jonathanlydall

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British man charged in Singapore two years after alleged theft at airport(bbc.com)
2 points by jonathanlydall 1mo ago|0 comments
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Yes, but it can be worth it as I've generally found that the most effective professional writing has your high-level request appear within the very first sentence. This is because it as quickly as possible puts the reader into the cont
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
The terrible part to me is them saying "the majority of cases are resolved within 24 hours", this should be like a 15-minute delay at most when you can present your passport with its number which also matches your biometrics (as w
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
I'm very surprised you feel it's a given that every SWE at every company has the perk of getting a new machine as quickly as every 2 years, I doubt it's justified by the productivity increases of just 2 years of hardware impr
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Harvest hikes bills by 1500% after purchased by Bending Spoons(bbc.com)
112 points by jonathanlydall 2mo ago|110 comments
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
I also had this worry when moving from an iPhone 8 (or something) to a 14. But you can use a swipe down gesture on the white bar at the bottom of the screen which pulls the whole thing down, bringing the top part of the screen easily in rea
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
While I have genuine sympathy for 8-year-old you, this has made for a thoroughly entertaining story which current you can tell, I and several of my friends I shared it with have laughed thoroughly, one of them remarked: That sounds like
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Games used to often be brutally unforgiving. If you hadn't saved recently and you died (or inadvertently made the game unwinnable without knowing), tough luck, so for some games I'd save regularly "just in case", even if
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Can confirm from years of load shedding in the past in South Africa where my area had 4 hour outages. That duration was tough for various reasons, but fridge and freezer were not really an issue. I was very happy when they changed to 2 hour
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Probably had a dialog like this: Do you want to do <x>? - Yes - Maybe later Missing the "no, never" option. Also, those of us who don't use Chrome have to periodically put up with the "It's better i
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Posted elsewhere in the comments: https://laprade.blog/your-dietbet-destroyed-the-world
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
When I referred to “styles” I was referring to classes. If the same class was defined in a multiple SVGs under their respective <style/> elements, they would affect each other. So sometimes if two icons were in the DOM at the sam
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Pretty much. The icon appeared bigger in some places than others and wanted it to look decent on higher DPI displays. SVGs are so much better for this though, smaller in size and look great at pretty much any resolution.
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
SVGs can define styles and element ids. The problem is if these same element ids and styles are used in different places in your DOM, including other SVGs. Our product is a bit of a platform with extensibility which includes icons for ui el
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
I can’t recall the details any more, but I recall seeing something like this in my research on the issue, it might have been a solution to the issue, or I was worried it had a noticeable performance impact. We may also have moved to the SVG
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Perhaps it was a different optimisation, but it definitely made significantly downscaled PNGs look way worse under particular circumstances. It was especially noticeable on triangles we used on nodes of a tree view control.
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
I'm pretty sure the same issue happens with PNGs, which being lossless are generally good for icons as they don't land up with compression artifacts like what happens in JPEGs (which the author points out are really for photograph
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
For one of the supermarket chains I frequent, from me handing over the single item I'm purchasing I can be walking away within 20s. They scan the item, then a loyalty barcode on my phone and finally I tap my iPhone which has my bank ca
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
In South Africa I notice this difference all the time where the big supermarket chains seem to be near instantaneous while small stores are 10+ seconds. I'm certain it's because the big store's card machines have a wired netw
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
This does not seem to be a good write up at all, see nullc’s explanation in this discussion of (what seems to me) the actual root cause whereas this article spent a lot of words making the argument that bad commit messages must mean bad c
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Sometimes pleasure is in the activity, not just the outcome. A good movie or novel is a generally pleasurable experience from start to finish, where the conclusion on its own might have only been mildly interesting at best. Sex is also like
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
I used reading mode on Safari and it was perfect for reading.
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Well, they do have a point on the “unmanly” aspect as there is a reason that men are statistically more likely to die before old age than women. Also, I’ve found that when asked about the risk of something, most people believe that bad thi
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Talking about road safety. In South Africa we have 12,000+ road fatalities a year, by comparison Australia (renowned for strong law enforcement) with about half of our population size has 1,200 or something. (And they apparently happen to
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
Where I am from, organised political movements are not a factor of teen pregnancy and were not the least bit in my mind when I made my statement. And my two examples are completely arbitrary because my point applies to pretty much any probl
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by jonathanlydall 2mo ago
You could say the same about teen pregnancy being a practically solved problem, except there is still the problem of teen pregnancy. Or even something more mundane as driving consistently safely all the time to solve the problem of accident
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First wave power plant receives DNV certification(heise.de)
3 points by jonathanlydall 3mo ago|0 comments
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
You seem to be in the ICE enthusiast category, which is likely a minority of car owners. For most people though, if they are buying a car it's because they can't practically get by without one, so things like "soul" and
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
We ultimately switched to this approach with great success for our own product. We stumbled on its success a little by chance. We have a visual designer and for LLMs to interact with it we originally built a tool per manipulation operation
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by jonathanlydall 3mo ago
Do many people use Firefox on 50" 8K TVs as opposed to regular monitors? I wouldn't want such a large display on a computer unless the computer is being used as media server. And my experience when I got new monitors for work abou

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