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Nadya
9y ago
A worldwide disaster happens and all of humanity on Earth dies. Wouldn't it be nice if humans, as a species, could continue living on Mars?
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9y ago
You hit a (rare) 500 error. Send that code to their team of highly trained monkeys. [0] [0] https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gxNP1pOvelA/hqdefault.jpg
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9y ago
I create websites for the healthcare industry. I know exactly what I'm saying. There are some clients that I still need to write IE7 fallbacks for - and a single client that I still write IE6 fallbacks for. Lucky for me our contract
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9y ago
What is this, an image for ants? Sorry, but I'm legitimately curious what that image was meant to be and it looks like you linked a thumbnail. Mid-post edit as the Google Image Search result comes in [0]. Amazing how I was able to find
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9y ago
The joke isn't "works best in IE" the joke is "Safari is the default browser that ships with the OS, few people get a better browser, and even though it's a piece of shit you have to continue supporting it." &
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9y ago
Nevermind that. Go down the rabbit hole that is COINTEL and realize that thinking that you can really know or trust anything you think you know is futile. The tactics have been used in the past and there is no reason they wouldn't st
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9y ago
>I reluctantly recognize that in order to have an unbiased press, we need news readers to pay the costs of operating a newspaper. I find that having people pay for operations does not inherently mean that it becomes unbiased - and from
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9y ago
$Language -> English is generally very good. English -> $Language is usually less awesome and has more errors. $Language -> $Language2 tends to be the worst. Sometimes I get better translations by going $Language -> English ->
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9y ago
But now for a mostly different reason: web standards. Chrome is usually leading the pack with implementing new Javascript features, CSS features, performance optimizations, etc. Browsers with weird quirks or that aren't properly writte
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9y ago
To my knowledge, yes, keep your feet as close together as possible.
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9y ago
To expand on what you said, since you used crashing into a pole as an example... If you crashed your car into the pole the safest place for you to be is in the car . Unless your car catches on fire do not leave the car . If you must leave
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9y ago
Heh, you managed to swing my opinion a 180 in a single sentence. >We built a tamagotchi-like app called Piggly that would let you feed and take care of it using money from your bank account. "Wow, that's exploitative as hell.
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9y ago
>The web used to be much more simpler when we were just making 1024 768 pages with <table>s* The problem is mostly with overdesigned websites, not ensuring it works for all devices. Simple designs and sticking with mostly default
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9y ago
Okay, so not everyone is a sweeper, fullback, goalie, wingback, midfielder, striker, or forward.
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9y ago
Get a new name. Mess with the spelling (drop a vowel). Add the word "app" to the domain like what Discord did with `discordapp.com` or add "get" like `getsharex.com`. Do whatever you need to do to get the .com because ev
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9y ago
I think this had only happened once to me, but I rarely sign out or close Keybase so I wouldn't be one to experience it frequently. Are you sure you are quitting the program and not closing the program? Many programs nowadays conti
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9y ago
Since you asked, time to shill for my favorite socks. (Note: Not affiliated. They've just really won me over because these are the most comfortable socks I've ever owned.) Darn Tough socks [0], which I discovered via Reddit's
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9y ago
There is Polite Language (丁寧語), Respectful Language (尊敬語), and humble Language (謙譲語). Compare: 見る -> 見ます -> ご覧になる -> 拝見する That is a lot different than just learning four different conjugations for 見る - it becomes an entirely differ
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9y ago
We'll have to agree to disagree here, because I don't find dictionary definitions all that useful for communication and most people don't operate under strict dictionary definitions. By definition a pilot doesn't need to
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9y ago
You're right that enthusiast doesn't have any dictionary definition with the implication I mentioned. So for lack of a dictionary term, allow me an analogy that also explains why it isn't a "no true scotsman" argume
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9y ago
>We could play the "no true Scotsman" game for a while, but I've yet to meet a games journalist that is less of "a gamer" than I am. I predicted this would be a response (or, similarly, "gatekeeping")
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9y ago
>The whole article seems like the author just woke up from a 15-year coma and is having trouble coming to terms with modern commerce. Seems more like a Games Journalism article written by someone who isn't "a gamer". Whi
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Define "successful". Many of them are only interested in floating as long as possible. User donations pay for the server and users have motivation to help keep the site running to keep the ability to pirate. Development and modera
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>Every conference I've been to about the auto industry the experts say that, especially for low-income individuals, the monthly payment is what customers tend to be the most concerned about. In fact, many prefer to pay more total m
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Not always - but the idea is to make linking separate posts more difficult and time consuming. Not making reading an individual post impossible.
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>I'll admit, I've never been the victim or perpetrator of doxxing, so I may be missing something. Most people leak information constantly and each bit or byte of information by itself is not important. However, in aggregate,
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9y ago
>In communities where people buy and sell things, or offer pay for services (e.g. /r/forhire), a glance at someone's account history provides some insight into their likely reliability. It's not much to go on, but th
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9y ago
>I would like to find a white hat site that prepares a report on what they can find about you. This would be difficult to start as it would require trust. I already do exactly this ("white hat doxing") but do you trust that
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9y ago
Doesn't the CLI client allow you to generate a new paper key? Then you can use that paper key to authorize the new device. Command: `keybase paperkey` will generate a new paper key, then enter that key onto your device.
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I occasionally offer to dox people to show them how bad their OpSec truly is or as an example of why I don't use social media like Facebook for privacy concerns. Doxing people is often trivial since nearly anyone contributing to discus
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