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by atomwaffel 9y ago
Probably often enough to be used to it, although it's still bad design and needs to be fixed. (I'm not sure why a non-public-facing system needed a profanity filter in the first place.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
Detecting if the embedded data is from a boarding pass is not difficult, nor is parsing it[0] and displaying it in a human-friendly format to "prove" that it's probably sensitive ("The boarding pass you posted belongs to
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
Almost, but not quite. It does apply on all flights departing from the EU, but only on flights arriving in the EU if they are operated by a carrier from an EU country. It's a small but important distinction. For example, if you wer
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
Good point, those are definitely easier to read, although in this age of clickbait I give them credit for admitting a degree of uncertainty right in the headline.
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
That's exactly what I did. I think my brain even went on to read "show" as a noun, and "may" would have prevented that. Title Case Didn't Help Much Either. Besides that, I'm not sure either "Japan&quo
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
As I feel incompetent to comment on the article's content, I'll be glad to start a thread on the linguistics of that car crash of a headline. It took me three or four fresh starts to parse it correctly. The linguistic term for thi
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
D3 ( https://d3js.org ). It's actually not terribly hard to do: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/7ea1dde508cec6d2d95306f92642bc4...
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
Although one might argue that there's something seriously wrong with your website already if it doesn't work without video playing in the background. According to the article, blacklisting (or lack of whitelisting) is also easy to
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
Oh, absolutely. I'd even expect them to be whitelisted by default (although that would pose the interesting problem of deciding which sites deserve the privilege of being whitelisted out of the box).
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
YouTube. Netflix.
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by atomwaffel 9y ago
It depends on the reasons for your dislike, as the article explains beautifully. If you don't like the statue because you disagree that women should have the same entitlements as men, then you may need to open yourself to the possibili
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Yes, you're very clever. https://xkcd.com/977/
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
It's used in what's arguably the most used map of our time, Google Maps (as well as most other interactive maps).
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Not quite: > the UK will be able to revoke its notification of article 50 but this must be “subject to conditions set by all EU27 so they cannot be used as a procedural device or abused in an attempt to improve the actual terms of the Un
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
The form factor. My national ID is the size of a credit card, so I always keep it in my wallet. For something that lets me visit a good thirty countries, that's good enough value for me.
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Or written by people whose native language isn't English, which is a possibility.
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Yes, they can be refused at Heathrow. I did so just a few weeks ago. The alternative process wasn't unpleasant but did feel deliberately inefficient.
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
You're wrong: https://allipossess.com/products/macbook He does, however, only seem to possess one pair of boxer shorts.
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Google and Bing to deprecate piracy websites(theguardian.com)
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
On the contrary: it's not naïve, it's far too advanced. This isn't a problem that needs to be solved with technology and by forcing people to wear a beeping device on their heads. You can just install a railing and make the e
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
That's a great idea in theory, but bear in mind that (in most target audiences) few people will know how to change the default typeface and even fewer will bother. I'd be willing to bet that 95 percent of your visitors will be see
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
I was thinking of Spain too. I went to a conference in Madrid last year and was pleasantly surprised by how many people there were from Spanish-speaking Latin America, far more than I usually see at conferences. At the same time, it's
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Here's the solution to the substitution cipher on the "contact us" page, in case you were wondering. Hom ckxpt faji yfsrxa ukqlb fgmw hom rzvj edzwn. Hf bmae qm za mrmphwfaxp qzxr kbm hoxb zeewmbb: medxaomwm zh yqzxr ef
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
From what I remember (can't test right now), a zero-width space is okay as long as there are other (printable) characters in there too. This seems reasonable, because allowing a tweet to be a single zero-width space would make it appea
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Exactly, that's why I think this is a great pictogram: it makes it clear what it's supposed to represent, even though it has nothing to do with what a healthy landing looks like. A pictogram's job is to fit most people's
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
It also depends on where you are. Getting high-speed, low-latency internet to a shopping centre in the middle of a metropolitan area is probably a bit easier and cheaper than getting it to a plane flying 40000 feet above the Atlantic. And w
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
> They also made some pretty ridiculous suggestions that simply wont work, like the proposed scheme with adding your FF# to other peoples tickets. The name on the ticket has to match yours for you to get the miles, this is the worst ima
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
> I get that he was saying that the system is unsafe but a lot of it is only in relation to the web interfaces. I think that was the point though: when these systems were being built in the 70s (i.e. pre-internet), the security measures
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
But I can mentally snooze a Slack notification for three minutes or so, enough to neatly tuck away everything in my head and reach a state where I can more easily resume what I was doing. That doesn't work as well when I have someone b
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by atomwaffel 10y ago
Interesting, thanks! I had a quick peek at the developer tools but didn't delve more deeply. I assume (from the fact that it was live TV) that all of this can be done just in time as well and that the stream of captions is sent along w

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