ectopod

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by ectopod 5y ago
I guess the plan is: * Randomly remove features from MDN * See which ones people complain about most * Reintroduce these as part of the new paid subscription * Profit!
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by ectopod 5y ago
No. If you calculate the straight probabilities of blackjack or roulette, say, the house has a small advantage. That's the house edge. OP is saying that the digital versions give the house an additional edge.
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by ectopod 5y ago
What's the hoax? OP has seen the video.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The 100-900 weight scale came straight from Windows. It wasn't some great insight from the CSS spec authors.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It's both. Social media provides a positive feedback loop for awfulness.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I don't know anyone spending more than one day a week in an office in the UK. Trains are very under-utilised. Business owners in city centres are still grumbling about the lack of trade.
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by ectopod 5y ago
What? ctrl+k should enter a digraph.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Feature phones are notorious for having terrible security. Most of them can be quietly hacked with an SMS from the carrier. And they support MMS so you're not immune to image parsing bugs either.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Does management know that all meetings are being shared with another company?
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by ectopod 5y ago
A lot of these sites (including this one) do work in reader view.
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by ectopod 5y ago
So two people do this and, however principled their grammars, they aren't the same. And when two systems disagree on the meaning of something you get bugs and security holes.
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by ectopod 5y ago
If you are young you surely expect to acquire more knowledge and experience over time. So you should expect to make better decisions in the future. You cannot say that every old person is wiser than every young person, but you can certainly
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by ectopod 5y ago
The misleading statement (which has a bogus citation) is in the introduction. Your quote is in the body of the article. It isn't great.
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by ectopod 5y ago
You're right of course. The original anecdote makes no sense then.
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by ectopod 5y ago
"Around that time" is referring to 2004.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I would be surprised if every country gets exactly the same product.
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by ectopod 5y ago
I think Stack Overflow used to sell this as a service. Don't know if anyone used it.
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by ectopod 5y ago
It might be fraud for a child to give a false birthday to get access to an adult service (or vice versa) but it's not fraud merely to give a bogus birthday.
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by ectopod 5y ago
JS does support private implementation details using closures, but JS devs tend not to use them.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Thank you, that's really helpful.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Can you recommend one?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Yes, but American suburbs aren't like other countries' suburbs. British suburbs, for example, are much denser and usually very walkable.
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by ectopod 5y ago
You can use pandoc to get html+mathml, which renders in Firefox with no JS. Chrome users can get an extension to render the mathml. Or you can add mathjax to your page, but I don't bother.
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by ectopod 5y ago
In the UK, consumer product liability is with the vendor. They will usually recover the costs from the manufacturer, giving them an incentive to deal with reputable companies. As a consumer I don't have to care about the vendor's
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by ectopod 5y ago
Where can you find a private A&E in the UK?
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by ectopod 5y ago
Keeping slaves is inherently harmful. Copying things is not.
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by ectopod 5y ago
The amount of traffic needed to service local stores is tiny. One or two vehicles per shop per day at most. My local high street is pedestrianised but permits access for delivery vehicles. On a typical shopping trip I'll see one or non
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by ectopod 5y ago
I've seen this in a few software books. It works very well.
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by ectopod 5y ago
From the article: > if you allocate a new object in the storage of the old one, you cannot access the new object through pointers to the old Which implies the UB happens in the caller.
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by ectopod 5y ago
Maytag is common in UK launderettes but I've never seen a domestic one.

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