WovenTales

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by WovenTales 8y ago
The trick with that is that it also prevents wrapping except on new lines in the source. Looking at the potential values, I'd recommend pre-wrap instead, which at least allows avoiding horizontal scrolling, at the cost of requiring yo
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by WovenTales 8y ago
Seems good so far, but it's annoying that the author needlessly sniped at double-spaced sentences. He even admits that whitespace collapsing makes it a meaningless distinction, but rather than focus on the actual information of "
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by WovenTales 8y ago
They were thinking that "scuttlebutt" means "gossip", and that the "butt" is just a water barrel. Basically, the ancient form of water cooler talk.
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by WovenTales 8y ago
Not only would it be possible, it's being done in NewPipe without touching the API at all (except perhaps the device restrictions; not sure what the status is on that). I'm sure there's clauses somewhere for using the API
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by WovenTales 9y ago
The most unsettling part is in Facebook's response: “We’ve heard that when accessing their information from our Download Your Information tool, some people are seeing their old videos that do not appear on their profile or Activity Log
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by WovenTales 9y ago
I find it amazing that Chollet even tries to argue "There’s only one company where the product is an opaque algorithmic newsfeed, that has been running large-scale mood/opinion manipulation experiments..." when Google's
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by WovenTales 9y ago
It's still not getting completely away from Google, and they could probably still track you through IP, but I've been really happy with the NewPipe client for Android; it's attempting to provide all the features of browsing w
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by WovenTales 9y ago
Some, maybe. Others live perfectly happily without being alone in their heads. I know a story or two about people for whom just talking with the voices was the way they found themselves again. Sure there are people who can't deal w
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by WovenTales 9y ago
On the one hand, definitely worrisome when taking into account the alternative sites. On the other, it's in a paragraph about legal exceptions, so I'm wondering if the article's saying that Facebook and such get more people l
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by WovenTales 9y ago
Thanks for that, actually! You're the first to comment on the aesthetics rather than the "incorrect" usage. My thinking is that the dashes are part of the pragmatics of the primary, wrapping phrase, and don't actually
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by WovenTales 9y ago
Ah, didn't know it was still viable. Thanks!
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by WovenTales 9y ago
I love dashes. I do tend to avoid ems for parenthetical remarks – for those, I'll use spaced ens – but I do definitely use the longer for interjections and (roughly) semicolons, as the article describes. Where I break from convention
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by WovenTales 9y ago
Something about LaTeX just doesn't click for me, and you'll never in regular use have any need for pure TeX. Luckily, there's ConTeXt which (unsearchable name and comparatively small support base aside) is a very enjoyable f
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by WovenTales 9y ago
There's an article I keep in my bookmarks for times like this: http://www.heracliteanriver.com/?p=324 In short, wider sentence spacing goes back to the first English standards of the eighteenth century – including the
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by WovenTales 9y ago
If that were all that could do it, sure. That's not the end of it, though. I was trying out anonymization methods a while back, and created an account for use through Tor + a VPN (yes, I know it's Google). I recently tried to get
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by WovenTales 9y ago
I want to add two things that aren't directly related to the article, but which might contribute to further discussion. First, there's an anthropologist who's found that the stereotypical, combative voices are only universal
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by WovenTales 9y ago
Isn't that a separate issue? The article was pointing out that [5, 4, 1, 5] was sorted as [4, 1, 5, 5], which is wrong no matter if you're sorting numbers or strings. The bug was the algorithm taking one step too few and the fix w
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by WovenTales 9y ago
Definitely, though the Zork 3 message still sounds like such a better way of letting you know what's happening.
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by WovenTales 9y ago
For the sake of argument, there's a difference between someone's IP and the wrapper it comes in. I'd be more than happy to pay for an audiobook through Amazon (or just get Audible), but until a recent hardware upgrade, I lite