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by k_sze 6y ago
There's also this: https://pixelastic.github.io/pokemonorbigdata/
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by k_sze 6y ago
Where do I find non-tracking ad brokers? I know readthedocs.io has its own ethicalads.io ad platform, but they only want developer-focused sites as publishers. What if I have a non-tech site and I want to host some non-tracking ads to offse
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by k_sze 6y ago
Yep. That’s why we talk about the observable universe. Objects outside the radius of the observable universe are moving away from us so quickly that any light or gravitational effect from those objects have no chance of reaching us any lo
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by k_sze 6y ago
epub is basically many html files packaged together and indexed. So rendering for printing can be taken care of with the right media-querying CSS.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Printing can actually be fixed with the right CSS. The opposite is not true for PDF: you can't fix PDF for responsive rendering. As for rogue JS, there are good, open-source countermeasures such as dompurify.
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by k_sze 6y ago
epub 2 and epub 3 are both much better formats than PDF if you really want to publish ebooks. PDF is not reflowable and results in a crappy reading experience unless the device screen size is just right.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Technically commendable. But please please please stop contributing to PDF, especially in the conversion to PDF. It’s a horrible format.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Part of the reason is that ensuring things work for a different CPU architecture is simply a non-trivial task. There are libraries with hand-written x86 assembly, and others in C/C++ that depend on x86 intrinsics to perform acceptabl
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by k_sze 6y ago
Thanks for sharing this. I’m an insect nerd myself (mostly lepidoptera, apocrita, and orthoptera). I once raised hundreds (maybe even over a thousand) of Bombix mori, just to show my daughter the lifecycle of moths. My sister in law runs a
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by k_sze 6y ago
I think being CLI-first (and maybe API-first) is a really clever strategy. My gut feeling is that it’s much easier to get a CLI/API right than to get a GUI right. So you can just expose an API or a machine-parsable CLI, and let people
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by k_sze 6y ago
I wasn't talking about runtime performance at all. I was talking about coding speed. (I don't think the commenters before me were talking about runtime performance either? Did I misunderstand?)
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by k_sze 6y ago
Static typing can be a bitch to get right. There are quite a few weird cases where it would be natural to write without types, but tricky once you introduce static typing and want to keep pleasing the TypeScript type checker, usually involv
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by k_sze 6y ago
This comment just completely flew over my head. Please explain?
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by k_sze 6y ago
I feel that this is the perfect opportunity to create a new auction site called “The Arrrr PIrate Bay”.
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by k_sze 6y ago
> the triad worships Guan Yu with black shoes while the police worships him with red shoes. That's a detail that I did not know!
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by k_sze 6y ago
That glaive (more correctly "guandao") has a name in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, btw: 青龍偃月刀 (Green Dragon Crescent Blade), also known as 冷艷鋸 (Frost Fair Blade). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Drago
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by k_sze 6y ago
Yep, I'm pretty sure that's Guan Yu. For those wondering, Guan Yu was a general of legendary prowess during the Three Kingdoms period of Ancient China. He is deified and represents loyalty and justice. Ironically, in Hong Kong, bo
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by k_sze 6y ago
On the other hand, this just came out a few days ago: https://debugger.medium.com/apples-new-iphone-is-far-from-gr... This discussion also just came up 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=249114
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by k_sze 6y ago
By littering space with so much high momentum debris that nobody can be safe up there even without a war breaking out.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Assuming all browsers are going to implement this partitioning, doesn’t it give web devs even more reason to use 3rd-party CDNs? You’re not paying for the traffic and you don’t have to worry about users’ privacy.
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by k_sze 6y ago
On the other hand, why even torture someone and then let them free so they can speak out against you? Torturing seems like such a hassle. If I were an evil dictator with the means in the modern day and I wanted to really intimidate a po
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by k_sze 6y ago
I suspect the indicator also only works if the LED is not dead.
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by k_sze 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't really know where to start. I mean, I'm a software engineer by training. Back in university, we had a courses on engineering ethics, environmental responsibility, stuff like that. That's where I learned
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by k_sze 6y ago
A large part of our consumption is not food. You can’t grow iPhones on a tree. You’re not going to consume less iPhones because you planted hundreds of tomato trees. You could argue that you can offset the total lifecycle energy for owning
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by k_sze 6y ago
All controllable from your Nook device as well.
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by k_sze 6y ago
The “10 tomato plants per person” number makes things look pretty dire, in my eyes. World population is about 7,800,000,000. The population of Germany is about 83,000,000. That makes roughly 940 tomato plants to offset the CO2 emission of o
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by k_sze 6y ago
I don't think so, because critical services/systems are targetted by ransomware operators regardless of the exception. And I don't think the victim should be burdened to decide between losing a life vs paying hefty fines.
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by k_sze 6y ago
The difference is that if you get mugged, your physical safety is being threated. So giving your money to the mugger is reasonably considered defense against bodily harm. I believe that in most randomware cases, nobody's physical saf
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by k_sze 6y ago
A question for the lawyers among us: is there any effective difference between granting all these permissions vs actually putting them into public domain? Tom says “In other words, all the lyrics herein should be treated as though they we
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by k_sze 6y ago
In some Hong Kong fountain pen collector circles, the MYU is affectionately known as the “Scalpel”.

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