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by dictum 8y ago
It's stunning how much energy, ink and tongue movement is wasted trying to justify most decisions, in every aspect of life, when in practice they boil down to vibes.
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Webcompat: report browser compatibility issues(webcompat.com)
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Can content blockers block wasm? Can't find a related defaults flag, but even then, it would apply to all sites. I'm thinking of something more fine-grained. (It's awful that Apple has made it impossible to create something l
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by dictum 8y ago
> Seems so sad that Mozilla is literally begging people to give Firefox a try. Your security matters. Google recommends using Chrome, a fast and secure browser. Try it? https://i.stack.imgur.com/0zXc4.png
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The ecological impact of browser diversity(css-tricks.com)
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Even Digg didn't set out to die overnight. Come to think of it, of all decade-plus websites, Tumblr is exactly the one for whom suicide is an entirely expected ending. Moody, unique, too obscure for the mainstream but popular enough am
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by dictum 8y ago
Compiling a browser isn't exactly a walk in the park for the average 5 year+ old PC, either. Googlers working on Chromium dev get maxed-out machines for this reason.
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by dictum 8y ago
Also, if your app or website has settings, please include a setting for them: no animations | reduce animations | enable all animations. Settings are often maligned in interface design, but they're very important for people who actuall
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Even a qualified appeal to the majority isn't a very good argument. There are many scenarios where the majority of events is caused by a minority of individuals . For instance, 20% of developers could be responsible for 80% of all s
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by dictum 8y ago
Cherish your downvotes. There's boundless fun in being a determined contrarian crank. If "everyone else is wrong" is not your thing, cherish your downvotes too: we're all wrong sometimes.
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by dictum 8y ago
Correct or not, "abnormal behaviors begets abnormal responses" is a circular justification. You could justify Acosta's abnormal response as a consequence of abnormal behavior by the administration.
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The "fight the power" aesthetic of late-1980s/early 1990s zines feels at home with EFF's history and mission statement. The Library of Congress is the power.
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by dictum 8y ago
That most reactions focus on the absurdity of a 1h deadline is proof that this technique still works wonders. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Door-in-the-face_technique
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I've had first-hand experience of something that's been discussed elsewhere: a lack of omega 3 fatty acids and vitamin D3 itself may be associated with heavy sunburns and sun allergy (itchy skin, runny nose etc right as you&#x27
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That's how we got the hate read content economy.
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Kefir effects against nicotine cessation-induced anxiety in rats (2014)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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It's less about getting away from Microsoft and more about getting closer to Google: https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20m-series-c... While other commenters have criticized the "hidde
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by dictum 8y ago
Given `vue inspect` or even a `console.log(config)` inside the `configureWebpack` function in vue.config.js, it's very much a config file you can see.
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by dictum 8y ago
I'm not sure why I expected a thoughtful piece with actual substance — the nexus between Twitter's original design, post-launch strategy shifts, and its current state — from a mass-market publication in 2018, but I did, and that w
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You Bet Your Life: ‘Death Bonds,’ the Investments That Want You Dead(catapult.co)
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Slap some copy about empowering end users/workers and some illustrations of people with heads much smaller than the rest of their bodies, and it's ready to bring about a new VC round.
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by dictum 8y ago
Same as the difference between "techbros" and journalists who report on Silicon Valley, for anyone outside of either group. It's narcissism of small differences all the way down. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik
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by dictum 8y ago
I know I'm an idealist too, and my comment will be a display of hypocrisy: it seems that one of the rules for using the Internet is that you should completely forget about the is-ought problem. People will dole out all kinds of advice
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by dictum 8y ago
> Go ahead and cancel your membership The upside to the Daily Mail style is that, like a scammer intentionally aiming for the credulous, its total confidence and lack of misgivings helps weed out unintended audiences.
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US 'Hague Invasion Act' Becomes Law (2002)(hrw.org)
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The story of Michael Larson involves a smaller payout from a 1980s game show, but it's interesting because it's more due to a hacker mindset than fraud (though he was involved in the latter later in life) https://en
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by dictum 8y ago
Are HN readers not allowed to express pity (assuming this is what is happening here) via their interests? I can understand not having much sympathy for criminals (not as individuals, but as a generic group) but a worldview that abolishes p
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How to run secret ZX Spectrum message from Radiohead’s OKNOTOK C90 tape (2017)(medium.com)
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by dictum 8y ago
When dealing with consumer-grade network equipment, this is the same question that always comes to my mind: who decided these devices should have their management features open for WAN access by default? I'm still not sure if it was
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by dictum 8y ago
I. Every once in a while, a new fad appears that is described by the infatuated as not a fad , just the way things are innately or intuitively supposed to be. They never live up to this promise; the creative destruction along the way does

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