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by jfk13 5y ago
Plenty of capitalists have been guilty of playing fast and loose with safety and quality in order to increase profits... as long as revenue (and the share price) is heading upwards, who cares? shrug
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by jfk13 5y ago
Two weeks ago you said: > Sorry to repost. This was up for 20 mins last week then got taken down by the moderators (I think because there was a waitlist). We've removed the waitlist and would be grateful for feedback. But it looks l
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by jfk13 5y ago
> ending distribution of a copyrighted work That's not what the article was about, as I understand it; the music concerned is generally still being distributed in its own right, but the show's license was for a limited period (
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Why Don’t Some TV Shows Sound the Way They Used To?(nytimes.com)
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by jfk13 5y ago
Likewise. My wife now wears my late mother's wedding ring, after we had it remade to fit her. (Resizing was non-trivial, as it is not a simple circle.) It's not hugely valuable, but it has a unique character and history. (Added tw
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by jfk13 5y ago
I suppose it depends on the speaker, but I wouldn't generally describe the examples I've seen as "a pretty good job". Seems to me there's a long way to go...
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by jfk13 5y ago
> I'm OK with using dark patterns for a certain projects when it comes to pricing You're right, it's an unpopular opinion. If you're in a niche where you have to use dark patterns to survive, grow a conscience and fin
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by jfk13 5y ago
> Don't develop with nonfree software and tools. Don't try to dictate to others how they should work, as though you're some kind of oracle on the topic. I'll decide (together with my employer, when appropriate) what s
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by jfk13 5y ago
The Albert Bridge in London even has signs to remind soldiers to break step: https://www.londonremembers.com/memorials/albert-bridge-troo...
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by jfk13 5y ago
Yes - many years ago when I lived and worked in South Asia, it was common knowledge that swishing a lump of alum around in your bucket of dirty water would help to settle the sediment. Obviously it doesn't provide total purity, but it
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by jfk13 6y ago
> has also started to ban sales of it entirely based on birth year (2004 and forward) "has started to" may not be quite correct; it sounds to me like this is a proposal that is being considered.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I can't help suspecting this says something about the quality of cheese your local place uses.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Why can't text be illegal? There's plenty of precedent for text being censored, at various times and in various places. It just depends what laws any given society chooses to have.
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by jfk13 6y ago
Agree entirely. I dropped my subscription around the same time as you, by the sound of it.
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Fortunately for me, Grammarly has so alienated me with its relentless, irritating ads that there is no possibility that I will ever install it.
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by jfk13 6y ago
I don't see why you'd think font:menu is appropriate for the general body of web content. Menus are a UI element that normally contain just a few isolated words or very short phrases. Recognizing words in such a context is not the
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by jfk13 6y ago
> font:menu;font-size:1.125em; As a default for otherwise-unstyled content, it's not very user-friendly to override the user's default font and size preferences. The browser lets me decide how I'd like unstyled text t
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by jfk13 6y ago
Purely anecdotal, obviously, but I had my first dose of AZ about a month ago. Didn't notice any particular side effects. (I hope this doesn't mean it was less effective!) Remains to be seen how my system will deal with the second
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by jfk13 6y ago
> But the whole challenge will eventually become nullified when every single road sign, landmark, and the road itself are tagged internally with metadata Including every pothole, pedestrian, stray deer, abandoned shopping cart and fallen
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by jfk13 6y ago
> completely flaunting the laws I think you meant "flouting".
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by jfk13 6y ago
It's something of an aside, and no doubt a losing battle, but I wish we'd stop (ab)using the term "ride-sharing" for services like Uber and Lyft. Ride-sharing is when I'm intending to drive somewhere, have spare cap
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by jfk13 6y ago
As far as I can see, that's not what this does. The SVG this creates simply includes the emoji codepoint as a text element with a large font size. So what the user sees will still be entirely dependent on their local font. If you want
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by jfk13 6y ago
It wasn't written to be simply and solely a scientific work; and it's hardly surprising that over the intervening 60 years, things haven't followed exactly all the scenarios it suggested. That doesn't alter the fact that
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by jfk13 6y ago
That's not the only use of SIMD in the crate (e.g. see https://github.com/hsivonen/encoding_rs/blob/e98a2096ab09c92... ), but I haven't looked into exactly where/how it's used further.
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by jfk13 6y ago
So some people claim. Our understanding of ecosystems is so superficial that this looks like a pretty big gamble to take.
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by jfk13 6y ago
The environmental impact of widespread DDT use is pretty devastating. http://www.rachelcarson.org/SilentSpring.aspx
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by jfk13 6y ago
May be worth mentioning that the article documenting malarone-resistant malaria is virtually 20 years old already. As far as I'm aware, the problem of drug-resistant malaria hasn't been getting better...
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by jfk13 6y ago
https://www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/about-us/law-historic-govern... might be helpful?
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by jfk13 6y ago
Also discussed at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26889677 .
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by jfk13 6y ago
And is overrun with spammy ads. Yuck.

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