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by gsnedders 11d ago
This hasn’t been true in over a decade.
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by gsnedders 18d ago
It's also, inevitably, the newest people who are often the best at fixing basic documentation — because they're the ones who don't already know it.
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by gsnedders 1mo ago
> The peculiar properties of CJK characters and the philosophy (apparently the Japanese did not like Unicode's tendencies towards Aristotelian essentialism) under which they were implemented in Unicode probably singlehandedly forced
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by gsnedders 1mo ago
There’s a decent amount of public health research that suggests that annual physical exams don’t actually have a large impact on health. In the US case specifically, I always wonder how much of the benefit is just “here’s a free appointment
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by gsnedders 1mo ago
And I get it — when the name of FooBar Inc is on the billboard. When there’s neither a product name nor a company name, which seems to be happening more and more often, I just don’t get it!
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by gsnedders 1mo ago
I feel like SF has been full of frequently inscrutable billboards as long as I’ve been coming here — at least a decade. It’s maybe got slightly more extreme recently, with an even larger percentage of them being inscrutable to me as someone
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by gsnedders 2mo ago
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/commits/master/aci... shows the history of the web-platform-tests copy of WPT, which has mostly followed Hixie’s earlier updates to Acid3 by simply commenting ou
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by gsnedders 2mo ago
I’d still love a way to be able to rewrite commits at merge time, via Actions or otherwise. The most obvious case is something like adding a Reviewed-By/Signed-off-by trailer based on reviewers, but there’s also a decent number of big
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by gsnedders 2mo ago
And enough of the time you can just match based on subject line, similar to how fixup/squash commits work with autosquash. There’s enough ways you can match up commits, with plenty of prior art in this space.
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by gsnedders 2mo ago
Being based on a microcontroller and having limited RAM, I do wonder how good its ePub implementation is, especially in terms of CSS, but also in terms of dealing with larger (XHTML) documents.
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
This is why a distinction is often drawn between vulnerabilities and exploits — many more things can be weaknesses in a system that can only be exploited in combination with other vulnerabilities. An obvious example is web browsers, where a
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
It came in macOS Tahoe 26 — a year later than on iOS and iPadOS. Personally, I find it somewhat less effective on larger screens, simply because my eyes are more likely to be further from the dots.
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
Yes, every single CSS standard ever has required that.
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
While plausible, I would suspect it’s more likely you’ve just run into bugs than forwards-compatible error behaviour — most ePubs don’t get anywhere near actually interesting CSS!
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
epubcheck is meant to ensure conformance with the standards, not the interoperably implemented subset of the standards. (Which has lots of awkward questions: which implementations of the standards, which versions of those implementations, e
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
You are of course correct that ePub nowadays doesn’t mandate a given version of CSS (though earlier versions did!), but that doesn’t matter in this case: it’s non-conforming according to even CSS level 1 (1996), per https://www.w
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
To be clear, ADE’s behaviour is not conforming to any version of the standards it claims to implement. If it had been, it would reject that specific max-width property declaration as having an invalid value and ignore it, not reject the ent
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
Another obvious example are cryptographic hash functions: if you have a function f(s) = h, you can trivially specify a function inverse_f(h) = s st f(s) = h, and if you can infer a non-brute-force algorithm for that, you’ve just inferred a
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
Only WSL2; WSL1 was an actual subsystem.
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by gsnedders 3mo ago
It feels deeply unfortunate that even with Windows on AArch64 requiring ACPI that it still doesn’t suffice for Linux, unlike on x86. And I know a lot of that lies on the vendors, but it does feel unfortunate (from a standardisation/con
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by gsnedders 4mo ago
Who is outsourced here? It’s not immediately apparent from the article that people were being outsourced?
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by gsnedders 4mo ago
> In a union, the only way up is seniority or, in other words, the amount of money you've paid in dues over the years. I’m unaware of this ever being the case in the UK — the lack of closed shop units means that even when collective
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
Apple’s own style guide says to use the name of the appropriate release: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/applestyleguide/apsg72...
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
RSS 2.0 is kinda an unspecified mess, and at least 15 year ago, if you wanted to be compatible with the majority of content you needed some weird heuristics to detect which interpretation of the spec a given feed was using (lol). And Dave W
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
Other common approaches: 1. Per capita 2. Per registered vehicle 3. Per trip All of these have upsides and downsides (as does “per vehicle km”), and all will paint different pictures with different distortions.
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
https://www.spiegel.de/auto/aktuell/tempolimit-koennte-jaehr... claims a 75% higher fatality rate on unrestricted autobahn v. autobahn with speed limits. But in general: freeways/motorways (whatever you want
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
At least in SF, there’s both a phone number and a QR code on a sticker on the driver-side window, and per what’s linked from https://waymo.com/firstresponders/ it seems like that’s a dedicated phone line. I wonder quit
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
AS2 was mostly following the direction of ES4 — so it wouldn’t have diverged if it hadn’t been abandoned.
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
You cannot stop in a cycle lane to drop people off without first driving into the cycle lane.
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by gsnedders 5mo ago
A few devices do support USB 5Gbps over Lightning!

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