QasimK

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by QasimK 8y ago
I was so excited over how the EU managed to get GDPR so right , that I couldn't believe that the EU would get something else about the internet so wrong immediately afterwards.
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by QasimK 8y ago
My advice to British learner drivers - take the test in a manual car and do your utmost to get an automatic car. Especially so if existing family cars are manual. The vast majority of cars around are manual, unfortunately. This means that y
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by QasimK 8y ago
I really dislike websites that prevent the use of password managers by disabling the ability to paste. Recently[0], I discovered that you can stop websites from doing this in Firefox by setting dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled = false . T
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by QasimK 8y ago
Firejail is a sandboxing tool that does this (and also restricts access to other things), and it supports many popular programs out of the box. I’m going to say it supports Chrome because I know it supports Firefox.
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by QasimK 8y ago
Why does it make loadbalancing and fail-overs harder?
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by QasimK 8y ago
I think websites should just stop using "www." entirely and host directly on their domain rather than a subdomain.
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by QasimK 8y ago
It may even be possible to use P2P video serving directly from a web page.
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by QasimK 8y ago
The data roaming law which allows you to use your data allowance in other EU countries, which is great when travelling around Europe. I can’t think of others from the top of my head
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by QasimK 8y ago
While there may be negative examples as you are asking for. There are also many positive examples, I think GDPR is an excellent one. I would also ask for people to share the positive ones, lest we go to sleep in misery.
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by QasimK 8y ago
I really love Firefox, and I’m still holding out for HiDPI support on Wayland. Currently it is a little awful to use...
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by QasimK 8y ago
Also a huge fan of this feature, I lit up when I read it. I hope there is a way to turn it into a keyboard shortcut.
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by QasimK 8y ago
Why do you think it isn’t? People do necessary things because they have to. People do desirable things because they want to. The risk of death can make a difference on whether you choose to do the desirable things, but you don’t have a choi
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by QasimK 8y ago
If it is anything like the X1 Carbon 6th Gen (2018). The proprietary port/dongle will block the adjacent USB port.
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by QasimK 8y ago
The study does break it down (pages 7-8 of the PDF) into various categories including a lot of individual diseases, transport injuries, self-harm, violence, alcohol-use disorders, and even on the other side, the health benefits. The direct
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by QasimK 8y ago
Drinking and (often, necessary) driving are not comparable, so the commenter could have chosen a better comparison. Edit: Based on comments in this thread, there are a lot of different perspectives on how comparable these two activities are
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by QasimK 8y ago
I suspect the answers would be: use non-arrow keybindings for browsers (e.g. vim-like plug-ins, or alternative keyboard shortcuts), remap your terminals keys (maybe, use a different terminal entirely?), use insert mode for only inserting te
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by QasimK 8y ago
That is good to hear! I didn’t realise until just now that I just assumed each additional keyboard layout would take an equal amount of effort. Plus, minor variations may be much easier to adapt to.
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by QasimK 8y ago
A keyboard layout for programmers, which allowed the use of special characters on the home row, perhaps by using a mixed corpus of source code rather than just novels, would be interesting to see. Recently, I ordered the Ultimate Hacker’s K
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by QasimK 8y ago
They are probably determining this directly on when someone is watching a show, which shows, etc.
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by QasimK 8y ago
I think the analogy was meant to be a reflection on what “addiction” means
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by QasimK 8y ago
You raise a thought-provoking point. For example, a company that basis your salary on aptitude tests (or genetic tests - hello Gattica!). It isn’t fair if you didn’t have control over your “intelligence genes” so to say. But, this is very f
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by QasimK 8y ago
Yes it is. Should the cost of car insurance, health insurance, or life insurance vary based on the measured risk from your skin colour, or height for example? A “lucky” individual has reduced premiums, while an “unlucky” individual has incr
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by QasimK 8y ago
As a society you can make it illegal to discriminate on factors that a person has no control over.
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by QasimK 8y ago
There’s also http://bropages.org
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by QasimK 8y ago
Tyranny of the majority. And a tiny tiny majority at that, perhaps just statistical variation.
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by QasimK 8y ago
No, amazing!
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by QasimK 8y ago
But if people didn’t talk about this, I would have have known that I could use it to watch BBC iPlayer without going through the annoying login-wall!
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by QasimK 8y ago
It just sounds like all of the self-hosted services you were using were crap to be honest. They still are more or less. IRC and photos should have a one-click button to set up encrypted backups to a location of your choosing, local, remote,
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by QasimK 8y ago
What is distributed learning? Is it spaced repetition?
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by QasimK 8y ago
Thanks for adding weight to my assessment that different people might have been thinking about very different things despite reading the same sentence.

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