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by jorvi 2y ago
Anyone with a sink, a flat surface and an open window has access to a kitchen. You can buy a 2-plate induction or propane/butane burner for relatively little money.
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by jorvi 2y ago
Chartered (= small) planes crash sometimes. Helicopters crash a lot. Big airline crashes are virtually non-existent, to the point where US airlines had 16 fatality-free years until this January, on 210 million flights. Flying commercially i
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by jorvi 2y ago
Legacy of Ashes is a great book about the CIA on this, on how they basically stumbled into some of their biggest accomplishments.
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by jorvi 2y ago
Safari's extensions had a similar change-over to a ManifestV3-like system, with the same arguments: increases performance (very important for mobile) and puts more safeguards on extensions doing funky privacy-hostile stuff. Yes, Manife
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by jorvi 2y ago
I've always wondered what makes high-fructose corn syrup so uniquely bad among sugars. AFAIK, 10g of sugar is 10g of sugar, regardless of if it's fructose, glucose, sucrose or lactose. Of course Americans love their products stuff
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by jorvi 2y ago
TP Huang has a pretty good substack[0]. Its a nice insider look. And its not fake stuff, its just looked at through the most red-yellow colored glasses there are. [0] https://tphuang.substack.com/
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by jorvi 2y ago
It is not bogus. It does increase privacy because the extension no longer sees what pages you load or your web content. And it is indeed more performant. And Apple does care because later on they started to allow blockers to spread blocking
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by jorvi 2y ago
> I'll agree on thinness, though. The number of phones in massive, chunky cases says "A lot of people don't care about thin." They care about thin, but they also care about the fragility of metal and glass backs.
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by jorvi 2y ago
> My aunt did the taste test, and according to that at least, they were still very much edible and yummy actually. Sugar is a preservative just like salt, and fruit jams were developed specifically as a way to preserve more of a fruit ha
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by jorvi 2y ago
Interestingly enough, these days it's often an advantage to have high ping, because modern games make client-side hit detection authorative. With Apex Legends, Respawn uses the argument that playing against laggers but with client-side
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by jorvi 2y ago
I'm slightly confused, how would games of that era benefit from a dual CPU setup? Old games were decidedly single-threaded and built for a single-core world. It was only in the mid-to-late 2000s that games started to be more optimized
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by jorvi 2y ago
Yup. I understand that nerfing adblocking is definitely a big draw for Google, but Apple went the ManifestV3 route many years before, specifically to increase extension performance and privacy. Back then there was a big uproar too, but most
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by jorvi 2y ago
Kagi allows you to do things like inject CSS to filter out pre-translated Reddit results (although it is on their radar to make this a default setting). Here's the CSS snippet hiding translations: (technically you could inject it as a
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by jorvi 2y ago
With the way the Apple is going in the UK, I'd rather give 1Password the keys to the kingdom. Their whole raison d'etre is protecting your passwords. If they start selling people out, their business implodes. They also keep adding
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by jorvi 2y ago
.. you do realize a paternity test can happen with just a cotton swab? And aside from that, they already get a heel prick / blood spot test to check for a bunch of things. Drawing a tiny bit of extra blood from that in no way presents
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by jorvi 2y ago
A stronger argument in line with the "benefit of the child" thinking would be that slight domestic violence should no longer be grounds for divorce since divorce rarely benefits the child. Which is obviously a crazy line of thinki
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by jorvi 2y ago
What is nuts is that in some countries, its illegal for the father to unilaterally have a paternity test done. I know for France that if you have it done unilaterally and thus illegally you are still on the hook for child support until a le
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by jorvi 2y ago
> Just a nit, but I wouldn’t call it perfect when using U+25CB ○ WHITE CIRCLE instead of what should be U+00BA º MASCULINE ORDINAL INDICATOR, or alternatively a superscript “o” Or degree symbol. Although it should be able to figure out w
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by jorvi 2y ago
In The Netherlands the traditional postal had switched to every-other-day delivery for non-critical mail, and 09:00 postbox pickup instead of 17:00. It might feel a bit awkward for people who are used to everyday delivery, but with the low
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by jorvi 2y ago
Rather than open or closed source programs, let's have interoperability. Then everyone can choose. I believe Facebook was aiming for something like that with Threads, and was playing to have WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger be open to a
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by jorvi 2y ago
Sadly, no. It is more rare to happen right after a reboot though. My suspicion is that there's a really gnarly race condition as the root cause, and they haven't been able to find it.
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by jorvi 2y ago
I had the same happen for a bug that would toggle off "Do not create a new Apple Ad Identifier Code" (or whatever it was called). It meant that even if you explicitly opted out of Apple's Ad tracking, you would get opted back
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by jorvi 2y ago
That's one of the most frustrating things about the wrecking ball far right administrations going through America and parts of Europe right now. They're causing damage that will take 5-10 years to fix, so even if we get more sane
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by jorvi 2y ago
https://xkcd.com/1172/
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by jorvi 2y ago
"The true measure of a man is most evident in how he treats those who can do him neither good nor ill."
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by jorvi 2y ago
> This is probably to support potential ambiguities and intraword emphasis e.g. underscore is a common pseudo-space so doesn't support intraword use but * does e.g. is_not_italic this*is*italic. That seems like a lega
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by jorvi 2y ago
I like Commonmark but I wish it would have been more opinionated. They chose to allow two ways to do everything[0]. Making * always be used for bold and _ always for italicizing is so much clearer, and some Markdown flavors (notably WhatsAp
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by jorvi 2y ago
Plus, y'know, leaching plastic into your food is generally ill-advised. It won't matter much if you don't eat out all the time / don't do sous-vide at home, but otherwise, yeah.. best avoided. https://pmc
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by jorvi 2y ago
> (double whammy; country _and_ region) This is actually good. Its a very basic rule of thumb for selecting wine: the more regionally specific they get on the label, the more likely the wine is good. For example, if you see "Califor
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by jorvi 2y ago
> Easier to just eliminate any attempt at malicious compliance by interpreting 'reasonable' unreasonably. Smart. Telcos in The Netherlands in the past did something where, for unlimited cellular data service, they used a "

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