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by gnud 7y ago
Isn't this basically false advertising?
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by gnud 7y ago
Everyone knows (or should know) Opera is adware/malware now, after the ownership changed. If you liked Opera, try Vivaldi. It's made by some ex-opera people, reminds me of good old Opera 6.
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by gnud 7y ago
Mercurial was a bit slow in the first years. It's still probably slower for huge repos (I havn't checked), but I doubt it will bother you much nowadays. I used Hg before Git professionally, because when they were both new, Hg had
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by gnud 7y ago
If you cover an area with trees that is today not covered with trees, that area will absorb CO2 from the atomsphere. Even if the trees die or are cut down, as long as new ones are allowed to grow, that area will absorb roughly constant amou
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by gnud 7y ago
Which HTML 5 spec is that exactly? HTML 5 is a "living standard", which is a horrible idea for documents that might be archived for 10 years, like email. Note, I'm not condoning the status quo, but let's think about what
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by gnud 7y ago
The alternative would have been opt-in instead of opt-out. Everything excluded by default, except what robots.txt allows you to index. Naturally, Google didn't want that.
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by gnud 7y ago
Those two in-house programmers would never get the time to do this. They would be swallowed in various maintenance task on the other 500 custom systems the state owns. (from experience in the private sector)
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by gnud 7y ago
What does Vivaldi do that you don't like? They have a new "abusive ads" filter, but other than that I'm not aware they do anything, and you can run uBlock origin from the Chrome store just fine.
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by gnud 7y ago
I'd stay away from Opera. If you don't like Firefox, try Vivaldi instead - feels like "old" Opera, made by the same people, mostly.
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by gnud 7y ago
DST was introduced in most countries during WW1 and/or WW2, to save fuel [1]. It _might_ be the case that golfers are the ones arguing to keep DST now, I havn't really noticed. 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by gnud 7y ago
Agreed - I thought this looked pretty reasonable, if a bit parenthesis-heavy, until I saw this example: func printSum(a, b string) error { fmt.Println( "result:", try(strconv.Atoi(a))
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by gnud 7y ago
I've had this problem on Facebook. I've reported some ads for various (relatively benign) scams for herbals and the like, that use a famous newspaper as 'their url', when they have nothing to do with it. Facebook closed
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by gnud 7y ago
It seems fitting that I had to enable reader mode to be able to read a blog post about UX cliches.
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by gnud 7y ago
Vivaldi is only slightly more closed source than Chrome. Anyway, used to be Firefox had a lot more going for it than being open source. Now that's really the only thing left I can think of.
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by gnud 7y ago
I'm not gonna bother with 'studies' or manual workaround - I'm just going to wait for an update. In the meantime I'm enjoying trying out Vivaldi[1] - really reminds me of opera 3/4, that I loved. 1: https:&#x2
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by gnud 7y ago
Some of the idea behind programs like affirmative action is that because of race/class/gender, some people score lower on various exams than they could. They were not given equal opportunities - and so to judge them equally during
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by gnud 7y ago
Prometheus, who made humans from clay, and them gave humans fire because he felt compassion for them. So, named after nothing less than the creator of humans and origin of civilization. PS: As a punishment for giving fire to humans, Promet
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by gnud 8y ago
In primary school, we learned to look 'left, then right, then left again' before crossing. This is really muscle memory for me now. That would have to be reversed in a country with left-side driving.
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by gnud 8y ago
This is really not a new fight. It used to be tabloids vs "real" news - I'm not sure how different today's online battle is. Except for some reason, most of the "real" news are becoming tabloids when moving onl
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by gnud 8y ago
Advertising helps the advertiser if it results in a sale - it doesn't matter if the sale helps the viewer. If the ad results in the viewer getting an eating disorder, for example, that's fine for the advertiser if it also results
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by gnud 8y ago
Hurray! The labour party (finally) voted against drilling for oil outside Lofoten, Vesterålen and Senja, in the very north of Norway, near to or above the arctic circle. This has been a long fight for the enviromental lobby. But really, it
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by gnud 8y ago
The articles says that since the valve was redisigned, there has been no more accidents. I think the point here was to show how Boeing has responded to issues in the past.
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by gnud 8y ago
I think it's not only moral indignation. It's a feeling that fines are not working. Since fines are not working, maybe prison would. If you make the fine large enough to actually matter, it would probably affect people working at
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by gnud 8y ago
Most cookie warnings are beyond useless, in that they don't even try to actually comply with the GDPR. The fact that your site uses cookies is irrelevant, and there's no need to tell anyone. However! If your site stores personal i
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by gnud 8y ago
If anyone believed that, they did not research more than 10 minutes. This comes up in _every_ discussion about GDPR. I honestly worry - are we as developers just extra stupid, or are other occupations (electricians, ship captains, architect
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by gnud 8y ago
Tidal apparently inflated the play numbers of their owners - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17028313 .
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by gnud 8y ago
Fastmail has a nice (and snappy) web interface. So you don't _need_ to set up a desktop client, unless you want to.
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by gnud 8y ago
Live changes are hard because they requires precise planning, and must often be done in several steps. Imagine you're extracting some data to a new table in order to support 1:N instead of 1:1 of something. For example, introducing an
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by gnud 8y ago
What is actually a tech failure, is assuming I understand Spanish if I happen to be in Spain. That sort of ham-handed, short-sighted approach drives me nuts. You only need "fiddling with language settings" if you want something ot
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by gnud 8y ago
So, I can understand those who argue for ad-supported websites, and against ad-blockers. But can anyone honestly claim that putting an invisible 'sponsored' on non-sponsored posts is ethically OK? Can't we all agree that ads

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