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by gnomewascool 6y ago
Hermes is also far more (?) obviously the Greek messenger of the gods, so any negative associations with an existing company (that AFAICT doesn't even deal with digital products) shouldn't be relevant.
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
The advantage of "to skype" is that it doesn't collide with an existing verb.
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
I've just tested and with Google hangouts, at the very least, switching off the camera in the hangouts UI results in the laptop green light being turned off. (With Facebook messenger, OTOH, turning off the camera in the UI does not cau
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
> So to be clear, the existing Firefox on Android which has broad extension support is going to be replaced with a version with less extension support? Probably not. By the time the switch for release (non-nightly/beta) Firefox come
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by gnomewascool 6y ago
It's not as convenient, but you can always scroll horizontally with shift.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
But Khan Academy is already providing immense value to students — actually now they're (arguably) providing 150% more value than normally. Hence, you're not being asked to "transact on hope and trust". The main differenc
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
That seems to be discouraged by the official python docs.[0] [0] https://docs.python.org/3/library/signal.html#note-on-sigpip...
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
You're right. I was wrong. Sorry! I had tested linking to specific comments in issue threads, which does work with JS disabled (unless I've completely messed up...), and assumed that linking to parts of documents, as less complex&
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> I'm looking at you Microsoft Github. Where don't anchors work when javascript is disabled? (With admittedly very brief testing just now, I couldn't find any such cases.)
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> Yes, you can host your own _Signal server and have your own singed apps but it will have to be your own _Signal network, not Moxie/Signal Foundation's Signal. I don't think that's quite true. You might[0] be discour
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Thank you for your post and for the fascinating (and terrifying) link. I have no idea why you're being down-voted. I was planning to suggest submitting the link as its own "story" but apparently it already was, two weeks ago.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> At some point, MrAlex94 will be made to compromise his principles. Except that at the point at which System1 crosses the line, MrAlex94 can fork the code (since it's all FOSS), create "Earthfox" (or whatever) and start a
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
According to RMS, in the link posted above: > The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the same range of programs. and he definitely doesn't claim that open source is proprietary.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
Firstly, just to clarify: I don't have a strong opinion on whether Britain is the most racist country in Europe. If you had to press me for an answer, it's probably about average, recently become slightly worse than average. I did
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> 1. Is the most racially diverse country in Europe I haven't been able to find any reliable statistics about this, and it probably depends on how you define "race". > 2. And which just elected a government with a histo
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> Do you have any numbers for this? It doesn't match my experiences at all. Sorry, no, purely "anecdata", mainly based on a variety of personal and family laptops and desktop computers. There have been occasional IT depar
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
The relatively common (?) experience that: 1. Running `sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade` is much, much faster than explicitly going to the windows update screen, checking for updates and then updating. 2. Linux OSs are usually st
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> Looking at the most voted option tells you what the majority thinks. No it doesn't. (At least not with the definition of "most voted option" that was used by gioele.) B would beat F in a one-to-one contest, so the majori
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> having Proposal F be above them all But Proposal F is very clearly NOT above them all. 207 people preferred B over F, while only 185 people preferred F over B. If F were above them all, it would be the Condorcet winner and hence woul
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> Unpopular opinion(?): Not that unpopular. (Partially tongue-in-cheek:) Select the doi, in this case on the left side of the first page, but usually present somewhere in the article, and paste it in a new tab. In this case: https:&#x2F
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
On geological time-scales (tens of millions of years) fossil fuels will be replenished. In fact the paper presents a speculative, putative mechanism by which an industrial civilisation may inadvertently help provide these resources for fu
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
The title is a bit click-baity, but I'm not sure whether it's sufficiently bad to "editorialise"[0] the title. The context is the French implementation of the EU copyright directive (the one that contained Articles &quot
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France proposes upload filter law, “forgets” user rights(juliareda.eu)
277 points by gnomewascool 7y ago|75 comments
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
This is just silly. Assuming their estimate of 16433 t of CO2 per year[0] is correct, a person sending one e-mail less per day, throughout the year, would reduce their annual carbon footprint by: 16433 / 60e6 / 10 * 100% = 0.0027%
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> I think Zotero started out as a Firefox extension, and when Firefox deprecated those in favor of the new-style WebExtensions they saw the writing on the wall and converted it to a standalone XUL application. To add a bit more detail &#
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
> Bah, I was wondering why it suddenly feels less snappy. Were you using Nightly? If not, then it's most probably unrelated.
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
I mostly agree with the substance and recommendations of the article, and greatly appreciate it. The following is just a quibble. > Let’s lay out the facts: China is conducting human rights violations on the largest scale the world has s
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
That's exactly what TextSecure (now Signal) used to do[0]. Since the code is open-source, somebody has forked the SMS code and apparently kept it alive[1]. (It's even on both F-Droid and Google Play.) [0] https://lwn.ne
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
In Firefox, in the menu (press Alt if it's not visible by default): View > Zoom > Zoom Text Only and then zoom in/out as you desire. The setting is unfortunately global, so you can't zoom in the page on some sites and z
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by gnomewascool 7y ago
I think that for a Vickrey auction, the worst that a malicious seller could do, by injecting "false" bids, is (assuming the number of items sold is n ), raise the price from the value of the n+1 th bid to just under the value of

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