Momquist

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by Momquist 9y ago
The GP is simply suggesting that you're selective and biased in the issues you're trying to solve. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing: you have to choose your battles. But someone else could propose only eating meat to solve
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by Momquist 9y ago
You misunderstood me. It may not be strictly required for sites to use JS to build these warnings. But in practice, today, that's how it works on sites that display them. And it definitely requires the user to have JS enabled to pa
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by Momquist 9y ago
I won't argue about these warnings uselesness, but they definitely are a pain in the ass because they require enabling JS, at least temporarily, on sites that otherwise would work perfectly without it to be able to answer to these warn
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by Momquist 9y ago
uMatrix also has a similar feature, among many others (request blocking by type, cookie and cache management, etc...) https://github.com/gorhill/uMatrix
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by Momquist 9y ago
1) and 3) would be better solved, I think, by appropriate text tags. And tags are also great when integrated with the site search, or even the native search/find in the browser. On some subs of reddit for example, paywalled articles ar
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by Momquist 9y ago
> If anything my guess would there’s a problem with lack of predators, like a reduction in possums or something similar. Indeed the abundance of predators, notably martens and foxes, in some areas has been linked with a decrease in inf
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by Momquist 9y ago
I think a better question would be: why does Windows need multiple successive reboots? Too often my experience can be resumed as: update-reboot-reboot-update continuing-reboot... ad nauseam. At least on *nix, even when you need a reboot,
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by Momquist 9y ago
> Why do you think racism / anti-Semitism / anti-Muslim sentiment is so prominent online and so much less prominent in real life? Mainly because speech isn't regulated online, and there's little to no repercussions
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by Momquist 9y ago
You're exagerating the parent's claims. It is possible that religion can reduce stress, and help against depression without being an absolute defense. Our brain may just be wired that way. This doesn't even involve God or the
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by Momquist 9y ago
I find your example is extremely odd and disturbing. Facing other mindsets and cultures at a young age as a reason, or at least contributing, to depression? That's really a stretch. Are children also at risk when meeting with other kid
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by Momquist 9y ago
If you can manage to find the ROMs, Gorodki (actually a remake on TIA-MC1 hardware, released a few years after the original) can be played via MAME since 2016. It also supports several other Soviet arcade games. http://mamedev.or
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by Momquist 9y ago
> the Linux version starts up faster than the Windows one. Indeed. 4-5 secs to open GIMP on Linux here on HDD, and practically instant once cached. Maybe try and start with some command-line options. Useful ones in your case: -d, —no-da
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by Momquist 9y ago
Building their own distro from scratch doesn't make much sense. Why would they take on such a task when it's been done already, and they can simply customize a major one?
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by Momquist 9y ago
According to an interview to zdnet in 2012: Googlers must ask to use Windows because “Windows is harder because it has 'special' security problems so it requires high-level permission before someone can use it.” In addition, “Win
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by Momquist 9y ago
> They rightly believe that if this person committed such an act in the past, they're more likely to do so in the future, as compared to someone with no such record. The rightly in your comment irks me. Isn't it a self-fulfil
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by Momquist 9y ago
Regarding UI changes, minimalist Window Managers and Desktop Environments for *nix tend to work like that. They stick to their base paradigms and rarely, if ever change, once considered stable. XFCE has been already been mentioned. But Open
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by Momquist 9y ago
Actually I don't. I never had any account on FB for example, but once in a blue moon I get to visit a public FB page (like a recent blog post posted on HN recently), and having JS disabled let me browse it without worries. How can a sk
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by Momquist 9y ago
Surprisingly well, from my own experience. It can even increase your productivity and dicrease distractions: it blocks most ads, suppresses annoying "interactive" features, bans participation in most time-wasting sites (eg. facebo
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by Momquist 9y ago
> First, you really have no idea what you are getting into when you have a kid, no one can prepare you for it, all of what you think you know about having a baby is probably wrong (unless you’ve had one). I guess this is the result of ha
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by Momquist 9y ago
That's what I usually do. But, even then it can be annoying. If I happen to press on the smart key on my remote, by mistake, the TV then takes ages to check that indeed there is no connection, with a large and unescapable message dialo
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by Momquist 9y ago
http://archive.li/AtE7T
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by Momquist 9y ago
> The concept of pain is universal to any life form Plants respond to anesthetics, some can react to touch/electricity/heat with rapid movement(thigmonasty), they can sense when they are being damaged, some can even display sho
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by Momquist 9y ago
> Every non-geek I speak to responds with "oh, really?" My take on it is that non-tech savvy people are now largely desensitized to any vulnerability discovery, as long as it hasn't been exploited in the wild. Computers
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by Momquist 9y ago
> If that's impossible then learn to live under the rule of an automaton. I guess you mean some kind of computer/AI? Then who rules (programs) the AI, rules the world. This is definitely no anarchy. Ceding authority to a machin
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by Momquist 9y ago
That's what I was thinking too. When I think about failed predictions, the flying car almost immediately comes to mind. You could see them regularly on 50s-60s pop-science and SF magazines covers. Back then there was the idea that flyi
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by Momquist 9y ago
If the ban is limited to a specific space/community (school or classroom), then it's completely different from alcohol prohibition and more akin to the ban of smoking in restaurants, which is accepted by most people even the smoke
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by Momquist 9y ago
I think this equation actually makes sense when only the same people/minds are changing the factors. If the same team is given the task of improving a product, chances are they will be close minded and only able to tweak say security a
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by Momquist 9y ago
I think the GP is refering to this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16089865 Modern microwave ovens have all adopted impractical and quirky new UIs, when the old concept of knobs was simple and worked fairly well in th
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by Momquist 9y ago
Lazy loading via javascript at work... If your adblocker has an option to use the <noscript> element, the images display fine on wired though.
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by Momquist 9y ago
> e.g. I'm pretty sure no white-hat security researcher has checked for security problems in the cheap wifi light switches I bought on Amazon. But isn't this also applicable to the other side? As in, black hats have less incent

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