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by cooper12 10y ago
By the way, I can't comment directly on the article's page, so if someone can please let the author know that her Harry Giles link duplicates the link before it. She likely meant to point it here: https://harrygiles.org
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by cooper12 10y ago
I think the author is saying that the mechanics of gaming are flawed though. They're almost all centered around stuff like health and ammo, completing objectives, taking damage and dying. That's what most games are. Sure you'
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by cooper12 10y ago
The problem is that often this case law is created looking at similar cases as precedent. Instead we should be creating new laws from scratch or else like you said we'll always be playing catchup while areas with more reasonable/r
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by cooper12 10y ago
Time and time again history has shown that you can't just retrofit old laws to stuff that's "similar enough". Because the new technology is never the exact same. Computers are not telegraphs. Email is not postal mail. Ca
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by cooper12 10y ago
Please don't use the word "retarded" as a casual adjective. It's a pejorative term historically used for people with intellectual disabilities. Thanks for understanding.
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by cooper12 10y ago
I assumed it was done for historic reasons so in the future websites like archive.org could continue playing flash. (like Shumway [0]) We would lose a huge library of videos that were created in the format if we could no longer play them du
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by cooper12 10y ago
Sorry but I found this to be very disappointing scarebait from Ars, who I expected to have higher standards. It doesn't explain how common this is yet the title makes it sound like it's super prevalent. (not to mention we're
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by cooper12 10y ago
It's a play on the phrase "The king is dead, long live the king!", which means long live the successor, who is flv.js in this case.
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by cooper12 10y ago
It's always been popular. Every time Apple makes an announcement there's a flood of "Steve Jobs never would have let this happen".
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by cooper12 10y ago
Oh okay you meant screenshots in general. I thought you were screencapping jpegs.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Wait from the article on Windows, it actually claims the opposite, saying that the court rejected Microsoft's claims and that it later settled with Lindows, paying for their trademark.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Just FYI, screenshotting is taking a limited-resolution, imperfectly cropped PNG from what is usually a compressed JPG. You just need to get into the habit of right clicking and "save as" and the resulting image with have perfect
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by cooper12 10y ago
It doesn't glow any more on the newer models. Also there's a difference between a manufacturer's logo and stickers. You'd be hard-pressed to find a laptop that doesn't include the former.
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by cooper12 10y ago
Maybe this: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MacBookAir ?
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by cooper12 10y ago
Probably just the luck of the draw, but Apple's recent TouchBar news and rumors of an e-ink keyboard ( http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13328710/apple-e-ink-keyb... ) likely increased the interest i
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by cooper12 10y ago
Then you gotta warn us in the title that you link everything :). Just kidding, but on a more serious note I also found it very distracting. Sure, link the first occurrence of the word, but I see no reason macOS needs to be linked every time
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by cooper12 10y ago
Wow, this story makes me thing that we treat "hipster" pretty badly for trying to bring back retro stuff. Museums don't last forever and what better way to keep the past alive than to keep using it in the present. People need
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by cooper12 10y ago
I can tell you it's not programmers who need the latest CPUs, 32GB RAM, mechanical keyboards, and every gizmo possible in their laptops. It's definitely a more casual professional user. (For anyone who truly needs that kind of pow
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by cooper12 10y ago
The soldered-in stuff is not new to this model and is unlikely to be reversed. Your average user does not need more than 16GB of ram, and as said before, is not a new thing with Macbooks. (it's like expecting smartphone makers to sudde
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by cooper12 10y ago
HN just loves to be anti-Apple so they can say they aren't sheeple. Every keynote thread here has had comments about how Apple stopped innovating after Steve Jobs. And yet every year they still somehow innovate. Comments like that show
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by cooper12 10y ago
Not really, all I see is stuff like: "they removed the escape key" (except its still there, even if it isn't a physical key), "no one looks at the keyboard" (touch typists aren't the target demographic), "
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by cooper12 10y ago
Yeah that's a bit confusing. I'd attribute it to the "press release" nature of Wikimedia's blog where they mean that they have already partnered with the Internet Archive and are announcing it after the fact.
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by cooper12 10y ago
You know ED heavily dramatizes stuff right? (It's in the name) They also have a huge hate boner for Wikipedia in my experience. Anyway, I think it's unfair to call the community cancerous when in this case archive.is was spamming
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by cooper12 10y ago
> instead of something I care about Are socioeconomic issues not important? Or are the well-to-do non-minority programmers of HN above discussing them? For all you know, donretag is directly affected by this and wants to voice their disp
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by cooper12 10y ago
First off, you shouldn't be edit warring [0], but rather you should discuss issues on the talk page. [1] As for the situation, it sounds like other editors discussed the issue and came to a consensus on how it should be handled. [2] It
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by cooper12 10y ago
I agree that true neutrality is likely impossible. For starters, Wikipedia is only as biased as its sources and like you said "media and academic scholarship". It's this attribute that lets us readily say that vaccines don&#x
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by cooper12 10y ago
I mean I just gave you the reasoning of entrenched editors, they're just not often good edits. These complaints come from people who think that Wikipedia is obliged to take any of their edits just because they took the time to hit the
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by cooper12 10y ago
If every single edit you made was reverted, maybe they weren't really constructive edits? Just food for thought. > If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the
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by cooper12 10y ago
As a Wikipedia editor, I think this can mostly be attested to the site's policy on maintaining a neutral point of view. [0] Over time you learn to watch out for certain words [1] and you can sniff out things that were copied verbatim o
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by cooper12 10y ago
I'd add https://publicdomainreview.org/ which I've found to have a large variety of topics covered. I could also spend ages looking through http://www.textfiles.com . Lastly, https://monosko

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