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by ttepasse 3mo ago
As usual with culture war topics: Those examples in that article are often selective quoting and abridging information and a multi-step game of telephone and the language barrier hinders monolinguistic people from crosschecking. Let's
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by ttepasse 7mo ago
> I live and work in a multi-lingual environment, and have set up a keyboard shortcut to switch between the German and English keyboard. MacOS does not have a keyboard shortcut for this. MacOS has since the early OS X days the default sh
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by ttepasse 8mo ago
Possibly related: The Mystery Flesh Pit National Park https://www.mysteryfleshpitnationalpark.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_Flesh_Pit_National_Par...
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by ttepasse 9mo ago
Back in the 2000s in the web standards development community there were multiple web development strategies called "progressive enhancement", "graceful degradation" and "unobtrusive javascript": https:/&#
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by ttepasse 11mo ago
There was even a polyglot (X)HTML 5 which I always found genius - there are many more XML parsers than HTML5 parsers in the world. https://www.w3.org/TR/html-polyglot/
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by ttepasse 1y ago
I was surprised to see an Eckart Walther cited as an co-creator of RSS. That was news to me, and I followed the RSS wars since 2000. I thought I knew the names of everyone involved. Turn's out: he really is. RSS was created by Ramanath
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Also: They don't really work in other countries or demographics. Generational bins presume that shared experiences form a somewhat comparable outlook on life. I am a Xennial. I grew up in Western Germany. Are my life experiences the sa
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by ttepasse 1y ago
... in a diminished state.
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by ttepasse 1y ago
There isn't one. It's Google's web now. You should be thankful that you are still allowed to use it.
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Some modern electrical solutions seem to be very near this ideal. Take a look a Mahle, their rear hub motor and small in-frame batteries only seem obvious I you take a close look. https://mahle-smartbike.com/ebikes/ (W
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Interestingly there was a real attempt to build an E-Puzzler for shredded documents, to reconstruct the torn Stasi files after the German reunification. But while the system worked for defined stuff, but failed for mass reconstruction of do
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by ttepasse 1y ago
That's depends very much on age, class, geographic location. Someone could have grown up imprisoned behind the Iron Curtain, hence learning Russian as a second language. Nonetheless they deserve appliances, websites and infrastructure
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by ttepasse 1y ago
One about the annoying things about Maciej is that he acquired Delicious the domain .icio.us, but never did anything auspicious, maybe suspicious or malicious with the latter.
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by ttepasse 1y ago
I remember when purl.org namespace URIs where the thing for RSS 1.0 modules. 25 years ago,
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Here: https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/documentation/the-swift-pr... Easter egg: The example is named dogcow, after a 90s Mac icon, designed by Susan Kare, which later became a small mascot: https://51
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Want Apple to add a feature? Pass a law(sixcolors.com)
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by ttepasse 1y ago
As someone who memorised the key combo for em dashes, curly quotes and guillemot's back in IRC days this notion depresses me.
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Only two parties have been banned in Germany's post-war history. Banning a party is a rightfully a huge hurdle, because it goes both ways: While it can be a part of a self-defence mechanism of democracy it is also a way in which Hitler
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by ttepasse 1y ago
For a computer what is the difference between 27 and 13000?
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by ttepasse 1y ago
According to the video you don't seem to automatically translate everything - thankfully! - but should you plan this in the future, please, please give your users an opt-out or a setting. Just minutes ago I wrestled again with Youtube
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Knuth in the wake of the Iraq war and the Abu Ghraid crimes asked some "Infrequently Asked Questions" which are of course highly political. He kept this page linked on top of his home page. And in 2022 he wrote a postscript with m
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Back on New Years Eve 2016 I wanted to see once in my life one of these leap second which got inserted every few years. Emerald Time was the only clock app I found which displayed the deciseconds: https://imgur.com/a/r1
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Further down on the page they rightly notice that strictly necessary cookies don't require consent. This mirrors the opinion of European Union's Article 29 Working Party back then: https://ec.europa.eu/justice&#x2F
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by ttepasse 1y ago
But current Volkswagen leader- and ownership is not nazi, unlike Tesla. VW in effect was re-founded after the war by the British military administration as a trust and only privatised into a public company in the 1960s. The biggest sharehol
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by ttepasse 1y ago
The value of "enough" is a moderation decision made by a human.
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by ttepasse 1y ago
Apropos Drawers: The may have looked a little bit silly back then but today almost every Mac app main windows has a big grey sidebar, so that in Exposé view almost all windows look the same. Drawers got an unfair rap, I think.
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by ttepasse 1y ago
For anecdotal feedback I'm taking myself as an example, although I don't flag, I just don't upvote anymore. (At the same time I think there is a flag problem on HN. I'd recommend /active for a better view into HN di
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by ttepasse 1y ago
For your hypothesis to be true you'd see falling Model y numbers but somewhat steady Model 3 numbers, since that was refreshed only in 2023 and is in no danger of getting a new refresh. That is not the case. I took a look at the German
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by ttepasse 1y ago
iOS got profiles the same time. They sync. https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/iphd27a9ff22/io...
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by ttepasse 1y ago
My main observation in temperature scale and imperial lengths discussions om the Internet is that Americans seem to have a strange aversion against fractional parts of numbers, as if those were irrational. (On the other hand a lot of Americ

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