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by hk__2 5y ago
If you reverse-search the second image you can find a 2018 article that gives a bit more detail [1]. It does describe the Pasig River as "Manila's most important and heavily polluted waterways". [1]: https://www.da
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by hk__2 5y ago
The pocket drone needs a way to know where you are in order to direct the camera at you and come back at the end. Right now they do so by pairing the drone with your phone (I guess using Bluetooth).
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by hk__2 5y ago
I think there’s a misunderstanding here: anonymous means you can’t know who wrote what, which does enable extreme voices. What you’re talking about is pseudonymous speech. Assuming people don’t use multiple accounts and don’t share accounts
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by hk__2 5y ago
How would you prevent abuse of the downvoting button? Any serious feature proposal should explain how it’s useful but also how its abuse would have limited effects. > More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/du
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by hk__2 5y ago
I think the value in that thread is the "you need to experience moderation at scale to really understand what it's like".
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by hk__2 5y ago
Exactly. Most moderation cases on the French Wikipedia are 100% transparent but people still argue about the decisions, complain that the admins are biased in favor of whatever political side, and continue doing bad behavior that they'
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by hk__2 5y ago
I don't want to sound dismissive, but that's the naive answer. Transparency may make it easier to understand for the 95% easy cases, but doesn't help for the rest and may even be counterproductive. Think about shadow-banning
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by hk__2 5y ago
> Optional verification check marks for anyone who wants them. Throw out the Blue Check status symbol Those are not mutually exclusive. I may be interested to know that @emmanuelmacron and @emmanuel_macron are both real persons but I’d a
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by hk__2 5y ago
> they're often overkill Can you explain why? I never wants my Mac to sleep except when I close the lid. Amphetamine does the job; it starts at boot and I don’t have to care about it at all.
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by hk__2 5y ago
What’s your use-case? I have no issue with Docker perf on macOS …because I don’t have anything Docker-based that’s perf-intensive.
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by hk__2 5y ago
Are there some readers that do some content curation for you on top of your subscriptions ? The biggest issue I had with RSS (besides content discovery) is that some people blog multiple times a week while others only once in a while. I wo
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by hk__2 5y ago
> If a project is made private, I still want to have the star in my account list You can’t star a private project, so by definition you can’t "keep" a star on a project that went from public to private. That’s not bad design, t
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by hk__2 5y ago
> Even better, flipping "public/private" has absolutely no need to delete any information at all. Of course it does. You can’t watch/star a private repo unless you have access, so all watchers/starrers should be
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by hk__2 5y ago
> Is this the "ratio" I hear people talk about? Yes.
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Why Fruit Has a Fake Wax Coating (2017)(theatlantic.com)
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by hk__2 5y ago
Yes; personally I’d rather have a type=search to have the semantics and then apply CSS on it, rather than a type=text with no semantic meaning at all that’s modified to behave like a type=search.
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by hk__2 5y ago
Note that instead of using an input type=text and enterkeyhint=search, you can use input type=search.
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by hk__2 5y ago
> Serious question: do you ask other vendors (Google, Amazon, Wapo, whoever) you use about HR and internal budgeting choices before deciding to do business with them? It’s a very common question when you give money to a non-profit, which
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by hk__2 5y ago
`man` is when you know the command but don’t remember how to use it. When you don’t know/remember the command things get harder.
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by hk__2 5y ago
> If you don't remember the command you need to use, how can you be sure it is the correct command and options before you run it? It asks you for confirmation before running it.
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by hk__2 5y ago
Looks nice; how does it work under the hood? It looks like it needs an API key, so does that mean it sends all my inputs to some server? Does it taylor the answer based on your OS, like using Hombrew on Mac and apt on Ubuntu? Can it work of
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by hk__2 5y ago
Spotify "radios" (playlists that are generated on-the-fly once the thing you were listening to ended), recommendations (Spotify’s weekly playlists) and top 50 <country> playlists, browsing the "similar artists" tab
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by hk__2 5y ago
According to Last.fm I’ve listened to 156k songs from 16k artists (35k albums) over a little less than 10 years. Last time I bought music it was on iTunes and the lowest price was €0.79 per song. That would be a total of €123k. Over the sam
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by hk__2 5y ago
Was this flagged? It was #1 on the homepage a few minutes ago, and now it doesn’t appear on the homepage anymore.
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by hk__2 5y ago
Thank you; GP added quotes around "reading the news" so it’s clearer now.
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by hk__2 5y ago
> In 2014 India ranked 85th out of 175 countries in Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, compared to its neighbors Bhutan (30th), Bangladesh (145th), Myanmar (156th), China (100th), Nepal (126th), Pakistan (126th) a
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by hk__2 5y ago
Those are 5 top headlines from various sources. They may or may not include the top 5 headlines you need to start the day with. To get them, you’d need some work of curation, either by AI or (probably better) by humans. I’d rather suggest
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by hk__2 5y ago
> The problem is not reading the news. Why is it a problem? I’ve lived years without reading any news and it had no negative impact on my life that I know of. Nowadays I read news only because I used them as a way to learn Italian, but t
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by hk__2 5y ago
> Yes. Any email service should allow it, as it's standardized and very old. As far as I know it’s not standardized at all; it’s not in the SMTP spec. It’s actually annoying that some people assume this is standard because they can
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by hk__2 5y ago
> I rarely see websites that actually make use of `:visited` style as intended Some well-known websites do it, such as Google and Wikipedia.

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