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by bmacho 9mo ago
It definitely misleads the reader for the reasons you mentioned. These types of sentences are called garden-path sentences. You can read some typical examples here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence#Exam
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by bmacho 9mo ago
No, I don't think they can withhold support if it's a no-brainer to support it. But they also tried everything they could to not support it.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
That's not the reason , but the excuse . The reason Firefox doesn't have jxl is that it is funded by Google, and someone at Google decided that it has to die. Also the parent comment was about that you really shouldn't just
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by bmacho 9mo ago
If you often click these types of articles and they all say XLibre, then it is probably the best tool for what you want to achieve.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
Get it from archive? https://web.archive.org/web/2026if_/https://www.cia.gov/stat...
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by bmacho 9mo ago
So you think that the Canadians or the Danish love you for your skin color(?) but you don't do the same, and just threaten them and take their lands? This doesn't make any sense.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
> Plenty of ebooks with built-in illumination, you know. If your screen has built-in illumination then you might want to use a white-on-black theme. Mostly everything supports it, txt readers, epub readers, pdf readers (pdf.js not yet, b
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The Successor to Research Unix Was Plan 9 from Bell Labs(theregister.com)
3 points by bmacho 9mo ago|0 comments
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by bmacho 9mo ago
punished by whom?
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by bmacho 9mo ago
> Does anyone say "we don't know if Einstein could do this because we were really close or because he was really smart? Yes. It is certainly a question if Einstein is one of the smartest guy ever lived or all of his discoveries
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by bmacho 9mo ago
The solution is absolutely disallow offending titles. The same principle that would make HN moderators take down a "Kill all the Jews" title from the front page should apply for this one too. Submission titles should be the origin
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by bmacho 9mo ago
Yes, it is best to use Meta/Windows key for system related actions (copy/paste, screenshot, application start, various windowing actions), and let Ctrl and Alt be used by the applications.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
Flagged for the title implying men have no rights. That's totally uncalled for and I hope such submission titles are not allowed here.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
> I do not see a path that the frontier makers “call it a day” cause they were defeated. Eventually we die or we make them stop AI. AI being worse for a period of time saves us that much amount of time for a real action. From TFA:
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by bmacho 9mo ago
> Not documented anywhere (but seems to work fine in major browsers) Which part of it is not documented? Putting device width dependent preloading in HTTP header? MDN says that the HTTP link header works the same way as the link element,
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by bmacho 9mo ago
Does GNU know about that? https://www.gnu.org/distros/distros.html
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by bmacho 9mo ago
Yes. I use my Lenovo that way. Bottom left key is labeled "Fn" and act as Ctrl because I swapped them in BIOS.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
Article actually argues/states that a lot of the times not closing elements is more readable. It mentions tables without a concrete example, but I think e.g. <table> <tr> <td> A1 <td> B1 <td> C1
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by bmacho 9mo ago
As an internet user flash never caused me any problem. It didn't run without a click, so it was fast, needed exactly 0 data (it was metered) and blocked some ads for me that weren't images.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
This is called the XY problem https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/66378 . You ask for X, I tell you that what you really want is Y, I bully you, and I become more convinced that you and people that ask for X want Y.
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17 weird facts about the Hunspell dictionary format(zverok.space)
2 points by bmacho 9mo ago|1 comments
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by bmacho 9mo ago
There is also Dingo https://github.com/MadAppGang/dingo https://dingolang.com (heavy AI project)
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by bmacho 9mo ago
> People in this thread are missing another key component in the decline of StackOverflow - the more experienced you become, the less useful it is. This is literally not true. The rate you learn and encounter new things depends on many t
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by bmacho 9mo ago
You say you'd disapprove a violent action. But when it actually happens? I've seen explicit support for Luigi from many otherwise apolitical and non-violent people.
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by bmacho 9mo ago
If you have some hard numbers supporting how much Americans don't like Trump and how shit is their life under Trump, then ..maybe? (Also, why the USA, why not start with North Korea, Venezuela etc first.) We kinda have the obligation t
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by bmacho 9mo ago
There is no philosophical or technical continuity. Go is really not the continuation of anything from Bell labs, not the philosophy, not the technologies, and especially not its purposes. Go was created at Google, for Google, by Google e
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XLibre XServer 25.1 Changes(github.com)
13 points by bmacho 9mo ago|4 comments
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by bmacho 10mo ago
> No. It can feel awful for one primary reason that dwarfs all others: advertising, which is of course just a wrapper over capitalism. Huh, I wonder. What if we had a domain that is actively anti-capitalist. No ads, no products, no askin
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by bmacho 10mo ago
> After all, boiling water is a tried and true way of making water safe to drink. It's not.
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by bmacho 10mo ago
It's not even the economical theory. Supply should not increase to increased demand. They want more profit, and if less supplies is what accomplishes that, they will absolutely keep the supplies constant and manufacture a scarcity.

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