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by callahad 8y ago
That's a common, traditional form for non-lining numerals ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures ) Turns out, Al Gore doesn't like it, either: https://www.typotheque.com/blog/gores_ch
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by callahad 8y ago
While asm.js was basically just a textual encoding of C in JavaScript... round and round we go! :)
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It's a SpeakerDeck embed; your adblocker might be a bit overzealous? https://speakerdeck.com/jvns/build-impossible-programs
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by callahad 8y ago
You'll see that error if the Service Worker failed to register. Check your browser console?
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by callahad 8y ago
Even better: You can use a Group Policy (Windows) or drop a JSON file in the right place (all platforms) and you're done. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/customizing-firefox-usi...
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by callahad 8y ago
Nick Nguyen's post on Context Graph¹ touches on the motivation, but in short, we think the health of the Web is threatened by existing players building experiences that, like a casino, you can link into easily, but which are deliberate
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by callahad 8y ago
> Is there was a really easy way of mimicking all the effects of this type of latency so I could periodically test the stuff I set up? Your browser's developer tools can simulate latency and constrained bandwidth, at least in Fire
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by callahad 8y ago
Longer term, this will be fixed when https://bugzil.la/1411425 is resolved.
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by callahad 8y ago
People I respect¹ seem to like Zulip ( https://zulipchat.com/ ), though I haven't used it myself. ¹: https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/986444234365521920
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by callahad 8y ago
That's pretty much the first line of the standard warning sign you see underwater: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkwjzltUUAEjHvV.jpg "STOP! PREVENT YOUR DEATH! GO NO FARTHER."
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In practice, the training is excellent and you'll have dozens of zero-visibility experiences before finishing the certification. You learn that as long as you have the line in your hand and you stuck to your gas limits, you have everyt
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Most popular caves have permanent lines installed with arrows every ~100 ft or so, maintained by the local community. A common convention is that the main / most navigable path through a system uses a slightly thicker, yellow nylon lin
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by callahad 8y ago
The IUCRR maintains a few public incident reports at http://www.iucrr.org/ . Look under the"Accident Analysis" heading on the left. At least ten years ago, when I went through cave training, incident reports were a
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All the lighting in the world won't help you see through mud, silt, and sediment.
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Well, it's not like people go out facial-recognizing for sport or recreation...
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Sarcasm aside, Intel actually does / did sell a facial analytics platform that's embedded in many, many vending machines, digital signage, etc: https://aimsuite.intel.com/
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Not familiar with the political situation in Uganda, but if that's the case, then framing this as a tax on "Over The Top" services (and including things like Skype in the restriction) is mainly about finding a plausible excus
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The title seems misleading -- looking at the image in the article, it appears that the tax isn't on social media per se, but on any service that provides mobile voice / messaging functions over cellular data. Which is effectivel
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by callahad 8y ago
Have you tried setting the screen scaling back to the default, or using Firefox Nightly? I believe we recently resolved a bug around that, though I could be mis-remembering.
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Try it on Android, where Google controls more of the market, and has less incentive for interop. You get a door slammed in your face: https://twitter.com/andrewhobden/status/1007668509826928640 Great response from
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by callahad 8y ago
Google themselves launched or re-launched five Chrome-only sites last year (Hangouts, Meet, Adwords, Earth, and Allo). Six if you count the Google Advanced Protection Program. Google Flights began blocking Firefox for Android last week, and
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by callahad 8y ago
Huh. Is this consistent for you? Since Firefox 55, we should be able to restore 1500+ tabs in under 15 seconds: https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/
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by callahad 8y ago
1. Yes. The bug you linked to is prominently marked "RESOLVED WONTFIX." 2. We are not sending DNS data to third parties "for analytics." We are openly and transparently conducting a DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) experiment with
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by callahad 8y ago
All of this is transient. Eventually someone will figure out a new paradigm (Darcs/Pijul-style patch theory?) and we'll all move on, like we did from RCS, and CVS, and Subversion. Or something will fall apart on the business side
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by callahad 8y ago
Not the author, but I just tried KDE for two weeks, and coming from Gnome, I couldn't acclimate. I found the Plasma experience unpolished, inconsistent, and prone to error. I also ran into quite a few bugs (at one point, Plasma just st
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File Sync: SyncThing ( https://syncthing.net/ ) IRC client: The Lounge ( https://thelounge.chat/ ) Trello clone: Wekan ( https://wekan.github.io/ ) I highly recommend all of them. Also experiment
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The Web works because no single vendor has absolute control over the platform, and the competing browsers can keep each other in check. Hell of a thing to watch people in such a hurry to throw that all away. No one would ever abuse a platfo
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> Electron would be a deal breaker You say that like HTML emails don't exist. If the client has to embed a web view anyway...
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It's aspirational, not prescriptive. Just consider urllib, urllib2, urllib3, and requests. Or getopt, optparse, argparse, and docopt. Or countless others. I appreciate that the Python community continually strives for ever-more obvious
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The Related Articles carousel at the bottom is responsible for a lot of that. In at least one of the tiles, it's backing an 82x45 thumbnail with a 2800x1556 PNG. The PNG is 6 MB, which works out to over 1.5 KB per pixel. Annotated scre

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