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by extra88 7y ago
We had a form that was really slow to go through; we couldn't do anything about speeding it up because of where the submission went so we added a little JavaScript to disable the button after the first press.
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by extra88 7y ago
Originally published at The Conversation, where you don't have to push a button to dismiss an ad to read the actual article. https://theconversation.com/i-studied-buttons-for-7-years-an...
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by extra88 7y ago
I haven't seen it in Catalina yet but in Mojave, everything is organized by permission, not by app. If you want to review everything a particular app is allowed to do, you have to look in every permission category. It's not a terr
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by extra88 7y ago
If you don't restrict Terminal by default, users can be tricked into running malicious *.command files and the like. The large majority of Mac owners will never intentionally use Terminal. I don't know what it's like in Catal
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by extra88 7y ago
I understand why you'd call it that but won't it be confused for Shibboleth, the single sign-on log-in system? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shibboleth_(Shibboleth_Consort...
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by extra88 7y ago
Recently, a meta-analysis calling into question a connection between eating red and processed meat and heart failure.
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by extra88 7y ago
> skull and bones (Harvard) Skull and Bones is a secret society at Yale, not Harvard.
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by extra88 7y ago
The "best" students, those most likely to be successful within the school and after school, become walking advertisements. They're also more likely to be happy alumni who donate to the school. I wonder what the data would sho
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by extra88 7y ago
IRBs exist to protect academic integrity, that's not a factor in other contexts. A staff member can collect and use data that could be associated with individuals as a part of improving some part of a university's operations but a
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by extra88 7y ago
The white and gray don’t look that bad to me but it’s not for me, it’s for people with various vision impairments. Ignore your lying eyes, trust the math. Also, to me the superiority of using black is more apparent if the gray is the backgr
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by extra88 7y ago
What do you mean, do you think 4.5:1 is an insufficient contrast ratio? I think that's recognized and why level AAA requires 7:1.
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by extra88 7y ago
I most often use Lea Verou's Contrast Ratio site, in part because one can use colors in different formats (by name, hex, rgb(), hsla(), etc.) https://contrast-ratio.com
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by extra88 7y ago
Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral Shares has a 0.04% expense ratio, it does perform at the same level as the S&P 500 Index. https://investor.vanguard.com/mutual-funds/profile/performan...
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by extra88 7y ago
But they're so expensive and small compared to a blackboard. Another commenter got a 4 foot x 6 foot blackboard, it was probably a few hundred dollars (plus the cost of chalk) and will last for decades. A 50' Microsoft Surface Hub
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by extra88 7y ago
That wouldn't address Stallman's objection; regardless of which browser is used, the JavaScript delivered by website operators would still be executed in the user's browser.
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by extra88 7y ago
Yes, because I know from experience with large organizations that there can be a lot of variance between different parts of an organization. Also, relatively little that happens is directly controlled or decided at the top.
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by extra88 7y ago
> Well, he defected. No he didn’t. He was passing through Russia when the U.S. cancelled his passport and they pressured other countries to deny him asylum.
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by extra88 7y ago
I don’t know about the whole University but only ~25% of the operating budget of the Harvard school that includes Harvard College comes from students (tuition, room, & board) and that has been on a decline as more and more of admitted s
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by extra88 7y ago
A backup service offering "unlimited" storage for a flat rate is not the same as a "bucket" of storage where you pay for exactly what you use plus data transfers out. To be profitable, Backblaze's flat price needs t
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by extra88 7y ago
> This phone is 5 years old now. The iPhone 6s is not yet four years old, it was released in late September 2015. Still a good phone.
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by extra88 7y ago
Severe sleep deprivation can cause auditory hallucinations and other problems so first trying to help them get sleep to see how it affects their symptoms is a good idea.
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by extra88 7y ago
There may be some kids from well-off families getting bullshit diagnoses to justify IEPs that include accommodations like extra time on exams. There are definitely kids from not well-off families who have legitimate needs that are not met b
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by extra88 7y ago
To debug startup performance, I would see if having one account instead of five makes a difference. I haven't used Thunderbird for a long time but if the delay is due to slow responses from one mail provider in particular, perhaps you
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by extra88 7y ago
I don't know what "Preview" is but it sounds more specific than supporting Skype for Web in Firefox overall. There are a number of other UserVoice ideas about Firefox support. Microsoft should consolidate the ones that are es
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by extra88 7y ago
> people won’t date you without a prescreen Most people don't do that for STIs today so why would they do it for genetic predisposition of heritable diseases?
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by extra88 7y ago
> White males in this environment seem to be expected to constantly atone for their existence by telegraphing their exclusive concern for every demographic group but their own, like a neutered puppy-dog or some Justin Trudeau man-child.
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by extra88 7y ago
And Janet Reno (who succeeded William Barr) in the 90's, back in the days of the Clipper chip and encryption software being treated as munitions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
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by extra88 7y ago
> Is there an actual reason to disable highlighting? Some browsers, Chrome especially, show the focus outline when elements are clicked with a mouse and some people think it looks unacceptably bad. Focus-visible is a CSS property meant t
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by extra88 7y ago
> why not unpaid unlicensed health advice Because then the First Amendment does take precedence.
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by extra88 7y ago
There has been an Aldi’s in my rural home county for quite a while. It’s also in a town that’s the county seat and has a public university campus but still, it’s not affluent.

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