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by kapep 7y ago
> Legal thought I wanted them to write a license. I'm not surprised. I once had a conversation with some business lawyers that were specialized on what is easiest described as "IT law" [1] (mostly intellectual property, li
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by kapep 7y ago
I would guess it could be used for use cases where you can't fail. For example recovering URLs from erroneous OCR scans, or unstructured text which might contain errors. It could probably also be used immediately on user input to sugg
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by kapep 7y ago
I also never felt comfortable using cloud password managers. I used to have a KeePass file on Dropbox (with an offline key file) to stay a little more in control. Synchronization worked quite well but some month ago I switched to following
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by kapep 7y ago
I also read it because it was mentioned on HN and I think it is boring too. Everything that is happening seems quite random and not very interesting. I feel either something got lost in translation or I lack some knowledge about Russian cul
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by kapep 7y ago
I don't think it's a scandal. It's not new or surprising that ads use tracking techniques like this. Stack Exchange recently announced [1] that they will use ad networks as an experiment. That announcement was quite unpopular
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by kapep 7y ago
They just released an early preview build in the Windows Store: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/p/windows-terminal-preview/9...
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by kapep 7y ago
Is there any way to get the source code of extensions from the Mozilla web site? I think some years ago you could look at the code in your browser from a link in the version history but I don't see any links at all now.
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by kapep 7y ago
It makes all names wrong but I guess mixed case names are probably harder to read. "Small Caps" could be used to avoid that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_caps
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by kapep 7y ago
It's only that simple if it's all written by the same person. A maintainer can't just re-license the whole project unless all other authors agree (or already agreed to that e.g. by accepting some contributor agreement). Or di
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by kapep 7y ago
> The German rule seems entirely pointless and counterproductive. The rule provides visual hints for how to pronounce words. I think that is way more useful than slightly increasing the readability by joining glyphs without context.
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by kapep 7y ago
Compared to most DeepDream images this one isn't unsettling at all to me. I guess if you have seen a lot generated images, they become more familiar and less unsettling.
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by kapep 8y ago
As far as I know the Eclipse Che GWT client is replaced by Eclipe Theia in the upcoming version 7 which is currently in beta. But I think both will still be independent projects.
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by kapep 8y ago
> the best guesses for the magnitude of human-caused sub portion of global warming is about 1°C As far as I know the global average temperature increase caused by humans is about 1C. You can't simply compare that to single days an
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by kapep 8y ago
The dialogs are really confusing. 1st popup page: Some text about Oath with big "OK" button and same size "Manage Options" link. By clicking OK you agree to everything. 2nd popup page when clicking "Manage Options&q
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by kapep 8y ago
It's mentioned at the end of the article. > Oliver Sacks, who died in 2015, was the author of many books, including “Musicophilia,” “Gratitude,” and “The River of Consciousness.” A final collection of his essays, “Everything in Its
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by kapep 8y ago
I agree but at least some of the ecosystem concerns can be mitigated if you choose the right technologies to build your language. For example Eclipse Xtext lets you design languages that can easily interact with Java code and tooling, and i
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by kapep 8y ago
I'm fine with it. It's kind of the same as here on HN. If unconstructive comments weren't discouraged here, the comments section here would look like on Reddit. If unconstructive answers weren't discouraged on SO, I&#x27
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by kapep 8y ago
I've been using it since about 2 years and never had any problems installing anything. I guess I'm mostly using popular well-maintained packages though, so YMMV if you are installing some more obscure software. I'm not sure a
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by kapep 8y ago
Maybe I missed something while reading the page but the whole time I my biggest question was what it actually sounds like. At the very bottom is a "hear demo" link, that leads to a Youtube channel with one song. But there isn&#x27
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by kapep 8y ago
A few weeks ago I heard the claim that you have to supervise your cat while it is outdoors or else you will be responsible for extinction of certain species... That sounded a bit ridiculous to me so I read a few articles on that topic. (the
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by kapep 8y ago
In their paper it sounds like they only focus on automating the process of analyzing build failures and submitting patches, while the actual repair is done by "[running] different program repair prototypes coming from the latest academ
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by kapep 8y ago
It looks like an apology on the surface but I don't think it is one. "I'm sorry for making you feel that way." That's very close to the classical non-apology apology "I'm sorry you felt that way". [1]
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by kapep 8y ago
Pandoc can convert docx into many formats. How robust it actually is probably depends a bit on how complex the styling and layout is done though.
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by kapep 8y ago
[...] what procrastination looks like for most people: - Think about working. - Immediately feel the urge to procrastinate. - Start beating themselves up with a bunch of negative self-talk for wanting to procrastinate (I’m such a procrasti
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by kapep 8y ago
It's a shady tactic to just get you to accept cookies. If the tracking is not active until you actually click accept though, I think it should technically still count as opt-in? I mean they make you jump through hoops if you want no tr
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by kapep 8y ago
If you have to fold the whole bench to get out you are less likely to accidentally leave something behind. But I guess the real reason for this design is probably that folding the bench saves some space.
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by kapep 8y ago
Keepass' copy&paste/autotype always felt like a hassle to me and also a bit insecure. When I was looking for alternatives for Keepass 2 I discovered the Kee [1] plugin for Firefox which communicates with Keepass via the RPC pl
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by kapep 9y ago
I don't see much of a difference here. Both are devices that listen to their surroundings. Both can be used to target the devices owner (if they are near their device) or to profile the devices vicinity. The only difference I see is th
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by kapep 9y ago
Firefox has a "Reader View" mode build in. It makes ugly websites look good and easy to read. https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clu...
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by kapep 9y ago
Same for Firefox 54.0.1 on Windows 10. The icons look blurry on most zoom levels. On zoom 90% the effect is reversed and the left icon looks ok but the others don't: https://imgur.com/a/AeREO

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