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iSnow
11y ago
After the NATO encroachment on Russia, China will not bite.
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iSnow
11y ago
I really liked iTunes until version 9. After that, it is barely usable. As a seasoned Mac user, I have a hard time finding functions.
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iSnow
11y ago
Oh OK, but that's a solved problem.
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iSnow
11y ago
Trying to enforce a proxy (shaving as a sign for a not over-stressed platoon) instead of tacking real issues is exactly the kind of thinking that makes working in enterprise so tedious. I'd rather spend my time with soldiers practicing
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iSnow
11y ago
Seriously? Some people either have a really weak mental model of a language or want to see problems where there are none. With the same right one could argue that {} can't be used for generics etc. since most people also have to write
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iSnow
11y ago
Well, the industry asked the question and then left the DESERTEC consortium.
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iSnow
11y ago
Sure, but as of now, there is no positive indication they are extraterrestrial. They fit into the species cladogram, they don't seem to suddenly appear as a time anomaly, they just seem like extremely tough little guys.
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iSnow
11y ago
Dick trumps brain, nothing surprising there.
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iSnow
11y ago
40%, it's in the linked Wikipedia article.
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iSnow
11y ago
"What are you even talking about, Bitcoin? And what's the big deal about the $0.5 you got there?" :)
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iSnow
11y ago
I know. But PHP took off because they were mixing code and HTML, not despite of it. Same same, but different, I guess.
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iSnow
11y ago
That comment reeks of sour grapes.
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iSnow
11y ago
>There's no way to detect a block at that level Huh, how hard would it be to check via JS if a layer ad really was shown?
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iSnow
11y ago
It boggles the mind. At the same time, their browser market share is eaten by Chrome now and probably MS Edge starting next year or so. But it typical enterprise lingo, they "pivot" a dead project into something that continues eat
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iSnow
11y ago
I doubt brain volume shrinkage in itself is alarming - it could well be a physical effect from the shaking or something akin to dehydration (I know the brain is suspended in liquor). Assessing the cognitive capabilities before and after wou
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iSnow
11y ago
It's a browser shell which has been doing ad blocking for over a year, so it would probably do it's own thing.
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iSnow
11y ago
>Apple has chosen to make content blocking unavailable to third party browsers on iOS. Someone has some context to this? I am using Ad-Blocker Browser on iOS and it blocks ads just fine.
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iSnow
11y ago
Really love your posts, geeking it to the extremes about a strange and rare problem. thanks :)
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iSnow
11y ago
What's extremely infuriating is that I disable smooth scrolling where possible only to get it shoved down my throat by various sites. Which web designer comes to the conclusion that overriding a platform-wide choice is a great idea? T
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iSnow
11y ago
Bit over the top maybe? He's not invoking some license clauses, he is stating his opinion, free speech and all that...
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iSnow
11y ago
I believe it also was a weapons test on real targets, that's why the bombs were dropped over two major cities, not over the sea in the vicinity of Tokyo.
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iSnow
11y ago
Well, more people flee Syria because of Assad than because of Da'esh.
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iSnow
11y ago
uBlock works wonders there.
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iSnow
11y ago
The kids today - know nothing about resource forks. Probably have never seen ResEdit either. How do you even build applications?
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iSnow
11y ago
>every card set we have rendered as a pngcrushed png (except for the absolute largest size) is a smaller than the SVG source code. Considering SVG is XML and PNG is binary, I am not totally surprised. Does that still hold after gzip comp
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iSnow
11y ago
The last time I wrote a longish mail why we should at least pour _some_ resources into this, my superior (who straddles technical and managerial role and is responsible for budget oversight) answered: "Thanks for bringing this topic up
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iSnow
11y ago
>simply because developers "don't like" or rather can be bothered with the wrestling matches needed In all fairness, I'd say it's more like web application security is a huge field (larger than just SQLi) and a d
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iSnow
11y ago
Considering my first 16 Bit computer had 3MB RAM and ran MS Word alongside a GUI, I am wary to say "Amount X of RAM is preposterous for a given task". As long as Moore's law provides enough lift under our wings, RAM usage is
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iSnow
11y ago
>and in the flight logs they can see the cause clearly I know it's a joke, but still: the in-flight entertainment system doesn't log to the flight data recorder.
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iSnow
11y ago
>devs pushed fixes mid-flight They don't say they updated the flying server midflight, though: "An issue was spotted mid-flight, discussed over Slack with Yle (located in Helsinki) and fixed immediately. The fix was visible whi
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