fallenspec

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by fallenspec 5y ago
I had listened to an interview with the original cleartype author on a podcast almost a decade ago now. IIRC He said that when Apple got the cleartype patent (due to the Apple/Microsoft cross patent agreement that happened in the late
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by fallenspec 5y ago
Yes, obviously.. It really depends on how much time you have, what browsers they care about supporting etc. There is a tooling out there to assist you and most of the compatibility issues are well documented now. 10 or so years ago when I s
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by fallenspec 5y ago
I didn't know what the broken window fallacy was. So I looked it up. It is rather dubious if what I said fits into this fallacy. If I leave my refrigerator open all day, it is guaranteed it will produce nothing of value. In this case,
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by fallenspec 5y ago
The fact was that I wasn't right. They were doing decent work and their beliefs didn't affect their work. A lot of non-believers (in the past I would have include myself in that list) seem to believe because they don't believ
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by fallenspec 5y ago
When I got out of university I was doing a web dev job that paid me less than a full time super market job in the UK. However after a year of working there I quickly moved on and got a big pay rise in doing so.
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by fallenspec 5y ago
The problem is with many with your attitude is that everything must be done perfectly now. This is the attitude of an abolitionist. It isn't perfect therefore it must be banned. There is money to be made mining Bitcoin and people will
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by fallenspec 5y ago
Have you thought though that if more money goes into Solar, Wind/etc (via BTC, Eth mining and similar) that more money goes into renewable energy and thus more money can be spent by those companies improving their existing offerings or
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by fallenspec 5y ago
There is a short by Adam Curtis called "Oh Dear". You may have seen it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcy8uLjRHPM The basic takeaway is that you make it impossible for the average person to keep up the thread of
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by fallenspec 5y ago
> The friction with typescript is the build environment (speaking as someone who also prefers it, and uses it all day). You can literally do: tsc filename.ts And you will have a javascript file that you can run in a browser. No
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by fallenspec 5y ago
There were many notable people who were exposed as to exposing that we all should be lockdown while breaking the rules themselves. It is quite frustrating when I live in an area where almost everyone followed the rules. Yes there is a quite
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by fallenspec 5y ago
> OP's statement leads straight to "they're out to get me," which is absolutely not helpful, and it's absolutely an indicator of a difficult hire. Not at all. If you've been out of work for a year and seeing
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by fallenspec 5y ago
I was unemployed for 9 months in the UK. I was a contractor/consultant and had to take a full time position. When Lockdowns started I was literally finishing a contract and was happy to have some time off. After month 7 of not having a
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by fallenspec 5y ago
It called progressive enhancement. You test whether you have a feature and then code around it if you don't. e.g. When createObjectUrl was a new thing. I ended up doing something using AJAX and doing some processing server side for IE
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by fallenspec 5y ago
The difference is that the tech companies between them control a huge amount of online communications. The bakers, florists and small web-developers don't.
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by fallenspec 5y ago
> We do see (3) with Typescript and Coffeescript. These create some debugging friction. Also as JavaScript gets marginally better the appeal of these other languages can feel more niche, and many people just use the common denominator. I
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by fallenspec 5y ago
I am not from the US but the core issue wasn't actually solved. There was also another case files against him around a similar issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora... I find it hard
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by fallenspec 5y ago
Do you think this tax money will be spent on NASA? I would wager not.
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by fallenspec 5y ago
Did some research on the case. Fairly in-depth review. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoRp3SI2UKM I suspect he won't run into the thermal issues experienced here unless he is doing something graphically intensive.
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by fallenspec 5y ago
> The stupid RGB LEDs can be disabled in the BIOS/firmware menu by setting “AURA” to “Stealth Mode”, and I unplugged the two 1” fans on the I/O board to keep everything silent. I also had to set the “CPU Fan Speed” in the “Moni