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by nsgi 8mo ago
As a Brit, the birthday card example feels oddly American. The effect seems plausible, but the UK equivalent slight would be something much more informal
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by nsgi 1y ago
Sometimes this is the distraction you need - building something just for the sake of it can be oddly grounding
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by nsgi 3y ago
Is Facebook encouraging people to post pictures of their kids? If they are then they shouldn't be, but parents should also have the sense not to post them
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by nsgi 3y ago
Auto-playing ads on car touchscreens? Is that really a thing?! I drive pretty old used cars so I don't know what newer ones are like
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by nsgi 4y ago
Certificate Transparency should be able to detect that
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by nsgi 4y ago
Is there a need for that? Content id seems to work well enough
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by nsgi 4y ago
Can't you still do that with a Chrome Extension?
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by nsgi 4y ago
Jumping ship every couple of months is concerning, but as long as you're not doing that better to do what works for you rather than worrying about what might look better to a hypothetical future employer. The main problem with staying
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by nsgi 4y ago
If you hate being an employee, is applying for a full-time job really the best move? > and frankly I can't understand people whose goal in life is that Not sure I'd call it a goal in life since most people in tech are in-demand
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by nsgi 4y ago
I don't know the answer to your question but I would agree with you. I used to be all for Chrome but with Manifest V3 it's clear Google has too much influence and we need to either switch to Firefox or create a fork of Chromium th
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by nsgi 4y ago
I wonder what the Chromium team did
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Dancers' moves help to power Glasgow music venue(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by nsgi 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsgi 4y ago
How does it present it as if it were already here?
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Leaded petrol is gone – but lead pollution may linger for a long time(2021)(theconversation.com)
1 points by nsgi 4y ago|0 comments
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The Eco Modular Homes Revolutionising Social Housing – The City View(youtube.com)
1 points by nsgi 4y ago|0 comments
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by nsgi 4y ago
Which brands of smart TV show ads? I live in the UK and I've had three different brands of smart TV (Philips, Samsung and Toshiba) and my experience with all of them has been pretty good. Netflix, YouTube, etc. have worked pretty well
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by nsgi 4y ago
The standard login/sign up form is broken, though. People will just use the same password across websites or write it down. You can't win
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by nsgi 4y ago
Obviously very good that Chrome was delivered without people doing lots of overtime. However, a lot of his argument seems to be about the age of the management, and surely ageism is illegal and it should be about the person's skills ra
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by nsgi 4y ago
How would this work? As a Brit, I can say having a lot of CCTV definitely doesn't stop littering
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by nsgi 4y ago
Does the study recommend antibiotics not be used to treat ear infections? I would think the message is that it's even more important not to use antibiotics when they're not needed, not that they shouldn't be used at all
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by nsgi 4y ago
Does this still work? Windows Explorer still doesn't have tabs
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by nsgi 4y ago
Isn't the vast majority of 4k content delivered online anyway?
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by nsgi 4y ago
So if you don't like Apple Music just use another service but listen to more music?
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by nsgi 4y ago
That seems like a pretty big oversight? All errands within a 20 minute walk except for the most basic and car-dependent errand there is
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by nsgi 5y ago
Both Reddit and Stack Overflow have plenty of sites scraping their content and hosting copies. People would just go to those sites from Google instead of the real ones. Also, I can see the value of Stack Overflow to Google but what value do
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by nsgi 5y ago
How could once every 20s allow someone to create an animation or be annoying? If it is I'm sure someone could create a browser extension to stop it completely
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by nsgi 5y ago
Sure, but that should really be a permission you have to grant explicitly. For global keyboard shortcuts an app should make commands available and it should be up to the user to tell their OS which shortcuts they want to give an app. Not ju
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by nsgi 5y ago
I wonder if part of the problem is that the people who develop websites and put the ads on (developers) are largely also the people who use ad blockers so they don't realise how bad the experience is for regular users
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by nsgi 5y ago
Possibly A/B tests or referrer
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by nsgi 5y ago
How would you value the product of a startup, or some open source software that doesn't make any money but the creator wants to use a copyleft license for? Also, how would this work internationally? Would you have to pay a proportion o

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