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by ldjb 3y ago
Wikipedia does not require that references be free to access. Most books, journals and physical newspapers fall into this category. So editors are perfectly entitled to reference paywalled articles. The fact that you can access some of thes
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by ldjb 3y ago
I interpreted the use of the word "obscure" as meaning "little-known" rather than "secretive". I would expect that only a relatively small proportion of people would have heard of Liberapay, so I think calling
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by ldjb 3y ago
Many porn sites already use the Restricted To Adults (RTA) label, which can be applied via meta tag or HTTP header. https://www.rtalabel.org/
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by ldjb 3y ago
They do provide a "soft limit" (which you get a notification when you reach) and a "hard limit" (which the system won't let you exceed) as options in your billing settings. I think by default they set the hard limit
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by ldjb 3y ago
If the value the bot operator gets from the account is less than the cost of buying Twitter Blue, then they'll make a loss.
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by ldjb 4y ago
HN is built with Arc. http://arclanguage.org/
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by ldjb 4y ago
Note that roles can vary hugely across different organisations. Where I work, what this article calls a "Product Owner" would be called a Product Manager. And what the article calls a "Project Manager" is similar to what
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by ldjb 4y ago
Have there been any examples of PayPal stealing money from people's bank accounts?
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by ldjb 4y ago
There's a big difference. Adaptations are new works based on the original. The original work is still available to enjoy or critique in its original form. However, these new editions are effectively replacing the old ones. I don't
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by ldjb 4y ago
I'm seeing that, too. Can't follow anyone today. There are limits documented on Twitter's website, but I'm nowhere near reaching them. https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-follow-li
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by ldjb 4y ago
The header " The Page With No Code " is in the html::before content property. The first paragraph "It all started when..." is in the body::before content. The second paragraph "This web page has..." is in the b
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by ldjb 4y ago
Collaborative databases (Wikidata, TheMovieDB, VNDB, etc.) all use serial identifiers. What is the problem with this? These websites don't want to hide how many entries they have (they tend to promote them), and it doesn't really
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by ldjb 4y ago
Anecdotal evidence suggests that people do find it too confusing and complicated. The official Mastodon website provides a list of instances, but most of them seem to be aligned to particular interests, and it's difficult to make an in
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by ldjb 4y ago
A multitude of reasons, I suspect. For instance, they want their community to be civil and not filled with spam. Also, if a subreddit is left unmoderated, it is likely to be shut down by Reddit staff.
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by ldjb 4y ago
Much of the PHP internals (the Zend Engine) was created by Israeli developers. I'm not sure why they didn't use English, but clearly they just used their native tongue in this case. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by ldjb 4y ago
Funnily enough, PHP actually taught me the Hebrew expression for "double colon", thanks to the infamous T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM. http://phpsadness.com/sad/1
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by ldjb 4y ago
Sort of. The UK Government (specifically the Cabinet Office) manages various aspects of the *.gov.uk space, but .gov.uk domains can be registered not only by the UK Government, but also local governments and other public sector organisation
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by ldjb 4y ago
I love Notification History. Before that feature became available, I relied on a third party app to log my notifications so I could check them if I accidentally dismiss any. However, that unfortunately doesn't help with in-app notifica
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by ldjb 4y ago
Something that really frustrates me is when an alert pops up on my screen just as I'm about to tap something, so my tapping then dismisses the alert before I've had a chance to read what it said. Hopefully the contents of said ale
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by ldjb 4y ago
Although many large websites and services allow you to request erasure of your data in an automated way, this is not required by GDPR. GDPR allows individuals to request erasure verbally or in writing, and the data controller than has one m
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by ldjb 4y ago
See the FAQ [0]: "Can I delete my account? We try not to delete entire account histories because that would gut the threads the account had participated in. However, we care about protecting individual users and take care of privacy re
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by ldjb 4y ago
According to this page, you are correct: https://www.w3.org/Style/Examples/007/units.en.html#future
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by ldjb 4y ago
Not to that extreme, but there are certainly restaurants that take your food away if you don't finish your meal within, say, half an hour.
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by ldjb 4y ago
I guess technically you are purchasing a licence to watch the film, within the constraints set out in the iTunes Terms of Service, which permit Apple to withdraw your access to the film at any time, for any reason.
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by ldjb 4y ago
<map> was introduced in HTML 3.2 in 1997. The other technique I often saw was to cut the image into a grid of separate image files. They would look to the user as if they were a single image, but you could hyperlink some of the images
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by ldjb 4y ago
Seems like a good idea. Anyone who has ever eaten at a Nando's will be familiar with this system.
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by ldjb 4y ago
The script also seems to assume that the company's domain name is of the form (foo.bar), which may be a reasonable assumption for the US-based Fortune 500, but won't work so well if trying to replicate this with international comp
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by ldjb 4y ago
It is correct, but a lot wordier than "At midnight on the first Monday of every month."
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by ldjb 4y ago
Honestly, I think most companies just don't care. Besides, I would much rather they ensure their main website is efficient, rather than having a specific low-power mode which, let's face it, will probably only be used by a handful
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by ldjb 4y ago
There are many valid criticisms of Audible, but I think membership pricing is just something that will suit some people more than others. Personally, I have no trouble buying on average one book per month. I think that the ability to accumu

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