jfax

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by jfax 1y ago
I'm reminded of this post I read regarding links that read "I forgot my password". I thought maybe wording it as "click here if..." would improve that but I somehow intuitively knew that's not right either. &gt
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Paying for bespoke furniture versus paying for a business class flight (2020)(pistonheads.com)
2 points by jfax 1y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 1y ago
Scott Adams is basically a sort of older version of Chris Chan. A cartoonist whose unreliable narration of own life became part of the whole performance. But thing is—boy who cried wolf—not sure if he actually has the prognosis of cancer he
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by jfax 1y ago
A few others are saying, "well yeah, duh!", but this to me demonstrates a mental fault that arises in calling GNU+Linux, "Linux".
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Jesus of Nazareth, enemy of the state, executed for treason (2014)(forbes.com)
8 points by jfax 1y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 1y ago
Except China actually keeps their ultra wealthy in line.
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by jfax 2y ago
A newborn's eyes are not focussed.
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by jfax 2y ago
The first example website given here is described "just text with minimal styling." It's not just text though, it's hypertext? Since when did everyone lose sight of what hypertext is.
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by jfax 2y ago
I object to the statement that a Black woman is a woman. This is a distortion of language and science.
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by jfax 2y ago
They're saying it doesn't amount to a syndrome.
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by jfax 2y ago
The UK House of Lords has a quota of 92 hereditary peers, descendants of Norman conquerors.
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by jfax 2y ago
This is beautifully articulated. I myself thought for a long time that if the day ever came that Assange walks free, I'd cry, but instead I feel a strange emptiness inside. The world isn't the one I'd imagined for this day.
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by jfax 2y ago
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by jfax 2y ago
We have airing cupboards in the UK. Cupboards with shelving that keep the hot water tank, so it's built around using waste heat from that to now and then dry damp clothes. It's not a one-to-one replacement for full clothes drying,
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A disgruntled federal employee's 1980s desk calendar (2018)(theparisreview.org)
214 points by jfax 2y ago|78 comments
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by jfax 3y ago
Same!
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A Proposal. The Osama Bin Laden Virtual Machine (2011)(old.reddit.com)
1 points by jfax 3y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 3y ago
I couldn't find independent use of the term "Frutiger Aero" outside of this article when it first blew up, so I guess this coined it. Why "Fruitger" Aero. This basically smacks of being a forced meme by underageb&am
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The depiction of winter landscapes in Western art begins in the 15th century(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by jfax 3y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 3y ago
I agree, it's a bit disorienting.
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by jfax 3y ago
Agreed. Astounded how stretched the word piracy is nowadays, I've been seeing it used for even stuff like using an ad-blocker. My policy is to only use it to refer to actual at-sea piracy.
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by jfax 3y ago
This article refers to "public intellectuals" as only being men.
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by jfax 3y ago
When I watched that in cinema I couldn't help divert my attention to a family of two adults and two children in the rows ahead of me who left a third the way through. Wonder what they were expecting.
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Doll Web Sites Drive Girls to Stay Home and Play (2007)(nytimes.com)
1 points by jfax 3y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 3y ago
No relation to Yahoo in the US. Spun off from a previous incarnation of Yahoo in that doesn't exist anymore. In practice, they're two companies that confusingly share the same name.
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How to Turn a Table into a Pallet [video](youtube.com)
1 points by jfax 3y ago|0 comments
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by jfax 3y ago
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-pandemic-is...
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by jfax 3y ago
That's what birthdays are for. I like to think, anyway.
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by jfax 3y ago
I'm laughing that the demo video features an adult in a suit sitting down at the computer to browse computer generated nursery rhymes on youtube.
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by jfax 3y ago
This was realised in the development of imageboard software (futaba.php, later yotsuba.php that runs 4chan) in the naming images, which is a unix timestamp + random 3 digit number because just the timestamp often causes clashes.

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