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by bentley 3y ago
Google Play Books allows you to download an EPUB, but only if the book is from a DRM‐free publisher. Tor Books is one such (sci‐fi) publisher, so I buy their books through Google Play. I don’t know a way to check in advance if a Google Play
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by bentley 3y ago
GrapheneOS implemented this feature for the filesystem—called “Storage Scopes”—and a similar feature for contacts is in alpha. Apparently camera, microphone, and location are in progress. https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneO
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by bentley 3y ago
You misremember—it’s the other way around. IE never supported self‐closing arbitrary elements, because IE never supported rendering an (X)HTML page using an XML parser. Requiring the slash to self‐close, and allowing any element to be self‐
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by bentley 3y ago
But the meaning does change based on the parent tag. <p> is not allowed to be nested, just like <li> and many other elements. Those are rules anyone writing markup has to remember, whether XML or not. Allowing <li> to cl
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by bentley 3y ago
You’re quoting a description of implicit end tags, but the conversation is about self‐closing tags, which are a different thing.
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by bentley 3y ago
Implicit end tags aren’t sloppy at all. Documents using them are completely unambiguous and completely well‐formed, as has been the case since the inception of the language. In fact, the fact that implicit end tags and implicit elements are
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by bentley 3y ago
Outer Wilds gave me plenty of enjoyment, but isn’t a favorite. I got through nearly the entire game on my own. Near the end there were two sequences (the collapsing ground area and the sandy/thorny area) where I knew roughly where I
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by bentley 3y ago
If someone takes out a mortgage and goes bankrupt, the lender will get the house. If someone takes out a car loan and goes bankrupt, the lender will get the car. For loans with no collateral, like credit cards, the lenders use credit scores
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by bentley 3y ago
My favorite proprietary game that went to free licensing is Star Control 2: The Ur‐Quan Masters. Wikipedia: “Released to critical acclaim, Star Control II is widely viewed today as one of the greatest PC games ever made, and has appeared on
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by bentley 3y ago
Your “nuh‐uh” is a weak response to an American anecdote.
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> People are naturally hung up on it because why use a projection which is useful for navigation in a world history class or as a background image in a news cast or as a decoration on the wall? Are world history classes favoring Merc
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by bentley 3y ago
> Just use another projection? Mercator is everywhere, nothing else. What an exaggeration. Mercator may be the most common, but Winkel and Alders are both commonly encountered in the United States.
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> A vast majority of people in the "Western world" perceive their countries as being bigger than they are. Thus from a primal, tribal perspective this further inflates their perception of "their peoples" being more im
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by bentley 3y ago
In the 90s, my family (inveterate roadtrippers) always kept a Rand McNally road atlas in the car. Each page had a map covering (usually) a whole state. I don’t know what projection it used—Albers, perhaps?—but I remember as a child wonderin
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by bentley 3y ago
Brings to mind one of my favorite Calvin and Hobbes strips: https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/08/07
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by bentley 3y ago
And that’s the tradeoff of using a globe, whereas the tradeoff of the Peters projection is that the map is distorted in various ways, and the tradeoff of Mercator is that the map is distorted in other ways. Which is why that West Wing cli
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by bentley 3y ago
I grew up watching an edition of this on VHS. Was very pleased a while back to rediscover it in adulthood (and with an expired copyright, no less). In a culture where animation is dominated by descendants of the Disney style, it’s fascinati
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by bentley 3y ago
> When Spielberg edited E.T. to replace guns with walkie-talkies, was that censorship? Or freedom of speech? Here’s how Spielberg himself describes it ( https://allthingsfangirl.blogspot.com/2011/09/on-scene-raid
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by bentley 3y ago
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is certainly entertaining, and I’m happy that some people enjoyed coming up with it and others enjoyed watching or reading it, but if it replaced Pride and Prejudice , the world would be worse off.
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by bentley 3y ago
There have already been cases of details being inserted into a stream and later changed or removed for advertising purposes. The Amazon Jack Reacher series was first released around tax time and temporarily had a CG billboard for TurboTax
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by bentley 3y ago
I don’t mind that someone somewhere chose to make such edits. I care that the edited version is (presumably) going to be the only version available on streaming platforms and (presumably) future physical releases.
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by bentley 3y ago
It’s not the edits that I mind. It’s that they’re made by the rightsholder, who has exclusive control over non‐physical copies, and likely will apply the change to future physical releases. Say what you will about the sensibilities of the B
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by bentley 3y ago
> There's a place for this, and I think it's fine as long as we're not replacing the originals. When the film is copyrighted (as The French Connection is for the next 45 years), it is effectively replacing the originals.
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The decision to ban smartphones generally comes from a weighing of the benefit of the information they provide access to versus the damage phone usage causes to childrens’ psyche.
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My point is that if bullies weren’t making life hell for kids without smartphones, they’d be making kids’ life hell for some other irrelevant reason. I see no reason to believe that the bullying situation will be made worse by removing ph
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by bentley 3y ago
Kids are cruel and if they have a mind to it will make fun of literally anything. I was a social outcast in school, where favorite jokes of the other kids were that I was overweight, that I was inept at sports, that I wore glasses, that my
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by bentley 3y ago
> I do not see the ever-increasing terms of copyright being "for limited Times." Neither do I, but the Supreme Court disagreed in Eldred v. Ashcroft . > In a 7-2 opinion delivered by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Court h
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by bentley 3y ago
> Supporting one's family is a major goal of many people. I’m sympathetic to the idea of providing some means of posthumous support to an author’s widow and children. I’m rather less sympathetic when it manifests as an exclusive mon
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And they are universally poorer quality than the default navigation apps on phones.
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by bentley 3y ago
This is exactly what happened to me three weeks after I migrated my paid Mojang account to a new Microsoft account in 2019 or so. Haven’t played Minecraft since. Every so often I check. The account is still locked.

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