Zarel

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by Zarel 9y ago
You can't add "Private Number" as a contact, nor can you block it.
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by Zarel 9y ago
...I'm quite happy that Google stops my world view from expanding to include Chicago restaurants when I'm looking for food in Seattle. I'm also happy it doesn't include information about swifts the animal when I search f
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by Zarel 9y ago
Why not just polyfill `Array.prototype.includes`? That's what my project does when the only features we care about missing from an old release are polyfillable. Object.defineProperty(Array.prototype, 'includes', { &#x2F
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by Zarel 9y ago
I played around with Chrome in 2008 when it first came out in beta, and I remember finding Chrome Devtools an improvement over Firebug. By the time the Firefox 4 betas were out, it was no contest; Firebug was very crashy (which, to be fair,
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by Zarel 9y ago
"correct horse battery staple" doesn't fit in 16 characters, and has has much better recall than basically all similarly-secure passwords that do. Longer passwords let you optimize passwords for ease of recall and security, r
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by Zarel 9y ago
Everyone is criticizing this decision, but I think it's useful to point out that I've heard a lot of users say that Japanese Twitter has significantly fewer misunderstandings and toxicity and is a generally friendlier place than E
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by Zarel 9y ago
> promises not to sue unless you sue them first Isn't that exactly the same as Facebook's license grant?
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by Zarel 9y ago
> That's the character that was included in the American Standard Code for Information Interchange. Yes, and that's the character that was immediately overloaded to used to mean a whole bunch of other things, because ASCII on
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by Zarel 9y ago
> It looks like shit in any font in which the apostrophe is a little nine, which is historically correct. What you want is a little "six" on one side and a "nine" on the other, or at least some approximation thereof.
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by Zarel 9y ago
The problem is that you can't really detect which single quotation mark to use unambiguously. 'n' can either be an abbreviation of "and", or a single-quoted letter "n". as an abbreviation of &quot
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by Zarel 9y ago
Did you click on the linked source? It says it was written by Kurt Vonnegut, who is arguing that the value of accurately depicting reality to students is more important than protecting them from whatever imagined risk of reading harsh langu
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by Zarel 9y ago
Did you read the article you link to? It says that it only applies to CSSOM (JavaScript) and navigation (presumably clicking links). Not scrolling by the user.
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by Zarel 9y ago
They don't need to bundle their own copy of Chromium and Node, presumably.
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by Zarel 9y ago
Nitpick, the Hello World comparison is more like: Swift print("Hello, world!") Kotlin fun main(args: Array<String>) { println("Hello, world!") }
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by Zarel 9y ago
From Waymo's wiki page: "Google's self driving car project was formerly led by Sebastian Thrun (...). Thrun's team at Stanford created the robotic vehicle Stanley which won the 2005 DARPA Grand Challenge and its US$2 mi
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by Zarel 9y ago
You are so wrong I don't know where to start. You're talking about a situation where a politician resigns to avoid being impeached or otherwise deposed. That has basically zero to do with Uber and Lyft leaving Austin. We know exac
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by Zarel 9y ago
macOS also comes with emacs preinstalled. It's probable that fewer people install from Homebrew because they already have it.
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by Zarel 9y ago
I've been using mosh a lot because I travel a lot so my internet is pretty questionable most of the time. My main issue with it is that it can't clean up after itself. When I log in, I always get multiple messages like "Mosh:
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by Zarel 10y ago
I'm not opposed to an exception for acceptable ads; I think it's a good idea. My only problem is that it seems to be a serious conflict of interest to accept money from ad providers for this.
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by Zarel 10y ago
As noted in the article, Google pays Adblock Plus an undisclosed amount of money to be considered non-intrusive. Adblock Plus is clearly not a neutral evaluator here.
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by Zarel 10y ago
I used to do that pattern just because it was the one I found when googling how to make classes in JavaScript back in 2011. It worked until I hit scaling issues and the inefficiency of it all caught up with me, and I had to learn the protot
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by Zarel 10y ago
I feel like it's very common to want some things to be stable and other things to be bleeding edge. Like, why are my only two choices "everything out of date" or "everything bleeding edge"? Why not make software for
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by Zarel 10y ago
For one thing: Non-LTS versions of Ubuntu have the same problem, just replace "24 months" with "6 months". For another thing: LTS Ubuntu is the recommended version of Ubuntu: https://www.ubuntu.com/downlo
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by Zarel 10y ago
- FLAVOR: Ubuntu Server - HEADLINE: Built-in support for installing up-to-date packages - DESCRIPTION: Currently, `apt install [package]` on LTS Ubuntu will install a package that is up to 24 months out of date (or more if you're not o
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by Zarel 10y ago
I definitely wish there was a keyboard shortcut for this. Especially since I constantly have to turn f.lux on and off because it's not compatible with full-screen YouTube/Vimeo/etc.
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by Zarel 10y ago
I still get more problems on bad connections than other chat clients. The biggest one is probably that messages get sent twice or three times when I have a bad connection (I just had this happen yesterday). Sometimes a message goes red but
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by Zarel 10y ago
Am I the only one who uses pinning as pseudo-bookmarks? I would rather my pinned tabs be throttled more rather than less.
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by Zarel 10y ago
Are you sure that's not an extension? On macOS, at least, it's a very subtle gradient color change animation that's hard to notice.
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by Zarel 10y ago
I used to be the Mac guy for Warzone. Nice to see it's still going strong. dak180 used to be the other Mac guy, is he still around?
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by Zarel 10y ago
In my experience, Travis CI tests the merge at the time the pullreq is created. It also has a "re-run" button that lets you merge the latest master and run the tests on top of that.

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