Digit-Al

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Microsoft is now 50 years old(theverge.com)
2 points by Digit-Al 2y ago|2 comments
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
It's sad the direction they've ended up going. Microsoft were always a rapacious company bent on market dominance, but at least they used to be focused partially on trying to achieve that by creating very user focused software; wh
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Just to let you know, the past tense of teach is taught; so you would say "I wasn't taught this at school". Other than that, your English is great (better than some of my fellow English people lol). Well done.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
My comments above are based on precedence when sites like Facebook added these clauses and people got all panicked thinking the company was going to start selling their content (rather than selling their souls /s). The mundane truth wa
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I have seen discussions of this sort of wording so many times over the years. My understanding is as follows (and I could be wrong, but this is my understanding of why that wording is used). If you use Firefox to upload a file to a website
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Interesting. This goes some way to addressing an issue I had been wondering about recently. I am a UK citizen, not US, so have little familiarity with US military. With the recent news on Trump declaring that Greenland should belong to the
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I've now checked, and it was originally a form of Henry, but can now also be a diminutive form of any name beginning with Har... So we're both right : - )
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Isn't Harry short for Harold?
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I used to know a female comedian who hosted a comedy night once a month. She and her partner lived in Morden for the sole reason that she has fallen asleep on the tube and got stuck there so many times that they figured it was easier just t
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Anyone who watched Monkey Dust in the 90's will suspect that the government is under the thrall of the Paedofinder General.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Wow! That's crazy. Here in the UK, the most expensive eggs in my local supermarket - which are Clarence Court Burdord Brown eggs - are only the equivalent of $5.08 per dozen. Those are the posh, expensive, eggs that only those with a b
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
So... company that steals other people's work to train their models is complaining because they think someone stole their work to train their models. Cry me a river.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Same for me. I get the following messages in the console: Loading failed for the <script> with source “ https://streets.gl/js/index.js” . streets.gl:1:940 A resource is blocked by OpaqueResponseBlocking, please che
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Don't know if they mandate it, but I know a few people who use either names that are a slight modification of their real name, or completely made up names.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I spent years designing interfaces for Windows Forms applications. There is no neccessity for sharing to be a dialog - it should be a wizard; and could even open in a new tab in a web application. Then the user can cancel either by pressing
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Can't decide if the people downvoting you don't realise the irony, or are deliberately downvoting you for the irony.
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As Firefox turns 20, Mozilla ponders how to restore it to its former glory(techcrunch.com)
40 points by Digit-Al 2y ago|54 comments
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
The proof is not in the pudding. The proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I've had the opposite experience. My current TV is a Samsung and has been going for many years with no problems whatsoever. My last TV was also a Samsung and I only replaced it (after many years of use) because I wanted a bigger and be
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
The difference is this: No EULA can override an organisation's legal obligations. Most countries have fairly robust "fit for use" laws, so if you sell something and it is not fit for use you can be taken to court. If there is
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
You are correct. Github's license terms are a hedge against that sort of thing. They are basically saying "the person making this source available is granting the license to d these particular things" - therefore, the user ma
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Just switch to reader mode the moment it loads and you can beat the paywall.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
If you want to receive the health benefits from the tea then you should brew for at least four minutes, I've heard. This does only really apply if the tea is of at least reasonable quality, of course.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
It hardly requires a huge amount of investigation to see that's not a scam link. It literally has the blog authors name attached to it, along with a post date and a "read the full story"link that has the same web address as t
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
It's not a grey area at all. The article literally says that he purchased the IP rights from Pfizer, and as part of the deal they got a small stake in his new company.
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
Probably because they don't want to confuse readers who don't know the history and would wonder how on earth ITER could possibly stand for "International nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject". Let's f
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
My guess is that the fact you can buy about two to three cheap Dell desktop machines for the price of one Mac probably factors quite heavily into the equation.
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Crowdstrike and Microsoft: What we know about global IT outage(bbc.co.uk)
3 points by Digit-Al 2y ago|1 comments
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
I really don't see anything wrong with this, personally. It's a limited test with a small number of websites involved. Only aggregate data is received, so all they'll know is something like "x number of people saw this a
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by Digit-Al 2y ago
The worst part is that we already had a perfectly viable model: Netflix paid for the rights to everything and gave access to everybody for a reasonable monthly fee. Then the studios got greedy and thought "why should we let a middleman

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