ignoranceprior

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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
I wonder whether, upon clicking the links, there is any indication about the change in visible content.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Link should end with '.html', not '.htm': http://www.art.net/studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/hyperlook/ind...
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
If you are playing as white and know in advance black is going to play the bongcloud, then 2. Qh5 is forced mate. i.e. 1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Ke7 3. Qxe5#
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
I think technically a URL/URI is only supposed to contain ASCII characters, and certain things that expect URL input will want ASCII only. However, all modern browsers can convert from Unicode to punycode (in the domain name) and perce
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Try going to e.g. https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A7%CF%81%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%BF... When visiting the page (at least on Firefox), the location bar displays the intended characters, but when copying it you get the percent
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
The USSR was not part of the Axis. Quite the opposite. (Although they did have a non-aggression pact with Germany before the start of the war, that did not last long.) Which just goes to show that many Americans aren't really aware of
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
They seem to have that warning on every single page of catalog.archives.gov. That solution seems much easier than figuring out whether each individual item requires a warning or not.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
archive.md works for me
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
- Non-tech-savvy users might not instantly recognize example.xyz as a domain name. When you discuss your site in person, you might have to explain the TLD, whereas with .com, .net, .org, this isn't an issue. - If the same domain name b
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1263/
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irwin–Hall_distribution
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
If Star Trek taught me anything, it's that most aliens look like humans, except for some bumps on their forehead. Hodgkin's Law of Parallel Planetary Development.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
I'd be curious to see how sentiment analysis of contemporary writing has changed over time. That would be easier to interpret than this metric too.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
https://copilot.github.com
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
COVID might be the worst infectious disease in recent memory, but it is far from the worst disease in history.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Ronaldo, the soccer/football player
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Yeah, computational capital is just a special case of capital in general, albeit one that will likely be highly important going forward.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
"Treat for" or "Threat to"?
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
> Use old english language Hwæt, weardmann! Hwæt is sēo ġedrēfednes?
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
If I had to guess, I would say Black+ means anyone who has Black heritage, even if mixed. But it could be a sexual orientation thing too.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
What does the "+" in "Black+" and "White+" mean?
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Is there a non-paywalled version?
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Well, it's possible with the API if you use: http://hn.algolia.com/api/v1/search?query=bar&restrictSearch...
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Is there any common term between the site and its affiliates that you could exclude using the minus operator?
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
If you remember what tool you used to generate or access the wallet, maybe that would help? Maybe it's something related to Base58 format, which seems to be common for bitcoin keys? If it's Base58, then it should not contain the c
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Not sure if serious or joking. Poe's law.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
If the evil version 3.1 is more restrictive than previous versions, then you are right to say people could just ignore it. However, if evil version 3.1 is more permissive, for an extreme example say they changed it to a verbatim copy of WTF
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
And Wikimedia.
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
Does the BTC legally belong to the company, or the users, if it was given by mistake? Would they be within their rights to sue for it to be restored? I'm assuming it works the same way as for errors involving fiat currency, but I'
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by ignoranceprior 5y ago
For the non-mobile diff: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum... For the full discussion: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum#Freenode_(IR...

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