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by arp242 1y ago
That's not "duh" at all, because previously much of it was micro-USB without regulation.
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by arp242 1y ago
> Here is the various USB e-waste that I have - usb micro C (2 separate types with same name), micro usb super speed (this one is particularly cursed), mini-usb types A and B, and normal USB type A and type B. Catch just two more and y
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by arp242 1y ago
The actual text is "Bans the worst beach‑litter plastics (straws, cutlery, sticks) and cuts pollution" and the tooltip says "Targets the most littered plastic items with bans, design and collection rules, and extended produce
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by arp242 1y ago
Everything seemed to have been moving towards USB-C regardless for a few years now, so it seems somewhat superfluous at this point in time? Apple was a major holdout though, due to Apple reasons. Not strongly against it as such, but also no
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by arp242 1y ago
Cheapest Fiat Panda seems to go for €14,700[1], so colour me sceptical on that "€30k+ for a new small car". In a quick check, it seems it was about €10k in 2011.[2] The price increase is more than inflation, but you can't jus
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by arp242 1y ago
I always thought you kind of need those directional control characters to correctly render bidi text? e.g. if you write something in Hebrew but include a Latin word/name (or the reverse).
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by arp242 1y ago
Excluding all of "legacy controls" not just as literals but also escaped strings (e.g. "\u0027") seems too much. C1 is essentially unused AFAIK and that's okay, but a number of C0 characters do see real-world use (e
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by arp242 1y ago
XSLT is not going away. You can still use it no matter what happens (and it's far from certain something will happen). Browsers are still built on open standards. It just doesn't need to be bundled in every browser by default, sim
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by arp242 1y ago
Okay, so you're saying these people have no credibility to their intentions, and you posit some nefarious alternative motivations for removing XSLT. But you're not saying these people (with no credibility to their intentions) ar
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by arp242 1y ago
Mate ... Your full comment: "XSLT isn't a tool for surveillance capitalism, nor for glossy product brochure presentation, nor for captive passive doomscrolling video experiences, so it must be actively excised from the global kno
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by arp242 1y ago
> they operate in a self-serving echo chamber. Like HN isn't on these type of topics. Just an hour ago you said that they're trying to kill XSLT because it "not a tool for surveillance capitalism"[1]. A claim made com
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by arp242 1y ago
No one is "obsessing" over anything. Reality is there are very few cases where you can use a single 8-bit character set and not run in to problems sooner or later. Say your software is used only in Greece so you use ISO-8859-7 for
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by arp242 1y ago
You really think this is a full comprehensive list of everyone that was banned, or that it's a highly cherry-picked list of examples? At the time people pointed out it missed many prominent left-wing bans that were excluded, but I can&
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by arp242 1y ago
So the celebration of the murder of me and all people like me is not "hostile". Right.
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by arp242 1y ago
https://quillette.com/2019/02/12/it-isnt-your-imagination-tw... https://web.archive.org/web/20230118212512/https://www.richa... https://web.archive.org/web
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by arp242 1y ago
Years ago Quillette claimed to have objective factual proof that Conservatives were being oppressed on Twitter with a data-driven approach. Alright, sounds good, so let's take a look. And ... their data includes shining examples of con
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by arp242 1y ago
I've never had to sign while voting. This seems bizarre. How do people with Parkinson’s vote? Or other motor issues? I have the motor skills of a spastic five-year old, and my signature ("signature") never matches exactly.
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by arp242 1y ago
> We can also think about it in economic terms. The 2.5 billion gallons per day required to grow cotton in the US created about six billion pounds of cotton in 2023, worth around $4.5 billion. Data centers, by contrast, are critical infr
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by arp242 1y ago
I think this is pretty much it: everyone capable of doing quality support has the skills to double or triple their salary by doing something more interesting (usually dev or sysops). The way I've typically solved this is by keeping an
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by arp242 1y ago
To claim that these letters "cannot be represented" is just outright bizarre. You literally you did so yourself. Expecting Unicode to contain a codepoint for every single rendering variation is not realistic and the line must be d
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by arp242 1y ago
The name in Unicode for U+1F52B is "water pistol". For better or worse, everyone uses a water pistol now and has for years.
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by arp242 1y ago
These are not "unresolved issues"; these are opinionated views. That's okay, but please, don't fool yourself in to thinking this is somehow objective fact because it's just not. Encoding all human scripts in one enc
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by arp242 1y ago
A single disagreement over something does not make things "proprietary". And it's been what, ten years? Honestly, get over it.
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by arp242 1y ago
I'm reasonably sure they had graphical "emojis" rather than just ASCII "emotions" like :-). They weren't called "emojis" at the time of course, but basically, it's the same thing.
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by arp242 1y ago
It's not a matter of not supporting it; if you can store UTF-8 (as HN does) then you can store emojis. It's that HN actively strips emojis. One of the more childish and petty aspects of the site IMO.
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by arp242 1y ago
Unicode still does lots of work on language support. The notion that emoji support impedes that is simply not true. And people were already doing emojis with phpBB, MSN Messenger, etc. The alternative to Unicode emojis would not be "no
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by arp242 1y ago
Depends what you mean with "to select something"; for example if you click on the URL bar in Firefox then all the text is automatically selected. Should that count as the user "selecting" something? Perhaps not? None of
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by arp242 1y ago
> Chrome's developers say "We want to do X". People say "No, please don't." Chrome says "I'm not going to respect your wishes." Absolutely not what's happening in that thread. Complete no
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by arp242 1y ago
I played the gog version about two years ago; worked fine. It uses dosbox. Settlers 3 also worked fine on wine by the way, although personally I don't care much for it and much prefer 2 (the original, not the "10th Anniversary&quo
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by arp242 1y ago
Yes, one company I worked for shortened their domain by buying it for €500k. Original owner of the domain never used it. I can't remember what the original domain was now; I thought I knew but it's in use by a different company (a

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