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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Not unlike a Hello Kitty rosary (do these exist?), it is a votive item used in a personal household. It will raise a few eyebrows, but won't be decried as sacrilegious.
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
> The encryption was just a way to prevent non-members from obtaining the benefits of membership. I suppose it also prevents automated detection by bots crawling newsgroups.
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
At the risk of being considered overly pedantic; is offering a better product in the marketplace to the detriment of your competitor called 'disruption' now? Isn't that exactly how the free market is supposed to work?
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Working on reintroducing the death penalty is another. Its saddening to see how the large secular part of the population that has no desire to live in an Islamic state has little recourse but to keep quiet and hope nobody points a finger in
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
China appears to be testing if they can push this far. It's not just a matter of military power; China's economy depends on their exports to Europe and Northern America (so sanctions can really hit hard), and shipping through the
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
The common argument is that with spaces the indent is the same in not only every editor, but also every tool used, such as cvs, diff, patch, build tools, web viewers (e.g., for your cvs tool, issue tracker, and/or code review), shell t
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Interesting. I do get the bottom stroke of 土 with the Freetype version shipped with Ubunutu 16.04. Most of both 田 is a blur though. Testing this reminded me that I always read HN two zoom-levels higher than the smallish default.
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Looking at the passports that provide visa-free access to 158, 157, and 156 countries, I wonder why Viet Nam and Rwanda grant visas on arrival to specifically some European countries, but not others. So for Viet Nam; Denmark, Germany, Swede
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
The Netherlands has this as well since this year. Putting a price on plastic bags actually seems to change people's behaviour — for the good. The law doesn't even stipulate a minimum price; as long as plastic bags aren't free
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
I'm not sure that the insurance companies would agree with that sentiment. :) Certainly, in such museums focussed on interactivity and a child-friendly experience, this is the (commendable) modus operandi, and it works exceptionally we
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
This strikes me as an interesting case of failing communication in museums and art galleries. How is a visitor supposed to tell if something is supposed to be interacted with or not? This is not much of a problem in any museum with antique
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Does three copies include the original?
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Not that people ever listen. Backups are perhaps a lot like basic insurance in that way. In a lot of countries basic health and liability insurance policies are mandatory because a sizeable chunk of the population would refuse to have these
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Absolutely. I can do without the monster-merge-from-hell (been there, done that). When rebasing is part of the established workflow, developers can rebase their feature-branches to be up-to-date with master when the time comes to offer it a
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Here is another collection of such single-div experiments: https://github.com/ManrajGrover/SingleDivProject (I have contributed a handful myself)
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Edited. I usually omit he or she if I don't know the gender of the person referred to. I used he in that byline (I used the author in the main phrases) as the generic pronoun (i.e., any author of such a single-div experiment ), bu
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
I really like how some of these make you think about how she did it. The Mickey is so clever with the box-shadow and the border-radius on the ::after.
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
I don't think that there are programs that generate CSS within this particular constraint of one div. This is more akin to code golf , where you attempt to push the boundaries of what is possible within a strict set of limits. More in
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
You might want to use something other than a code block for quotes. That second paragraph is a bit hard to read crammed all on one line.
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
That is not what the author of A Single Div is doing! In CSS you cannot add arbitrary vector drawings to a single div without linking to an image resource as background (SVG in that case). What the author is doing is using the single div
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
> So, they'll let you know if they apply retroactive changes to the policy? Pretty standard for a lot of apps and web services. The alternative is not to use them, or to be very conscious about what data you supply them with. Most p
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Astute observation. There have been more documentaries and stories about this topic, and plenty of those seem plausible, but these often focus on webcamming and catering to specific fetishes and interests. Those stories also seem much more
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Interesting read. > So better than many options, but not great. And sadly the usage is connected to my land line, thus allowing those controlling the server to associate it to my home and person. I wonder how often you need to enter that
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Altstadt (historic city centre) associated with the period of Romanticism with historic buildings and an old stone bridge with mediaeval bridge head, a castle with a wine cask several metres in diameter, a Nazi-era outdoor amphitheatre, a l
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Probably, but what will it achieve realistically? This (both what OP reports and this locale-dependent behaviour) is likely a WONTFIX type of bug, as there are workarounds (don't double-click to open normal CSV if you are in a locale w
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
RFC 4180¹ has been in existence since 2005 and seems perfectly straight forward. The basic syntax is two pages of very understandable text. I hold that to be the definition of valid CSV. CSV libraries tend to adhere to it (and often support
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
> when importing. Exactly. Unfortunately, double-clicking the file does not trigger that dialogue. You would be surprised how many IT-staffers simply give up at that point („Can I get the raw data?”, „Sure, here is the automatically gene
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Weird. On Firefox, with ad-blocker and PrivacyBadger disabled, I am stuck on a page with only navigation menus and a title that reads 'Explicit cookie consent'. In Chrome I get the expected I-agree-to-your-cookies consent form. An
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by Freak_NL 10y ago
Excel is quite often useless with CSV, even if its contents are pure ASCII. Whether or not Excel will open a standard CSV file delimited with comma's (as per RFC 4180) properly also depends on the locale of the computer running Excel.

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