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by kurtisc 7y ago
Where are things like this said/defined/collated?
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by kurtisc 7y ago
The UK Prime Minister made the twit joke in 2009 and it was trite then too.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
I agree. Usually if someone gives out a concrete change they'd make to improve git I can quickly point out a simple workflow it breaks because they have a mental model of a Github repo with a trunk and branches. Lots want to couple com
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by kurtisc 7y ago
Constraints can be a virtue. The barrier to entry for making a Tweet is very low, so there are a lot of people who do it. To get the features you've listed, you may need something like Wordpress, where the barrier is much higher. You a
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by kurtisc 7y ago
Exposure to content is the reason HN exists and why you're reading it at all. If it wasn't posted on Twitter, OP may never have found it (even if a link to a private blog was posted to Twitter) and never shared it for you to read.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
The DOW is 30 companies and none of them are unicorn startups, it's related only because it correlates to other indices.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
>It doesn't matter. I don't need all those features. The product is commodified. I've encountered a case when it does matter. I tried applying for a bank online through multiple browsers, OSes, VMs, but never managed to ge
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by kurtisc 7y ago
So 'the index' is S&P 500? What about Nikkei 225, how many beat that?
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by kurtisc 7y ago
In a non-cynical way: are you aware the PDF can be viewed on the right?
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by kurtisc 7y ago
>"CAUTION: this feature was used N times in the last 180 days by all users of the tool where N < 10. Expect bugs" I doubt it would work, power users turn off tracking. Presumably you can't trust that the tracking will r
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by kurtisc 7y ago
I'm reading this on Firefox with a hamburger menu. It's a hard sell that someone else's supposed damaged discoverability is worth me giving up screen space to replace it with a menu bar for things that are rarely used. If the
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by kurtisc 7y ago
English isn't understood globally.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
People are very concerned about unsafe human driving and the liability for the massive number of deaths and damages it causes. It's the reason we have insurance and a big reason why we have self-driving aspirations at all.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
I think your parent comment was talking about why changing the user-agent 'fixes' it.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
Where do you find the words to add to your deck? I add words discovered in lessons - which are great for a proper context - but using words from internet sources (the news, etc.) is time consuming and means I keep seeing words from a few na
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by kurtisc 7y ago
>Second, anonymous telemetry is not spyware. On this note: if you opt-out of telemetry, don't complain when your power-user features stop being catered to.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
Or try to change splits
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by kurtisc 7y ago
The email contacts feature already existed but was disabled in the past, so it just needed to be a Boolean switch. Like anyone who uses Messenger, I can believe they could introduce a regression and never fix it.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
I think this is a really important thing to realise, socially. People feel happy doing things for you. In a misguided attempt to be polite I used to turn down things people offered me even though I wanted them: drinks when I visited, lifts
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by kurtisc 7y ago
I agree. Print is the most fundamental tool available to you: debuggers are kernel and hardware spanning monsters that introduce an external logic dependency. We don't advocate for more complexity than is necessary in other places.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
You also can't be confident that a debugged program is in a natural state without restarting it, at which point the re-setting of the breakpoints and scripting you did in the last invocation - or saving and loading what you've alr
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by kurtisc 7y ago
>he repeatedly delivers (eventually) This is essentially unfalsifiable. In the case claims about FSD or a person on Mars are wrong then this statement can only be proven wrong when Elon Musk chooses to admit defeat - suffering a signific
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by kurtisc 7y ago
>They were the Ferrari of phones >There's a reason why they were not reviewed widely Coincidentally, Ferrari also play dishonest games with reviewers: https://jalopnik.com/how-ferrari-spins-5760248
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by kurtisc 7y ago
The Welsh site has different styling
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by kurtisc 7y ago
You're right but I've always thought it's a bit sad how many hours must be spent recreating the same similar assets - concrete, grass, clothes, etc. - just so people don't have this clinical moment where they recognise s
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by kurtisc 7y ago
Aren't those are summaries of the icons, not the tools? I'm struggling to come up with a concise and accurate way of describing the abstract actions of magic wand and heal, they might as well have been called foo and bar. I'd
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by kurtisc 7y ago
The NHS serves one dialect of one language. If you translate 'menu' into another language, you may need a classifier, an article, a case, a longer word, a non-alphabetic script, changing the reading direction, or more. Scaling thi
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by kurtisc 7y ago
As part of the UI for something safety critical, yes. But when I'm using a browser and a toolbar is moved behind a hamburger menu, that's a tangible improvement in screen real-estate for the content that I'm using most of the
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by kurtisc 7y ago
I also notice myself missing road signs while driving in areas with lots of advertising.
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by kurtisc 7y ago
Not that (which is similar to my setup), I mean tty[0-6] which come up when you press ctrl-alt-F[1-6]

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