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by vee-kay 27d ago
Isn't this "drop-down menu on button click" easily doable using plain old HTML and CSS? Here's a live example: https://www.w3schools.com/howto/howto_css_dropdown.asp
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by vee-kay 28d ago
If an intern can do the work of a technical lead, architect, software designer, or project manager, why do we need such expensive resources? Just fire all the seniors (including the CxOs) and let the interns run the company as lowest-paid
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by vee-kay 1mo ago
My smartphone display is at 30% brightness, but the Info button is visible on the top-right corner as a dull gray button. But it just shows credits screen, instead of what's the purpose of the site and how to use it. But the big blinki
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by vee-kay 2mo ago
Someone refers to a sci-fi-esque (more imaginative than scientifically accurate) virtual rendition of an interesting scientific phenomenon (black hole) in a fanous sci-fi movie (Interstellar), in their scientific analysis/critique comm
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by vee-kay 2mo ago
In my experience in recent years, Oppo and Vivo phones look better, they are more robust and last longer than iPhones and Samsung premium phones. When giants like Apple and Samsung fail to innovate enough (and when they price their best pro
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by vee-kay 3mo ago
FYI, Meta earns billions by showing scam ads. https://qz.com/consumer-federation-america-sues-meta-scam-ad... https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortu... It is unlikely that Meta wi
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by vee-kay 3mo ago
Ah, this reminds me of StumbleUpon.
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by vee-kay 4mo ago
Before the .Net era, there were millions of programmers who were experts in VB. In fact, VB6 was the defacto tool to build desktop apps. Then Microsoft decided to compete with the new-age rivals: Java and CORBA. So it expanded COM into DCOM
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by vee-kay 4mo ago
What's interesting is that Microsoft BASIC itself was derived from BASIC-PLUS which itself was derived from Dartmouth BASIC (which evolved into a structured programming language called SBASIC (Structured BASIC). But the popularity of M
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by vee-kay 4mo ago
He's not wrong though. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5G93ta66xSk The tribals from the Sierra Madre Mountains in Northern Mexico - called the Tarahumara or the Rarámuri people - are considered to be among the best endur
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by vee-kay 6mo ago
Yahoo Messenger had amazing fun animated smileys , and it was a fantastic Instant Messenger as well. Too bad Yahoo went to dogs, I was hoping Yahoo Messenger got bought out by Microsoft so that beautiful UI could be integrated as MS Office
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
AI will get access to missiles, fighter jets, attack drones, and even nuclear launch codes - that's the fear. Even when the bombs drop from the sky, at least those humans who had deleted their OpenAI account can rest easy, knowing that
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Do you mean the same EU whose Euro6 mandate brought powerful auto giants like Volkswagen to their knees, and forced them to build better vehicles that are less harmful to Earth? Or do you mean the EU that forced Apple to finally ditch its p
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
"World’s top 1% own more wealth than 95% of humanity", as “the shadow of global oligarchy hangs over UN General Assembly”, says Oxfam: https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/worlds-top-1-own-mor... Bill
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Please stop the lies. You need to read up on history better, especially if you are talking of a country whose history has been ravaged by holocausts of the worst variety: man-made. Background: India has been among the most fertile and riche
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
DjVu is excellent format for e-Comics and e-Magazines. Check out the Amazing Science Fiction Stories, Amazing Stories, Planet Stories, Weird Tales and more.. in DjVu format: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:S
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Contaminated?! Nobody understood?! You clearly haven't bothered to do your research. But we cannot blame you for your ignorance. It took many years, but modern scientists have finally reverse engineered Wootz steel to understand its in
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
You need to research better before forming and sharing wrong opinions about world's most popular payments system: UPI. UPI will work even without a smartphone, it will work on even with a basic feature phone, using USSD codes! That&#x2
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Nah, they just bought their drilling tool from whatever was their local version of Walmart in that ancient era.
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Thanks for the archive, but the site needs to be mobile-friendly.
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Do a web search for "Wootz steel", "Damascus blades" and "Iron pillars India". The ancient world certainly had expertise in advanced metallurgy. Wootz steel was actually nanotech.
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Hominin history is millions of years old. 5300 years is merely a drop in the ocean of human history.
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
I haven't played Terminal Velocity, but I finished the Descent Freespace game decades ago, and I am also itching for modernesque space-sims with 6-degrees-of-freedom dogfights, with some campaigns and explorations. I liked this teaser
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Yeah, it is crazy that some cheatcodes are still memorable even decades later. I still remember the cheat codes from the RoadRash game: k'thunk! => hit with the club thwack! => hit with the chain drip!drip! => oil And last, bu
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
MEGAHIT YIPPEEYAHOO I still remember them. Those was the commandline parameters aa cheat codes to launch the Prince of Persia or Prince of Persia 2 game, so the gamer could use special hotkeys to cheat during gameplay. The linked article in
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
>"Identity documents submitted to our vendor partners".. Yeah, say goodbye to those the privacy and safety of those documents.
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Nice site, with apt illustrations and mathematical explanations. This reminds me of an interesting trivia: For centuries, it was believed that paper could not be folded in half more than 8 times. Until one high school student broke that see
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
Why did the E.T. game such public backlash though? The E.T. movie was popular among kids and parents. One would think a game about it, would be popular too, if it worked recently.
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
*hired as private army/security for rich powerful elites. "Police force" was created not for liberty, justice, and public good - it was created to brutally quell poor folks rising against rich tyrants, it was created as a wea
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by vee-kay 7mo ago
The concept of "police" came up through "private militia" hired as. Most of the world enjoys 5-day workweek (40 hours work per week). But the world got this work schedule only due to workers (mostly working in mines and

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