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1. 601.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   I remember that browsers used to actually have an option to not load images. Of course, that was back in the 90s when everyone still used dialup.
2. 602.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   In hindsight, sure. But it was perfect (or as close as you could get) for the time it was created.
3. 603.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   I would argue that without both, one is crippled in their ability to do so. Both are needed, but most people are sadly lacking in one or the other.
4. 604.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   There needs to be at least a solid understanding of the trivium along with ethics before anyone should be allowed to graduate with any degree (whether for arts, humanities, or STEM). And yes, I think that basic calculus might be a good thin
5. 605.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   Yeah, that's the one that is missing the most from that list!
6. 606.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   3270/5250 emulation still lives on to this very day and can be commonly seen in banks around the world.
7. 607.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   Pretty sure he meant worst case in terms of reducing oil reliance, i.e. if use and demand can't be reduced to maintain existing supply then biofuels have to make up the difference.
8. 608.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   Microsoft is the only company I've seen that can actually get any performance out of Electron, and even then it's still a resource hog. In their favour, though, VSCode is written exclusively for Electron, unlike many of these apps
9. 609.▲
   by coldacid 8y ago

   I'd love that too, but it won't happen.
10. 610.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Even if it was, it isn't now.
11. 611.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    What with a WebGL target for Unity these days, it has. The Unity plugin was deprecated versions ago and they don't even ship a target for it anymore.
12. 612.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    And statisticians. And readers of infographics.
13. 613.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Actually it sounds like they're targeting the 600-700 year journey.
14. 614.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    How does one specialize in both copyright _and_ securities law? I could understand copyright and real estate or securities and corporate law, but that seems to be a novel pairing.
15. 615.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    The GC code isn't _that_ big. It's because AOT compilers tend to turn each assembly/package into a single code object for linking, instead of a library of objects that can be filtered to just the code needed.
16. 616.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    One of my better purchases was a license for the enhanced features of LINQPad. Saved my ass a number of times with tricky or time-constrained projects.
17. 617.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    How can we detect something that doesn't interact with anything?
18. 618.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Networking hardware, mostly, especially cellular and POTS switching stuff.
19. 619.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    I thought the 12-hour thing came from Mesopotamia, not Egypt.
20. 620.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    If people could regularly reason like that, asynchronous programming wouldn't be such a pain in the ass.
21. 621.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Actual scientific article at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325177082_The_Space...
22. 622.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Always a good refresher.
23. 623.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    I bet the folks in Dublin will be happy to know that UK law applies to them again /s
24. 624.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    I'd hope that it wouldn't. "Today's HTML-heavy emails" are horrible.
25. 625.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Here's the actual Computer History Museum article and links to source: http://www.computerhistory.org/_static/atchm/the-eudora-emai...
26. 626.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    And won't be the last either, I bet.
27. 627.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    Quite the editorialized headline compared to that of the actual article.
28. 628.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    And with each new generation of security features, we get bigger, better, more in-your-face "safer-web indicators", a veritable Lensman Arms Race of iconography.
29. 629.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    >perhaps as large as a dwarf planet Seriously? Dwarf planets aren't classified on size. I would expect Quanta to know better than to publish such rubbish.
30. 630.▲
    by coldacid 8y ago

    I would think that the people who would want to bulk identify people at certain events wouldn't consider tracked journalists to be false positives.