Malic

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by Malic 6y ago
Gee, it sounds like tinkering with the Comix-35 could be a path to a career that you couldn't talk about!
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by Malic 6y ago
Quite probably. I am assuming that home-made methods are similar as industrial scale methods (put a bunch of chicken bones and connective tissue in a vat of water, simmer, strain).
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by Malic 6y ago
I have this daydream that there are some Apple engineers that looked at the Switch and said, "Dammit. We could have done this."
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by Malic 7y ago
Not too long ago, I read that one can see her notebooks yourself! You can sign up and be on a list to do so! If you visit Paris... And sign a waiver... And wear some protective clothing... Because her notebooks are still radioactive and wil
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by Malic 7y ago
This isn't a new idea to me either. I would have put it in words "The attic of the org-chart is empty" but same point. But what bewilders me is that there ARE achievements in the world that you have to wonder how they succeed
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by Malic 7y ago
> I'm still hammer nails into the wall to support my coat hanger rod. What's up? Where's my flying cars, etc. I know what you mean. I'm going to have to quote William Gibson on this: "The future is already here —
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by Malic 7y ago
I think you've hit on an opt-in usage case. Much like the opt-in feature "Will you allow [website] to access your location?", there could be a "Will you allow [website] to operate in the background?" I think that is
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by Malic 7y ago
In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, we have two people cross checking each other to consult 3-ring binders of registered voters for the particular district they are assigned to vote in. Your name is check-marked as part of handing you a paper ballot.
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by Malic 7y ago
I wondered the same. A quick Google turned up the fact, "Oh, yeah, that's been investigated and there ARE options." Chinese brake fern (Pteris vittata) seems to be a candidate: https://www.newsweek.com/plant-a
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by Malic 7y ago
This is somewhat related to a thought experiment of mine. Suppose you had a means of transmitting information back in time - a one-node network that effectively could email to itself with a timestamp (in the past) being the message's &
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by Malic 7y ago
Thanks for saving me the click.
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by Malic 7y ago
A number of big-box stores will let you properly dispose of them at the door - Best Buy and Target are two examples that come to mind.
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Microsoft’s biggest business segment includes its Azure cloud(cnbc.com)
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by Malic 7y ago
Basically it means those loyalty apps stores put out? Are you sure you know what that app is doing...? You are right that disabling bluetooth or being aware of what apps your phone has is what is required.
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by Malic 7y ago
Snort The idea of the super global £_BISCUIT instead of $_COOKIE - that made my morning.
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by Malic 7y ago
Or the C64 might be a good choice too. Jumping into "no-framebuffer/racing-the-beam" 6502 programming on the Atari 2600 for the uninitiated is just ... cruel.
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by Malic 7y ago
I kinda wish the domain was "rest.standards" instead to set the pattern of "*.standards" would be where you found such things.
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by Malic 7y ago
> “...You don’t expect them to pull the carpet from beneath you...” Ah, yes, yes I do. I work in an agency doing client website development and Google's recent price change for map services caused us to look elsewhere - abruptly. We
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by Malic 8y ago
Unless I am not seeing a polyfill inclusion, at least some of these are supported in Firefox already (66.0.2) - Color Input and Data Lists, in particular. (Not trying to dis Webkit/Safari here - just saying that the "Can I Use?&qu
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by Malic 8y ago
"An older person will simply choose to not use the product." I completely agree. The older you get, the more you realize that patience isn't always a virtue.
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by Malic 8y ago
I don't know about "under 4096 bytes" but I have heard of not compressing data that is under ~1500 bytes. Part of the thinking is this - if your result data (plus HTTP overhead) is already smaller than the data payload of an
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by Malic 8y ago
Even Bobby Tables mother would be impressed by such a hack.
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by Malic 8y ago
Do I read this right? Does this suggest that Chrome will get GPU accelerated rendering, similar to what Firefox's Quantum Renderer will provide?
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by Malic 8y ago
So... a pull-request to merge a feature branch into ImageMagick is coming soon? :)
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by Malic 8y ago
This. Too many clients (from an agency perspective) are implicitly given good advice "Your potential customer base isn't interested in this" but someone has to ask "How do we get them to see it anyway?" They have fo
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by Malic 8y ago
The article is behind a login to a private forum - but I can imagine what the discussion might be like. I have been recommending this book for web design professionals for years. Understanding that comics (in the BIG view, as McCloud has de
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by Malic 8y ago
Where can I read more about this?
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by Malic 8y ago
Recommendation: The Extra Credits folks have been doing an Extra Sci Fi series that covers the big names of Sci Fi - and that included Heinlein. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaWMe5nC9SA I liked it - it was a great primer
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by Malic 8y ago
I mostly agree - but just in case, there is https://html5zombo.com/
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by Malic 8y ago
Honestly, if this were to take off, I could see Microsoft/LinkedIn having some acquisition interest.

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