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by firexcy 5y ago
As mentioned in your quote there’s a special version intended for disable candidates with larger text and searchable content so as to be compatible with screen readers. The version is freely available (not publicly but indexed by search eng
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by firexcy 5y ago
Thank you for sharing this. HN’s default layout and behavior have never made sense to me and I always rely on alternative front-ends if I’m spending more than a glance on a thread. Currently I’m settled on hn.premii.com but your attempt see
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by firexcy 5y ago
Since you mentioned this could you please give some hints on how to enable external forwarding at all? Spent hours on the issue last month before finally giving up deciphering the maze of the legacy UI. Thanks in advance.
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by firexcy 5y ago
I still remember the excitement when the second grade me copied _all_ applications from my school computer and they fitted in a single floppy disk and the frustration when I couldn't launch any of them on my home computer. It took me a
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by firexcy 5y ago
> a weird problem with DDG where it will load a blank page of results I've noticed the same problem too. My guess is that DDG pulls search results from 3rd-party engines such as Bing and for some technical issues it may fail from ti
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by firexcy 5y ago
There were similar efforts in the Chinese fan-translators community, and Ace Attorney is distinguished by the huge amount of texts, not to mention the peculiar culture references that are borderline untranslatable. The time for grassroot ga
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by firexcy 6y ago
Glad they finally add this. Used to be a painful lack compared to chromium-based browsers. During the long wait I've found this amazing addon called HighlightAll [1], which allows you to search multiple keywords and highlight them with
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by firexcy 6y ago
I also find this painful and have switched to iceraven, a fork of Firefox Android that supports arbitrary addons, and use SingleFile to save webpages as html files.
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by firexcy 6y ago
Idk, but ESL speaker as I myself is, I don’t think localizations are that important for technical writings, where few grammar or rhetoric is concerned, and technical terms can simply be seen as “tokens” that can be represented in any langu
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by firexcy 6y ago
> So far, Apple said it: > - Removed support for custom fonts. This means only presenting built-in fonts which are the same for all users with the same system. I really hate this. I'm opinonated on typography and rely on userscri
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by firexcy 7y ago
Yes, and this behavior is also annoying because it prevents you from copying the real URL directly from the result page. Instead you’re getting a rewrited URL that is neither readable or shareable.
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by firexcy 8y ago
Each time a podcast praises the credibility of a VPN sponsor, it reduces the credibility of the very show in my mind.
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by firexcy 8y ago
Then the page is ruined by the disastrous Arial font.
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by firexcy 8y ago
Yes, they wouldn’t do that. But no, checks and balances can not be based on something that would or would not happen.
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by firexcy 8y ago
This. The most refreshing thing I felt when Chrome came out in 2008 was that it let me treat a webpage as an application _per se_, instead of a document being opened by an application (i.e. the browser).
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by firexcy 8y ago
I think the library system does have good reasons to exist and whether to use it depends totally on your needs. Essentially, the library system and the traditional filesystem are the same, to the extent that they both filter and group files
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by firexcy 8y ago
Can anyone explain to me the rationale for the recent trend to split the input of username and password into two steps? I noticed more and more services (including Outlook, iCloud, Evernote, etc.) have adopted such an annoying design, which
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by firexcy 8y ago
I do find YouTube’s recommendation algorithm prone to low quality contents. Sometimes I click one or two clickbait videos out of curiosity, and as soon as I return to homepage I would find alike videos starting filling my feed. I have to ma
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by firexcy 8y ago
I followed the “Math” topic and found my feed filled with silly, primary- and middle school- level homework questions. That’s when I stopped to use Quora.
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by firexcy 8y ago
“640K is more memory than anyone will ever need.” However, I would like the redundant bandwidth and computing power to be used to implement HDR first. It’s a more perceptible and immediate improvement than 8k.
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by firexcy 8y ago
I’m wondering about the legal implications of such feature. By making calls and reservations for the customer, does Google Assistant (and therefore Google) become the agent of the customer as a principal? If it does, shall it consequently t
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by firexcy 8y ago
I don’t think there’s a problem with their retraction. Shall the original story remain there, (and maybe also indexed by Google,) won’t that do exactly the same harm to the alleged site owner what the story claimed to had been done to the “
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by firexcy 9y ago
Intense RSS user as I am, I don’t think the recent hype of RSS practical and scalable for daily users. Algorithm-generated feeds are mostly critisized for buidling filter bubbles and leading to dependency, but either can be avoided by simpl
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by firexcy 9y ago
I’m a Chinese speaker and also on my way advancing English skills. What I learned from my past experience is that don’t distinguish between good and bad sources of contents. Enjoy nonsensical shouts and murmurs in YouTube, Reddit, or other