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by ferzul 7y ago
if everyone does it, maybe it becomes a useful metric of how many user-hours you get?
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by ferzul 7y ago
when you're tired after work, watching a video is easier than reading. the longer you're watching videos on top-quality-journalism.example.com the longer they can serve you ads
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by ferzul 7y ago
linkedin doesn't work for me on firefox, so i rarely even attempt to use it. but if someone a care about wants to link to me, i have to use chromium for that.
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by ferzul 7y ago
how is that ironic? what actually caused the downtime?
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by ferzul 7y ago
better make sure to flag the receipt for that service in your email. and the transaction in your bank statements. since CBP is now saying use of the service is evidence of a guilty mind and sufficient for exclusion
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by ferzul 7y ago
he was coming to live in the US as a student, not just visit. It is offensive in this case because it wasn't anything he did that lost him the visa, just social media connections said. More generally, I know that my social media is imp
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by ferzul 7y ago
it's almost impossible to be a Muslim who knows middle Eastern muslims and not have someone on your soc med feeds who posts anti American views. I have (real, in person) friends in my soc med feeds who post anti American views. I don&#
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by ferzul 7y ago
I can't easily read dark theme apps. Basically if I start one, I have to closely study the app till I find its options and choose the light theme. (This was awful when I had to make a new install of the Gimp recently - it used to be mu
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by ferzul 7y ago
Yes, me too. It's funny, but once I can't measure my progress it's all over. I wish they would put into the number so I can at least tell if it's going up or down and hopefully get it lower. I don't want funny featu
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by ferzul 7y ago
Away to what? Where can an upset long time Firefox user go? hardly to Chrome or Edge. There's nowhere better; Firefox may not be optimum, but if you don't want rebranded Google crap, you have basically no choice. Maybe there'
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by ferzul 7y ago
I've never seen a Chromebook, not from my friends not in a shop when I'm trying to buy something. I guess they're not in the market here - lots of things aren't since it's a physically very large, medium sized count
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by ferzul 7y ago
the article says, deep in a paragraph about how he got caught, that Forex was illegal but largely ignored. > The Angola & Metropole illegally bought foreign exchange from him at a premium (money exchange was illegal in Portugal at th
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by ferzul 7y ago
mi trovis mian edzinon per Esperanto, sed mi devis lerni alian lingvon por paroli kun ŝia familio, kiuj ne parolas Esperanton
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by ferzul 7y ago
The esperanto pronouns are almost exactly like the Eng=lsh ones. Unlike most European languages, there's no distinction between singular, plural or formal 2nd person, but just an everyday 2nd person pronoun and an archaic one. And ther
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by ferzul 7y ago
But that's an uninsightful distinction. There's no real difference between the experience of a bu'er sayer and an arabic speaker. If the sounds are noticeable to native speakers, calling them merely phonetic is simply a dubio
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by ferzul 7y ago
i think we agree on the facts and disagree on the interpretation. smoking rates have gone down because the goverment has tried to eradicate it. so far, without a ban. it has been pretty successful. this doesn't say much about the succe
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by ferzul 7y ago
actually they don't. many haskellers would prefer to write foo <$> bar <*> baz quux using idiom brackets as, say, (| foo bar (baz quux) |) in any case, the problem is that we want a lightweight syntax for a widesprea
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by ferzul 7y ago
in retrospect, i wonder if you're proposing an alternative (lazy) language on the ghc runtime with the ghc calling convention, that can share types and code, so you effectively have a lazy java-like language with ghc interop?
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by ferzul 7y ago
module Main { IO<Void> main() { Integer n <- read$(getLine) // or: fmap(read)(getLine) print(fib(n)) } Integer fib(Integer n) { Integer go(Integer !n, Integer !a, Integer !b) {
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by ferzul 7y ago
> Have you seen bad functional code? It's an unreadable mess of monads, flatmaps and partial composition where you're not really sure how many arguments a curried function is whitholding. not yet. can you point to any examples?
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by ferzul 7y ago
pretty easy. governments took an oppositional attitude to it. they made it easier to get information about the cons and (at least as importantly) harder to get information about the pros. amongst other things. saying that there's a &qu
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by ferzul 7y ago
> 1. i thought the idea of banning something died with the "war on drugs". no, I never saw that memo. I'm in favor of banning many things, including but not limited to the (literal) murder trade. I'm pretty sure you a
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by ferzul 7y ago
I've heard from people who stopped buying cigarettes once they had to come out in olive green packaging. I guess whatever works right? It can be a pretty minor benefit, but as long as the net is in the right direction.
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by ferzul 7y ago
yes, the worst thing about the hitman trade is that it's unregulated so you can't get your money back if they kill you instead since the other guy offered a better rate. better to legalize it so these disputes can be resolved in c
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by ferzul 7y ago
But i think there's a big difference between government regulation of what informed adults can put in their body, and what corporations can do in the pursuit of profit. Regulating the latter is reasonable, and has a heading in the US C
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by ferzul 7y ago
well, surely the definition is something like telling the market a product exists and/or creating that market. which I think is quite reasonable. it's the stuff people do and call it marketing and advertising that is dishonest - t
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by ferzul 7y ago
well, it was *nix before nix (the package manager) existed. So I think Nix, as good as it is, stuffed up with that name.
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by ferzul 7y ago
afaik Google needs a multilingual corpus. so if Cantonese is mostly written using Chinese characters, the corpus will be in Chinese characters. and if written Cantonese is mostly informal (conversation, shop signs) it will not often be mult
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by ferzul 7y ago
but that's solved, not by avoiding the automated, short term, machine aided certificate generation by Acme Bot and related tools, but by spreading them to other CAs. And every time someone says, can't everyone just use LetsEncrypt
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by ferzul 7y ago
What's wrong with forgetting passwords? After a period of trying to use diffent passwords on different sites, I recently gave up and just type in some gibberish pattern I can reproduce three times (maybe via the clipboard), and then us

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