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Does whether they're good or not actually have any bearing on the legality or morality of copying their work?
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Is that established law (in what jurisdiction?), or just your opinion?
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The Times also had one: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kathleen-booth-obituary-s...
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Curious - works for me (in several different browsers). (Note for any Googlers who happen to be watching: the full-screen timer display fails rather badly on my MacBook if the time is >= 10 minutes: the time wraps onto two lines and the
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Most of us have little idea how to go about hunting and gathering. And if we tried, we'd soon find out that there are far too many of us to subsist on what can be hunted and gathered around us. Soon enough, we'd be at each other&#
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> The ship's designer was Hein Jakobsson, the same master shipbuilder who completed Vasa. He realized that Vasa had the wrong proportions even before she was launched, which could lead to instability. And indeed, she tipped, founder
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I used to think the iPad was going to be the best way forward for my (non-technologically-inclined) father, now in his 90s. But in the end, the combination of the touch UI and his arthritic fingers just didn't work out. We ended up goi
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When I bought (UK) five years ago, I went for a 10-year fixed rate, which was the longest I could find. Currently very happy with that choice. Shorter fixes were available at slightly lower rates, but at this point I still have 5 years of 2
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The font also contains SVG glyphs, in addition to the COLRv1 versions, and that's what you're currently seeing in Firefox. Firefox 107 will introduce COLRv1 support, though at least as things stand now the SVG glyphs still take
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COLRv1 is also supported in Firefox 107 (currently in beta). (Though in this case, the fact that the font also contains SVG glyphs gets in the way. Setting gfx.font_rendering.opentype_svg.enabled to false in about:config lets you see the CO
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In principle, although the controls don't seem to be working for me at the moment (in either Firefox or Chrome). I guess it's a work-in-progress... (or maybe it's just me).
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I once fell for the fantasy of uploading ourselves. It’s a destructive vision(latimes.com)
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Not necessarily where you found it, but sounds like https://willamette.edu/law/resources/journals/wlo/ip/2014/04...
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Huh - the same author also has https://crates.io/crates/memap and memap2, which explicitly say that they're "squatting to prevent a malicious typo package". Not sure how to feel about this... on an indiv
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And was posted to HN last week, though only garnered a few comments at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33072030
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I had a Sony Xperia running FxOS as my (only) phone until this year, when it finally succumbed to its swelling battery. But I'll admit I am a fairly minimal phone user.
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A colleague and I also had the delight of visiting him, quite a few years ago now. I'd been doing some unusual stuff with TeX, and had been in touch and showed him some examples of our work. He had recently been working on 3:16 and s
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New destination sought for axed UK built Mars rover(bbc.co.uk)
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That article says "it is unclear when the Romans reset the course of the year so that January and February came first", but doesn't actually deny that the year formerly ended with February. See for example p.187 of https:&#x
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I hope all you horn players (or would-be players) are familiar with Flanders & Swann's take: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjA6bA1qtfQ
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Should we sanction such usages, or should they be sanctioned?
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Catching up with the light that left Earth 2000 years ago may be a challenge... you'll have to hurry! Unless someone has conveniently left a large mirror 1000 light-years away, so you can stay home and watch the reflection?
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All the way down, but sadly there appears to be an off-by-one line in the Credits and Thanks section. As a bonus challenge: fix the spelling of "missile" (mis-spelled as "missle" throughout, in 200+ occurrences), while m
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> a good junk of the west coast What a delightful turn of phrase!
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Some states tried that in the 1860s. It was traumatic.
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> Do people browse the internet with JavaScript disabled? Some people do (and you'll get a disproportionate number of them here), but unless yours is a niche product particularly aimed at such people, they're an insignificant n
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> Many of them who haven't yet told their employer that they now live 5+ different timezones away. In other words, there's probably a lot of tax evasion and fraud going on.
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There's support in Firefox Nightly, actually, if you enable the setting 'gfx.font_rendering.colr_v1.enabled' in about:config.
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> for some reason the fi ligature is huge compared to the rest of the text They're using the Unicode "presentation-forms" ligature character "ﬁ" in the text (which is not recommended: just spell the text normally
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As well as its style system.

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