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by cooper12 6y ago
I hear this conspiracy theory so often from non-technical people. I think what's going on is that obviously this isn't being done intentionally, but rather each new release is mainly written for and performance tested on the newes
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by cooper12 6y ago
Unfortunately vanilla JS is much less readable. JQuery function names make your intent very clear and chaining them is elegant. Also, very minor, but the "magic" (syntactic sugar) provided by `$()` compared to `document.querySelec
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by cooper12 6y ago
FFmpeg is hands down one of the most powerful and feature-packed tools I've used out there.[0] The associated complexity is also daunting, but thankfully there's a lot of documentation out there and it reflects the low level nuanc
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by cooper12 6y ago
Naming the default branch "master" is only a convention, not a requirement. Therefore, docs should not make any assumption about the name but give it as an example or <variable>. The deficiency here is clearly in the docs.
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by cooper12 6y ago
Unfortunately your proposed study design does not control for biases. For example, say I'm an audiophile comparing two audio formats, x and y, and I hear y is remarkably better. If I compare them side by side, my own brain might fool m
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by cooper12 6y ago
The whole framework arounds TLDs is very strange to me. One one hand, opening up all these gTLDs was supposed to alleviate problems with domain parking and name clashes (e.g. you could disambiguate your .blog from a .pizza restaurant). But
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by cooper12 6y ago
Considering how huge the Unicode standard is, it's more surprising that there are so little (known) errors. CJK characters alone account for thousands upon thousands, and these can sometimes vary by just a single stroke. I suspect the
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by cooper12 6y ago
It's not so much that because they handled it better, but because that was how they handled it. Even to this day vertical text layout in CSS is primitive. Early Japanese on computers also used half-width kana but now it's all pr
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by cooper12 6y ago
Umm, so they weren't wrong: > Chrome first checks the HTML lang attribute and if it's not present it checks the Content-Language HTTP header. Then it gets a prediction from cld3.
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by cooper12 6y ago
The fascinating part of this article is the path it took for FinFETs to go from a theoretical all the way to fruition. You have things like him hearing about a DARPA grant last-minute from a surfing buddy. He also was working in different a
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by cooper12 6y ago
> No more articles https://news.google.com/search?q=hydroxychloroquine
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by cooper12 7y ago
I've written a userscript[0] before regarding official websites and I feel this is the hierarchy you should be using: 1. Try getting the Wikidata "official website" property 2. Then any link inside of a {{url}} template or |w
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by cooper12 7y ago
Wikipedia only accepts freely-licensed [0] images where there is a possibility of obtaining them. [1] If you manage to get a better photograph, you are welcome to replace the image. If you know of someone who has such an image or could take
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by cooper12 7y ago
From what I've seen, the Unicode blocks are left with space for suspected additions, though big change groups are usually added as extensions. Any erroneous additions could be marked as deprecated.
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by cooper12 7y ago
That's like saying child labor was never mandatory. If labor is your only possible source of income, [0] and there are heavy incentives to perform labor, then people will perform labor. It being voluntary does not change the fact that
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by cooper12 7y ago
Again, slavery was never completely abolished: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteenth_Amendment_to_the_Un... . The industrial complex is how it's capitalism: because there's a profit motive for private priso
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by cooper12 7y ago
Capitalism never ended slavery, it has actually prolonged it. The constitution expressly includes an exception for slavery: if one has been convicted of a crime. This has led to the prison-industrial complex. [0] Guess what demographic is d
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by cooper12 7y ago
Let's just call it what it is: bribery.
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by cooper12 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Open_proxies#Rationa...
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by cooper12 7y ago
> or is there a clear reason why that wouldn't work there? There are Chinese-based alternatives to Wikipedia that are much more popular: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_China#Online_encyc... .
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by cooper12 7y ago
Okay I was incorrect on that front, [0] but the field of economics isn't exactly new, nor is the general idea itself (things like pay-what-you-want, voluntary contributions, etc). [0]: Here's the paper: https://journals
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by cooper12 7y ago
The reason it's so negative is because it already notes that prior research showed consumer responsibilization doesn't work. Shaich might see himself as good-minded, even volunteering as cashier, but he comes off more as misguided
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by cooper12 7y ago
Great point. I was considering a very visual-minded reader but of course not everyone would be so good at it nor would they always just care about how the kanji looks rather than other aspects. It's a difficult problem indeed... My int
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by cooper12 7y ago
Probably to discourage a witch hunt. The ire here shouldn't be directed towards the individual, who operated within the German legal system, but the courts themselves. Also I'm not sure what you're basing the latter part of y
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by cooper12 7y ago
I actually made a serious attempt at learning the Four-Corner Method for kanji [0] and it was very frustrating. It would be difficult to determine what parts of the kanji belonged to which corner, and which exact shape they corresponded t
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by cooper12 7y ago
Just a thought experiment, don't take it too seriously: The crux of the issue is that kanji don't have an inherent "natural" ordering that a user would expect. Sorting by their character code doesn't mean anything t
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by cooper12 8y ago
Similar as in the same approach, or as in "apply neural networks to all the things"? Because if it's the former, this approach was very specifically tailored to human speech, taking into account how much it can compress/
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by cooper12 8y ago
> twitter is just silliness It was one of the premier sources for propaganda during a certain country's recent election. It has been used to coordinate protests. It's been used to break national news. You can get minute-by-minu
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by cooper12 8y ago
Other than in the article, the only other instance I found of the term was from this event at Columbia University, [0] at which the co-authors were both openers. So the term seems to be specific to them and pretty new. Still, in the OP arti
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by cooper12 8y ago
Oh, you meant Breitbart and Infowars? Those can still be used, but require whitelisting; so still not a ban. You can read the linked discussions for more information. Not gonna rehash and spell it all out for you here. I wouldn't say t

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