calcifer

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by calcifer 7y ago
> something like USE Together it's possible to have the equivalent of over the shoulder looks complete with easy input sharing. That sounds neither as effective nor as fast as pointing at my screen with my finger.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> If I visit the NYT website in e.g. Norway, should I still see ads for an American brand of paper towel that doesn’t exist here; or should I see ads for Norway paper towel brands? That's still possible with static ads. The server c
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by calcifer 7y ago
All of those sound like reasonable anti-spam/anti-fraud measures to me. If you know a JS-free captcha approach that is of similar quality to Recaptcha, I'm sure the Protonmail folks would love to hear about it.
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by calcifer 7y ago
> things are better than they’ve ever been [...] So is there really a problem? That's begging the question. Things are better for you , but is the improvement across the board or did the rich getting richer screwed over some people
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by calcifer 7y ago
Unfortunately, all the images are returning "402: Payment Required" for me [1]. [1] https://i.imgur.com/WWuN4Tw.png
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by calcifer 7y ago
> but nothing stops you from writing the most complex computer programs you can imagine without it. Sure, you can do that with punch cards as well, but there is a reason we've collectively moved beyond them.
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by calcifer 7y ago
By my count, fewer than half of Rust's core team [1] are Mozilla employees, whereas the number is 100% for Go. Rust also has a very clear and open governance model [2], where the Go team is more closer to "we'll do what we wa
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by calcifer 7y ago
Nice find! TLDR below: > Why Mauna Loa? Early attempts to measure CO2 in the USA and Scandinavia found that the readings varied a lot due to the influence of growing plants and the exhaust from motors. Mauna Loa is ideal because it is so
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by calcifer 7y ago
Fair enough, it's probably the "unbiased" that kinda rubbed me the wrong way :)
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by calcifer 7y ago
> Please note I am not trolling or trying to be skeptical You may not be trolling but you are being skeptical. Specifically, the way you worded your question ("unbiased observatory") makes it sound like the scientists who put
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by calcifer 7y ago
> This is a very American-centric kind of cynicism and myopia. I'm neither American, nor ever been to that country, so I find this quite impossible.
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by calcifer 7y ago
Please, modern day airport security is pure theater designed to make naive people have the illusion of safety, and for politicians to line up the pockets of some contractors. If a terrorist has arrived at the airport with intent to cause ha
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by calcifer 7y ago
Before reaching out to words like "abuse" for what is ultimately a hotfix, perhaps you should read the article. In particular: > Second, we need a mechanism to be able to quickly push updates to our users even when — especially
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by calcifer 7y ago
That could potentially be bandwith heavy, but even then it's not a solution since you could just add more CSS at runtime as the Github repo shows.
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by calcifer 7y ago
If your threat model includes the hijacking of Mozilla's infrastructure, I assume you read and verify the entirety of the Firefox source with every new version before using it, right?
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by calcifer 8y ago
> You're implying I am 'white', 'western-European' and '[a] guy' I'm saying it out right, not 'implying'. Based on your comment history, I think I'm right on all three of those adjec
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by calcifer 8y ago
I use it with AWZ3 just fine, but then I also haven't allowed my Kindle to update its software in years, so maybe Amazon is giving me files with older DRM.
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by calcifer 8y ago
If you are already using Calibre, it's not hard to protect yourself from Amazon. I have a Kindle PaperWhite that's about ~3 years old and it only connected to the Internet once during initial setup. I've put it in flight mode
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My Case for Veganism (2018)(blog.merovius.de)
11 points by calcifer 8y ago|6 comments
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by calcifer 8y ago
The lies told by the leave campaign has been extensively documented, including by courts. It's all a google search away.
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by calcifer 8y ago
There was nothing wrong with the UI, it was literally an arrow going into a cloud.
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by calcifer 8y ago
Accelerating to a fraction of c is no small feat. As per Tsiolkovsky rocket equation, growth in delta-v requires an exponenetial growth in fuel. Not to mention all the fuel you'd need to decelerate so you can actually stop at your dest
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by calcifer 8y ago
> I'm not an American, but I agree with him. You've been living in the US for more than a decade, so I don't think your "even me, a non-American, agrees with him!" card is as strong as you think.
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by calcifer 8y ago
> It infuriated me. They didn't fix it for years. "They didn't fix it" implies someone reported it as a bug. Even if no one did, if you were infuriated by it, surely you did, right?
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by calcifer 8y ago
Most of these companies have paid, closed source products as well so it's not a given their revenue is attributable to open source. Is there a list of companies that are actually, completely, open source and still have revenue > 100
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by calcifer 8y ago
You mean the unions are not supporting the anti-union party? Colour me surprised...
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by calcifer 8y ago
Spotify is not an Electron app, it uses CEF.
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by calcifer 8y ago
There is a fine line between reading between the lines and fabricating things. Can you point to what exactly in that website substantiates your implication?
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The Federation Fallacy(rosenzweig.io)
7 points by calcifer 8y ago|0 comments
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by calcifer 8y ago
I know that. I'm questioning GP's apologetic tone that implies it's wrong to link to the Guardian.

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