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by joelanman 2y ago
interesting, why is this?
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Floating Point Math(0.30000000000000004.com)
8 points by joelanman 2y ago|1 comments
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by joelanman 2y ago
I still find Gemma 2 9b to be better than Llama 3.1 8b often
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by joelanman 2y ago
huh! I'm wrong! I found this easier to understand https://taxscouts.com/high-earner-tax-returns/60-tax-what-to...
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by joelanman 2y ago
yeh that's wrong, its 40% on everything between £50,271 to £125,140, and 45% on everything above that https://www.gov.uk/income-tax-rates
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by joelanman 2y ago
see also: https://www.deceptive.design/types
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by joelanman 2y ago
the problem is data created by the user can easily contain personal data
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by joelanman 2y ago
so if you wrote a book in Google docs, Google should have just as much right to it as you? Or Microsoft should have just as much right to the app you write in VS Code?
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Postgres accepts 'tru' and 'fals' for boolean values(github.com)
1 points by joelanman 2y ago|4 comments
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'Meridian': Why Netflix Is Helping Competitors with Content and Code (2016)(variety.com)
39 points by joelanman 2y ago|4 comments
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by joelanman 2y ago
Each person would ask a question on their mic, they're not using one shared laptop
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by joelanman 2y ago
also it's not named horizontal and vertical because it depends on the direction of the text - some text reads vertically
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by joelanman 2y ago
'protected' how?
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by joelanman 3y ago
it's also possible they had very limited vision and used very high magnification, where indentation might be actively unhelpful since you'd just see lots of blank space at times
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by joelanman 3y ago
I always think this should be an incident in itself - why did our status page not reflect the reality of a degraded service? It's so common that they don't, and something user-driven like DownDetector is often more reliable
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by joelanman 3y ago
I used the page title as per the guidance, but clearly its not very helpful. This is actually an important piece about Google search: > It’s been over a year since I last told you to just buy a Brother laser printer, and that article has
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Best printer 2024, best printer for home use, office use, printing labels(theverge.com)
31 points by joelanman 3y ago|7 comments
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by joelanman 3y ago
Yeah it is ableist, it's hard to imagine a game making fun of any other illness or disorder these days.
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by joelanman 3y ago
this wouldn't be accessible would it? For example to screen readers, so just wondering what the use case is over accessible tech
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by joelanman 3y ago
traditionally, lack of accessibility has unfortunately not held back people's use of tech, see Flash and most SPAs
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by joelanman 3y ago
that would be nice but when Apple dropped Flash it was Flash that died
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by joelanman 3y ago
Not the same, but some similar modern games: - Pikmin - Zombie Night Terror - Humanity
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by joelanman 3y ago
A related old art project: Making a toaster from scratch by Thomas Thwaites https://www.dezeen.com/2009/06/27/the-toaster-project-by-tho...
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by joelanman 3y ago
Penpot is too https://youtu.be/r-USvt_p46g
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by joelanman 3y ago
I use Elk Mastodon client - being able to install it as a PWA is great - I get a nice icon on my mobile screen same as any other app, and it runs full screen without an address bar. I can switch between it and other apps, I don't see t
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by joelanman 3y ago
Gmail has recently become extremely slow for me in Safari on a well specced M1 max
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by joelanman 3y ago
People who need to zoom in a lot in order to use it. In practice this gives you a small screen view. It's a WCAG requirement
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by joelanman 3y ago
You're right! Mistake on my part
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Twitter owes ex-employees $500M in severance(theguardian.com)
5 points by joelanman 3y ago|0 comments
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by joelanman 3y ago
They very much killed the golden goose. It's a real failure to think in terms of systems. Google relies on a healthy open web, yet as arguably the biggest single influencer of the web it has completely failed to maintain that let alone

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