cunthorpe

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by cunthorpe 5y ago
New York was also very poor, barring some rich businessmen. You have to look at it relatively to its surrounding. Of course there were poor people too, but they lived in the “suburbs”, not in the middle of deserts like, say, in the US.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Underdeveloped by whose standard? An underdeveloped city does not seek independence. You have to place it in its context. It probably was not the poorest city by a long shot even at its birth.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I always find it awkward to compare city-states to regular-sized countries. There is no “rural Singapore.” A lot of these independent cities are tiny because they were rich and powerful to begin with; That’s a fantastic starting point tha
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
> residential routers plus a USB stick will make this more possible. This smells like "let them eat cake" except in the context of technology. Not everyone is able or even wants to mess with that stuff. There's a vast diff
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
That page looks great, I don't know what you're talking about. Are you bothered by 2 very plain gradients? I don't see candy at all
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I suppose nobody can ask about résumé anymore
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Your parents’ ADSL noodle soup is a little bland.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
> This is a proof of concept If it was a proof of concept, fine, but it's not, the author intends to develop this further and is accepting signups. I do not want this web. Just publish PDFs if you want to design fixed media.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
> it's worth exploring Hard disagree. > People have said that for literally everything we have on the web now What I meant is that here the intent is to design something once and display it in the browser as if it was an image (o
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Thanks for sharing this! I'm glad that there's a way
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Kids can't explain their emotions. Non-developers can't tell what's wrong with websites. Just because they don't complain about something specifically, it doesn't mean that they don't feel discomfort.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
The problem with SVG is that it performs terribly especially when compared with Flash. This site is relatively small and it's super slow on an i9
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
To me it sounds like the author has nearly-zero experience in web development and thus prefers publishing websites straight out of Illustrator.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Your site is laggy, zero accessibility, microscopic text unless your window is large enough, does not support anything you'd expect from a regular website. Just ship a PDF already. The web is not paper, don't design for it as if i
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
This kind of stuff ought to be regulated somehow, one can’t lose access to one’s life. I recently wasn’t able to recover an old account because I did not have access to my 2FA number and their help site suggested I “contact the phone compan
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Goat: 45cm Duck: 50cm Might as well say “shuffled emojis with random data attached”
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
I hate it when ignorant people talk out of their asses.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Wrong. Of course if you use a minifier you save bytes, it’s by definition. A decent built tool can still start from static files but also optimize them as much as possible. If there’s little CSS it might even just inline it.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Yes but they can still: - block the company nationwide, see Huawei (also includes ceasing contracts with app stores, both of which are American) - block access to your website, see TPB - harass you when you travel, either to the US or fello
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
WhatsApp has its own backups in addition to regular full-phone iCloud backups. If WhatsApp does not encrypt its content at rest locally, then “iCloud backups” still contain everything unencrypted too.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think showing a string on screen requires React or any other view library. I’d probably paint it on canvas and then overlay an invisible plaintext node to allow selection.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
It’s funny that your complaint about opaque answers got responses that imply that performance doesn’t matter. What this tells me is that Caddy is slower than its competitors and they know it. If it wasn’t, then they wouldn’t hide behind mea
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
To be fair, HTTPS by default makes perfect sense for a server. Of course the more complex the setup, the more you’re going against the defaults. It’s impossible to have defaults that work for everyone, so they chose the most common/des
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
> What's the long-term play that I'm missing? Bet: They’re building the core for all of their future products. Start free, gain momentum, have “pro” addons, slowly start offering products like WebStorm but built on top of Fleet
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
To be fair the same could be said about Sublime Text, yet here we are. If JetBrains releases a free tool that competes well with VSC on core features, I don’t see why the community wouldn’t adopt it. VSC is far from perfection, it’s only
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
What I noticed, either in iOS 15 or on my iPhone 13 Pro, is that swiping gestures often don’t complete. That means closing tabs in Safari, switching apps with the bottom bar, often “come back” as if I didn’t swipe fast enough. This is quite
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
DocuSign does not cost $10. It costs $10/month, which is waaaay more I’d spend to save past signed documents in the cloud. It’d be “cheap” or an acceptable price if a signed document costed $5. Subscriptions are BS for occasional users
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Things maybe be "addressed," but that doesn't make them right. > Apple disabled subpixel antialiasing across the operating system Right, so what is he disabling exactly? > Chrome and Safari still use subpixel antialiasi
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
Oh that was 50 years ago, it was a different time. I wonder how many disgusting things we'll be looking back at in 2070.
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by cunthorpe 5y ago
The reset is reasonable except the antialiasing line. Shame. It was discussed just a couple of days ago on HN.

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