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by arp242 1y ago
It's a nice idea in principle, but one problem with that is that for many names, there are multiple "official" meanings. Apple Inc. and Apple Records is a well-known example. This is why Wikipedia has (sometimes lengthy) disa
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by arp242 1y ago
The thing is that this was his "answer" to what was really the quite reasonable question of "do you think this is ethical?" To start talking about this sort of thing is completely disconnected from the actual question. O
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> the surge of classic Mac OS to 7% for several months I'm not sure what's up with listing both "OS X" and "macOS", but I'm quite confident it's not classic Mac OS.
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> I understand go's reasons, ReDoS etc, but the "purism" of RE2 does fly in the face of practicality to an irksome degree. Preventing ReDos is literally the reason RE2 exists though, so I don't think it's "p
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by arp242 1y ago
It should also be pointed out that the Firefox devs spent years and countless dev hours trying to keep the old extension system and solve the problems wrt. multi-process, security, performance, and compatibility. They removed the extensio
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by arp242 1y ago
At the end of the day, if you want to see these types of bugs fixed then by far the fastest way is to report them, which will probably mean you'll have to spend some time to track down what's causing that on your system. I have ge
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by arp242 1y ago
Maybe try creating a new profile? I've had cases where a profile can cause Weird Shit™ to happen. Kind of annoying though. Probably something in a SQLite database or some such, but I didn't have the interest to track it down.
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by arp242 1y ago
People are sharing their own views and outlooks. There is nothing "distasteful" about that, nor are these people selfish and entitled. Bizarre comment.
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by arp242 1y ago
It's not just a money issue. You need medical and other care staff. You need appropriate places to house people. Things like that. None of this is really a "we can just pay for it" thing. But yes, obviously something will hav
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by arp242 1y ago
Even a stable population can't mean it can never shrink. A long-term stable population means that sometimes it grows a bit over a period of decades, and sometimes it shrinks a bit over a period of decades. Overall long-term it roughly
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by arp242 1y ago
I believe they were also outright ddos'd last year, by someone who apparently has a beef with Blender.
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by arp242 1y ago
US law says that warranty/liability disclaimers need to be "conspicuous". Making it ALL CAPS is the easiest way to do that in plain text.
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by arp242 1y ago
Is that common for all ISPs or just Virgin? When I lived in the UK (already a number of years ago) it was all just DNS-based. Running my own DNS resolver unblocked everything. I don't recall which ISP.
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by arp242 1y ago
Yes, especially as prime minister or president, you need to be the face of the country. For everyone: not just your party. And while listening to the public is an important part of the job, sometimes you also need to explain things to the p
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by arp242 1y ago
> I also do not understand why anyone would drop the GPL because Stallman does not like their licensing. Because he can be so obnoxious that people want to sever all ties with him and anything that has to do with him so that they never e
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by arp242 1y ago
Ah cheers. Don't understand why that's not mentioned at all in the length section on changing the license?
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by arp242 1y ago
WebP got added about 15 years ago or so. Chrome (and Firefox) learned the lessons from the problems that caused. And "push WebP" for that purpose? Google as a whole benefits hugely from reduced image sizes. Firefox also doesn&#x27
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by arp242 1y ago
It wasn't "killed", it was always disabled by default in Chrome, and removed for really quite reasonable reasons: literally every other image decoder has had serious vulnerabilities. Enabling it by default would expose a giga
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by arp242 1y ago
That is not what the article says. It doesn't mention "or later" at all? And reading the full license text, I don't see "or later" there either?
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I suppose my concern with not getting permission from all contributors is that a bad faith contributor could make life hard. For those S signs with a stripe, or just out of spite. For better or worse, in systems like the US anyone can sue a
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by arp242 1y ago
That's probably quite a popular viewpoint, shared by many on the left, too. Almost all my left-leaning friends agree (as do I). I think one problem here is that "that's racist" is a very powerful tool to shut down critic
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by arp242 1y ago
Being too famous or too rich at an early age is by and large not good for many people. Both fame and money have the same effect: no one will stand up, puff up their chest, look you in the eye, and say "you idiot, that's fucking me
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by arp242 1y ago
Lots of things are east to imagine in principle, but actually doing them is just so much harder. There are so many practicalities you run in to. The first from the top of my head would be the required length and sheer weight of the cable at
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When wood-like structures first evolved there were no bacteria that could penetrate the tough cellulose. The trees would just fall over and ... stay there, as rotting wood is just wood being eaten by bacteria. This is where coal comes from.
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For obese people: probably. The overall health benefits for overweight people are a lot less clear. Being merely overweight (rather than obese) is not that strongly associated with negative health effects. Look, I hope you're right. If
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by arp242 1y ago
If I tried to be obnoxious and got paid for it, I would still be less obnoxious than that asshole. Looking at their website, "denis bider" is not just "support" but the main person beyond Bitvise, FYI. He also seems to t
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by arp242 1y ago
Something can simultaneously be a pseudo-science and still work. Do some aspects of TCM have benefits? Sure, probably – it's a huge field. But that's more coincidental than anything else, and their mechanisms of action are unrel
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by arp242 1y ago
> Nobody whines about the unscientificness of giving yourself a bunch of salt through chicken noodle soup after a hangover. Sure, but that doesn't come with an entire theory about Chi energy lines, and no one claims this is "me
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by arp242 1y ago
Cluely seems sort of AI tool? How does that relate to that thread?
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The amount of people you can reach offline is quite small. In particular the amount of strangers you can reach is quite small. Online you can easily post several hundred times a day, and/or reach a huge audience.

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