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by efreak 3mo ago
What you're describing isn't a cancer to children but a danger to _people_, children or not. Children being children, they're sometimes less able to recognize danger ahead of time, and they're also more likely to get the
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by efreak 3mo ago
You're not putting her in jail for having kids smarter than she is. You're telling her that if she can't parent, then she can't have kids. Having kids is a responsibility, not a reward, and that responsibility is more th
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by efreak 3mo ago
Children also don't deserve to have uncaring parents
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by efreak 3mo ago
The true solution to these problems is to be a parent. If you don't have the time to be a parent, then don't have kids. If you have kids, it's _your_ responsibility to keep them alive and healthy, both mentally and physically
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by efreak 3mo ago
Why would publishing binaries prevent using the source elsewhere?
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by efreak 3mo ago
Long-term memory, for one. (reliving your entire life every time you do an action isn't memory). Creativity in new areas without training. Children at school are capable of "discovering" math solutions/methods that are
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by efreak 4mo ago
The logo isn't attached to the project. The logo is attached to the organization, run by Google (presumably), that Google (presumably) uses to distribute software made by employees.
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by efreak 4mo ago
Speaking from experience, it's also nice to have feedback that the blinking light actually means something is actively happening, and not just that a process has been started and hasn't finished (it may have gotten stuck or suspen
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by efreak 4mo ago
I've gotten numerous Android freebies. Unfortunately there's no discoverability for their mobile app store: no profile, no owned game list, etc; just the occasional game in the store that shows a different button (owned vs free vs
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by efreak 4mo ago
Set up server-side commit hooks in git to run your checks. Don't allow binaries to be run from user-writable locations.
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by efreak 4mo ago
I'm reminded of the bot @needadebitcard on Twitter 10(?) years ago, that reposted pictures of people's cards that they posted on Twitter for the public to see.
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by efreak 4mo ago
You forgot to mention that the Java applet doesn't have antialiasing, so the entire menu looks like crap.
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by efreak 4mo ago
Not testing your software in the way your users use it is the disrespect. Not everyone has a modern device. Not everyone has 12gb RAM. Not everyone has 100mbps or even 10mbps. Not everyone has "unlimited" Internet. If your websi
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by efreak 4mo ago
A light bulb doesn't require a processor to turn on and off when power is applied, so the only reason to add one is for extra functionality. A TV requires a (relatively) powerful processor just for decoding the signal.
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by efreak 4mo ago
Fairemail is great. Better than Thunderbird and any other mail client around. Every so often I see a new mail client pop up for Android advertising that it does X better than any other client; I look at it and it's either built on top
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by efreak 4mo ago
3 is a result of Gmail's imap implementation, and can be squarely blamed on Google. They did this intentionally. Instead of mapping the your tags as imap labels, they mapped them as a folder structure. While it certainly shouldn't
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by efreak 4mo ago
One of the things I like about Steam is that your email address, username, display name and id slug (/id/*) aren't required to be the same. All public identifiers should be changeable (regardless of whether or not making the
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by efreak 4mo ago
Office 97 not only has everything most people need ( wordpad has all features most people need; most users have no need for Excel or other office tools) it also starts up faster and uses less resources. The only question is do you actually
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by efreak 5mo ago
Spotify was advised of payola scheme in federal court in the US, unfortunately last month the judge ruled that the TOS prevention of lawsuits against Spotify is legal.
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by efreak 5mo ago
That depends entirely on where you host it. My PC has more downtime than GitHub does. It's only up enough to push to it ~75% of the time (I do use it as a ssh remote fwiw, but most projects get pushed to a VM that only starts on login,
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by efreak 5mo ago
If you're smart about the style/display format, this can be done with a frame that only has the necessary markup (ie just the contents of the cart, with links, think a sidebar/pop-up shopping cart embedded in the middle of th
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by efreak 5mo ago
Might be bugged or you might have some setting that doesn't allow websites to use it. Try https://googlechrome.github.io/samples/battery-status/
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by efreak 5mo ago
That's what frames are for. Only reload the frame with the important data in it (total cost, list of products in cart) and point the category links in the page to open in the same frame as the shopping cart. You can even style the fram
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by efreak 5mo ago
I had dnssec enabled from 2018 until 1984 hosting messed it up in 2023 and I had to remove/disable keys from the registrar (oddly no information about this on their website or elsewhere, the issue apparently only exists in emails. Appa
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by efreak 6mo ago
An expert in any subject matter should not be allowed to provide misleading statements, regardless of whether they're speaking in an official/paid capacity. It doesn't matter if it's considered legal advice or not, the f
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by efreak 6mo ago
> Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the
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by efreak 6mo ago
Determining who is at fault involves extreme annoyance and inconvenience for those who had fingers pointed at them, regardless of whether or not they were actually involved. If you involve yourself willingly, you're inviting that on yo
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by efreak 6mo ago
I have multiple drives that started out as their own os. Each of them has a Dropbox folder in the standard location. Each of them has a different set of files in them (I deduped at one point), with some overlap of different versions. I no l
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by efreak 6mo ago
Bayden SlickRun is still around, I use it daily for launching most of my programs (the only annoyance is the `hide` magicword gets interpreted as `hibernate` occasionally due to my typing `hi` and hitting enter). Unlike many other launchers
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by efreak 6mo ago
Or you could forget the borderless screen and add a bezel so I can hold my phone without touching the screen. Then you've got enough room to curve the corners and have square screen corners.

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