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by exprA 8y ago
You can also prefix any WSJ links (among others) with “facebook.com/l.php?u=” to receive content reserved for users arriving from Facebook; that is, if you don't mind Facebook tracking.
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by exprA 8y ago
Also broken everywhere else in the site for me: you never get back to where you were* , even on a “static” page full of links. A horrible excuse of a web site – but perhaps that still makes for a good web app. I couldn't tell and don&#
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by exprA 8y ago
Affirmative action is racist. Accepting that, you can of course debate what sorts of racism we should allow, and perhaps even encourage. I probably disagree with you, but that's just my opinion.
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by exprA 9y ago
In larger sense, if fed birds are more successful, it affects the distribution of species (favouring fed part of the ecosystem). Not that it's necessarily a bad thing, and city environment does that anyway.
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by exprA 9y ago
I.e. “how do I operate my shell”. You certainly want to understand shell expansion to get stuff done effectively.
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by exprA 9y ago
I don't agree with that at all; a web browser has easily a more complex user interface than a single-purpose command-line tool like “rm” – and that is even before we open any document at all, with all their conventions we have to learn
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by exprA 9y ago
It's a VW Polo from the early noughties. Petrol, albeit a rather small engine to match the car :) To clarify my earlier post, I meant of course that a single bottle of oil is enough for the refill (between 3 and 4 litres) and more than
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by exprA 9y ago
I guess I'm at the other end of spectrum by simply following what the manufacturer proposes: I change my oil along with the filter every 18,000 miles, and so far, after 100,000 miles (and then some) have not had any issues. (My car is
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by exprA 9y ago
Are you sure you're making a point – because I can't see one. Seems more about unnecessary bitching about C++ being different from [some-different-language]. If they could do anything more stupid as introducing a galling differenc
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by exprA 9y ago
I wonder which has a bigger impact on human consumption levels: a person that decides to save his time by driving a car instead of waiting for a bus, or Africa's population increasing from 250 million in 1960 to about 5 billion by 2100
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by exprA 9y ago
>politicians are too scared to introduce that. Of course politicians should be the one who decide the rules. That's how democracy works... Keep in mind that the jet fuel that's used to transport all the world's hipsters to
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by exprA 9y ago
You can calculate a number from the resource (over)usage. Some will, of course, claim that we consume too much – but at that point, it's a matter of opinion. I call it overpopulation for the current level of technology.
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by exprA 9y ago
TIL. I don't think I've ever seen one of these hotbox driers in person, but gathered somewhere that those had existed earlier and saw them as fully obsolete technology used only in some industrial settings. The fact that they are
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by exprA 9y ago
And phytoestrogens for that nice warped hormonal balance... No thanks.
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by exprA 9y ago
>At a normal viewing distance a 100dpi monitor is already decent. No it isn't.
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by exprA 10y ago
You'd think you should be more confused about how alcohol is as accepted as it is. I feel more pity for the way people still want to impose control over other folks life – and quietly dream of the day more people accepted that substanc
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by exprA 10y ago
The sleep sub-process of time is not part of the pipeline, however. It will exit after the requested time has passed.
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by exprA 10y ago
Each sphere is only worth 5 MW (for 4 hours, totalling 20 MW·h worth of electricity). 80 spheres were not meant to cover the entire base load, but just to make them a relevant factor in the grid.
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by exprA 10y ago
>but imho the Windows desktop since 7 is better than most on the linux side. Are you by any chance a fan of minimalism? Windows desktop by default comes with almost no features at all – be it about window management, file management, net
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by exprA 10y ago
That isn't even relatively close to being the same animation. If that doesn't matter, who not just (paraphrasing): <blink>...</blink>
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by exprA 10y ago
Speaking as an European, can you really call driving subsidized (if it is in one single area, such as building code) when much more cash is spent in social services paid by fuel taxes?
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by exprA 10y ago
Because other forms of transport never get people killed, right? Because only passenger vehicles need roads? Here in the Finnish capital Helsinki we had all of 2 traffic fatalities last year. A low anomaly for sure, but because the first on
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by exprA 10y ago
HTML, CSS and JavaScript are not hard. What's hard is being able to teach any single person them – that requires many sorts of people skills. The irony is that for people with the right mindset, learning the 3 of them, or programming i
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by exprA 10y ago
gets is impossible to use safely with unformatted input , which need not be the case.
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by exprA 10y ago
I've had this chair for the better half of a decade, and I can attest to its reliability. I don't like everything about the chair, though. The hand rests prevent you from having the keyboard up close in most settings (if you like
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by exprA 10y ago
But that's one of the main driving forces of puritanism, which is what the war on drugs is mostly about.
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by exprA 10y ago
Title should have a warning about automatically playing content, although I guess with more “modern” devices background tabs' actions don't matter as much.
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by exprA 10y ago
There's another false claim like that a bit below. I can only assume that the author is close to legally blind, or uses a VGA-res display to watch the page.
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by exprA 10y ago
It isn't smoke, and it isn't burnt plant matter. In theory the vapour might have as strong a smell as cigarette smoke; in practice even the most strong smelling vapours are mostly comparable to the smell of personal fragrances, an
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by exprA 10y ago
It isn't just you, and indeed, the alignment examples make little sense with a proportional typeface. I checked the CSS, and for some reason the code blocks use the exact same fonts as the rest of the text (albeit with a new font-famil

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