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by no_protocol 1y ago
The traditional pattern seen here of serving pages under a hierarchy called `~cks` indicate this is the personal site of someone who is affiliated with the university. Unless otherwise noted you should probably assume all the content is fro
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by no_protocol 4y ago
I am assuming the "SMW3 cable" mentioned is SEA-ME-WE 3, which was mentioned multiple times in "Mother Earth Mother Board" by Neal Stephenson (1996, Wired) [0]. It was noted as a competitor to FLAG, the cable Stephenson
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by no_protocol 4y ago
It doesn't talk about a senate at all: > It is divided up into 10 districts, each of which sends one representative to the national legislature, which consists of 10 people. They take this as a given and try to come up with convolut
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by no_protocol 4y ago
Why do they need to only have single-member districts? How about having fewer districts with more members per district? It seems like Fix Gerrymandering is a solution aimed at the wrong problem when the entire problem could just be eliminat
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by no_protocol 5y ago
Read Snow Crash
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by no_protocol 6y ago
Allow 3rd party resources, it has visual aids and buttons.
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by no_protocol 6y ago
> PGP is still fucking awesome and should always be used for any sensitive communication (best case scenario: all for every contact you can get to use it) - in addition to secure providers and all the other stuff we should be doing. Sorr
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by no_protocol 6y ago
Printing presses are also giant, asynchronous CPUs. Depending on what you put in, they can cause society to take certain actions. Perhaps in recent years their effectiveness has been dwindling, though.
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by no_protocol 7y ago
If someone knows your account number, they can take money from it, there is no separate secret or anything. It would be illegal, but they can do it.
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by no_protocol 7y ago
Stands for 3 monitors should be broken down by whether or not the middle one is fully adjustable. Do you know why there are no wall mounted 3 monitor stands?
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by no_protocol 7y ago
I can forgive the somewhat limited user interface for setting these up that is in the stock add-on, but the lack of automatic syncing of rules to all computers with the same Firefox account is really frustrating to deal with. Putting in the
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by no_protocol 7y ago
In many places, the frost line is more like 3 to 6 feet, than 6 inches.
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by no_protocol 7y ago
I have had this happen to me twice as a pedestrian, in 2011 and 2012. I didn't care about what it does to the environment, it felt like a personal attack upon me.
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by no_protocol 7y ago
> I can't use my Twitter!TeMPOraL_PL account to talk to you, because there's no transport between Twitter and HN. And even if it was, now two brands would be involved in communication. You could almost do it if things like the
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by no_protocol 7y ago
Hmm: - Are variables allowed in the links? - Can you set it as the default search engine for your browser so these can just be typed into the main search bar instead of going to the Zapmarks site each time? Firefox's built in keywords
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by no_protocol 7y ago
Probably was supposed to be \notin rather than \not\in? They are not pixel for pixel identical.
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by no_protocol 7y ago
I was able to complete one problem within the 3 minute time limit. I had to try multiple times to get the right code for two of the symbols required. The linked symbol drawing site would have helped on one of them. I really like the forma
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by no_protocol 8y ago
> are users really expected to be able to improve their browsing experiences with custom CSS Actually, yes: https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/cascade.html#cascade User stylesheets are supposed to be applied at a prece
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by no_protocol 8y ago
> Browsers have supported user defined CSS defaults since forever, and plugins like Stylish have been around for a while. It looks like Chrome removed these several years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7329855
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by no_protocol 8y ago
What has happened to the concept of "User Defined CSS"? Is it totally gone? Did Chrome kill it? Browsers should be making this a prominent and first-class feature. Users should be able to quickly and easily set their default style
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by no_protocol 8y ago
The length of the line corresponds to the number of people.
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by no_protocol 8y ago
Can you add a column for whether or not these have cellular data capabilities? The HP Chromebook I bought in 2014 has cellular data and if I ever replace it I'll probably want one with the same.
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by no_protocol 8y ago
The author of this page has made critical errors in either interpreting or creating many of the graphs on the page. > Another housing trend that popped up in 2014 was the rise in homes with four or more bedrooms. If you actually look at
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by no_protocol 8y ago
Here are some details about this process. Basically, your submission can get a second chance if a moderator thinks it was a good one that everybody missed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10705926
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by no_protocol 8y ago
My Discord <-> IRC <-> Slack <-> Matrix bridge with Matterbridge [0] still works as of today, I didn't notice anything being shut down. [0]: https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
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by no_protocol 8y ago
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet By Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon https://www.amazon.com/dp/0684832674 -- I read the Audiobook version of this book. It presents a narrative of the development of
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by no_protocol 8y ago
That's what the 'all' option does. It shows all items that made the front page that were submitted on any given day, whether it was on the front page for 2 days straight or for just a few minutes.
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by no_protocol 8y ago
Thank you. The issue thread/request for this had been open for something like 2 years and I waited patiently for someone braver than me to implement it. Now my custom domain on GitLab Pages automatically redirects to HTTPS. I'm ha
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by no_protocol 8y ago
I suppose they have even less incentive than internet service providers have to implement BCP 38 spoofing protection. If it made business sense to do this, it would happen. Until then, it probably won't. Perhaps serving millions of ro
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by no_protocol 9y ago
> and then using "type" again to refer to generic type parameter T I was curious enough to grab a nearby textbook on Java. The author very clearly calls these things "type parameters" or "type variables". Im

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