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by dfcowell 11y ago
Came here to say this. I'm also pretty certain that the picture of the boat on the lake is a painting, not a photo. 28 years of living in Japan and the author can't identify Matsumoto Castle (one of the country's most notable
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by dfcowell 11y ago
Christmas Cake in Japan is entirely different from what the British call it. In Japan it's a double layer chiffon sponge filled with strawberries and cream, with additional strawberries and cream on top.
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by dfcowell 11y ago
Probably because Cmd+left arrow is the system shortcut for "jump to the start of the current line." You'll see this behaviour when a form input has focus on any site.
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by dfcowell 11y ago
It's super-simple, people. Understand that by being that person with the laptop taking up table real estate you're consuming a resource that the proprietor uses to generate revenue. Customers who might otherwise come in, sit dow
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by dfcowell 11y ago
Thank you! I can't believe I had to scroll almost to the bottom of the comments before someone picked up on the length issue. To add to the already comprehensive list of reasons you gave for tram superiority - due to the electrical dri
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by dfcowell 11y ago
I don't think anyone is suggesting that you should compromise your security to enable auto-updating. Automatic updates are never better than correct file permissions. The point here is that a large number of WordPress sites are runni
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by dfcowell 12y ago
I feel some real cognitive dissonance when I read about how this situation unfolded. Allegedly Adria felt threatened, fearful for her life. Her reaction to this fear was to turn around, take a photo, post it on the internet and presumably s
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Google Vietnam Compromised?
89 points by dfcowell 12y ago|29 comments
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by dfcowell 12y ago
What kills me about 10.10 is that OSX doesn't even try to resolve a domain name if you're offline. I run dnsmasq locally, which handles all of my DNS requests, capturing .dev domains (resolving them to 127.0.0.1) and forwarding e
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by dfcowell 12y ago
Don't worry, it shows just as much respect for good taste as the rest of their recent redesign.
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by dfcowell 12y ago
I think this could be improved by biasing the camera's target more towards the fall line of the slope, rather than keeping it on the path that the camera entity itself is following. It also appears that many of the longer runs end earl