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by forgotmypw17 8mo ago
Slow/lossy connections: JS may not load, but site still works. Users that prefer non-animated pages and disable JS for this reason. Users who prioritize security. Users of older devices in which your JS can trigger errors. Yes, these e
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by forgotmypw17 8mo ago
There are many reasons to accommodate non-JS users beyond accommodating people who have intentionally disabled it, and most of them are in accessibility territory. Be careful with using percentages for your arguments, because this is not th
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by forgotmypw17 9mo ago
Well, there's this, for XFCE: https://github.com/grassmunk/Chicago95
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by forgotmypw17 9mo ago
https://archive.ph/3axTl
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by forgotmypw17 10mo ago
Thanks to everyone who replied. I failed to account for the else condition when x is not > 3.
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by forgotmypw17 10mo ago
Wouldn't the correct answer be 5? result = result + x // 5 0 5
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by forgotmypw17 10mo ago
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by forgotmypw17 11mo ago
It’s really fun to explore, no two spaces are alike, and lots of nooks and crannies. Definitely in my top 5 favorite buildings on campus and in Cambridge.
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The $400 social network that defies AI slop(quasa.io)
3 points by forgotmypw17 11mo ago|2 comments
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
User preference cookies generally do not require consent under most privacy regulations, including the EU’s GDPR and ePrivacy Directive, as long as they serve a functional purpose directly requested by the user and are not used for tracking
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
This is not true, cookie disclosure is only required for non-essential cookies.
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
That’s certainly possible. I don’t deny occasionally clicking them. I just don’t bother most of the time. Edit: I just tried the flight ordering flow again (starting at google.com/flights) in a private/incognito tab, and did not e
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
I started with Google Flights and went to two other sites that it directed me to. Just to reiterate, I'm not religious about this practice. If I need to click a cookie banner to book a plane ticket, so be it. I just treat cookie banner
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
That's why I said "almost all of the time". But to the flights example, I was just looking for flights starting at Google Flights, which doesn't have cookie banners, and the two sites I went to for booking also did not h
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
I've come up with an easy solution, which works almost all the time. When a cookie consent dialog interferes with me using the website, I close the tab and move on. I've found a high correlation between cookie consent notices and
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
When you write an app without using an existing framework, you are bound to write your own framework. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
Yes, they would. And it valid for them to want to do so. And the fact that software developers think that they "know better" is part of the problem with our software world today.
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
This has happened for me on regular residential Internet access. (Check the box, and get redirected to check the box again.)
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
I don't understand the difference between one binary and several files, except that the files are easier to version...
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
I use Total Commander on Windows all the time. It is much better than Explorer at so many things, such as: - Actually letting you navigate the directory structure. - Making WSL volumes easy to work with. - Keyboard accessibility. - Dealing
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Show HN: qdb.us is back, after extensive downtime(qdb.us)
2 points by forgotmypw17 1y ago|0 comments
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
That's a good point. I assumed they use an effective ad blocker.
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
Step 1: Copy the files. Step 2: (There is no step 2.)
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
I do this with Perl. One of the reasons I like Perl is because of its high committment to backwards compatibility. I like PHP because it's so easy to set up an installation of my app, but the breaking changes have bit me hard in the pa
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
> That's like taking off all of the locks on your house, leaving the doors and windows open all while expecting your house to never have uninvited guests. Depending on where you live (or what websites you visit) it's not unreas
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
It could do both...
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
It's not just 2 to 3, either. Both 3.12 and 3.13 introduced breaking changes, that's once per year that you at minimum need to audit all your Python code to ensure it doesn't break.
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
My main problem with python is that a script I wrote 6 years ago (or even 1 year ago) is not likely to run without requiring modifications. If it's me running it, that's fine. But if it's someone else that's trying to us
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
Is it still dogmatic if I consider Perl to be well-designed and have already evaluated more popular tools?
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by forgotmypw17 1y ago
This and Lindy Effect factors a lot into my choices for what to use for my projects. My choice for a project I want to be as maintenance-free as possible are special subsets of ASCII/txt, SQLite, Perl, Bash, PHP, HTML, JS, CSS. The sub

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