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by dictum 5y ago
> friends have turned from dovish "can't we all just get along" types into rabid "Russia Delenda Est" types https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance
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Scam Without a Country (1996)(dallasobserver.com)
1 points by dictum 5y ago|0 comments
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by dictum 5y ago
Slightly more involved, but still serviceable: - start typing the text on a link near the icon you want to click (for this comment, `thomasa`...) - then press Shift+Tab to highlight the previous link
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by dictum 6y ago
Why is the Facebook integration not lazy-loaded only for users who log in through an FB account?
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by dictum 6y ago
Docs are less likely to be broken if GitHub implements some automated, global way to rename the main branch: when this isn't done in an ad-hoc, per-repo way, they can implement logic to redirect URLs. (Or, for a quick and dirty fix,
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When Futurism Led to Fascism–and Why It Could Happen Again (2019)(wired.com)
3 points by dictum 6y ago|2 comments
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by dictum 6y ago
> I think a key aspect of remote work being successful is for the distributed team to be in the same time zone or have less than 1 hour time difference I think the exact time difference doesn't matter so much as everyone can be at
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm very obviously not a lawyer nor lawmaker, but I'm under the impression that anything can be classified as an act of war as long as another country is willing to treat it as such, and other superpowers/blocs are willing to
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by dictum 7y ago
Random thought: we're now closer to 2038 than to Y2K.
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by dictum 7y ago
Maybe I'm overengineering, but couldn't you store the sanitized version as the normal value, and also store and make publicly available the original unsanitized value in an ominously and obviously named key (say, dangerouslyUnsa
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by dictum 7y ago
Hm... Features take some time to get to production. The stuff I use/appreciate most launched either before Microsoft acquired them, or shortly after the deal — so its development predates that.
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by dictum 7y ago
In those places, old Apple hardware isn't significantly cheaper than new hardware. You might get a 25% discount for a degraded experience (security updates may end in ~3 years) or buy much older hardware (e.g. 9 year old models) that
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Rain Follows the Plow(en.wikipedia.org)
22 points by dictum 7y ago|1 comments
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by dictum 7y ago
Leaving common knowledge undocumented is, in itself, a misguided attempt at DRY. Your common knowledge isn't necessarily everyone's common knowledge; what you perceive isn't necessarily what it is . Every day there are many
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by dictum 7y ago
Brotli has wide browser support ( https://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli ) and comes closer to zstd in compression ratio and compression speed, but its decompression speed is significantly lower and closer to zlib. https:/&#x
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by dictum 7y ago
It's also a lot bigger than the EU.
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by dictum 7y ago
Not to gotcha this, but "I'm someone whose statements should not be taken to heart" is not a message I'd want to convey in an apology. Then again, corporate communication is often a game of being as cynical as you can ge
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by dictum 7y ago
I would love a customer-company relationship in which the customer gets meaningful information by privately contacting the company with a polite message, but in my experience this is rare. When an answer comes, it tends to misdirect rather
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by dictum 7y ago
For many Internet related phenomena, you can find an example where it already happened a long time ago with AOL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak
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by dictum 7y ago
To put it shorter, with permission, liability stands with the organization; with forgiveness, liability stands with the individual. At worst, one or two levels up the hierarchy too.
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by dictum 7y ago
Per the article, "Mozilla intends to deprecate OpenSearch and eventually remove it from Firefox".
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by dictum 7y ago
> Both Firefox and Chrome support a common format for defining search engines from add-ons ...which have nothing to do with the Open Web, mentioned in the parent reply. Both require participating in, and consequently adhering to the term
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by dictum 7y ago
We can act more effectively in the domains in which we are most authoritative, knowledgeable and able to effect change.
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by dictum 7y ago
Sometimes the desired neutrality, put to practice, is so dull that it fails to reach advocates for either position. In practice, a biased statement can bring better counterarguments: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cu
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by dictum 7y ago
> This isn't technology, it's politicians and bureaucrats deciding policies. The underlying argument of critics of algorithms that make decisions, in government and in private companies, is that this technological apparatus bec
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by dictum 7y ago
Answer: - Whoever gave cachet to certain characteristics that are present at specific points of the grass - Whoever made it desirable or necessary that passersby reach a certain location at the periphery of the field - Whoever set up restri
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm not convinced, but there's a possible setup: a fund. Entities donate to the fund, and then the money would be distributed among the candidates (either equally, among a smaller number of qualifying candidates, or for all candid
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by dictum 7y ago
My local AASP is one of the reasons I contend with some of Apple's dubious choices. It's the best service shop I've dealt with.
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by dictum 7y ago
If one considers absence of desire to take a certain approach as a constraint, anything can be a legit constraint.
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by dictum 7y ago
I'm so used to scrolling by keypress (i.e. any of the vim-like extensions), with smooth scrolling disabled and a higher scroll step, that I just recently noticed that this reduces resource usage/heat.

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