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by baddox 6y ago
I suspect the police already spend a large amount of resources tracking down instances of abuse and violence against police. Do you think there is a shortage of records of these events, or that there is a concerted effort to coverup these e
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by baddox 6y ago
What does that have anything to do with whether someone ought to have representation in the very government that created and enforces the laws they were found to have violated?
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by baddox 6y ago
When a solution to a problem is banned by the government, it’s no consolation to say “well, if society was completely reorganized, the problem might never have existed in the first place.”
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by baddox 6y ago
If it actually were exceedingly rare for the price of toilet paper the make a significant difference in people’s financial situation, then I suspect toilet paper manufacturers/retailers would realize that this means they’re leaving pro
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by baddox 6y ago
What do you mean by “self adjusting just intonation”? Presumably you would need to sequence the desired key changes in your song, because I don’t think you’re going to want software to attempt that automatically. And it can get more compli
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by baddox 6y ago
It's very simple to use font sizes and contrast ratios that are different to read with system fonts too, if you want to do that for some reason. Web fonts aren't unique there. The re-flow is a valid technical problem, and one that
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by baddox 6y ago
The first one is, just like it says, a bug, and apparently a bug that Apple fixed on their website. The second one is Wired using a terrible web font. Neither the possibility of having fixable bugs nor the option of choosing a terrible font
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by baddox 6y ago
> If we're talking about having the typography shown to user A look exactly the same as that shown to user B, why does that matter? Well, I suppose that's a valid question, but it's moving the goalposts. We were talking ab
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by baddox 6y ago
> No, it isn't, any more than a store is a public space because it has windows the public can see into. It is absolutely the case in the USA that private properties which are open to the public are regulated as "places of publi
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by baddox 6y ago
You snuck in a hidden implication, which is that web fonts are less legible than system fonts. That's absolutely not the case across the board.
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by baddox 6y ago
But it is possible to get a consistent look and feel for fonts, by using web fonts.
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by baddox 6y ago
https://youtu.be/fix2-SynPGE?t=421 Starting at 7:01 in this video, Christopher discusses how some of the hand-drawn effects work in Rough.js (and Excalidraw, which uses Rough.js).
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by baddox 6y ago
DDOS? It would be much simpler: a few people with guns.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t really understand the point of the article. It seems to be challenging an assumption that being “smart” has something to do with being financially successful. But why would we start with that assumption? Why would we conflate being
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by baddox 6y ago
The real world doesn't work like children playing word games at recess. "It was technically just a prediction because I was talking about the future and therefore it's impossible to make any judgements about what I said"
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by baddox 6y ago
I honestly don't think that teaching ability is that important for MasterClass, because I think the videos are primarily consumed for entertainment and creative inspiration, and less for earnestly learning a skill. Charisma and/or
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by baddox 6y ago
Baseless speculation about the integrity of US national elections is a perfectly reasonable thing to fact-check and tag as misleading.
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by baddox 6y ago
And if that happens, take note of which political parties/groups fight tooth and nail because they know that voter turn out is bad for them. (It's not difficult to predict.)
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by baddox 6y ago
The feature is called Raise to Wake and (I believe) has been in every iPhone since the 6s. I thought it was enabled by default, but it’s in the Display & Brightness section in Settings.
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by baddox 6y ago
That shows the effects of partisanship on people’s memory and perception of reality. Partisanship is extremely powerful.
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by baddox 6y ago
Many employers have significant market power in the wage labor market.
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by baddox 6y ago
An iPhone wakes up the screen if it detects movement it thinks is someone picking up the phone.
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by baddox 6y ago
I would love to know if any of these are actually good, instead of just their own scams. I just want to see all recurring payments grouped by something intelligent (like the vendor and/or the amount).
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t quite understand the problem. Of course I would choose to have the option to work from home or work from the office rather than not have that option. Even if I only end up wanting to work at the office 1 day a year, why would I
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by baddox 6y ago
Yes, I have read it. The book is about how it is difficult to improve matters by adding more software engineers to an overdue software engineering project. The book does not claim that, for instance, 100 astronomers and 100 construction wor
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by baddox 6y ago
Forced stagnation might be able to effectively eliminate human-caused extinction, but you still have to worry about the external extinction events (like changes in solar output, or asteroids, or supernovae). But without stagnation, yes, you
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by baddox 6y ago
There’s a very real chance that strategy would significantly increase the likelihood of human extinction in the medium to distant future. We need minds to solve problems. Of course, that’s not to say that it’s impossible to have too many pe
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't understand this attitude that we shouldn't say "don't do bad things" because someone else might come along and disagree about which things are bad.
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by baddox 6y ago
Usually professionals using text editors for their work are not concerned with the absolute keystroke-to-screen latency. It’s totally fine if it’s fast enough, and it is.
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by baddox 6y ago
It's broken on MacOS Safari as well. It looks like they need to add a `top: 0` to the selector `input[type=checkbox]:checked+label:after`.

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