amadeuspagel

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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
A distro making your project the default doesn't give you any responsibility.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Life is about habits. The pandemic interrupted many good habits people had--going outside, doing sports, meeting people--and many people haven't restarted these habits, in part due to a collective cold start problem.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Finland doesn't have compulsory military service to help people feel connected to their society. Feeling connected to one's society is not an end in itself, people should be free to choose how connected they want to feel. Finland
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Interesting idea, but you need to improve readability. Try black text on pastel backgrounds.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
This misses the point. Websites are allowed to replace default keyboard shortcuts for a reason. There are only a few exceptions to this, like Ctrl+W. In other words, you can design your website however you want, except to make it more diffi
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
> Study and follow HTML/CSS idioms whenever possible. For example, a link should be underlined, colorful, pointer on mouseover, and written as an <a> tag. Moreover, if you change the color, you should also change the color of
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
> The truth is, there has been no successful CMS for static-site generators because the only people that give a fuck about creating static sites would much prefer to use a (free and local) IDE and a terminal. I'm not sure how succes
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
I see someone accusing someone else of misunderstanding an author who disavowed any allegorical meaning of his novels and said that their only purpose was to create the kind of world that made the language he invented seem real ...
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
All statistics of this type are based on substracting debt. If a headline like "Elon Musk is -100 times as wealthy as Jérôme Kerviel"[1] would strike you as absurd, these headlines are no less so. [1]: https://www.theat
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
> To be sure, North America dominates with 85% of Costco’s 910 warehouses all stocking hysterically-oversized tubs of mayo and peanut butter. Big families are more common in the US. While average fertility isn't that much higher in
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Can you name a "zine" or whatever people had in the 90s that experienced a drop in subscribers after it sold out?
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
> That, by the way, I think we’ll be able to fix in the next 18 months with AI. The plugin security only works on Cloudflare. Hear, hear. I expect the same from app stores, but I haven't seen anyone announce it.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Genuinely thought this would be an April Fools joke. But this is the kind of tech media we deserve for using paywall bypassers and ad blockers.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
I can't tell you how much it pisses me off when on I click on an article on an english-speaking forum and see a german translation, despite having my browser configured to tell websites that I speak both german and english[1]. [1]: ht
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
This is also a good reminder that Paul Krugman opposed the Iraq War from the start. The Iraq War is still the most important part of populist narratives about elite untrustworthiness, but populists never ask about exceptions, and if we judg
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Ever heard of WebRTC? Thankfully this seems to be an April's Fools joke.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
If I see "paid vacation" as an argument for why life in europe is better one more time, when an american doing the same job could take half the year off and still have more money left over, I'm gonna have an aneurysm.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
> Basic skills — especially reading, writing, and numeracy — must be firmly established first, physical textbooks are often better suited for that purpose. Reading and writing, maybe, but numeracy? With a computer, you can get instant fe
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Are you asking about my sensitivity to pain here or disagreeing that this is easier with a touchscreen?
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
The reason you want a touchscreen on a laptop isn't so that you can use it for "an extended period of time" but rather so that you can use it to do the few things that are painful with a touchpad, like drag and drop.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
If you're aware how much knowing to touch type improves your experience of using a desktop, you should also learn to glide type on your phone.
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by amadeuspagel 6mo ago
Beautiful. Another approach to visualizing the discovery of elements would be a "time travel" feature, where you see a timeline with just years below the table and can click on a year to see how the table looked that year.
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by amadeuspagel 7mo ago
When I was a kid my dad always told me to dream something beautiful when tucking me in. I didn't get this then, I can't control what I dream about. But it's more general life advice: spend your time so that you have beautiful
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by amadeuspagel 7mo ago
- Windows like Snap Assist where you tile one browser tab to one half of the screen and then it shows a preview of all other tabs and you pick one to tile to the other half of the screen.
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by amadeuspagel 7mo ago
> Biesma has asked himself why he was vulnerable to what came next. He was nearing 50. His adult daughter had left home, his wife went out to work and, in his field, the shift since Covid to working from home had left him feeling “a litt
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Algorithms, Neo-Brokers, and Political Power Reshaping Who Wins on Wall Street(respublica.media)
1 points by amadeuspagel 7mo ago|0 comments
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by amadeuspagel 7mo ago
> But this isn't obvious, necessarily. In the Genealogy of Morals, for example, Friedrich Nietzsche condemns the "slave morality" that underpins values like humility—this way of thinking undermines individuals' recogn
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by amadeuspagel 7mo ago
https://archive.is/NlLol
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Gratitude Without God(theatlantic.com)
1 points by amadeuspagel 7mo ago|2 comments
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by amadeuspagel 7mo ago
It's interesting to see how people look for powerful interests to explain simple and correct supreme court decisions.

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