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bmacho
5y ago
> I think there's so much potential now to make some crazy browser based games given current state of web apps. I believe that this could have be done ~20 years ago with about the same effort. Websocket is maybe minimally easier tha
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bmacho
5y ago
You can type in a random name/password/email if you want, and start playing.
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bmacho
5y ago
Tell her don't send pictures, don't give name/address, and don't meet people, and she's safe? (She already should have applied these rules IRL from a much younger age anyway.)
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bmacho
5y ago
Is it working for you with firefox? If not, maybe you should add a note that firefox is not working, so the ~third(?) of your visitors won't get confused, and you won't just waste their time for nothing.
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bmacho
5y ago
My dream shell is not a bash superset, in fact it's as far from bash as possible (because I don't know bash, and won't ever know bash). I dream of a python/nodejs shell that can list files, and run and pipe programs. Lik
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bmacho
5y ago
Fair point. Well it proves that non-relativistic QM (which is not supported by the experiments, and is inconsistent with our best and most useful theories) is not proven to be "truly random", at least the math does not imply it,
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bmacho
5y ago
> The reason I like to use this as a litmus test is that people often say something like "I'm against banning books" but what they mean is "I am for things I like". I am positive that 98%+ of people that state th
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bmacho
5y ago
> Non-newtownian/non-classical/non-relatistic Quantum effects are truly random. That's the core axiom of what makes "quantum" mechanics not Newtonian/classical/relativistic. Bohmian mechanics[1] (which
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bmacho
5y ago
> People lacking the ability to self-assess is interesting psychologically. People can learn from experience in many other contexts. People can judge their relative position versus other people in many contexts. Why would they be so bad
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5y ago
> There's also: If you take 1 class in piano 30 years ago and can only play 1 simple song, that might put you in the 90th percentile worldwide just because most people can't play at all. But you might be at the 10th percentile
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bmacho
5y ago
For me setting true gfx.color_management.force_srgb in about:config makes the rectangle disappear. I don't have the slightest idea what is going on tho.
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bmacho
5y ago
I am disappointed too, I wanted my request to be served from that machine :/
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bmacho
5y ago
I think that's a different matter. Using checklists to automate a task, and make sure you don't skip any is working. Random obstacles before dangerous acts IMO make little to no use. Before destroying a house a checklist can ensur
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bmacho
5y ago
It seems a bit few to expect a website to show us which repository are we going to delete on the delete page, instead of hiding it (or not showing). Datas, charts, content, every info that it could gather, and it may matter. Name is not eno
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bmacho
5y ago
Borat voice : True !
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bmacho
5y ago
> It's now a viable competitor for enterprise applications, both because web is getting more feature rich and these days has pretty much anything you need, and because desktop is getting worse with anti-features and jank. It's
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bmacho
5y ago
(On homework) > And you know what? When the students blame you, maybe they are right. The teacher is supposed to use their experience to help students learn. Shouldn’t you help the actual imperfect humans in front of them, rather than im
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bmacho
5y ago
Well, if you want your hello world program to try to write Hello world, then report success regardless of the result, then it is bug-free. If you intend your program to write hello world on your screen/stdout, then it is definitely bu
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bmacho
5y ago
E.g. how they implement CSS-only sidebar, with a custom checkbox: https://lanyon.getpoole.com/ I use this theme, because I disable js myself.
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bmacho
5y ago
In firefox, 1. Create a temporary bookmark (e.g. by pressing ctrl + D, or clicking or the star in the address bar) 2. Open your bookmarks (e.g open the bookmark bar, or press ctrl + B) 3. Right click on the bookmark, and
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bmacho
5y ago
BTW did you know that Firefox supports keywords for bookmarks OOTB? You can set up a keyword e.g. "shb" for (code from above) javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.se/'+window.location and yo