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by dictum 8y ago
> If Kratom addicts start robbing convenience stores and offering blowies for Kratom cash i'll believe it This has very little to do with the properties of a drug itself, and more to do with the demographics (poverty, unemployment,
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> I mean, <table> is still how you properly layout things today, as far as I’m concerned. However, in a rare moment of self reflection, I have to admit that I wouldn’t hire myself to do anything related to the browser. Extend the m
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Who doesn't love plausible deniability? You don't even have to rely on the failed excuse of "just following orders" if you lose, you don't even have to admit that you "didn't know what you didn't know
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I can't substantiate my comment with academic sources, but here's my memory from the past decade: the people designing interface guidelines for mobile operating systems decided that carefully designing static visual assets for UIs
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Sometimes, parody can't outdo reality. (That won't stop the Ugandan government from working hard to outdo their past feats: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uganda_Anti-Homosexuality_Ac... )
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- Anyone who sounds like a wrecker must be reeducated. (q.e.d. https://twitter.com/DanielDoWrite/status/1015263695558135808 )
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> I have to change careers to selling ice creams at the beach or something You will learn to loathe ice cream, the beach, and even the nicest people you could see there. (Quoth Kierkegaard: https://www.goodreads.com/quote
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I say this as someone who almost always prefers the dark theme wherever it is available: I wonder how much this desire for dark interfaces comes from almost every app interface having bright colors on white. Somewhere along the shift to fla
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Indeed, but this is not a problem for this enhancement specifically. IE11 asks for gzipped files, and the server can still send them when the client doesn't support Brotli, based on the Accept-Encoding header.
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I understand this isn't because of some evil plot or crazy corporate machination, and I'm talking of different teams, but it's interesting how Google (which spends a lot of resources on developer relations and web performance
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Some optimizations compound. Skipping anything that doesn't pass some impressive threshold (20%? 30%?) is the path to 500MB about:blank tab processes.
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> Why do people care which framework "blows" the other one away? I suppose two factors: - The scale/"startups = growth" tenet of Silicon Valley/Wall Street trickling down to micro business decisions — pick a
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The MBP is a dead horse at this point, so I took a look at the current iMacs (I'm used to working on a 27 inch display and 5K tempts me; a standalone high quality display isn't much cheaper than going with an iMac). All stock mode
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An atemporal kind of creativity. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13976155
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The more things change... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_nasty
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PC OEMs Are Selling Laptops with Optane Cache Drives and Claiming It’s Memory(extremetech.com)
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(Warning: rant.) That this centralized Ledger is something that will be deployed at scale (in true Google fashion, I expect avoiding it will require a fork, at once keeping the open source warm feelings around its brand alive and making it
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Since we're on HN: did McGonagall's magnum opus ever become an in-joke or proto-meme between engineers? It concludes with a deadpan reflection on engineering's relationship with physics and safety: "Oh! Ill-fated bridge
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So that's how they weed out the still good 2011 Macs... I can't say I'll be protesting by not buying a new Mac because I'm already devoid of any desire to do so.
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Maybe I'm too bitter and jaded to fully appreciate the joys of the status quo, but I'd add at least one adverb between "Ad" and "pays", and remove three words between "ur" and "internet" bef
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The enema within (2002)(theguardian.com)
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No tu quoque intended, but I find the history behind the original iPhone introduction fascinating: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/06/magazine/and-then-steve-s... (spoiler: it required some fakery and
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As with .dev, they'll acquire .evil, thus ensuring no one (else?) can do .evil .
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> Anyway, some great sentences in this book. Not sure how it will stand up over time but was worth a couple hours of my time. I'm not familiar with Ryan Holiday's work, but this almost sounds like a backhanded compliment, espec
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> However, I'd rather have this system than one in which all the owners are secret. I don't mean to be cynical, but isn't this system also the one in which some people simply register their houses under a shell company?
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> sweat, rolling around, and close contact Though germs are a concern, body odor is a very practical reason to always train with clean clothes, and for some people it requires enforcement through peer pressure.
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Time for a fork of https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt .
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Regardless of ironic detachment, or having the opposite of what a baby-faced, overpaid, wannabe white nerd , who's also possibly a — let's dispense with gender neutrality — con man — is supposed to have as political background,
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Blood loss: the decline of the serial killer (2011)(slate.com)
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I support people learning things long after the fact.[0] However, consider the source of the jaded, deflated tone of this contigent of people when things they already knew or suspected come into the public debate: they were just recently th

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