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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Also see: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flatpack (First sense.) It's a fairly common word in English.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Doesn't that require the user to curate a friends list of people with comparable tastes? I've never met someone who has my exact (eclectic and multilingual) taste in books. Besides, I wouldn't even know who to 'friend&#x
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
A dated UI is fine by me, but at no point did the current placement of the search field make any sense for the average user. It is de-emphasised, hidden almost below the fold, as if searching for reviews of a particular title wasn't th
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Isn't this the agency that gradually allowed Americans to file their taxes without paying some commercial third party for the privilege? Like the rest of the world? We Europeans used to be able to gleefully report that we could file ou
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That too has a chance of happening associated with it. Lacking a convenient table to look up the chance of that happening (and its impact), and the chance of a break-in caused by an open admin panel causing irreparable harm, there is nothin
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That depends on the individual's weighing of the various factors and their personal moral position. If someone wants to prevent a bunch of easy break-ins where the method of entry won't get noticed in most cases, and they feel tha
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Sounds good until you come home to a house flashing like a Christmas tree because your kid needed another D12 for their table-top role-playing game.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Searching for 'vescin' all I seem to get is marketing results from BMW and Mini. So what exactly is it beyond 'a proprietary vegan material'? What is it made of?
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Everyone who uses a compose key has it available (via ---) — I do. You mean the em-dash though, not the en-dash, and Davidzheng is using hyphens for approximation, not en-dashes.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Of course it is bad. It got put there because we are in the middle of a hype cycle where everything must use an LLM, and the 'tech leads' pushing it have the ear of the decision makers. Any criticism is parried with a 'Oh, th
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
That and a thousand other things. A highly privacy focussed browser could offer to enable this setting only on whitelisted websites (and send 'en' plus a bunch of random language codes on others).
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> I will add, please make sure that language is an independent setting, and not derived from locale! Websites already have exactly what they need to provide you with the language you want via the Accept-Language header your browser sen
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
> Product placement is still in, so long as "such portrayals are not disruptive and are appropriate within the context of the game." Valve gives a racing game with real life sponsors on the cars as one example of what's ok
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
They address this in lesson 2: > According to philosopher Harry Frankfurt, a liar knows the truth and is trying to lead us in the opposite direction. > A bullshitter either doesn't know the truth, or doesn't care. They are
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
This is actually a good thing from an environmental perspective. Japan has the type of downpour which can thoroughly drench you (in July for instance), but most of the time you don't need an umbrella. Obviously this means that umbrella
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The name doesn't help. ASCII, by way of that character encoding standard, implies that dark age before writing and transmitting 'café' or 'Warschauer Straße' or '€10' or '¡olé!' just worked. Not
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Be careful what you wish for. Sometimes leaving a line stupidly long is better for readability than awkwardly trying to break it up. If you have five similar statements somewhere with only one exceeding the linter's line length, breaki
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Would a plumber get in trouble if Mario, the owner, called it Super Mario?
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
I won't dispute your moral reasoning, but realistically this has as much a chance of succeeding as calling the current year 02025¹: it will mostly just annoy people. 1: Cf. The Long Now Foundation.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
'Coördinate' and the likes make perfect sense to anyone who started out with a language such as Dutch or French where this is common. It's rather refreshing to see it used in English, where usually even the humble 'resum
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The other side of the coin is that the Pixels are one of the few (only?) devices supported by GrapheneOS. (My Pixel 6 is rock solid on that by the way.)
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Getting swatted by your smartphone sounds like a Black Mirror episode.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
“OK Fine. But could you at least yell at me in corp speak?” It's no surprise LLMs are using corp speak and vapid marketing prose as a template. There is so much of it out there. This is from that Autodesk post last week where they admi
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
So can we call it a 'PAN number'?
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
There is no chaos there. When you label something on a map, you never translate any of the names. What you do, is use the exonyms which already exist. That is, local names which may have been literally translated at some point, or might s
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Well spotted! That was a typo on my part.
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
The emerging consensus is that there is now an alternative English name, and that this is likely to end up as an official name for en_US (which can either mean American English, or the English name according to the United States) as well. I
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Given that they use the Chinese initialism for the Chinese Communist Party (cpc, taken from the literal translation of 中国共产党, instead of CCP), they probably do — i.e., the likelihood they are a Chinese person living in, or having lived most
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Is a static site hosting platform required to proactively monitor which content paying users host in your jurisdiction? Wouldn't a solid set of processes to handle content complaints and knowing who your customers are in case the hosti
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by Freak_NL 2y ago
Leibovitz, not Liebovitz.

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