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by larkeith 7y ago
> I think the site owner should be blamed if content the user needs is not either on the AMP page or accessible with an easily found link. Hmm. If AMP participation were voluntary, I would agree, but given how necessary it is to SEO rank
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by larkeith 7y ago
Better or worse than a bug that appears once every few months in Prod, but only when it's raining at the customer's location, and never on Sundays? (This is an actual issue I've encountered. It had to do with code scraping we
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by larkeith 7y ago
Out of curiosity, do you ever actually delete the branches? I would absolutely just end up with a number of _-prefixed branches on all my projects.
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by larkeith 7y ago
Well, yes - the hype train is the whole point, as they were looking for something more popular than XMPP. Though I would disagree with there being no need for reinvention - historically (and AFAIK unchanged) there are several real issues wi
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by larkeith 7y ago
> I think a federated chat system with an open protocol is pretty neat Have you looked into Matrix? It still has a few kinks to work out, but it seems to fit the bill, and the idea of bridging to other protocols (namely IRC and Slack) is
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by larkeith 7y ago
As mentioned elsewhere in the thread, accounts with high cpu usage and no billing history were locked - symptomatic of cryptominers creating accounts, using free credit or stolen CCNs, and ditching.
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by larkeith 7y ago
Regarding the DDoS part, the claim seems to be that the attacks were based on the secret information NordVPN possessed: "35. The DDoS attacks directed against TorGuard were based upon the Information— the nature and way they occurred a
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by larkeith 7y ago
Note that Wikileaks was originally a wiki, though the name may have also intentionally echoed Wikimedia projects.
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by larkeith 7y ago
I see you've changed the footer from the prior version ("Sign up to read more. You will have immediate access to over seventy chapters, to all future chapters as soon as they are published, and to a digital copy of the full book o
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by larkeith 7y ago
Hmm, I wonder if it's confirmation bias on my end, or just a difference in what pages we each view.
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by larkeith 7y ago
Honestly, such notices are shockingly unusual - most of the time (at least for the sites I encounter) they don't bother with <noscript>, you just get a broken and/or blank page. I mostly use the web for reading blogs and art
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by larkeith 7y ago
Good on them! Being able to view responses to their content is ideal for both the publisher and the readers, this seems like it's the internet working at its best. I wonder how viable this might be as a service? Side note: The current
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by larkeith 7y ago
I can't speak to democratic/republic, but a number of syncretic religions and alternative spiritualities are either decentralized or so fragmented as to be functionally so. In my experience, such provide several of the social bene
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by larkeith 7y ago
According to Wikipedia, the display has the same relative size as a 25in screen 8ft away. Still small (and lowish res), but larger than it originally sounds for reading info.
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by larkeith 7y ago
"Won't someone please think of the children!" There are legitimate privacy and rights concerns to the legality of filming in public spaces (especially in this era of "big data"). None of them are exclusive to childr
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by larkeith 7y ago
Easier for members of Gen X and Baby Boomers (note that young people in the workforce during the Recession are generally classified as the older end of the Millenials). From the Federal Reserve Board: > Millennials are less well off than
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by larkeith 7y ago
This fails to address parent's view, and is untrue for plenty of people besides. It is not uncommon for humans to use something that turns out suboptimal in the long term.
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by larkeith 7y ago
Most of this is good, but one real WTF: "Editor Flailing It’s funny how many people can’t edit text on any machine but their own. I tend to interview people on a laptop running Ubuntu, and I open gedit for them to use, with the offer t
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by larkeith 7y ago
The example query is supposed to match a single account, not an org.
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by larkeith 7y ago
Yet another reason to disable Javascript - no awful login popups.
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by larkeith 7y ago
As the article touches on, this seems symptomatic of two larger-scale issues - while the poll results almost certainly acted as a final straw, as it were, it is hard to imagine the same circumstances arising without the Internet's comb
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by larkeith 7y ago
> eliminates the risk of turning passing birds into chop suey. To be fair, it's a lot easier to put a debris (including birds) filter in front of a ducted fan than a prop.
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by larkeith 7y ago
I've always wondered what exactly differs a jet from a ducted fan - this makes a lot of sense, thank you!
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by larkeith 7y ago
It seems like they might be classified as powered-lift aircraft [1], would the same requirements apply? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powered_lift
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by larkeith 7y ago
Previous discussion on similar topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19617073
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by larkeith 7y ago
> It's not terrible Low text density, atrocious typography, breaking of standard grammar, arbitrarily-spaced interruptions, no inline images (for mobile), limited external links and quotations, no headings, no custom formatting, ran
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by larkeith 7y ago
(2017)
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by larkeith 7y ago
It looks like HN drops trailing periods at the end of links, which breaks this. Here's a working link (yay URL encodings). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_Stone_Ltd._v._Google,_...
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by larkeith 7y ago
Meanwhile, 20 hours would be irritating to me on long days, and 10 hours (probably a few hundred cycles/less than a year) would interrupt my work and concentration daily. Just goes to show how the inconvenience varies between people.
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by larkeith 7y ago
This could also be seen the other way: Facebook, Google, and Amazon have been increasingly user-hostile, yet impacts are minimal as their monopolistic tendencies enforce user lock-in. Even Facebook, with the most competition and negative pu

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