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by jonchang 5y ago
It's important even when it's an iPhone or Android device. As the FTC report details, many households lack internet access outside of their mobile phones, so having to send off your only way to get online to the original manufactu
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by jonchang 6y ago
That is the handle of the person who wrote the comment.
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by jonchang 6y ago
Note that this hasn't been a problem for Apple hardware released after 2008, according to an Apple engineer: > All cameras after that one were different: The hardware team tied the LED to a hardware signal from the sensor: If the (I
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by jonchang 6y ago
Looks like the maintainer just didn't have time and there weren't enough people in the community willing to step up and do issue triage or contribute code. > What would actually help is that people help to completely investigat
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by jonchang 6y ago
This is literally a quote from one of the participant interviews, so yes, it does seem to be the case.
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by jonchang 6y ago
This should probably just be updated to point to The Register's article: https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/25/linux_kernel_email/
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by jonchang 6y ago
Servo was always a research project, and not a full browser replacement intended to compete with Firefox. As the article states, many components of Servo eventually ended up in Firefox.
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by jonchang 6y ago
I think you're confusing the implementation with the idea. XUL wasn't the right path forward for bringing web technologies into the desktop as we can see with the failure of XULRunner but a ton of apps are written today with Elec
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by jonchang 6y ago
This sounds like a pretty bad financial and strategic plan. So you suggest that Mozilla should have concurrently developed two browser engines, doubling the cost of its engineering while also competing with itself?
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by jonchang 6y ago
The article talks about Windows, which is produced by Microsoft.
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by jonchang 6y ago
Have you considered that the "unusual" coronavirus pandemic might be the cause of your mail delays?
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by jonchang 6y ago
Humans can be classified as lobe-finned fish, so it wouldn't be wrong to say that humans are fish.
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by jonchang 6y ago
I've found that this article was really illuminating with respect to some of the issues around `libinput`: https://lwn.net/Articles/801767/
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by jonchang 7y ago
Yes, the entire linked article is, in fact, about this!
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by jonchang 7y ago
From the link: "For bureaucratic reasons, a colleague of mine had to print, sign, scan and send by email a high number of pages. To save trees, ink, time, and to stick it to the bureaucrats, I wrote this script." So yes, it does s
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by jonchang 7y ago
Note that UTF-8 hadn't actually been invented at the time UCS-2 was implemented in Windows: https://unascribed.com/b/2019-08-02-the-tragedy-of-ucs2.html
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by jonchang 7y ago
The current hypothesis is from zoonotic events via the bushmeat trade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_HIV/AIDS
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by jonchang 7y ago
Did we read a different article? This doesn't seem to be about racism at all.
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by jonchang 7y ago
The New York Public Library appears to be a major player in this initiative, which suggests that the libraries are likely doing so quite intentionally. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2019/09/01/historical-copy
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by jonchang 7y ago
Survey instruments generally have a few ways to check for this, usually via attention checks which require you to answer in a specific way as stated in the question text (defeating your bot). Similarly a survey could be designed to ask the
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by jonchang 7y ago
It might push back the date of multicellularity for fungi, but that's evolved many times and I'm pretty sure some filamentous prokaryotes got there first, but I don't have a reference handy.
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by jonchang 7y ago
Nethack 4 is explicitly not an official successor project, and in fact the developer of NH4 has joined the original Nethack dev team to port interface improvements.
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by jonchang 7y ago
Occasionally, it's nice to compensate people for producing something that others value. This has a couple of benefits, one of which is that same person might continue to produce interesting things.
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by jonchang 8y ago
I would say that the problem with E4X was not just that "XML sucks", but that E4X was attempting to solve two related but orthogonal problems and the tradeoff of attempting to do both caused some serious ergonomic warts. Namely, b
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by jonchang 8y ago
There is a debate whether nonsexualized images of minors (e.g., toddlers playing in baths, which is mentioned in the linked article) actually constitutes child pornography. Jurisdictions vary about their interpretation, hence "borderli
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by jonchang 8y ago
There's an interesting link to an analysis an (unaffiliated?) economist that suggests the study's methodology is flawed, in that it doesn't properly account for the simultaneous drop in gasoline prices (known to increase driv
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by jonchang 8y ago
Did you read further along? There's also suggestions for bestiality and borderline child pornography, both of which definitely fall under adult images and in one or both cases are very illegal.
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by jonchang 8y ago
This made national news a while ago: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/business/doctors-unionize... (written before their contract was ratified)
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by jonchang 8y ago
Great idea! Pay me for improving society rather than chasing academic kudos and I'll gladly spend my time doing that instead of writing grants and papers.

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