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by choward 7y ago
I'm not totally buying that for the initial surge. Stores were running out of toilet paper a week or two before any kind of orders were issued. All businesses were still open.
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by choward 7y ago
Haha, I usually only remember to use it when sites have a terrible design and not to get around the cookie crap. Thanks for the reminder.
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by choward 7y ago
Prime example: I opened up cnn.com which some people consider to be a news web site. The main headline is "Experts say grocery stores may need to keep customers out" ( https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/19/b
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by choward 7y ago
This site immediately popped up the worst cookies prompt I've seen in my life. Couldn't even read what the green buttons said without straining my eyes so I just closed the dab.
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by choward 7y ago
Correct. I'm just saying it's naive to think that once your data is shared that it will only remain with the party initially shared with.
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by choward 7y ago
I would parse the free text version into something like your version. It could be used for user input from a text input field or the command line.
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by choward 7y ago
Could Twitter set up a warrant canary for every user? Append "/canary" to URLs and make it 404 if the data has been compromised.
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by choward 7y ago
> What's more disturbing and I simply can't get my head around is that Americans feel that they can trust big corporations more than their own government. Government and corporations are merging to become the same thing. I just
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by choward 7y ago
What would the point of that be versus wrapping it in a bash script? Obfuscation?
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by choward 7y ago
That's exactly what I thought when I read the title. It's very frustrating how many landing pages, project readmes, blog posts, etc that don't answer the question "why?". I usually need to know that before going fur
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by choward 7y ago
> In VS Code, your browser will launch while a notification will appear launch asking you to sign in. Sign into what? I was assuming this was a peer to peer solution and that I wouldn't be giving my code to a third party.
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by choward 7y ago
Thanks for pointing out Disney owns most of it. I honestly had no idea I shouldn't be taking National Geographic seriously anymore.
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by choward 7y ago
Yeah, that's real convenient... Either information is free or it isn't. I'm not going to look for some asinine way to access every piece of information I am linked to.
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by choward 7y ago
They stopped accepting non-essential goods from third parties. Now they have the complete monopoly there.
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by choward 7y ago
Have you used npm before? It's a complete mess.
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by choward 7y ago
I completely fucking agree.
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by choward 7y ago
> "sample1" -eq "sample2" -> True Why isn't this false? Is it doing type checking instead of a value comparison?
528.
by choward 7y ago
I prefer "Even if you are paying for it, you are the product"
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by choward 7y ago
Recruiters are trying to convince you to work for the company therefore they should know a lot about the company since they need to be able to sell it to you. When you go to McDonanld's to buy some food you have already been convinced
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by choward 7y ago
This is why I hate shortened variable names.
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by choward 7y ago
So it's a job posting just formatted differently? I don't get it.
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by choward 7y ago
Why isn't there more of an emphasis on the phone companies? They're the ones literally giving your phone number to someone else.
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by choward 7y ago
It's the same bank that doesn't send you spam emails which make you used to receiving unsolicited communication from your bank. These emails make it easier to sneak in phishing emails. That's why I use that bank.
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by choward 7y ago
> Liberalism and conservatism are essentially religions I somewhat agree but I would argue that it's the Democratic and Republican parties that are religions, not the philosophies themselves. They both are fine on their own just lik
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by choward 7y ago
> your program crashes because of something that would be trivial to catch with any simple type system Then goes on to recommend python. What?
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by choward 7y ago
Cobalt? Haha. I don't think anyone on earth has experience in that. It better pay well.
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by choward 7y ago
That seems to be the norm in journalism these days. Link to ads instead of sources. Thanks for the link.
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by choward 7y ago
This is the difference between leaking and whistleblowing. Leaking is for one's own personal benefit. Whistleblowing is to expose something you feel is wrong for no personal gain. I wouldn't call this a leak unless the news agency
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by choward 7y ago
> that requires them to be more ineffecient then typical native gui frameworks Inefficient in what way? Performance? Is it noticable? Why should I care unless it's noticable and hindering UX? Should we all be writing out GUIs in ass
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by choward 7y ago
All I wanted to do was read the memo and I couldn't find the link. I'm not sure if I missed it or what but this is a common problem I run into on "news" sites. They quote (often out of context) parts of something but giv

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