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by ldjb 5y ago
HTTP actually has nothing to do with page titles. I think web browsers should probably display the titles verbatim, but there may be use cases where they don't, a common one being where there isn't enough space so the title is tru
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by ldjb 5y ago
It depends on the font. Some fonts have it in red, some in blue, some in green, some in orange. I think it's reasonable to think that cultural differences played a part in the variety of colours used by different fonts. They seem to be
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by ldjb 5y ago
Very often, package installation is automated as part of a build pipeline. So if you want to build and deploy a new version of your software, you'll kick off the pipeline and that could potentially download a newer version of a package
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by ldjb 5y ago
`noindex` was a Google-specific rule that was never officially documented nor supported. I think they were perfectly entitled to withdraw support for it, especially considering there are alternatives. https://developers.google.co
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by ldjb 5y ago
According to their website, Dropbox for Mac needs the accessibility permissions for: "The Dropbox badge "Seeing who’s viewed your files "Better prioritization for file syncing" https://help.dropbox.com/in
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by ldjb 5y ago
Dartmoor Line official website: https://dartmoorline.com/
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by ldjb 5y ago
I'm curious to know if and how you would then distinguish between a metro and the national railway, or other types of railway. I suppose one could argue they should all have the same symbol, but I feel that distinction can be helpful t
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by ldjb 5y ago
The London Underground is the world's oldest underground railway. The very first line to be built was the Metropolitan Railway (now called the Metropolitan line), which opened in 1863. So in a sense, you could say London was the first
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by ldjb 5y ago
Here's the help page in question: https://monzo.com/help/overdrafts-loans/unauthorised-overdra...
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by ldjb 5y ago
They do touch upon the rationale in their announcement blog post [0] but I do struggle to think of specific use cases. [0] https://postlight.com/insights/introducing-tinysheet
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by ldjb 5y ago
I spent several minutes trying to figure out how to add columns or rows, but it turns out you can't. It's a 'tiny sheet', after all.
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by ldjb 5y ago
I get what you're saying, but even if this design feature comes out of good intentions (which I honestly doubt), requiring the user to wait almost a minute so that it can "process" is rather excessive. If they really needed t
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by ldjb 5y ago
I don't think the idea of making public transport free (at the point of use) is entirely incompatible with a railway operated by the private sector. The company will need some form of income, but that can come in the form of fares, tax
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by ldjb 5y ago
Buses going cashless was fully consulted upon. See the FAQs for the output of the EqIA: https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/buses/cashless/ You're right that contactless cards usually require a fixed address, al
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by ldjb 5y ago
Private companies can, to a large extent, target and accommodate only a subset of the market. However, a public transport system has to be for everyone. There are legal and political consequences to making it difficult or impossible for cer
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by ldjb 5y ago
It's an interesting idea, though when you consider that a lot of the people who use public transport in London don't actually live in London, and some services extend outside of London, it does raise a lot of questions. And that&#
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by ldjb 5y ago
In London at least, revenue inspectors often work in partnership with the police. But many cases of fraud are resolved without needing to detain the fraudster.
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by ldjb 5y ago
Sort of. Before February 2020, most (but not all) Oyster cards had a £5 deposit. However, Oyster cards issued since then do not have a deposit (there is instead a £5 fee for the card). For older Oyster cards that have a deposit, you can s
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by ldjb 5y ago
I have heard something like this from colleagues, and I can confirm that staff Oyster cards are very fast. But I've always felt that regular Oyster cards are very fast too, so I don't notice much difference. When the validator det
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by ldjb 5y ago
Different countries are at different stages of transposing this directive into national legislation [0], so if you're in an EU country and haven't come across this yet, you will probably encounter this in due course. Note that the
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by ldjb 5y ago
That sounds like an exciting idea – all the best with it! In case you're not aware, UKTroniX are selling something similar: https://uktronix.co.uk/product-category/px-boards%ef%bf%bc/
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The 'wadokei': the old way of measuring time in Japan(japantoday.com)
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by ldjb 5y ago
Thanks, I must have overlooked that paragraph.
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by ldjb 5y ago
Macbeth is certainly a creepy play, and certainly there is a lot of creepy language (e.g. Lady Macbeth's "Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out"). But I never felt that this was du
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by ldjb 5y ago
This isn't directly related to the article, but does anyone know of any good resources or best practices on how to report a vulnerability? A few days ago I discovered a pretty major vulnerability on a certain website, but security isn&
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by ldjb 5y ago
The author gives an example of this afterwards (analysing shares in a pachinko company). Essentially, you identify numerous hypothetical scenarios, analyse the impact they would have, and use that information to decide whether a particular
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by ldjb 5y ago
This is covered by the Audiovisual Media Services Directive 2018/1808. EU member states were supposed to transpose this into national legislation by 19 September 2020, but not all have. You can see the status for each EU member state h
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by ldjb 5y ago
Thanks, I stand corrected. Part of me did think 2005 would have been a bit too recent.
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by ldjb 5y ago
That lecture (from 2005) is how I first came across this idea of computer science not being about computers. It was interesting (though not massively surprising) to discover that similar arguments have been made for several decades earlier.
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Did You Get My Slack/Email/Text?(hbr.org)
1 points by ldjb 5y ago|0 comments

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