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by _dan 4y ago
Ah, yes. It's actually both - the subject at the top is Arial, but the body is Helvetica.
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by _dan 4y ago
Th.. that announcement is in Arial... (Edit: and Helvetica)
33.
by _dan 4y ago
Don't Aeropresses still come with paper filters? Mine did..
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by _dan 4y ago
In the b2b world it's basically impossible to improve password policies. Most of the onerous examples only exist because some other entity (a customer, insurance company, parent company, etc) has demanded them. The problem is that the
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by _dan 4y ago
To each their own, bit this is what it boils down to for me: I trust Mozilla's intentions more than I trust Brave's. There's no telling when Brave are going to decide it's time to monetize and start compromising themselv
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by _dan 4y ago
Is that Tom Scott as in Tom Scott?
37.
by _dan 4y ago
Perhaps put the wait time on the homepage - If I'd known you were running at an 8 hour delay I wouldn't have added to it!
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by _dan 4y ago
It is in fact the opposite of disintegrating - they only just got legs!
39.
by _dan 4y ago
Nostalgia hit me hard reading/watching that.
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by _dan 5y ago
It’s pretty straightforward and no secret. All those “share on Facebook” widgets you used to see everywhere are also tracking users. Since they’re embedded into basically every site ever, and each hit to the widget goes to facebook.com (so
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by _dan 5y ago
"3 cup" = 1 cup, "8 cup" = 3 cups
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by _dan 6y ago
I've worked with Perl for many years and still actively develop for it at work. IF you deliberately ignore some of the crufty parts of the language (ie you follow "Modern Perl") it's... ok. Perfectly possible to write
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by _dan 7y ago
I successfully fixed an Xbox 360 with the dreaded RROD with Percussive Maintenance: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PercussiveMainte...
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by _dan 8y ago
Send "heyyyy" to 20 random contacts.
45.
by _dan 8y ago
I have no words for how dumb/brilliant that is.
46.
by _dan 8y ago
Tell everyone there's a problem. Immediately. Make sure they understand that "working harder" isn't going to fix it. Reset everything. Massively reduce the scope of the project and make sure everyone knows that'
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by _dan 8y ago
I don't understand why they don't sell it for a few bucks a sachet in a simple point-of-sale display or via the internet. I'm waaaay more willing to buy one when I need it than have to shell out for a big multipack of stuff t
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by _dan 8y ago
I have a Sonos setup in my house, it's connected to Spotify Premium (as I suspect most Sonos systems are). I recently added a Sonos/Alexa hybrid thing because I liked the idea of being able to play whatever I fancied while cooking
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by _dan 9y ago
I have one more: Bit-rot resistance. If you've ever tried to work on an MSWord document that's been around the houses a bit and had lots of work on it by different people (using different versions of different applications), with
50.
by _dan 9y ago
Those are generally edge-cases, though. That evolve in situations where there is little competition, and room for a little evolutionary inefficiency. Although it's perfectly possible that dinosaurs were effectively massive birds of par
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by _dan 10y ago
Recently I've seen a lot of Amazon packages where the item is in one corner of the box, held up against the outer box by some thick scrunched-up paper. That could easily be lazy packers, but I see it frequently enough that if it is to
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by _dan 12y ago
True, but is it something you actually want to accept?
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by _dan 13y ago
Very cool. It's a little bit like playing World of Goo..
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by _dan 15y ago
If you're on a budget, Astraweb are nearly as good as GigaNews, but way cheaper, particularly with this discount: http://www.news.astraweb.com/specials/kleverig-11.multicards...
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by _dan 16y ago
I've often wondered why these companies don't install a non-IE browser as a primary browser, leaving IE6 on the system, then using HTAs ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms536496%28VS.85%29.... ) with IE6 to deliver their intranet s
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by _dan 16y ago
Because you have to hit the server initially. While you could totally serve some JS, JSON data and a small HTML wrapper to kickstart the client-side code, just generating the page is a lot simpler and typically more efficient. Then you have
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by _dan 16y ago
Yeah, I know (hence "kinda"), didn't seem like the time or place to go on about Perl's quirks, though ;)
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by _dan 16y ago
Very nice. It kinda feels like it ends before it gets past the stuff I could guess from knowing my way around other scripting languages, but I'm guessing it's a work-in-progress. It'd probably benefit from even a brief "Why Lua?" discussion
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by _dan 16y ago
It's a great idea, and the snacks they send are varied and interesting. But they're really not "meals", and it's far too easy to scarf an entire box. I found myself eating normally PLUS whatever they sent, which kinda defeated the purpose f
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by _dan 16y ago
He's right, and it's a cool feature. But the fact that it's sitting right next to the useless (from a user's point of view) black blob of the IR sensor kinda spoils the effect.

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