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by aloe_falsa 4y ago
> The trend of removing colour from something and calling it an improvement. In photography, in film, everywhere. I honestly prefer Greek statues without the (original) paint: https://i.imgur.com/hF5zzp4.jpg
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by aloe_falsa 4y ago
> The web should have been based on Display PostScript instead of HTML. For all that I dislike HTML tag soup, the language does a lot of things right. It's reflowable, it can be rendered at any resolution (even a text terminal, see
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by aloe_falsa 4y ago
At least in Berlin, they tried to introduce a free ticket. It failed due to organizational reasons: https://www.berliner-zeitung.de/open-mind/scheitert-jetzt-au...
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
"Slap a GPL3 in there" is pretty much the opposite of what the parent commenter wants, though. At 5500 words, GPL3 is a long read - I have a rough idea what it says, but can't say I've ever read and understood every word
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
When I pay with cash, I don't usually worry that the salesperson will put it in their own pocket. If they choose to be dishonest, that's between them and their employer.
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
> But shouldn't the site owner pay for a CDN and host the resources themselves? Not sure I understand this. Whether you pay for a CDN or not, you'll still be guilty of sending the user's browser to an external domain witho
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
I never understood this acronym, to be honest. You have four companies worth over a trillion dollar each... and Netflix :-/ FAAMG would have made more sense.
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
The germans' attitude to privacy is... incoherent, to put it mildly. People get up in arms about the weirdest things, such as the Google Street View you mention. Thousands of people see an apartment building's facade every day, so
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“The 64-Square Madhouse” by Fritz Leiber (Chess Sci-Fi, 1962)(gutenberg.org)
2 points by aloe_falsa 5y ago|0 comments
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
> the liquor with or without milk or both Both with and without milk? Must be how Zen monks drink it.
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
Textual explication of a few (possibly fake) margarine reviews, which the author pretends to take at face value. It's what they call postmodernism, I think.
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
The top income tax bracket in the US is 37%, so the rational thing would be to keep 100%, pay taxes on it, and still come out on top.
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
Considering that single travel tickets cost 3€ at the moment, and yearly ones 730€, that would be a godsend. One can also hope that one day they'll allow traveling on a single ticket for the full two hours, not just for one journey. Ho
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressum > The Telemediengesetz (German meaning "Telemedia Act") requires that German websites disclose information about the publisher, including their name and address, tel
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by aloe_falsa 5y ago
For a less antiquated example, imagine that the text introduces the girl (das Mädchen) Fiona, and then persists in referring to her as "es", because the word Mädchen has a neutral gender.
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by aloe_falsa 6y ago
Shameless plug: I'm currently working through Project Euler problems using J, and the language is obscenely well-suited to this kind of problems. The terseness has grown on me, as for the other thing - well, I guess code in any languag