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by ken 6y ago
He lists only three 'flaws' with Times New Roman. The first is: > It was created for a newspaper, so it’s a bit narrower than most text fonts yet all the alternatives are almost exactly the same width. Plantin is even a bit n
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by ken 6y ago
Text files are easily readable on a Teletype or a VT100. That was a solid design decision back in the day when you had to say "screen editor" to distinguish them from the ordinary line editors. We didn't have interactive d
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by ken 6y ago
1. What good consequences? Lottery winners are more likely to declare bankruptcy after their win, and are no happier than they were before. It's blatant false advertising. The ads even show winners utilizing fake (CGI) technology th
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by ken 6y ago
My state government has adjacent billboards telling me to play the lottery (odds of winning, 1 in 7000000) on the basis that I'll be able to do really cool things with all that money, and that I should wear a mask and maintain distance
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by ken 6y ago
This sounds like pointless nitpicking. Has there ever been any real C compiler on any OS (not the DeathStation 9000) where this distinction has caused any issue? FWIW, I learned "ANSI C" from a book older than 1989. I've
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by ken 6y ago
Do you have an old computer at home, and an internet connection? You can always host it yourself. The electricity used may not be cheaper than paying someone else a few bucks to host it from their data center.
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by ken 6y ago
According to camelcamelcamel.com, it looks like all RAM prices have been steadily increasing for the past 6 months (after falling for the 2 years prior to that).
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by ken 6y ago
If you're on an untrusted network, run a firewall. An open network port isn't much safer just because you're not announcing it. People looking to attack your local web service at Starbucks probably know how to portscan.
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by ken 6y ago
As Apple's Bonjour page points out, addressing and naming is only 2/3 of it. If that's all you support, then you still depend on users knowing the name, and typing it with no mistakes -- not exactly "zero configuration&
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by ken 6y ago
Zeroconf is fantastic for discovering services, but hardly anyone supports it. Apple removed it from Safari, 3 years ago [1]. It's been an open feature request in Chromium for 11 years [2], and in Firefox for 18 years [3]. The only
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by ken 6y ago
IANAL. I found an interesting article [1], "Legal Consequences of Apologizing", which says: > Usually, apologies are admissible into evidence. Admissability into evidence does not necessarily mean useful as evidence of guilt.
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by ken 6y ago
Call me old-fashioned, but if developers really want to minimize their impact on visitors, I wonder why they shifted away from using plain old log files. In the screenshot of the dashboard, "screen size" is the only attribute I s
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by ken 6y ago
iOS since 11.0 (2017, >98% of iOS users today): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_11#Other_changes
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by ken 6y ago
I don't think there's any one single blocker that's keeping me on GitHub. It's just a bunch of little annoyances with GitLab that add up to make it not worth it -- either UI quirks, or ways in which third-party tools in
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by ken 6y ago
A C-level exec needs to pass "multiple layers of bureaucracy" to post a personal note on the company blog? That seems excessive, even for a large corporation. If you can't trust your executive management team to represent t
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by ken 6y ago
There's a number of Forth implementations for 8-bit computers. Chuck Moore has claimed "A Forth application can take 1% the code employed by the same application written in C" [1], which is certainly a big benefit on a small
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by ken 6y ago
"User Interface Design for Programmers" (159 pages)
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by ken 6y ago
> Mind you, a program with “hidden” windows open takes up more CPU/memory than a program without any windows open I can’t speak to Mail, but in general a Mac app with no visible windows may actually take zero CPU, because (if it’s w
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by ken 6y ago
The original comment was about how few packages and how little space Postgres takes. PostGIS is good but it pulls in a lot of extra packages. I hate Oracle as much as anyone but this is no longer a fair comparison. If you’re bragging abou
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by ken 6y ago
They don’t. I’m simply reporting that they speak openly of their current research projects, like Zika and Dengue. I don’t see any reason they would keep quiet on a much more common disease.
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by ken 6y ago
There seems to be a big difference between “plasma companies”, and nonprofit research institutes which collect blood donations. I know factually that many people are paid for plasma, and that there’s a reason for it, but I’ve never been, an
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by ken 6y ago
The blood bank “profits” from every donation. That’s what a donation is. If you’re asking if they specifically test plasma for COVID-19 antibodies and scalp it to brokers, my guess is “probably not”. My blood bank has documentation about t
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by ken 6y ago
Wyoming and South Dakota never locked down, and had the same infection curve as New York and California, which did? That sounds like a great argument in favor of lockdowns. To a virus, here is a strategy which turns Times Square into th
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by ken 6y ago
> Chalk one up for time wasted not addressing what people really need... As a Swift programmer, I find this particular project to be useless. I can't imagine why I ever would want to do this. But : they make it clear that it was
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by ken 6y ago
Next door in Washington, we also have a properly cautious phased re-opening plan, with per-county metrics to meet before applying to move to the next phase. My county is still in Phase 1, and even so I've seen a fair number of people
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by ken 6y ago
Up to 79 characters, including the line number. Interestingly, this was basically (ha) an editor limitation, not a language one. You could use 2-letter abbreviations for the language's reserved words to cram more code into the same sp
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by ken 6y ago
macOS has supported left-and-right snapping ("Split View") since 10.14. Maybe your accidental demo was the inspiration!
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by ken 6y ago
Whoa, did I get Nat's attention? Prepare for a brain dump! - Keyboard shortcuts: I’m always triggering these by accident. There’s no easy way (AFAICT) to block or disable them. My browser and OS already define a bunch of keyboard
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by ken 6y ago
I agree -- it looks exactly like a Gopher page.
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by ken 6y ago
Pet peeve alert: not distinguishing between "IEEE-754 type" and "real number". > System.out.println(5.1+9.2); > We ask to add 5.1 to 9.2. The result should be 14.3, but we get the following instead: 14.29999999

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