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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Yes, it's worthwhile to note that it's an adaptation that evolved regionally.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Murder hornets are a real threat to honey bee hives. A handful of hornets can take out a hive of thousands. What's interesting is the way that honey bees defend against them. A bunch of bees surround each hornet, then they intensify th
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
> How is it justified in their minds? Well...money. They've got all the user data. Probably did a cost analysis and found that enough people would rather put up with FB than give up on VR games.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
The controversy surrounding the megabar was awkward. Despite all the people clamoring against it, Mozilla would not budge. It wasn't until someone with epilepsy made a case that they allowed users to make the change from the about:conf
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Regarding the politics, it's not surprising in the least. There was some controversy earlier this month surrounding a significant change in the admissions process at the top public high school in San Francisco[1]. Historically, this sc
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
If someone is so perturbed by something so trivial, it speaks more about the person than the product. The FF team could probably do away with that page and the user will still find something to complain about.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
From the WaPo article you linked, regarding a period at the end of a sentence: > that's an indication that the text message period has taken on a life of its own. It is no longer just the correct way to end a sentence. It's an
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
I think Samuel Johnson (author of the first modern English dictionary) put it well: "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
The film camera magazine had a capacity of up to 10 minutes, so Hitchcock could film the scene all in one shot.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Alfred Hitchcock films would be agony to that crowd. The opening shot for his film "Rope" clocks in at about 9 and a half minutes. All in a single shot!
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
There appear to be a lot of people who use those ring-shaped grip holders (or a Popsocket, which has a similar functionality) that stick to the back of a mobile phone. It appears you can have either MagSafe or the phone holder, but not both
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
If the developer is using str.lstrip or str.rstrip, they're doing it wrong (because they're using the wrong method). > "foobar".lstrip("wooowweeezoweeef") bar
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
It doesn't replace the `lstrip` or `rstrip` methods; it replaces the need for an `if` statement using `startswith` and `endswith` methods. if "foobar".startswith("foo"): "foobar"[len("foo")
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
You can't work and concentrate while running. You can only do it walking. Check out Stephen Wolfram's setup: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2019/02/seeking-the-prod... From his blog post: > But w
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Sure, but the "self-made" claim is entirely laughable in this case.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
It's not an apt comparison. Loot boxes is gambling, which is something completely different.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Kylie Jenner was proclaimed the "youngest self-made billionaire" by Forbes magazine. Remind me, what is her skill or talent again?
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
> If I had to be nit-picky, my feedback would be: the lock and unlock icons are a bit too samey at small sizes on my non-high-res screen. Perhaps make unlock a bit more obvious? Shorten the open loop area a little more? Or, alternatively
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Can you even compare Mitchell Baker to Lisa Su in terms of achievement? Su revived a company on the verge of bankruptcy. Since she was appointed CEO, AMD's stock has soared and they've made themselves a viable competitor against I
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
> There's a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid. > And they can't reduce their salary now because it'd be unfair on their families. To give context, Baker&#x2
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Any chance Firefox will have built-in support for printing to PDF? There's a browser extension[1], but it was last updated 3 years ago. Seems the Chrome browser has had this feature for ages. 1: https://addons.mozilla.org&#x
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Maybe there ought to be a blacklist for unscrupulous devs who do things like what chrisaljoudi did with Ublock.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
It's a great app and open source: https://sourceforge.net/p/opencamera/code/ci/master/tree/
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
The first linked article (commentarymagazine.com) suggests that the Garnett/Matlaw translations of Dostoevsky’s "Notes from Underground" is a better translation than the P&V translation. As an example, it says the followi
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Sure, but if the book you're looking for is only available on Kindle and your eReader is not a Kindle, then the conversion is better than nothing. I've found some O'Reilly ebooks only available on amazon in the format "K
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Apparently you can do the conversion with Calibre.[1] 1: https://epubor.com/how-to-convert-kindle-kfx-to-epubpdfmobi-...
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
In that case we can extrapolate that and apply the argument against things like a pack of baseball cards or MTG cards. Everyone wants that MVP player or the Black Lotus, but you never know what you'll get until you open the pack.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
All the items are taken from Leetcode problems, but for the vast majority of them the author (labuladong) does not give attribution. There should at least be a link to the related Leetcode problem for each section.
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
Looks like someone further down in that twitter thread posted a link to the torrent: https://twitter.com/lolalone/status/1284140222582796293
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by doc_gunthrop 6y ago
> I had always assumed that voting was for "quality of post" and not for agreement. That's how it's supposed to be used. This also applies to other platforms that have some social media or online discourse component

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