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121.
by RegW 5y ago
Even FB will make a wrong turn one day. Every time it buys a new name it gets bigger. Eventually it will be a fat man standing behind a lamp post
122.
by RegW 5y ago
Perhaps in 2005 we were still able to call across browser frames and abusing the one thread per frame model. async / await isn't really concurrency. It's a mechanism for picking up the job after something else has been done
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by RegW 5y ago
In a factory setting I would have thought existing robots would suffice. Looking at the wider group, I would think there's lots of roles for robotics in construction. Delivery of heavy items across uneven terrain or up stairs - may be
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by RegW 5y ago
> You may get alerts about: severe flooding, fires, explosions, terrorist incidents, public health emergencies So not a dispersal order then. [Edit for format and dreadful spelling].
125.
by RegW 5y ago
Are you saying that this 2018 article should have been updated to reflect the changing situation, or that children are still being separated from their families under Biden?
126.
by RegW 5y ago
A little disappointed not to find Llandow, the WWII airfield I grew up near in South Wales. After the war its great open streaches of runway became the focus of much unofficial (then later offical) motorsport. Traders and scrap merchants
127.
by RegW 6y ago
> investigative journalism ... “When you tell me that a lot of rich people aren't paying tax, I’m shocked but I’m not surprised because I know that. I don’t want to read another article that tells me that”. What I want is an article
128.
by RegW 6y ago
... but remarkably good humoured! (Or are those teeth gritted?:-)
129.
by RegW 6y ago
Well for starters, each component's API can be published and versioned separately from its implementation. The build of a component would only have access to the API's of the other components (and this can include not having knowl
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by RegW 6y ago
All devices in our house are creatures: griphook, fawkes, crookshanks, pigwidgeon, hedwig, aragog, firenze, grawp, etc.
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by RegW 6y ago
Well apparently javascript can be used to modify the favicon dynamically: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/260857/changing-website-... - presumably this will then have the same interactions with the cache. Perh
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by RegW 6y ago
In the case of the ZX Spectrum +3 there wasn't enough disk or memory to hold the uncompressed word list, nevermind some form of tree structure. The search method involved uncompressing each word (one at a time) until either the word wa
133.
by RegW 6y ago
The list was used with permission. I don't know/remember the terms under which this happened. I do remember that when I was trimming it down I found the list contained the trademarks of a competitor. These were removed.
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by RegW 6y ago
I wrote a spelling checker in the 1980's In my first job I worked for Tasman in Leeds and produced a Word Processor for IBM PC compatibles in 8086 assembler with some help, and then a spelling checker. For the spelling checker I did a
135.
by RegW 6y ago
I didn't know "Sign in With Apple" existed - I wonder why?
136.
by RegW 6y ago
Need Amazon to stop replacing the "Continue" button with "Continue with Prime". Keep cancelling it, but they keep tricking me again.
137.
by RegW 6y ago
F k! We haven't even started cleaning up the Great Pacific garbage patch or stopped burning the Amazon. Does anyone really think that any government is really going to stop dumping crap into space where no one gets hurt.
138.
by RegW 6y ago
However they now have to be trusted. It might have been better to have figured out which you trust and only use those.
139.
by RegW 6y ago
No. I concede that wiki rot is a problem, but just because no one has used a page for a year and all those involved have left the company doesn't mean the info isn't important. Better solution: stop using big branded, overly cleve
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by RegW 6y ago
As a developer I'm a fan of checking the documentation into the same source code repo alongside the code. If the code branches the documentation branches, if it merges the documentation merges. Documentation can then made to be part o
141.
by RegW 6y ago
Interesting, but a bit old (5 years). A number of these appear to be no longer active.
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by RegW 6y ago
> a lot of sites deliberately make it hard to opt out Amusingly I've just followed a link on HN to The Economist [ https://www.economist.com ] - their popup offers a link to "manage your cookies" where you can un
143.
by RegW 7y ago
> Each one of there tokens ... What are "there tokens"? Aw come on. How do you expect me to take any of this seriously with grammatical mistakes like this?
144.
by RegW 7y ago
Correct.
145.
by RegW 7y ago
Summary: won't fix - not a bug.
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by RegW 7y ago
> This is the rocket that will launch ... a handful of artists on a trip around the moon in the 2020s. ... and so programmed to crash just like Golgafrinchan Ark Fleet Ship B?
147.
by RegW 7y ago
A few years ago some idiot marked up pretty much every walk way in my town as a cycle way. As a keen cyclist who lives in a town with a somewhat poor provision for cycling, this is somewhat irritating as it makes our local government look
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by RegW 7y ago
I'm sorry - did I offend someone. Or did limited mobility cause a click on the fiddly and untitled downvote link instead of following the link :-)
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by RegW 7y ago
You could start here: https://www.w3.org/standards/webdesign/accessibility
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by RegW 7y ago
This not necessarily a problem. There's nothing to stop the website operator calling out to an ad provider, with the ip/location of the user, and getting an ad to embed. The upside for the user is that location and whatever the o

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