Karellen

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by Karellen 3y ago
The worst is when people say "Why don't they make things like X anymore", where X is one of the best examples of its type from the entire decade it was created. They didn't make things like X back then either, you
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by Karellen 3y ago
Rights are generally granted to the creator of a work of art (painter, photographer, sculptor, etc...), rather than its subject. However, given that there will probably be some difficultly in tracking down the subject's model release p
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by Karellen 3y ago
You can always open the PDF in a stand-alone PDF viewer that doesn't support javascript. Like xpdf, mupdf, or atril, or one of possibly many other PDF viewers. (those are the only ones I have installed right now, I think) Or there&#x27
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Bugs can be anywhere. Yes. Bugs . Bugs can be fixed. By-design (mis)features can't be fixed. The only way to fix them is by removing the feature. Unless you're agreeing that JS-in-PDFs is a bug, you're conflating fundam
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Making wide changes becomes hard/impossible To add to this - no revision control. OK, maybe you can store your spreadsheets in a RCS, but can you get diffs of the changes, so you can confirm the revision you're about to push
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by Karellen 3y ago
Does the thing being bypassed prevent you from saving the page, or from making in any other way a copy of any content you've already fetched? If not, how could it be classed as copy-protection? Edit: One other thing: if spoofing UA hea
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by Karellen 3y ago
“Considered Harmful” Essays Considered Harmful, Eric A. Meyer, 28 December 2002: https://meyerweb.com/eric/comment/chech.html
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by Karellen 3y ago
> To be pedantic, I don't think that's pedantry. That's just a straightforward reading of the rules, and I missed the word "smaller", somehow. *shrug*
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by Karellen 3y ago
[3, 2, 1] has no valid modifications by the rules given. I wonder how little wiggle-room there needs to be for a solution to be possible? Does [4, 2, 1] have a solution? You can get to with [4, -1, 3, 1] with one step, but I'm not sure
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Isn’t the legality of web scraping still..disputed? Are you suggesting it might be illegal to... write a program that connects to a web server and asks for a specific page, and then parses that page to see which resources it wants and
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by Karellen 3y ago
More glitch token discussion over at Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO2X3oZEJOA
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by Karellen 3y ago
> 1840, which is more two centuries ago Um, you might want to check your calendar on that one.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> This would break every website that wants to track what links you click on So, a plan with no drawbacks? > it would make Google mad, so it won't happen. Google doesn't control which browser extensions get written?
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by Karellen 3y ago
I wonder if there's a browser extension that checks if the link text is a valid URL, but is a different URL (or just on a different domain?) than the actual link target, and adds some kind of warning for the user if so? I'm not su
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by Karellen 3y ago
> [The burglars] targeted a Gardaworld building > Gardaworld describes itself as a “global champion in security services, Oh, the irony!
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by Karellen 3y ago
> We do not provide checksums for the tarballs simply because providing checksums next to the downloads adds almost no extra verification. If someone can tamper with the tarballs, they can probably update the webpage which a fake checksu
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by Karellen 3y ago
In "Example 4", I don't understand where the "arg2" in `free(arg2)` is coming from?
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by Karellen 3y ago
Well, yes. I mean, you could probably get away with just keeping the `Makefile` around. But for the stuff I installed from source, I was often interested in keeping the source code around anyway, for curiosity's sake. And hard drives a
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by Karellen 3y ago
`make uninstall` (If a project's build system does not provide an "uninstall" target ( cough cmake cough ) then the project likely has other deficiencies and should be avoided.)
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by Karellen 3y ago
There was also that other movie which was... very much inspired by it https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0134847/ That one is really good.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> I had a "local" usr/* in my home directory I always just used `--prefix="$HOME"` so that everything went into `~/bin`, `~/lib`, `~/man`, etc... I did look into stow a couple of times, and would h
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by Karellen 3y ago
> So I have to click twice, change domains If you start from the github source code repo, instead of starting from the official website. I guess. If you're determined to be disappointed, I suppose you'll find a way. Whatever.
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by Karellen 3y ago
> without even specifying which platforms are actually supported The first line of the README (ok, second line if you include the title) is "See the kitty website" with a link, and on the site the top menu has a "cross p
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by Karellen 3y ago
> Who are you writing for? This is the hardest part of writing for me, especially blog posts. I can never decide if I'm writing for a) highly technical readers who know 95% of the concepts my idea is based on, and I just want to c
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by Karellen 3y ago
Because karma number go up, and for some people that's reason enough.
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by Karellen 3y ago
Also, that will greatly simplify the conversion process for me in the future. Previously, when I've come across a US recipe requiring cups of butter, I've looked up the size of a US cup - which is given in fl.oz - converted that t
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by Karellen 3y ago
That does provide a method to the madness, thanks. But... butter being measured in "cups" and "tablespoons", which are multiples/fractions of a 1/4lb block, is therefore fundamentally a unit of weight, not volu
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by Karellen 3y ago
"cups of butter" is the wildest measurement I come across regularly in US recipes. Just... how? Edit: A friend of mine has just related running across a US scone recipe asking for "5 tablespoons of cold butter". I don&#x
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by Karellen 3y ago
> 2 tsp of kosher salt contains the same amount of salt as 1 tsp of fine salt. The article makes a similar point about unrefined brown sugar and caster sugar, but something doesn't sit right with me for that. Shouldn't the pack
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by Karellen 3y ago
Yes, as the article points out in paragraph 2 : > There is a chasm between Europe and America’s kitchen cultures. The fundamental difference is that Americans use volume, not weight, to make measurements in their kitchens. Cooking with

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