Timwi

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   by Timwi 9mo ago

   What incentivizes an ISP to become a member if it's not legally required and it pisses off (some) customers?
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   by Timwi 9mo ago

   There is a meetup-like platform called Spontacts here in Germany. I suspect that for the moment it is only available for meetups in Germany, but who knows, maybe it'll expand internationally if it's successful.
3. 183.▲
   by Timwi 9mo ago

   Why would the dumb intelligence be less constrained than a human in making itself smarter?
4. 184.▲
   by Timwi 9mo ago

   That's because it hasn't. You wrote this on Dec 26, the event starts on Dec 27, 9:30 UTC.
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   by Timwi 9mo ago

   Loading times surely is not a problem unique to Powershell. The more complex and advanced a software gets, the more it takes to load data into RAM that appears to the user redundant. This is the most noticable with startup times. My favorit
6. 186.▲
   by Timwi 9mo ago

   Or `extends Aluminum{}`! [0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AluminumChristma...
7. 187.▲
   by Timwi 10mo ago

   Not to mention ChatGPT-induced suicide ideation.
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   by Timwi 10mo ago

   I actually saw the “summarize this page” feature in the right-click menu today and clicked on it out of curiosity. The box that appeared had a “remove AI features” button which I accidentally clicked. Now the feature is completely gone and
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   by Timwi 10mo ago

   When I had to implement a UI for reordering a list, I just had a “move” button on each item, and when you press it “move here” buttons would appear between every item (and at the top and bottom). These buttons are positioned absolutely, so
10. 190.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I wouldn't be surprised if there's a correlation between people frequenting Wikimedia websites and people using Firefox. It would be nice to know.
11. 191.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I'm confused by your comment. I'm one person giving one downvote. I downvoted when I saw the insult. I'm not speaking on behalf of any other downvoters.
12. 192.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I'm downvoting because of the insulting addendum.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I don't remember the last time I've clicked on a Firefox icon. I've pinned it to the taskbar and I press Win+1 to use it, which is 100 times faster. I've been doing that for >10 years now.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    No, it does not change the zoom behavior.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I don't know anything about the browser internals or the development process/plans, but I've used requestAnimationFrame to animate SVG graphics from JavaScript and it has been super smooth for me even without a modern graphic
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    That kind of Flash is still around and well. Many newer shows are animated in Flash (MLP: FiM, Bluey, the last season of Fairly OddParents, etc.). What was killed wasn't Flash itself, but Shockwave Flash (Flash in the browser).
17. 197.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    Can you describe what you think is sub-optimal? Is it just the performance or is there something else? I've been using SVG for years for various purposes (though, admittedly, mostly static graphics) and I can't complain.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    A lot of the behaviors should just have a toggle to turn them off. For example, there are many situations where margin collapsing is in the way and I keep wondering why there isn't simply a `margin-collapse: none`. It would also be nic
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    This is true, but my feeling is that with CSS, a lot of the weird decisions are for backwards compatibility with way back when HTML was just tag soup and browser implementations were haphazard.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    Yet, for some reason, mobile browsers do not reflow when you zoom in, but instead insist on horizontal scrolling, unlike their desktop counterparts. I've never understood that.
21. 201.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I'm not the person you responded to, but I found the article unreadable because it kept going on about Ev’s life instead of her research. I'm sure her research is valuable and insightful, but with this style of reporting it is bot
22. 202.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    > (even assuming we know we're just talking about earth) This is a nitpick, but life on other planets wouldn't be called “animals”. Animal is a clade defined by common ancestry. The only way you could have an extraterrestrial
23. 203.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I joined Mastodon, was active, and was chill. I was talking into the void. I gave up after 6 months of getting no reaction and finding nobody of interest to follow. (Worse, half of what I wrote is now gone because my instance shut down and
24. 204.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    Windows user here. It goes vastly further than that. I've been using Windows since version 3.0. I'm used to it to the point where it's second nature. Linux is foreign and difficult to comprehend, not least because it explici
25. 205.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I'm not an AI bro and I downvoted mostly because of the addendum.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    I like the idea of placing the hotkeys in a column of their own. Nevertheless, even if the underlined i is sometimes hard to notice, I only need to find it until I've memorized it.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    That contradicts Wikipedia’s ostensible mission statement, which is “to collect the sum of all human knowledge”.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    > Hey, unless you can articulate a really good reason to add this, maybe our default posture should be no icons in menus? Challenge accepted. If a user (esp. one whose cognition generally prefers visual media) uses a menu item frequent
29. 209.▲
    by Timwi 10mo ago

    It's an everyday word in German: Wortschatz, meaning (someone's) active vocabulary.
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    by Timwi 10mo ago

    Something that is designed to be compiled to, so that everyone can use whatever programming language they like.