hypertele-Xii

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1711.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Free exchange among peoples is alive and well. It is easier today to make a website and share anything than it has ever been in the history of civilization. All this is is the reining in of a few greedy corporations that offer information-s
1712.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
> Companies with over 45 million EU users would be designated as digital "gatekeepers" — making them subject to stricter regulations. Do "shadow profiles" of people who never registered but have data collected on them
1713.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Which is why I was delighted to discover True Gum [1] at my local organic food market. It's plastic-free chewing gum. [1] https://truegum.com/
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by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
What you describe is a lack of a designer/architect in the loop. Devs are supposed to implement what is requested, as requested. Designers and architects are supposed to figure out what to request to the devs, based on the customers&
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by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Eye, Wikipedia: "Eyes detect light and convert it into electro-chemical impulses in neurons." When your eyes detect light, they have to do work. Electricity and chemicals are expended and recycled to pass the information on to you
1716.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Blasting white light into your eyes from every pixel that isn't information is totally backwards and stupid. Light up that which represents something, not the background. Can you imagine what life on Earth would be like if the cosmic
1717.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
An additional micro-optimization you can do is strip the excess whitespace from the output HTML. I'm seeing tabulation spaces and useless linebreaks there between tags.
1718.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
I discovered Philip Glass' music through the movie Koyaanisqatsi, which I heartily recommend. If you haven't seen it, go into it without expectations of what a movie is supposed to be like; it's weird.
1719.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Paid actor.
1720.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Some pieces do, like minifig hands on poles. The iconic bricks friction fit though.
1721.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
I saw an ad for a pair of generic, gray college pants, costing 80 bucks new. What kind of a person pays 80 bucks for a shitty pair of pants for lounging at home, when second hand markets have a huge selection for a fraction of the price?
1722.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
It's only faster on the first load. On all subsequent loads its slower and consumes more bandwidth. I find this irresponsible.
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by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
The privatized electric grid companies were granted permission to raise prices for funding grid expansion. A later audit discovered that they pocketed 90% of the raise. (the expansion cost only 10%) Even closer than the hydro dam there&#x27
1724.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
I live in Finland next to a hydroelectric dam. Electricity is, at worst, like 200 bucks a month. More than half the cost is transport. The dam is less than 15km out. What a ripoff. Privatizing the electric grid would make electricity cheape
1725.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
It's possible to create a secure scheme that is still a scam. What guarantees do we have that the developers/maintainers won't push changes to their own benefit? Presumably they already have given themselves a bunch of starti
1726.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
I certainly trust world governments more than some random Internet community. Who's to say the whole thing isn't a scam? Has this tech been independently audited?
1727.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Cross-platform development testing. Allows developing Android apps in Windows environment?
1728.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Blended fruit provide fiber along with their sugar content which... decreases their glycemic index or whatever. (the sugar is less bad)
1729.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
I don't think that's right. There is absolutely no way that a SNES can, with just "a bit more memory", perform the same computation as a Silicon Graphics workstation of the time. That's like saying you could write a
1730.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Maybe "foobar" should evaluate to NaN.
1731.
by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
The web made sharing information easy. That's it. That's all it did. Without the web, if I wanted to share information with you, I'd have to learn C, OS native GUI libraries, TCP/IP, and probably a bunch of other stuff i
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by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
Especially in Finland with a single government-run train company that routinely makes announcements like "the trains are late because we didn't anticipate it raining snow". In winter . In Finland . Try Japan. Trains run on
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by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
I went the extra mile and create a random, unique email address for every single service I sign up for, so I know precisely who sells my data to spammers if I ever get any. All the unique addresses redirect to a central one for ease of acce
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by hypertele-Xii 6y ago
The games industry no longer designs games; They scientifically engineer games to be as addictive and profitable as possible. This process is oblivious to any concept of "fun". Just another thing obsessive capitalism ruins. Fortun