Normille

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   by Normille 5y ago

   I think your first link [freepascal.org] speaks volumes. I clicked on it and was taken to a page which looked like it was stuck in a 1990s timewarp. Opened it on my phone and, as expected, no concessions to mobile layout at all. Just that
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   by Normille 5y ago

   Love the flashing sidebar advert. It's like the 1980s never happened.
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   by Normille 5y ago

   Ugh! --in what insane asylum did someone decide it was good UI design to have a video that, not only starts playing, as soon as you scroll it into view. But also follows you down the screen, when you scroll past it, blocking your view of th
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   by Normille 5y ago

   I had high hopes for Kiwi Browser but, unfortunately its text-reflow feature has been broken since forever. Yandex Browser is the only one available on Android that ticks both those 'must have' boxes for me: full support for exten
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   by Normille 5y ago

   Stopped reading, to wipe the vomit off my keyboard at "Reaching out".
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   by Normille 5y ago

   Yandex Browser on Android [which is based on Chrome] supports Chrome extensions. I'm running it with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and a few others. If an extension won't load directly from the Chrome Webstore you can toggle &#x27
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   by Normille 5y ago

   I'm sure that sentence made sense inside your head
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   by Normille 5y ago

   >NSA: There's no such thing as a quantum computer that'll crack current ciphers I think that statement deserves the Mandy Rice-Davies Response [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandy_Rice-Davies
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   by Normille 5y ago

   DISCLAIMER: I'm a graphic artist / cartoonist, who has dabbled in posting a few NFTs on OpenSea and sold absolutely nothing, even when I've pitched pieces at the equivalent of £10 or £20. So my comments are most likely flavou
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    by Normille 5y ago

    He probably bought the crypto using income which he'd already paid tax on. So, why should he be taxed twice? If his cryptos went to zero would he get a refund on the tax already paid on the money used to buy them? Heads, the taxman win
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >Finally we elected somebody who wasn't really either one of those, and progress on the endless war front began, but of course that president didn't have the Guardian's support. The Guardian, like most of the Weste
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >Enter your email address to continue reading "fuckyou@spammer.com"
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Just ignore. All this dickhead does is spam HN with links to his crappy YouTube videos, day after day. He does so under another username too and rotates between the two. https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=owaisinn I
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    by Normille 5y ago

    He needs to sue his parents for getting such a shit deal for use of the photo, in the first place. I'll bet if, instead, they'd negotiated a penny for every copy of the album sold, he would be overjoyed that 'everyone in the
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    by Normille 5y ago

    I was with you all the way, til you said: >Gimp is still great... It's not. It's fucking shite. Just because it's free people seem to have this 'Emperor's New Clothes' mentality about it, where they
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    by Normille 5y ago

    I hate the way Amazon's search lumps together what its algorithm obviously believes to be "similar" items --even if your search terms specifically exclude those items. Specific example: I quite regularly buy tools off Amazon.
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    by Normille 5y ago

    I disagree too. HN's layout is plain and simple and effective. It loads fast and unlike the vast majority of websites these days, it actually loads all its content from the same domain. I'm so sick of popping open uBlock Origin&#x
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >Does bad UI make more money? You may have a point there. Netflix has got to be the absolute nadir of bad UI design: horizontal scrolling as a feature, majority of content hidden, some content which reveals itself on rollover --o
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Easy. Just dab it on a cut with a bit of cotton wool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP_(antiseptic)
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >Male-identifying speakers use swearwords in casual conversation more than female-identifying speakers The appearance of "identifying" in that sentence also reflects a recent sea change in the use of everyday language.
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >Dr Spiniello’s project, INvestigating Stellar Population In RElics (INSPIRE)... Please. Someone make it stop! I don't think I can take many more of these piss-poor abysmally contrived acronyms!
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Can someone explain in simple terms to a non-mathematician. How calculating Pi to these amounts of digits is done? In my naive ignorance, I can't see how you 'retrieve' more digits past the number of decimal places supported
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    by Normille 5y ago

    In before the obligatory Winston Churchill quotation.
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Yeah. But he didn't show that.
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    by Normille 5y ago

    >The 87-year-old former head of the Defense Ministry's Space Division... er... I think there might be a clue in the guy's age. PS: Article is 9 months old. Please indicate in the title when you're submitting archi
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Sigh! --if you do eventually adopt the METRE, can you at least spell it properly.
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Face-shitting modal dialogue alert.
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    by Normille 5y ago

    If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have any luck at all
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    by Normille 5y ago

    Exactly. As I alluded to in my other reply in this thread [which got downvoted into oblivion] the problem with these SJWs is that their world view is so parochial and [in terms of time] narrow, that they think these terms are offensive beca
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    by Normille 5y ago

    I won't hold my breath. I'm still waiting for a couple of my favourite plugins to be updated to support version 78.