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How to use the word “deprecation” correctly(alanhogan.com)
1 points by alanh 4y ago|4 comments
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by alanh 4y ago
Any chance you can add Meat Gone Bad? https://www.macintoshrepository.org/6032-meat-gone-bad
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by alanh 4y ago
How so? Do you think that message was coerced?
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by alanh 4y ago
There is a big difference from the 'possibility' of adding remote reporting of local data (essentially zero for e.g. Word 95) vs. the possibility of having a server do one more thing with information already on the server (trivial
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by alanh 4y ago
Is it extremely important to omit who made the decision?
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by alanh 4y ago
How and why is that possibly better than saying "the Japanese attacked them at Pearl Harbor"? The passive voice is what enables the omission of the actor.
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by alanh 4y ago
> maintain a passive voice surely not? even a newspaper should be striving for an active voice, at least anytime the actor is known!
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by alanh 4y ago
The charitable explanation (steel man) is that this is simply the web catching up to email. You can use DMARC, SPF, and/or DKIM behind the scenes to validate any third party you’d like to send (cryptographically verified) email on your
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by alanh 4y ago
To be fair, Brave doesn’t really have their own browser engine (it’s Chromium), but it is good to have browser choice, so I agree with the sentiment. (I am a Brave user.)
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by alanh 4y ago
Recently I came across the AMP website at https://amp.dev/ (after some years since first seeing it). It’s really remarkable how much Google wants to pretend this is an industry standard and not their own little fiefdom. I d
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by alanh 4y ago
It seems overly reductionist to ascribe the essence of 4chan to this one, singular idea. For example, m00t reports that 4chan was inspired by another image board he used to frequent. It is also hardly the first or only website to have light
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by alanh 4y ago
"They found that all of the apps they tested occasionally gather raw audio data while mute is activated, with one popular app gathering information and delivering data to its server at the same rate regardless of whether the micropho
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by alanh 4y ago
There can be surprising insights yielded from such an exercise. For example, if I think about what separates breads from cakes and muffins, I am forced to deal with the way that a typical "banana bread" (baked with lots of sugar a
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by alanh 4y ago
At risk of really devolving this thread, I’m pretty sure that bodybuilders generally agree that bread is counter-productive in the pursuit of definition :)
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by alanh 4y ago
Well, one thing you can ask it to do is to make a prediction.
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by alanh 4y ago
That’s not a definition :) And, by the way, a definition is not defined as whatever one thinks a definition is.
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by alanh 4y ago
Parents report that student brains compress memories of the just-ended school day into "fine" or "nothing" depending on the specific interrogative used as a prompt.
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by alanh 4y ago
I almost used Affirm the other day because deferring payments at 0% is attractive, but then I realized it would result in a hard credit inquiry, equivalent to opening a new line of credit. (Which it sort of is, but why defer $200 when you c
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by alanh 5y ago
Your amended comment now boils down to a tautology: "Danger varies but is never zero." Yeah, welcome to Planet Earth. Your original comment was a straw-man attempt to dismiss all criticism of SF's crime as risible naiveté. So
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by alanh 5y ago
Everyone knows that crime stats are very misleading because 1) The DA is simply not prosecuting lots of crime, and downgrading many prosecutions (felonies prosecuted as misdemeanors or not at all), and 2) Due to above and a general percepti
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by alanh 5y ago
(Context: The link appears to have disappeared, vanishing in a haze of unresolved DNS queries)
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by alanh 5y ago
Is the DNS for this link failing to resolve for anyone else?
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by alanh 5y ago
Building more jails shouldn't be necessary — but yes. Offer the choice of jail or rehab. (This is what e.g. Michael Shellenberger is calling for, as well as recovered drug addicts I know and respect.) This is has a dramatically better
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by alanh 5y ago
Not 'everywhere.' Everywhere with a certain flavor of progressive politics, especially if the climate is nice.
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by alanh 5y ago
No, sorry, 'income and wealth inequality' is not the major driver of the west coast's skyrocketing crime & grime. (I do think these inequalities' growing natures are problems.) The major driver is a population whose
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by alanh 5y ago
I think this is a really nice presentation of a font and its inspiration. Lots of hater comments here. OK. Go straight to the GitHub, that’s fine. But this site shows a lot of the finer details in a nice way. Thumbs up.
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by alanh 5y ago
This is because such words are not derived from Latin like most Spanish words, but are from native languages.
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by alanh 5y ago
You know, I don’t pronounce this one as it is spelled, but I do pronounce the first R in February, unlike many.
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by alanh 5y ago
Point taken, but it’s not bullshit advice when the particular word in question actually follows typical English spelling rules (which, despite countless exceptions, do exist)
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by alanh 5y ago
How and why does stopping completely at a stop sign, with good visibility and no present pedestrians or cross traffic, increase safety? Will wait for an answer.

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