cpcallen

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by cpcallen 5y ago
At least you were able to see something. In Chrome, with cookies disabled by default, the page appears completely blank.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I see this kind of thing happening all the time, facilitated by third parties. For example, a few months ago I found this funny video of some trombonists playing Bruchner in unusual situations[1] that had been uploaded on 14th September 201
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Though the Dymaxion car at least did not put the engine _behind_ the rear wheels…
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by cpcallen 5y ago
It does not.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Cars are definitely getting uglier. Compare the current Smart fortwo, which is horrible, to the cute original styling. But ugly must sell, because I recently saw another non-Smart car that was essentially a clone, looks wise at least, of t
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by cpcallen 5y ago
The video maker notes that it is one of their own videos that they are commenting on, and the comment is not being held for review.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I would have agreed with you until I saw _How Star Wars was Saved in the Edit_ ( https://youtu.be/GFMyMxMYDNk ). Maybe George Lucas had _always_ been a teenager with no restraints? EDIT: Of course in the process of looking u
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Can someone explain how tmpfs / /dev/shm track files if not by inode number?
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Aside from the technical difficulties (requiring a time machine and all that), is the IRS even authorized levy taxes on executives who lived and died before the US was even founded??
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by cpcallen 5y ago
You can now get 'cordless' (electric) irons. Like an electric kettle, they heat up while sitting in the (decidedly non-cordless) base, but you don't have to contend with the cord while actually doing the pressing. I am a bi
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by cpcallen 5y ago
They don't generally power their irons. It's more about the absurd photos than the pressed shirts.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
The real question is: why did the Chrome developers create their own, totally incompatible bookmark syncing system instead of using the already established Google Bookmarks service?
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by cpcallen 5y ago
This was originally a rendering bug, but one which turned out to be a massive improvement and so has been kept as a feature: https://developers.google.com/blockly/guides/app-integration...
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by cpcallen 5y ago
As far as I can tell they've just give back to using brown ones, which makes them a little less obviously related to the Royal Mail when you see them on the ground.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Perfect for those who've always wanted a camper that looks suspiciously like a London taxi!
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by cpcallen 5y ago
To a first approximation, Google Chat is already Wave.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
Whereas I have Chrome set to default to 90%, and have some individual sites set as small as 60%, specifically because too many site designers seem to have drunk the 16pt cool-aid and not tried using their own site in a half-screen-width bro
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I'm sure the journal's editors would deny this outrageous allegation. ;-)
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by cpcallen 5y ago
On three occasions in my life I've had a migraine. I wasn't sure until reading this article today today, because they've never been accompanied by any kind of pain—just the bizarre disturbance of my field of vision being cut
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by cpcallen 5y ago
That seems surprising bad. Maybe not strictly out of tolerance, but definitely something that could be considerably improved by having the movement regulated (or perhaps serviced, if required). Is it still under warranty?
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by cpcallen 5y ago
And here I thought I was going to read a screed against using captured continuations to jump back into a function invocation that has already returned. Actually, that probably ought to be avoided in most cases, come to think about it...
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by cpcallen 5y ago
For a while it was the case that Mailchimp.com did not have a login button on their homepage at all. To log in I would have to use the link sent to me by the colleague who managed our account.
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by cpcallen 5y ago
I think this policy change is global—or at any rate, it applies in the UK as well. Disappointing, because previously I would buy second-hand but less-than-year-old Apple products specifically so I could purchase the extended AppleCare warr
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Wow: reading 1GB disk quota reminds me how far we have come: when I was in university we got a base quota of 1 MB (plus additional amounts of varying sizes for each course we were registered for, depending on how much space we were expect
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by cpcallen 6y ago
This post complains about the cover art being too small on iOS, but my complaint is that on macOS iTunes by-album view ditched the art size slider a few years ago, and picked a fixed size that is so big that you can only see about a dozen a
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by cpcallen 6y ago
I'm in favour of compatibility and against a global named 'window' in a non-browser JS implementation, and I don't understand why the former necessitates the latter. Since window is the global object, why not just refer
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by cpcallen 6y ago
Sure, but removing two light containers is easier and more useful than failing to remove one heavy one.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
The headline sounds insidious (How dare PyPI and GitHub secretly scan me! I'm glad someone has revealed this dastardly collusion!) but it turns out they're actually doing something great.
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by cpcallen 6y ago
The difficulty is that the increasing dollar value of Bitcoin incentivises more mining activity (even though no additional coins will be produced as a result), so energy use is almost directly correlated with the price, at least in the medi
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by cpcallen 6y ago
For the record: Lehrer-style "new math" was what I was taught at elementary school in Ontario in the 1980s. I know it was not what my parents had been taught, because they couldn't understand how we did subtraction. We did

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