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by kgin 6y ago
This is a phase of every bubble: the shaming phase. I personally think we will experience many shaming phases of various bubbles this year.
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by kgin 6y ago
I love this. I've often wondered how to scrape netflix subtitles for a similar reason.
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by kgin 6y ago
That's definitely the correct move given how browsers work, but I don't think it's wrong to wish for font consistency.
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by kgin 6y ago
Is this autofill triggering an onchange event?
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by kgin 6y ago
It it both an awesome company and a company whose stock price has outstripped any normal method of valuation. There’s no law that says those two conditions can’t coexist.
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by kgin 6y ago
This seems like a perfect use case for a PWA
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by kgin 6y ago
Thank you, I had a hard time parsing the article itself. This really helped.
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by kgin 6y ago
Governments are notorious for contracting websites to the lowest bidder that claims they can check all the requirements boxes. Websites run through the same procurement process as buying toilet paper for the offices. And the result is websi
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by kgin 6y ago
I have no doubt the timing was extremely intentional.
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by kgin 6y ago
If you throw out everything except plain containers (DIVs) and standardized flexbox (like Yoga). It's great. It's 5000% better than iOS AutoLayout.
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by kgin 6y ago
Why are SWEs paid so much less in Canada vs US?
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by kgin 6y ago
As more and more electronic components are becoming integrated, how does one decide when a right to repair is being honored vs violated? At what level do parts need to be individually replaceable?
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by kgin 6y ago
I grew up in the rural swampy area about an hour inland from Sawgrass Mills and the idea of new city popping up in the Everglades, far from any coastline, is fascinating and very weird to imagine. 15 minutes from this location is just swamp
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by kgin 6y ago
Absolutely. I'll even go one further: we won't actually know the exact moment that Level 5 arrives. Cars with level 4 + remote assistance will be driving people around for a decade or more, phoning home less and less over time unt
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by kgin 6y ago
There was an executive order by the governor to allow more flexibility for Covid tests. Pharmacists are now allowed to order Covid tests. And when you show up at a testing site at a clinic or hospital, your test will be recorded as "or
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by kgin 6y ago
In New York state, it's illegal to get any kind of medical testing without a doctor's order. Very frustrating.
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by kgin 6y ago
If you assume that there is a civilization that has gone to the trouble of developing interstellar transportation, I think you can assume they value the differences between different parts of the universe. Considering that inhabited planets
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by kgin 6y ago
100% certainty isn't possible, so you must weigh risks. Covid is at least as likely, probably much more likely to have unknown future serious consequences. That's to say nothing of Covid's extremely known consequences.
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by kgin 6y ago
My reluctance to using a hosted auth system (vs using passport or similar) is vendor lock-in. My impression is trying to move later would reset all passwords and oauth connections to zero. Am I misunderstanding this / should I not real
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by kgin 6y ago
People who are mad at "frugality" would be 100% on board with "not wasting money".
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by kgin 6y ago
Yeah I think the implied name is: But Nothing (because you have too much already and anything you do need you can probably get from someone else who has too much)
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by kgin 6y ago
Thank you. The article segued right from talking about scarring to severe findings and I wasn't sure how to take it.
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by kgin 6y ago
> Those who experienced COVID-19 symptoms have shown a severe chest X-ray every single time, Bankhead-Kendall told Nielsen, while asymptomatic patients showed severe chest X-rays 70 to 80 percent of the time. This is a really shocking st
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by kgin 6y ago
Whatever it is, it started in the mid 70s. You can see the exact moment obesity rates launched upwards and never looked back. https://www.niddk.nih.gov/-/media/Images/Health-Information/...
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by kgin 6y ago
It is very surprising to see this happen without an order from a court or law enforcement.
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by kgin 6y ago
Premature optimization is the root of all evil
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by kgin 6y ago
Very much so. It's written for an interested and intelligent general audience.
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by kgin 6y ago
It does make me wonder if this type of legal document is just too large and complex for the people agreeing to it to even really know what they're agreeing to. The international politics version of a EULA.
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by kgin 6y ago
Humans don't need work as we know it in the 21st century, but humans don't do well without work in the general sense. There are plenty of things to do that could even be useful to society that aren't modern wage work.
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by kgin 6y ago
With the right lens, you could have the start of Pi Goggles

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