ectopod

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by ectopod 6y ago
I'm not sure what you're asking. As a software developer, supporting negative leading isn't hard, but as an end user (as I was in the example above) that's no help if the software developer hasn't done the work.
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by ectopod 6y ago
I typeset a scanned and ocred copy of an old book. It used a moderately common font except with extremely narrow line spacing. None of the tools I had supported a line spacing narrower than the spacing chosen by the font designer, so I ha
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by ectopod 6y ago
In a similar vein, the Duke of Westminster was asked if he had any advice for young entrepreneurs wanting to match his success. He replied: > Make sure they have an ancestor who was a very close friend of William the Conqueror
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by ectopod 6y ago
It wasn't in anybody's yard, it was in the road. And they didn't pee there, they emptied a bottle.
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by ectopod 6y ago
That was terrible advice. It's basically "play the white man", which is a notorious racist trope in the UK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_the_white_man
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by ectopod 6y ago
If this is true, then the former students will lose their lawsuits. Surely it is better for this to be aired in court than for the government to claim sovereign immunity.
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by ectopod 6y ago
It just means that Amy Sedghi interviewed him, and then wrote it from a first person pov. It's not unusual.
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by ectopod 6y ago
I was really impressed with the UK vaccine booking system. A text message from the doctor directed me to an online booking form. This was an incredibly simple html form-based thing. The first screen asks for your DOB (to check you'r
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by ectopod 6y ago
It's not really about fetishising ancient production methods. Cheese made with unpasteurised milk tastes different and, in many people's opinion, better.
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by ectopod 6y ago
Use an object?
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by ectopod 6y ago
I once tried to register a business using an emoticon as the company name. I read all the guidelines and relevant legislation and, as far as I could see, there was no rule prohibiting it. The automated system accepted it, but it was rejec
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by ectopod 6y ago
You're not wrong. But the person concerned is notoriously litigious, and their employer has a legal duty to protect them from harassment. (Because, AFAIK, they are British and employed in the UK by reddit.) So reddit has no good cho
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by ectopod 6y ago
I don't doubt the story, but if the expiry year was in the wrong field, why did the payment go through? Did 1Password fill in the year twice? That would be a huge bug. Or will a fraud detection system ignore the missing year if every
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by ectopod 6y ago
At places I've worked in the UK it is asymmetrical. The employer has to give three months' notice but the employee only has to give one month's. It is intended as an employee benefit, and it is. I've never been asked
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by ectopod 6y ago
Surely you meant to say: > but the fact that others don’t allows them to micropay for a lot of content with their time. I'm not objecting. I do the same. But in what sense are you paying? I'm sure I'm not.
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by ectopod 6y ago
How much class did you have? My first year at university had three hours of tutorials and ten hours of optional lectures per week. Subsequent years had less. There was plenty of time.
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by ectopod 6y ago
> mousing across the screen and accidentally passing over an item that on-hovers a giant div in front of what you were trying to access Like every link in Wikipedia. The preview feature is just awful.
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by ectopod 6y ago
This isn't new. Back in 1992 you had two choices for DPI in Windows 3.1 but many applications couldn't cope with the larger setting. I used it anyway because 1024x768 on a 14" CRT was unreadable with regular fonts.
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by ectopod 6y ago
In the UK hundreds of postmasters were accused of stealing by the Post Office because their accounting system couldn't add up†. Many lost their jobs. Some were jailed. It took twenty years for the management to admit that their syst
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by ectopod 6y ago
There was a case in Italy the other day. Lenovo fought hard but had to pay, plus €20,000 damages for being a PITA. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26456524
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by ectopod 6y ago
I don't know why tabs and taskbars go at the top and bottom of the screen by default. This is exactly where the space isn't. Every screen is wide. The taskbar can be moved easily, but Firefox doesn't come with a vertical ta
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by ectopod 6y ago
A URL has another huge disadvantage: a URL is the address of a thing, not the thing it is pointing to in itself. The thing it is pointing to can change. If you paid $70 million for a URL pointing to a Beeple artwork, you might be upset if
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by ectopod 6y ago
Americans are sticklers for titles more than Brits. For example, outside of very formal settings no-one calls the prime minister "The Right Honourable Boris Johnson" but the president is nearly always referred to as "Preside
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by ectopod 6y ago
I assumed a cosmic ray flipped the quantity from 1 to 65... and then one got "lost" in the mail.
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by ectopod 6y ago
Unusally, I think Matt Levine's explanation is confusing. > Big companies buy stuff from smaller companies, and have to pay for the stuff within, say, 90 days after delivery. Greensill pays the suppliers, say, 30 days after delivery
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by ectopod 6y ago
Or you're trying to select text from the last line of a text file but the horizontal scrollbar keeps popping up and getting in the way. This absurdity happens in the default text editor in Mint Cinnamon.
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by ectopod 6y ago
If every file upload creates a new upload number (which is a common design) and the upload numbers are not exposed to the client then changes and deletions work without any special effort. I guess this is the case the author is talking abo
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by ectopod 6y ago
Even sqrt(x * x + y * y) is wrong. I'm slightly ashamed to say that I learned of the C hypot function only a few days ago. I've been doing this wrong for decades.
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by ectopod 6y ago
The best way to let a site know that you don't want tracking cookies is to disable cookies. Most sites work fine. This one redirects you to: https://dl.acm.org/action/cookieAbsent
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by ectopod 6y ago
Reading your comment it just occurred to me that "Junk" is a very poor label for the spam button. Many users are going to legitimately think that a button marked "Junk" simply means "put the message in the trash&qu

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