Semiapies

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by Semiapies 3y ago
Even this has some culturally confusing elements, doesn't it? It's never not going to.
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by Semiapies 3y ago
Not universally, no. The closest for English-language use is to put a spurious comma between family and given name (e.g., "Cixin, Liu" for Cixin Liu). In an ebook management system I've been developing, I use a full_name and
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by Semiapies 3y ago
Fewer neo-Nazis, though.
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by Semiapies 3y ago
This sort of delusion/pretense isn't a good sign.
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by Semiapies 3y ago
"Retro-future" is a common term for it, at least in certain blogs and forums.
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by Semiapies 3y ago
How do things make it to the front page with just eight votes?
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by Semiapies 4y ago
It would have perfect search engine anti-optimization.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Look into UFO/UAP forums/subreddits and watch any videos of their "sightings". They're all conventional aircraft, birds, bats, balloons, the ISS, StarLink trains, planets, stars, spotlights on low clouds, etc. Wi
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Just so. Your gender might not match the cut you need, and even if it does, you might be shopping for a gift.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Or physics or cosmology.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Alternately, Facebook's project is not to be confused with this significantly older one.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
By the standard of commenters on some websites , everything is "roundly mocked". Besides, both were just Apple's entrances into particular markets, not technologies themselves.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I'm trying to think of technologies "roundly mocked" twenty years ago that are common today.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Really, I wonder if it happened at all.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Yes. He'd have a lot harder time writing this article if he'd gone to investigate a raft full of people dead from dehydration.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I think more people should acknowledge that they're not actually going to build "the next Facebook" or "the next Amazon". Even those very, very few who are going to build the next huge site aren't going to bui
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Or more likely in many cases, putting up temporary discount signs to be collected at the end of the day. Still a time-saver to automate.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
People have downvoted this, but it's true. I've read more praise for Geocities from nostalgic web geeks in the last few weeks than I ever saw from web geeks while Geocities actually existed. Especially since, at the time, web gee
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Dude, that was 28 years ago.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
MIT named that.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
I've seen a lot of walls of text lately by people that look copied-and-pasted from their blogs/forum rants/whatever.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Some states have set up more restrictive eminent domain laws since that ruling.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
And yet apparently they've never been good enough, because people keep asking for it.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
The problem of designing adaptively for different screen sizes (much less orientations) was one even VB6 had no answer for.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Not in any way, no.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Basically, by the "if it has so much as a single decision in the code, it's AI" definition a lot of people like to push, this is actually AI.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
The actual only obligatory xkcd for this site: https://xkcd.com/1758/
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Oh, wow. That is...a Hell of a thing. Thanks for the tip!
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Beat me to it; the New Chronology is wonderfully bonkers.
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by Semiapies 4y ago
Sameness promotes inertia, which is always part of keeping an audience. It certainly isn't because large threads are unreadable on my tablet or that the vote controls are so tiny.

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