derleth

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by derleth 13y ago
There is still zero contrast. Light on dark works. Dark on light works. Pale gray on light does not work. You know how dark your emphasized words are? The whole piece needs to be at least that dark just to be readable.
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by derleth 13y ago
Technology is tools.
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by derleth 13y ago
> And everyone can communicate in words, typed out Obviously false, or else answer me in Cherokee, Tamil, Hindi, and Latin. Images can be understood beyond the bounds of a single language.
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by derleth 13y ago
Use only the text editor ed for your next project. Oh, and no version control. Don't tell me that's impossible, either, because we both know it isn't.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Would this writing have the same impact if the font was at 12px, with smaller spacing between paragraphs, or maybe with a page width of 1280px? Yes. Of course. Books don't need precise pixel rules to be readable.
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by derleth 13y ago
It's not pedantic if it goes to the very heart of the concept. > Also worth noting is that scientific research is heavily controlled in the world of 1984 for the reason that it brings novelty, advancement, and change of thought patt
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by derleth 13y ago
> You're the only one who seems to have a problem with realizing that your taxes pay for government services. Them and the entirety of the Libertarian and Tea Parties, not to mention whatever Anarchists still exist.
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by derleth 13y ago
It's like Free Healthcare: Unless it's expensive, people will be out there breaking bones and getting diseases for the sheer hell of it, and not caring about the consequences because it's free! It's in Mises somewhere. C
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by derleth 13y ago
> “The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” It will render dissent “literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.” If this worked, we would have neither the word 'antibiotic'
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by derleth 13y ago
No, it's about what Orwell saw around him in the UK in the late 1940s, working in a government propaganda office.
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by derleth 13y ago
Fahrenheit 451 is primarily about self-censorship, born of a desire to avoid causing offense. Or, if you believe Bradbury, it's about Television Is Evil and nothing else: http://www.laweekly.com/2007-05-31/news&#x2
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by derleth 13y ago
> We're sensitive to data loss in text form: we can only consume a few dozens of bytes per second, and so any error is obvious. We've also optimized text to be pretty robust in its native form, such that all of those bits have
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by derleth 13y ago
> You're wanting to do away with the whole concept of analytics. How about making analytics opt-in?
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by derleth 13y ago
We should fight the battles we have in front of us. Mozilla should know better, and needs to be taught if it does not.
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by derleth 13y ago
The problem is opt-out instead of opt-in. If measurement and tracking are so benign, tell people you're doing it and allow them to agree or disagree, on an opt-in basis. Otherwise, it's not benign.
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by derleth 13y ago
> You sound like a rabid Linux fanboy. You sound like a rabid Windows fanboy. > I can't stand fanboys spouting crap. If I had some karma I'd downvote this. Ditto. Downvoted.
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by derleth 13y ago
I guess it depends on what apps you mean. I use Emacs, Firefox, LibreOffice on occasion, and a lot of development stuff, and it all works fine for me. I also don't know what you mean by "unusual graphics animations" in terms
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by derleth 13y ago
> They would understand that there was nothing you could do to help them decrypt the messages. That's what I'm wondering, though. Would they believe you? Would they believe the documentation?
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by derleth 13y ago
If they can beat a key out of you, they can beat you for any reason, or no reason at all.
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by derleth 13y ago
> Perfect Forward Secrecy means that even if you want to you cannot decrypt old messages Which means, if they're jailing you until you do decrypt the messages, you get jailed indefinitely. Contempt of court has very few limits i
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by derleth 13y ago
I think the point is that the character encoding scheme can't use "." or ".." for its own purposes because they already have meaning due to filesystem conventions.
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by derleth 13y ago
Torvalds, in classic Unix hacker fashion, designed git to be so stupid it doesn't care what it's being used for, which goes quite a long way to making it all things to all people. Similar is how the Linux filesystem code flatly re
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by derleth 13y ago
And a willingness to seethe with hatred at anyone who says they resolved an issue that's plaguing you without giving any hints as to how they resolved it.
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by derleth 13y ago
1.000... - 0.999... = 0.000... That last value is, in fact, just zero, only written in a less-condensed form than usual. It is always the case in the real numbers that the only time a - b = 0 is when a = b, so that must mean 1.000... = 0.99
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by derleth 13y ago
If you redefine 'practical level' to include basic statistics, which is almost entirely ignored, I might actually agree with you. Basic statistics is essential for the eminently practical purpose of not being ripped off and lied t
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by derleth 13y ago
If the requirements include "keeping time with up-to-date knowledge of time zones without costing us money", guess what, the requirements now mandate a code change. Requirements may not change, but environments do, and continuing
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by derleth 13y ago
> lawnmower beer I swear, the moment you think you have a handle on the jargon... What, may I ask, is a lawnmower beer? One made out of grass?
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by derleth 13y ago
> Any facade of a functioning democracy, or of a commitment to transparency by this government, is swept away. The same was true of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
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by derleth 13y ago
Memory will seriously save you when you're out of reach of your reference material, so why rely on flammable, fragile, heavy paper? Don't you see how mechanical people who rely on books are, always sticking their notes in their me
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by derleth 13y ago
The point is historical preservation: Putting ancient games and systems on the Web as a way to enable people to experience them, as part of digital museums, online academic papers, and such, to provide some (imperfect) context for what woul

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