exactly a general solution fit for all situations and persons and purposes, but there's always TypeScript.
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by Thasc 10y ago
This is probably a reaction to the news that Facebook is now officially tracking non-users to create shadow profiles and serve adverts to them off Facebook itself. I think it's the serve-adverts-off-Facebook-itself part that's the
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by Thasc 11y ago
It'll be about the same level as respect for ticket scalping, and with about as much value added.
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by Thasc 11y ago
I seem to remember that they were using it to punish out-of-date browsers. But since I'm getting it with up-to-date Chrome, it doesn't seem to be very well targeted.
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by Thasc 11y ago
Rather than censoring it on the fly, the device could mutter 'he's lying, he's lying, it's not true' into the child's ear in a respectable, commanding voice. 'Your mummy will be so angry if you think he&#x
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by Thasc 11y ago
Please don't tell it to look for cockroaches again.
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by Thasc 11y ago
I've added a firewall rule that blocks outbound requests to Bing. That's pretty well flummoxed it. It's a far cry from an actual setting, though - which would be the obvious solution and unquestionably ought to be present.
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by Thasc 11y ago
I got halfway through reading that, well enough absorbed, and then an invitation to subscribe popped up in the middle of my field of view and nuked my attention. When are those going to stop being popular?
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by Thasc 12y ago
When interacting with a (well-designed and indexed) database, stick as much filtering and sorting as you can in the database query, rather than using a less specific database query and then crunching the result about some more in your own c
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by Thasc 12y ago
Easy. I wanted to communicate, so I decided to let that information out.
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by Thasc 12y ago
So you have nothing to hide except for things that could put you at risk if publicly disclosed. I think that disclosing any information could put a person at risk in some way or another. So I'll hide everything until I decide it's
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by Thasc 12y ago
Just popped down. Complete gridlock all the way from Trafalgar Square through Parliament Square and beyond. The air is saturated by beeping taxi horns, and it's hot as hell.
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by Thasc 12y ago
Reads like an origin story for Iain Banks' 'Culture' novels.
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by Thasc 12y ago
Nothing too odd, I think: I get to feel that little bit more insulated against the wacky stuff that malicious JS can do, and if I break a site I want to see, I can make an exception for it.
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by Thasc 12y ago
Out of curiosity, what simpler term would you instead use for 'acetylcholinesterase inhibitor'?
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by Thasc 13y ago
The best experience I've had so far was with the Proton Pulse Rift demo, probably because the head tracking is the only means of movement or interaction. If you're finding cockpit-based games easier to process than FPSes, I'd
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by Thasc 13y ago
I am so glad he had the chance to see how much he and his work are appreciated, and by so many people. RIP.
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by Thasc 15y ago
He's ruined your hard-earned reputation as a slick, suave James Bond-type operator.
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by Thasc 15y ago
The Elder Scrolls are ancient texts of prophecy in the TES universe. They foretell various major events in the game history (many of which are the player's doing, of course). So they are important in an overarching plot sense. But that does
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by Thasc 15y ago
I'm not familiar with Google+'s profile signup process, and whether or not any of it is automatic, but... is it possible he forgot to turn off his webcam?
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by Thasc 15y ago
Try 'fun'. Why? Because Google just invited me to 'scour the Earth for fun'. No-one give Google nukes, clear?
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by Thasc 15y ago
This is an extraordinarily entertaining thing to put rude words into.
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by Thasc 15y ago
Not now it got Hacker News-bombed it can't.
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by Thasc 15y ago
I had no idea there was a patented way to compute the absolute value of an integer. Insane.

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