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by ldjb 4y ago
"This essay, which I am about to record as an audiobook […], and will thereafter upload to ACX as a self-published, free audiobook." Doctorow seems to have intended to release this audiobook on Audible for free. However, when I lo
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by ldjb 4y ago
Interesting. I know a lot of websites are designed with a font size of 16pt in mind, and you'll tend to encounter issues if you set the size to anything else. I find that rather a shame.
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by ldjb 4y ago
The links appear underlined for me (using Firefox), not strikethroughed, and look perfectly fine.
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by ldjb 4y ago
Google are well known for the amount of services they deprecate [0], but what gets less attention is functionality they remove from their core search product. It seems like quite a few "advanced features" have been removed, includ
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by ldjb 4y ago
A throwback from the days when domain hacks like del.icio.us were all the rage. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain_hack
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by ldjb 4y ago
Interesting question. A few thoughts: Obviously everyone's tastes are different but, broadly speaking, the most popular porn videos do not tend to be the most romantic or sensual. That said, there are many niches in porn, and videos ma
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by ldjb 4y ago
If you open the kebab (three vertical dots) menu, select Add-ons then Add-ons Manager, you should see a list of add-ons you can install. Edit: I've updated my previous comment with a better link.
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by ldjb 4y ago
It works on Firefox Android if you install the Google Search Fixer add-on. https://addons.mozilla.org/android/addon/google-search-fixer
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by ldjb 4y ago
I'm not familiar with this concept. What exactly do you get during these "office hours"? Is it an online call with someone knowledgeable about the contents of the selected book, who can answer questions about it?
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by ldjb 4y ago
See also: S.S. Van Dine's Twenty Rules for Writing Detective Stories https://www.openculture.com/2016/02/20-rules-for-writing-det...
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by ldjb 4y ago
"Toots" were renamed to "posts" in April 2021. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/16080
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by ldjb 4y ago
If browser vendors want to create their own DRM extensions, then that's on them. But it seems to me that the W3C went too far in including DRM capability within the standards for the web. The end result may be comparable, but I think t
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by ldjb 4y ago
Parts of the station are owned by Network Rail, parts are owned by TfL who manages the overall station (but there are also staff from the individual train operating companies). The TfL station layout covers the entire station, and shows whi
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by ldjb 4y ago
The axonometric diagrams are only intended to be used as a location guide. They are part of larger Station Layout documents which have very detailed 2D plans for every part of the station. The axonometric diagrams therefore provide the over
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by ldjb 4y ago
An axonometric diagram exists for Stratford (actually, there are two -- one for the platform levels and one for the subway levels). I'm not sure why they weren't included in the Freedom of Information response; it could have been
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by ldjb 4y ago
We also use Azure DevOps. Where I work, developers, testers, designers, product owners, product managers and so on all use it without too many issues. It helps that you can create a hierarchy, with epics and features being more high-level,
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by ldjb 4y ago
This reminds me of something that happened to me a couple of years ago, near the start of the pandemic and when we had recently switched from Skype for Business to Microsoft Teams. I needed to set up a one-to-one Teams meeting with a collea
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by ldjb 4y ago
As a product manager at the local transport authority, my parents both know that my job has something to do with public transport, but they don't seem to know what exactly my job entails. My mum seems to think I'm some sort of pro
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by ldjb 4y ago
Although (to my knowledge) a new version hasn't been produced since 2014, the London Connections map [0] does something along these lines. It's primarily geographical, but isn't completely precise, and it retains some topolog
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by ldjb 4y ago
Related but nowhere near as severe, Samsung prevents you from creating an account with the email address samsung@domain. It showed a generic error message so I couldn't figure out why I couldn't create an account until I tried usi
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by ldjb 5y ago
Thanks for your comments. However, for certain languages it is important to specify the language in the HTML with the `lang` attribute. Otherwise incorrect glyphs may be displayed. More info: https://heistak.github.io/your-c
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by ldjb 5y ago
You can sign up for an account without an email address, so I don't think there is a need for Mailinator here.
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by ldjb 5y ago
The short answer is that there is no difference. The longer answer is that CC0 is not a licence – it's a public domain declaration. With CC0, you relinquish all rights to the work, including copyright. With MIT-0, you still hold the co
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by ldjb 5y ago
From the Rationale section: This license has proven useful for code that is intended for developers to use as reference, teaching samples, examples, or templates that other developers may modify for their own purposes. I don't think
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Let's suppose you work in government and want to build a business case for using and contributing to FLOSS. Idealogical arguments will only go so far; the priority is to cut costs, make do with limited resources (staff) and ensure syst
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by ldjb 5y ago
Coinbase CEO's excuse is that he sees Martin Agency as a "creative firm" not a "traditional ad agency" and he felt they "were all one team". Although it should be noted that last Tweet was posted hours aft
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by ldjb 5y ago
I don't believe the source code is still available officially (although it used to be through Microsoft's Shared Source Initiative and Government Security Program), but the Windows 2000 source code was leaked back in 2004. https:
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by ldjb 5y ago
On my Samsung Galaxy phone, I can double-tap the Home button and it downscales the screen into the corner so I can reach the entire screen with my thumb. So there is a solution to that problem. The main problem I have with large phones is t
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by ldjb 5y ago
Although I don't have a problem with this kind of promo, I think it's a shame the sweepstake page [0] does not clearly explain that only US residents who haven't previously subscribed to Disney+ are eligible. To find this out
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by ldjb 5y ago
In the past, I've used pdf2ps to convert the PDF to a PostScript file, then used ps2pdf to convert it back to a PDF. This often reduces the file size substantially. I probably wouldn't recommend doing this for anything serious (si

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