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by jfk13 5y ago
It's clear that some people would rather jump at any opportunity to smear Mozilla and stoke outrage than engage in serious discussion. For those who actually want to understand the feature, and its implications for privacy and data sha
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I get "how to dispose of a broken tv", and "best place to buy a used car". And your point was...?
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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin: Allegations of safety issues at company(bbc.co.uk)
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> It's possible to get within a few feet of the bears IF you're with a licensed guide (who has a rifle). So.... that sounds like the idea is that you get to push the boundaries of the bear's personal space; and if you cros
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> Almost all combining rules (including skin tone modifiers) require a zero-width joiner character No, the skin tone modifiers apply directly to eligible person emojis; no ZWJ is involved. (Unless other modifiers that require ZWJ are a
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That sounds like a failure on the part of whatever authority licensed the scaffolding work. Picking one from a quick search: Greenwich, for example, says that "Noisy work is prohibited on Sundays and bank holidays", and explicitly
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I see you haven't lived in a mega-city like Karachi. When I lived there (some years ago, admittedly, but I don't believe things have improved much) we were lucky to get mains water for a few hours a couple of times a week at some
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by jfk13 5y ago
The more basic issue seems to be that (many) people are toxic. If not always, to everyone, at least some of the time, towards some other people. The problem with social media, then, is that it allows -- indeed encourages , because "
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Yes, indeed. I do choose to run Edge sometimes, but the constant attempts to push or trick me into making it the default are really grating.
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I take it that's a reference to the classic Onion report: https://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/clinton-deploys-v...
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> I think we need to invest much more into adversarial machine learning That just becomes an ever-escalating arms race. We need to invest in political and social systems that regulate the use of technology, not imagine that we'll ov
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As a (satisfied) Bosch dishwasher owner, I don't recognise this description. Offhand I can't even remember when I last cleaned the filter. Meanwhile, it just keeps working.
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Though you can learn just enough perl to do awk-like things fairly easily. And then grow from there as needed.
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> '' aka (U+F8FF) In passing: Many HN readers on non-Apple platforms probably don't see the glyph you intended in this comment. The Apple logo does not exist as a character in the Unicode standard. U+F8FF is a Private Us
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Traditionally, we'd just have called that a dingbat. (See U+261E, in the long-established Dingbats block of Unicode.)
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Another small detail: don't use a hyphen as punctuation in cases like > let’s move on - what happens ... It looks rather lost and lonely, floating there between the parts of the sentence. What you want here is an em dash —like this
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by jfk13 5y ago
I think it's true to say it is a "risky choice for legibility". If (as you say) it "renders poorly on Windows, especially in Chrome/Edge", that means the great majority of website visitors are going to see poor
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by jfk13 5y ago
Yes — the feeling it gives me is of looking at those glossy magazines where nobody really expects to read the articles, it's all about the pictures and the overall shiny appearance. The eye just glides over the surface, never quite c
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by jfk13 5y ago
Also worth noting that when a bank operates under multiple names, such as First Direct (part of HSBC) or Cahoot (a division of Santander), the cover applies to your total balance across all accounts, regardless of the name. So it's wor
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by jfk13 5y ago
Just a note in passing: Unicode doesn't name glyphs; it names characters.
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In case you haven't seen it, https://englishatlc.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/randall-munr...
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> inadvertently introducing Not always inadvertently, perhaps: https://www.history.com/news/colonists-native-americans-smal... Although that article says that "there’s only one clearly documented instance of a
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Hey, San Serriffe is not to be taken lightly. It even has a central bank; you can check the current balances here: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/boss.html
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They can still kill you. https://blogs.bcm.edu/2019/12/31/what-goes-up-must-come-down... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5912041/
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by jfk13 5y ago
I often sprinkle print statements around, but would also like to point out https://rr-project.org , which takes gdb-level debugging to a whole new level. E.g. you hit an assertion in your code because some value was outside the e
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It depends on the other party's phone habits. We don't all carry them everywhere or check them constantly. If you call me, I'll probably hear the phone ring, and can either answer it or check for a message, whereas if you sen
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I'm not sure we can yet say with any confidence that "somehow we paid for it ok". The medium- to long-term consequences remain to be worked out....
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Doesn't seem like there's any compelling reason to use a webfont at all for this; the default sans-serif would be fine. Or you could use a font-family list that includes a few specific Windows and Mac fonts that you like, with the
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Although if you're fooled, and find out later, I think there's a strong human tendency to re-write the internal narrative.... "Really, I could kind of tell all along." In which case it's not so clear how you'd
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No doubt this is to some extent a question of personal taste. For me, although the Chaunsa mentioned in the article is among the best, nothing beats a beautifully ripe Sindhri mango. I lived in that region for a while, and the all-too-short

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