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by cpcallen 4y ago
Hmm. It just shows me a blank page, like about:blank, only it uses 112% CPU. That doesn't seem very useful. Oh, I see: looking in the console is an infinity of error messages, mostly "Error handling response: Error: Failed to re
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I'm guessing that the FT has a long standing regular lunch interview column, which has included for the last two decades (but not previously) a record of what was consumed during said lunch.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Wow, they're using one-latch bins now? As far as I can recall from back when I cycled through the Rockies in the summer of 2000, the bins in the national parks all had two such latches that needed to be operated simultaneously to open
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Am I correct in reading this that the Pfizer vaccine was associated with fewer serious side effects (as defined) than the Moderna _placebo_? It seems plausible that both vaccines cause slightly more serious side effects than their correspon
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by cpcallen 4y ago
> that kind of stuff is just not profitable anymore. It wasn't profitable back then either, alas—which is why Facebook has repeatedly pivoted to less useful, more annoying, but more monetizable offerings.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Yes, agreed. To me "serverless" means that the application is entirely client-side, running in a browser without depending on any backend except whatever httpd originally sent you the .html, .css and .js files. Anything else has
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I think this is the real problem. If we used a unix-time-including-leap-seconds instead then the date/time conversion functions would need to have a little extra smarts (a table of leap seconds in addition to a timezone database) but m
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by cpcallen 4y ago
For anyone not familiar with it: the title is (presumably) a reference to the NHS "Couch to 5K" program[1] and app[2]. [1]: https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/running-and-aerobic-ex... [2]: https:&#
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by cpcallen 4y ago
I think the arguments in favour of tabs are pretty strong. But there are a couple of small issue: - You can't have aligned tables of data / blocks of comments / etc. if group of lines containing the aligned text have differe
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by cpcallen 4y ago
If you follow the links in the original post you will see that OP is talking about a Brother colour laser printer.
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by cpcallen 4y ago
This is cool but it's annoying that the poles keep drifting. Sure: let me drag the map in any direction. But it should start with north at the top (and, for most projections, parallel straight lines of latitude) until I move it, and
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Hmm. Just loads a completely black page with no text, images or controls. JavaScript console says: Uncaught DOMException: Failed to read the 'sessionStorage' property from 'Window': Access is denied for this docu
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Top two thirds on smaller screened devices!
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Yes: I was unwilling to subscribe to Google Play Music (as then was) because something like half of their classical music collection—including all of Deutsche Grammophon— was unlistenable due to watermarking. It was so bad that I actually
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by cpcallen 4y ago
Not enough land. ;-)
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by cpcallen 4y ago
With the obvious exception of essential jobs that cannot be done remotely, such as hands-on medical care.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
> And CI is building 'merge branch master', on the master branch, great. How does one set this up in GitHub actions?
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I was wondering how long it would take before I saw someone advocating for webpage backgrounds to be grey again. Mosaic (and later Netscape) had the right idea from the start. It's only too bad it's taken so long for us to get b
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Yes, exactly. You need only look at the angles of the crenellated roof of the tower on the left. While the kinds of photographic manipulations that the article ends up discussing are technically and artistically interesting, almost everyth
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by cpcallen 5y ago
A very cute bit of coding. But: I've always wondered who uses these "back to the top" buttons, and why? Until quite recently I hardly ever had reason to go back to the top of the page—I was much more likely to click a link or
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/oxytocin/comments/7n1r1n/my_oxytoci...
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Yes, I'm curious about this too. Given that gopherjs[1] can compile Go to JavaScript and in some cases thereby achieve better performance than the native Go compiler[2], it's not obvious to me that a JavaScript program ported me
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I agree that having a good summary on the first line is important, and that the actual wording of the messages shown is a little confusing, but: - The annotations shown look like a prettier version of the ones done by the Closure Compiler,
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Yep. Back in university I was acquainted with the fellow who set up the MX record for .ai (and assigned himself the memorable address n@ai). IIRC he was involved in planning an academic conference to be held there.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I recently rented a car for the first time, with a co-driver. The rental was paid in advance online (which seemed to be the norm here in the UK) and I thought it was going to be fairly straightforward and quick to collect the car. Instead,
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by cpcallen 5y ago
But such a requirement might be constitutional. The court seems to think so, at least—though might perhaps change their mind when they are subsequently shown that "racialized" teacher candidates have trouble passing that too...
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by cpcallen 5y ago
When I was a child in Ontario in the 1980s we had a single teacher for each class that taught all subjects except French, so (except for the French teacher) there weren't really any non-Math teachers. I imagine that things have change
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Thanks for this. I think the test is pretty interesting: - The first and second sections test math skills up to about a grade five or six level, at least based on what I learned in Ontario schools in the 1980s. - The third section seems pr
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Not outside the US!
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I got the same feeling reading this article that I got from reading _Design Patterns_: that the author(s) present some useful techniques to deal with the shortcomings of Java, but that most of their recommendations seem like kludgy fixes to

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