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by gambler 8y ago
I seriously doubt that reading modern science fiction would have the same effect on anyone. Unfortunately. Unfortunately.
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by gambler 8y ago
The built-in datepicker has so many issues (from immutable styling to the format it uses to basic usability), no serious website will ever use it. As far as uploads, no large website ever uses the default ones. All of them roll their own us
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by gambler 8y ago
Clearly, in the eyes of browser developers basic UI is far less important than 3d rendering, web assembly, progressive API and other features used by .000001% of all websites. AFAIK, there are still no usable built-in date pickers or upload
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by gambler 8y ago
Why are modal popups still a thing at all? Yes, I know all the excuses. They are not good enough. Also, websites should not be able to block browser UI unless I explicitly allow them to. In any way.
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by gambler 8y ago
There is no good reason for any website to be able to block Esc key from exiting fullscreen mode, games or no games.
636.
by gambler 8y ago
Most people don't care. Firefox became popular by being fast and offering tabbed browsing when IE didn't. I think being fast and offering radical quality of life feature is a good strategy to follow even now.
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by gambler 8y ago
Google is steadily undermining the foundational principles of the web that made the platform so popular and allowed Google to do searching in the first place. The scary part is that they don't just offer an "alternative" tech
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by gambler 8y ago
Some reasons I like using Firefox over Chrome right now: - Tags for bookmarks. - Bult-in reader view that makes pages readable again and has hassle-free test-to-speech. - I can customize toolbars to much higher extent. What I would really l
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by gambler 8y ago
What features Brave has that are missing in Firefox? Brave is based on Chromium. It doesn't seem to have any radical UI features that would put it ahead.
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by gambler 8y ago
Rich Hickey's "Maybe Not" should be watched by anyone who thinks nulls/nils/undefineds are okay. It should also be watched by anyone who think that Optional/Maybe/Nullable and good enough: https:/&#x
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by gambler 8y ago
That's exactly what he says. People might disagree that this is the right approach, but I'm not sure what other ways anyone could interpret that talk.
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by gambler 8y ago
Bees are one of the reasons I think the current metrics for "smartness" of AI are misguided and that we are very, very far away from AGI. Bees are capable of learning, planning, communication, prediction and at least some form of
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by gambler 8y ago
It's a thing of its own. Used to be called informatics in some countries. Much better name, IMO. There are large parts of computer science that have nothing to do with computers. They're about information and can be applied outs
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by gambler 8y ago
>The problem with fighting disinformation is that it requires an entity that has the authority to stamp something as true or untrue. Any real solution to the problem of disinformation has to work through giving individuals better too
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by gambler 8y ago
>I would welcome new developments in page rank like algos PageRank-like algorithms are not the solution, they are the problem. They reward popularity with more popularity, enabling viral content, encouraging stuff like link spam and ou
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by gambler 8y ago
>That's just... a fundamental limitation? I don't think there's a way for an unskilled ("normal") person to dissect and analyze the information outside of their understanding in a meaningful way, no matter how c
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by gambler 8y ago
A good and important counter-measure, but not the only one. People also need better tools for analyzing and making sense of large quantities of information, especially as it evolves over time. Right now, all we have are search engines and e
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by gambler 8y ago
>Steve Jennum (Ninjitsu) was an alternate and fought in the finals, where he won by a sloppy armbar. Ever heard of confirmation bias? Well, you're engaging in it right now. If winning an early UFC is "evidence" of MA eff
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by gambler 8y ago
>He literally gave reasonable evidence to support his claim. The reply made a conflicting claim with no evidence If the ridiculously small sample size, questionable sampling technique and the fact that one of the participants was part
650.
by gambler 8y ago
This isn't how it works. If you don't have good evidence to support your claims, the onus is on you to find better evidence, not on everyone else to provide evidence to the contrary.
651.
by gambler 8y ago
>See: 1993-1995 UFC competitions In a surprising turn of events, a tournament organized in large part as self-promotion by Gracie family "proven" the effectiveness of their martial art.
652.
by gambler 8y ago
At the very least refusing to engage in wasteful and environmentally harmful activities shouldn't be illegal.
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by gambler 8y ago
You don't need a lawn to stand outdoors if you live in a mild climate zone. You don't even need a lawn to have an open, walkable front-yard. If you regularly walk on a grassy area, it adapts. You might need to use a scythe on out-
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by gambler 8y ago
>As well as having ecosystem needs, each person has potential to be a supplier of ecosystem services. What does "ecosystem services" actually mean? The problem isn't the loss of some services. Humans who aren't will
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by gambler 8y ago
Lawns are one of the most ridiculous human inventions I have ever observed. You take normal self-sufficient grass out, then reseed with some sort of crippled grass that needs constant fertilization and watering. To make things worse, you ma
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by gambler 8y ago
This is a problem likely caused by humans trying to manage too much in nature. Does it really sound reasonable to respond by taking over the working of even larger chunk of nature? I think a much more reasonable approach would be to scale d
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by gambler 8y ago
From what I'm reading, their initial algorithm doesn't use neural networks at all. It's something that resembles MCTS. I don't understand from the article, does their "robust" version just run on policy network
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by gambler 8y ago
The whole feature is clearly an afterthought. There are so many issues with it you're much better off getting another app that's designed for offline navigation.
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by gambler 8y ago
What stops GitHub from banning certain IPs from accessing their service?
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by gambler 8y ago
>The only way to address this point, with current technology and current standards, is to discontinue the webapp and force everybody to the native apps on desktop and mobile Browser extensions.

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