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by tobasq 5y ago
I can't imagine Twitter/Facebook/etc. actually changing what a user wrote, in any context. This does reveal something about Reddit and I would be less surprised to learn they are editing other posts.
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by tobasq 5y ago
Do you really imagine a USA that didn't lock down doing as well as South Korea and Taiwan? Look at our numbers with the lockdowns. The Asian countries were only able to do what they did because they were prepared, culturally and logi
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by tobasq 6y ago
I have long ago turned all of Google's activity tracking preferences off and erased the existing activity, yet once in a while some Google service reveals to me that it knows something it shouldn't.
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by tobasq 6y ago
A lot of (most?) tech industry workers change jobs every 2-3 years and develop no particular attachment to or long-term plans for remaining at a company.
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by tobasq 6y ago
Yes, wlroots is such a library.
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by tobasq 6y ago
Looking at the source code suggests that Kiwi is based on Chromium 77. A shame; it's a great idea. We need a mobile browser with extensions.
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by tobasq 6y ago
This is the textbook example of what not to do with SQL queries. You can't even learn SQL or an SQL library API without being warned against this a dozen times. If the CTO pushed this code, and the processes the CTO themself is respo
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by tobasq 6y ago
How many orders of magnitude in the Bitcoin CO2 footprint estimates do you think this vague theory can account for?
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by tobasq 6y ago
It is estimated that the carbon footprint of a single Bitcoin transaction is 660 lbs of CO2 (not a typo), equivalent to that of 670,000 VISA transactions.