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by gkya 8y ago
Photographs can be scaled and compressed. The source of most megabytes visiting a website eats is the stylesheets and the JS the site itself loads, and then what these in turn load from third parties for tracking, analytics, ads, &c, a
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by gkya 8y ago
Isn't this what uBlock Origin's dynamic mode do?
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by gkya 8y ago
It's not "software" in that it's not something I choose to use. It's firmware, which is code that I have to use. Also, even if you do not agree with the above statement, the kernel is unique enough to be granted an
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by gkya 8y ago
I love Guix and GuixSD and would like to move to it as my main OS, but I dislike that they actively censor information on how to run a custom kernel and get set up on a machine where some drivers linux-libre removes are required. I underst
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by gkya 8y ago
I started enjoying Reddit when I unsubscribed from all subreddits, i.e. having 0 subscriptions. What I did instead was to group all of them in various private multireddits inspired by USENET, so I have comp, emacs, langlearn, laugh, etc.
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by gkya 8y ago
I have multiple ~10 line POSIX shell scripts in my dotfiles. I also have a bunch each of Perl and Python ones [1]. I'd rather not rewrite my shell scripts with neither of that languages, or Ruby (which I like and use a bit). When scr
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by gkya 8y ago
I use Ublock origin w/ dynamic blocking (i.e. I decide for each site the domains they can load stuff from), and only enable a handful domains to load only first party JS (or some trustable 3rd party for a couple web sites), so I don&#x
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by gkya 8y ago
Youtube wants me to concede too much JS execution on too many domains (I block strictly), or else I can not skip the ads. It becomes a huge annoyance when I'm watching my favourite TV show that's also uploaded to YT and I have th
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by gkya 8y ago
I was using Qutebrowser since some months because I had some problems with how Firefox causing data loss, but I had to go back to Firefox recently because Qutebrowser is too slow and memory-consuming w/ many tabs open, even if suspende
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How much do patents matter to innovation?(blog.oup.com)
1 points by gkya 8y ago|0 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
Responding to both of your comments here: It seems to me that generally we agree. But I want to clarify one bit: I don't advocate a monocultural/monolingual life. English is my L2, I also have an L3, and more a coming. My main
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by gkya 8y ago
This is human zoo. We see that culture, and our approach to certain instances of it is inherently oppressive. We had cultures similar to that of the indigenous peoples' back in the old world until relatively recently. But because we
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by gkya 8y ago
In the modern age Latin script, the only acceptable ligature is "fi" in a proportional type, because the top curve of the F usually comes very close to the dot of the I already. For the rest, they're totally useless because
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by gkya 8y ago
I don't use staticaly typed languages (nowadays I'm trying Dart though, for Flutter). My main languages are Elisp, Perl, Python and Ruby. And some Posix shell. I'm a fan of Lisp. WRT keyword, I think that's a bug, not
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by gkya 8y ago
Your comment is totally wrong. Any package that's more than a quick hack has inline documentation in a ;;; Commentary: blog, docstrings for all public variables and functions, and customisation options for setting variables with an in
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by gkya 8y ago
I'm a person without disabilities, rather slender fingers and quite some savvy w/ computers and I have difficult time not tapping stuff by mistake, not sloppily fat-thumbing stuff when I didn't even mean tapping anything or a
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by gkya 8y ago
It's not really clear to me what you mean with "scale" here. Are you referring to the scale of a program, i.e. size in LoC and/or complexity of components, or to the scale of a team of developers, i.e. the number of per
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by gkya 8y ago
> it's only when you're abusing the language (or making mistakes) that you run into this kind of stuff. Not really. My experience has been that most of the time the docstrings leave a lot of guesswork to be done when deciding
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by gkya 8y ago
That implementation for "keyword" is simply horrible. If it's correct that most errors caused by bad input to functions come not from verification but from an arbitrary place in code where a type-specific operation is applie
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by gkya 8y ago
> its perfectly possible to write a one file/ten loc Django app Examples: http://olifante.blogs.com/covil/2010/04/minimal-django.html https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1297873&#
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Introduction to the European Union Public License(joinup.ec.europa.eu)
3 points by gkya 8y ago|1 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
I have three news/link sources: HN/Reddit, RSS feeds, email newsletters. I browse stuff on HN/Reddit, speed read stories if I ever go past the comments (I'm mostly here for the comments, which are almost always more int
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by gkya 8y ago
Thanks!
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by gkya 8y ago
Identity could be personal. I think on this matter quite often. It would be off-topic to ponder on this at length here, but I can summarise saying: I think categories and identity are different, and tye former takes away from the latter,
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Hodder and Staughton bullies community-funded Language Transfer over patent(patreon.com)
1 points by gkya 8y ago|0 comments
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by gkya 8y ago
> Apparently this is now the new normal in Turkey. Let's word it better: it's the normal a tirannical government is imposing and its unqualified conformist officers are implementing.
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by gkya 8y ago
BS. Why do we chop time up in random 100 year periods? Oh because it helps us distance ourselves from the original fascism and it's Aryan bastard! But it doesn't work, it's recent even if you append an I to the XX. Turkey
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by gkya 8y ago
Oh, actually the story itself was flagkilled, not your comment. I contacted to unkill it. Sorry for the misunderstanding :) In your second comment you go a bit too far. Yeah feminism has a problem with accepting criticism and with extrem
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by gkya 8y ago
Removing Gulen and the like from the education system was long overdue, as they are a political org with an agenda, butbthe purges went too extreme. I have heard stories where people cant find decent jobs because the read at a Gulen lycee,
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by gkya 8y ago
I dont want to be men and women, I want to be persons. I want us to transcend all the categories. We dont work to be happy. We work to earn money. Also, women are not baby factories. Just like we are not sperm dispensers.

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