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by jolmg 3d ago
> They tell me in a lengthy statement in part that the department would never issue an ultimatum of pay for the damage or your children will be charged. They tell me quote, "We simply don't operate that way." Rather, the d
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by jolmg 4d ago
It's interesting how the words can be ambiguous like that. If I think of the distinction in the context of e.g. clothes, there's likely more engineering in fast fashion and more crafting in bespoke clothing. With food, more engine
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by jolmg 4d ago
My responding to comments doesn't mean I use them.
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by jolmg 5d ago
You can block Google Analytics with your browser. You can't block needing to ask Google for the URL of the result you want to visit.
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by jolmg 5d ago
Don't know how modern this is, but I remember being disappointed that despite Google claiming it had billions of results, you could only see a few pages' worth. Looking now, I've just noticed they no longer give a count of re
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by jolmg 5d ago
Privacy-wise, it enables them to track the result you click on. Also, though more niche, it would make archived search result pages (e.g. on the Wayback Machine) less useful.
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by jolmg 8d ago
Their point is that weekly downloads may have been on a constant rise for years due to a constant rise in popularity. It's not as constant as absolute number of downloads, but the point is that "breaking record" is still some
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by jolmg 11d ago
> Don't use nomen as a variable name. Seriously. It's a macro for typedef For all the warnings so far about not using nomen as a variable, wonder why not just do "typus_definire", since both "type" and &quot
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by jolmg 13d ago
It's not a school policy if the police get involved. It seems like it's law. It's kind of funny that the post is about a parent being punished for giving their kid some autonomy and how that punishment reflects something bein
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by jolmg 13d ago
> If a parent escorts their children to school they'll be told not to. If they keep doing it they'll get a letter from the school and probably a police visit. And if they continue (I never heard of it getting to this stage) the
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by jolmg 14d ago
> But they do not seem to care that Google is tracking their spouse. Rather, I imagine it would be a bit hard to get them into doing that, given the difficulties it can imply.
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by jolmg 15d ago
Not sure if you really mean it, but you're kind of making the argument that a person that mindlessly shovels dirt from one hole to another in a circle should be paid. People are paid for the result, not for their labor.
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by jolmg 15d ago
I'm using "research" broadly. People can privately research and publish under whatever arrangement they wish. Academics too. For those that sell their copyright, that would be valued based on projections of what the copyright
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by jolmg 15d ago
>> Author: I spent six months writing this story. > Authors and artists are not (and souldn't be) making Art for money. Hmm... > Author: I spent some years researching a topic to write a book about it. Authors don't ju
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by jolmg 15d ago
https://tmpout.sh/5/1.html > Welcome to tmp.0ut Volume 5! They are kinda inconsistent about it, looking at the social media handles, ascii logos, etc.
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by jolmg 15d ago
Oh. m(ulti)k(ernel) vs m(icro)k(ernel) and neither means "make".
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by jolmg 16d ago
https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2022/11/17/manifest-v3-signi... > Towards the end of 2023 [...] we’ll decide on an appropriate timeframe to deprecate MV2. https://blog.mozilla.org/addo
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by jolmg 16d ago
Really? I don't remember it from back then, but right now must be better in terms of the content available, the player (not the shorts one; that's awful), automatically generated subtitles with transcripts that can be searched, au
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by jolmg 16d ago
"Being at an age" can include having age-related illnesses.
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by jolmg 17d ago
Kinda cool when you learn the answer to something you were wondering about decades ago.
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by jolmg 17d ago
It's just neatness. Like ironing clothes or putting on a tie, it's not about it serving a functional purpose. It's just to show off straight lines.
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by jolmg 18d ago
> I don’t use social media, but I consume news, blogs and newsletters - and comment threads - voraciously. > It seems to have worsened in recent years. I’d like out, but the dealers are on every corner. That's just anxiety from w
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by jolmg 18d ago
> Funny but I struggle with copying anything in most recent TUIs. Fancy padding or multiplexer borders and multiple lines of text? It breaks. Incomplete text in a spreadsheet column (tabiew) or a narrow internal window? Hold Alt while tr
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by jolmg 19d ago
OCR will always ultimately be guesswork. It's up to the font used whether 1/I/l/| or O/0 or -/‒/–/—/― can be differentiated.
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by jolmg 19d ago
> While it’s true that if you randomly pick a GUI and a TUI application, the latter is more probable to be fully keyboard-driven, this does not tip the scale in favor of developing TUIs over GUIs3. What it does is highlight the inadequac
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by jolmg 22d ago
> consist entirely of people that support banning non-approved ideas that the real world considers non-controversial What's an example?
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by jolmg 26d ago
That happens with all editing programs for lossy formats, but it's on write, not on read.
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by jolmg 26d ago
> This is a social contract What's the other side of the contract? Why would a reader oblige to corrupt?
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by jolmg 26d ago
You're telling me that this generic URL https://xcancel.com/antibot/captcha leads you to this particular post about Rivian OS 2? https://xcancel.com/WassymBensaid/status/20900988565959517
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by jolmg 27d ago
Post link is https://xcancel.com/antibot/captcha That's not going to lead anywhere beyond the homepage.

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