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by ajanuary 9y ago
According to the UK Electoral Commission [0] > The use of pencils does not in itself increase the likelihood of electoral fraud: while pencil marks can be rubbed out, similarly, pen marks can be crossed out. What is key is that t
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by ajanuary 9y ago
Wouldn't you test the output rather than the input? Before an autonomous vehicle / update is allowed to go on public roads, it must pass a "driving test" that includes a bunch of known edge cases.
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by ajanuary 9y ago
It's also not really true: they're the opposite of symbols in lisp and ruby. In lisp and ruby, `:a == :a` is true, while in JavaScript `Symbol("a") == Symbol("a")` is false.
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by ajanuary 9y ago
For a while I was using the Rocket.Chat desktop client. Sometimes an alert would just flash the taskbar, other times an alert would steal focus. I couldn't work out why only sometimes.
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by ajanuary 9y ago
If I tap it I get the option to react with different emoticons to the specific message, similar to iMessage's tapback.
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by ajanuary 9y ago
One reason to have a small app is to make it download quicker on a slower connection, which means I'm less likely to start randomly downloading competitors while it's downloading. The quicker you can get me from starting the downl
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by ajanuary 9y ago
C# is an example of a language that decided that including definite assignment analysis into the language spec was worth the tradeoff.
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by ajanuary 9y ago
I don't have the resources right now to condense the arguments or cite the evidence, but the Skeptics with a K podcast [1] has recently done a whole series on why the article and pretty much every other study mentioned in the comments
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by ajanuary 9y ago
"Randomly asks me to verify my iCloud password without me initiating anything" I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's been improved in a recent iOS 10 update. It's now a section in the settings app and a badge tells
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by ajanuary 9y ago
Are you talking about json-to-xml and xml-to-json? From the XSLT spec [0]: "Converts an XML tree, whose format corresponds to the XML representation of JSON defined in this specification, into a string conforming to the JSON grammar&qu
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by ajanuary 9y ago
"There is a story of mysql as a company who had an employee who was not reachable for a few months." I couldn't find the story with some (brief) googling. What makes it different to "they didn't turn up the office f
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by ajanuary 9y ago
My University also had an 8 character restriction. When I asked them about it, they said it was because they wanted a single password across all of the systems, and some of them were really old and had an 8 character restriction, so that ha
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by ajanuary 9y ago
I think the distinction between "this value is a reference that can be derefenced to get another value that is stored somewhere else" and "this value is an address into some contiguous storage where another value may be store
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This happens to be across multiple audio players on iOS that are playing local content, which leads me to suspect there are issues with audio at the OS level, though can't be sure.
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by ajanuary 9y ago
Penn has talked a few times on his podcast Penn's Sunday School about the format. The idea is to showcase magic on TV, but in a way that reassures the viewers that there isn't any camera trickery etc. "If Penn and Teller are
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by ajanuary 10y ago
Wouldn't Cookie Clicker be doing updates based on time deltas? There's no guarantees a timer will fire after the desired time even without this update. Or am I missing a feature that requires it to be able to continually process i
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by ajanuary 10y ago
I know this isn't the point you were making, but I wanted to take the opportunity to do a PSA. While it's true you don't need any meat, it's not true you can get everything you need from an unsupplimented vegan diet (mor
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by ajanuary 10y ago
I tried to change it to a 64 character random 1Password string with numbers, characters and symbols. It complained it was too easy to guess. I submitted the exact same password and it accepted it.
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by ajanuary 10y ago
I must be misremembering. From what I remember, I used to subscribe the RSS feeds per-channel, but then they all had posts saying this feature was going away, and then they stopped working. Did they just change the URL or something?
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by ajanuary 10y ago
I don't think binge-watching, as many people here are defining it (watching a whole season in a weekend) is useful to Netflix. What is useful to Netflix is watching a whole show over the course of several weeks, a few episodes at a tim
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by ajanuary 10y ago
I've done something similar in Java, though more focused on file paths https://github.com/aJanuary/basepath
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by ajanuary 10y ago
I don't know how long it's had it (because I don't use the web UI), but it now has separate views for "Tweets" and "Tweets and Replies".
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by ajanuary 10y ago
It can be complicated. For example, now you're not advertising to your most engaged users, so advertising on the service becomes less valuable.
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by ajanuary 10y ago
The names of the tuple field are a part of the method signature. Would you expect to be able to change other parts of the method signature, like the method name or argument types, and not have stuff break? [edit] unless you're talking
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by ajanuary 10y ago
Separate histories and identities has been a feature for a while. Firefox and Chrome (and probably others) have profiles (though I don't think Firefox had an easy way to switch). This is different. Cookies and storage are separated, bu
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by ajanuary 10y ago
Without a defined public API, you don't have any way of determining if a change is breaking or not, and hence you don't know when you should bump the compatibility number.
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by ajanuary 10y ago
Most posts are contemporary, which means you can use the post date to figure out the year of the article without clogging up the list of titles with (2016)
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by ajanuary 11y ago
It's not common, but the product my work makes uses it as a cross-browser, cross-platform (Windows and OS X) way of embedding video into a web page with good scrubbing and multitrack audio support. We're replacing it with native H
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by ajanuary 11y ago
That's easier than rm -rf /.adobe ? My point being that things indicate a more interesting problem they were trying to solve than just deleting a directory. What that actually was, and how that lead to such an awful solut
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by ajanuary 11y ago
Deleting the first directory seems like a harder problem than deleting a folder called .adobe.

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