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by datagram 5y ago
I think the article is mainly for a bunch of skeptics to dunk on both the author for writing the piece and the NYT for publishing it. As the introduction says: > Here, a group of around fifteen cryptocurrency researchers and critics have
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by datagram 5y ago
I think one of the biggest problems with modern app development (web and desktop) is how much developers assume that their app is your primary app (and thus can hog resources/screen space/etc). The only apps that can ever reasonab
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by datagram 5y ago
The best thing about Vim is that you don't have to choose between Vim and an IDE! Any text editor or IDE that's even moderately popular will probably have a decent Vim plugin. The only downside is that you generally won't hav
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by datagram 5y ago
Given that Vim's biggest barrier to entry is its learning curve, I don't think starting out by teaching people 8 ways to do 2 things is the right approach. Agreed that exiting should be the first thing taught to new Vim users thou
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by datagram 5y ago
> But why, when YouTube has chosen to provide the content ad-free? Why pay for games when you can pirate them? Why pay for the New York Times when you can read all their articles on archive.is? Are you saying you would prefer if YouTube
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by datagram 5y ago
Serving content at the scale of the modern internet costs money. Archive of Our Own costs over $200,000 a year to run: https://www.transformativeworks.org/otw-finance-2021-budget-... StackOverflow definitely has ads as well
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by datagram 5y ago
You can easily get all of these features in the official YouTube app by subscribing to YouTube Premium, which also provides revenue to content creators.
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by datagram 5y ago
> The rights of the copyright holder generally don't actually extend to blocking your access. The issue here is that the DMCA makes bypassing copy protection illegal regardless of whether or not the actual use of the media infringes
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by datagram 5y ago
As someone who regularly adds custom CSS to sites to fix various UI issues/annoyances, I can say that I'm definitely not a fan of minified CSS classes.
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by datagram 5y ago
> who want to program with comments? TypeScript supports providing types via JSDoc comments[1]. This gets you use all the IDE language features you'd get using TS, including highlighting type errors. I actually use this all the time
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by datagram 5y ago
On the contrary, I think Introducing video as RGB is definitely the right choice. RGB is familiar to most people, and is ultimately how things get displayed on your monitor. For digital video, YUV is really just a convenient format for comp
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by datagram 5y ago
This is no less cryptic. Either tell us what you think the solution is and point us to these primary sources that "lay it bare" or don't bother saying anything. Dancing around it like this is pointless.
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by datagram 5y ago
Decided to try it out using the source for this page as an example, with kangax's HTML minifier ( https://kangax.github.io/html-minifier/ ) Uncompressed, Unminified: 16,979B Uncompressed, Minified: 16,316B Ccompress
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by datagram 5y ago
> Twitter's problem is that it makes the low-scoring players feel bad. To use Twitter without a Blue Check is just not that valuable to most people. Just like the Twitter elites derive a sense of self-importance from their internet
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by datagram 5y ago
It can: JavaScript has a `typeof` operator that can be used for this. If you read the readme for is-fn, it points out that the package is only useful for code that needs to run in certain older browsers that have a buggy implementation of `
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by datagram 5y ago
> There were approximately two million corpses, many of which displayed bores from bites and fret holes—signs that their contents had been consumed, he says.
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by datagram 5y ago
Under Computer-Aided Design, I'd might be worth adding OpenSCAD? https://openscad.org/ I'm not sure how it stacks up in the business space, but as a programmer that has to do some 3D modeling from time to time it&
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by datagram 5y ago
I think pretty much all the things in the article are nice-to-haves that could simply just be omitted in IE. If you want a modern UX, use a modern browser.
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by datagram 5y ago
To me, smartwatches are about making my life more convenient (not taking my phone out of my pocket). So any inconvenience is going to be a big deal. Having gone from a Wear OS watch with ~1d battery life to a hybrid e-ink watch with ~2w bat
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by datagram 5y ago
I think it's mostly a tradeoff for having a more developer-friendly abstraction. If React only offloaded computation and didn't make complex UIs simpler to write, it wouldn't be anywhere near as popular.
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by datagram 5y ago
> The argument quickly went from "wear a mask to protect yourself" That was never the argument. Wearing masks isn't about protecting yourself (only properly-fitted high-grade masks do that well, and regular people wearing
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> My favorite example was I think it was one of the early xboxes was being sold for less than the cost of the hardware, expecting to make up the difference in licensing on game sales. This is still common practice: Sony and Microsoft gen
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In my case, when I got shadowbanned I suspect it was due to my IP address changing after I bought a new router. They finally fixed it after the second time I reached out to their support. Never got an apology or anything.
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by datagram 5y ago
Wow, this is mind-blowingly prescient. > Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could
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Apparently it's due to fracking. Here's an article I found about it: https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2013/01/16/169511949/a...
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by datagram 5y ago
> But, what other options are there that don't introduce horizontal scrolling? - Wrapping the menu to a second line - Moving menu items that don't fit to an overflow menu Both of these would preserve spatial memory for all of t
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by datagram 5y ago
You can actually override the min width for the window by adding a "MIN_WIDTH" field to Discord's settings.json: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/3600294... Can't
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Conventional streaming wisdom is that audio quality matters more than video quality. That is, it's better to have bad video and good audio than good video and bad audio.
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As far as I can tell the markup is just there for accessibility reasons, and all the visuals are being rendered via WebGL in the two <canvas> elements at the end of the page.
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You can have this in an office setting too, just a matter of not having a stigma around it, and perhaps some dedicated spaces. In my office, nobody really bats an eye if someone decides that they're too sleepy to be productive and just

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