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by ldjb 5y ago
Yep, it was October 2011: https://xkcd.com/960/
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by ldjb 6y ago
I know websites that can send a push notification when a product that is out-of-stock is restocked. I'm sure I've also been on sports websites that allow you to receive a notification when a goal is scored in a particular match.
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by ldjb 6y ago
Firefox still sends the origin (the domain name and subdomain) of the referring page, so you can still see the website the user is coming from. Google has had a dereferral process in place for many years anyway, which prevents you from seei
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by ldjb 6y ago
The animations use the WebP image format. They work for me in Google Chrome on Android, but some browsers may struggle to display them.
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by ldjb 6y ago
I think that's a perfectly reasonable reason for you to have a gap in your career, and prospective employers should be understanding of that. It is something you should be prepared to explain at an interview, but I don't think it
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by ldjb 6y ago
That's an interesting question and something that hadn't really occurred to me. Personally, over the past few years I've been a developer, a product owner and now a product manager. But if I were to apply for a new developer
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by ldjb 6y ago
Presumably this doesn't affect muting on Teams, Zoom or whatever videoconferencing software you're using, so it couldn't unmute you.
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by ldjb 6y ago
Nothing worse than courses that require a textbook written by the lecturer decades ago and is now out-of-print, with only one copy in the library that all the students have to fight over.
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by ldjb 6y ago
Google Web Accelerator [0] did this. Requests were pricked via Google. A side effect of this was that you could access internal Google tools that had been restricted to Google's IP address range – oops! [0] https://en.wikipe
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by ldjb 6y ago
I'll definitely have to check this out – thanks. Interesting to hear a Lisp interpreter was implemented in NScripter. As anyone who has programmed in NScripter will attest – it's not the easiest language to work with. Although it
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by ldjb 6y ago
“When an AMP page is available, it can be featured on mobile search as part of rich results and carousels. While AMP itself isn't a ranking factor, speed is a ranking factor for Google Search.” https://developers.google.com&
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by ldjb 6y ago
The drawing of these numbers is under question, but you would expect a significant proportion of players to select sequences such as this, even if it's not in their best interests to do so.
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by ldjb 6y ago
That's annoying. Have you tried using their accessibility feature? https://www.hcaptcha.com/accessibility
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by ldjb 6y ago
I suppose some might say the code looks cleaner with ligatures and they better convey the meaning of the code (e.g. ≠ is easier to understand than !=). Personally, however, I like to see exactly what it is I am typing, exactly which symbols
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by ldjb 6y ago
It changes the syntax highlighting rules to reflect the specified language. Like you, I would have expected it to also update the example code to show the actual language.
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by ldjb 6y ago
Interestingly, in the case of And Then There Were None, the novel was originally published without its solution. Christine's intention was that the reader would use the clues scattered throughout the book to work out who the culprit wa
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by ldjb 6y ago
Similarly, I have worked in places where the word "brainstorming" (as in, "a brainstorming session") was banned because of its apparent offensiveness towards those with epilepsy. The funny thing is, 93% of people with ep
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by ldjb 6y ago
I can understand your use case, but I know a lot of people (often those who use computers infrequently) type out the full URL all the time. They don't know what HTTP or HTTPS is, they don't realise you can omit that part. They jus
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by ldjb 6y ago
Sure, it would be "effectively a web browser". But it would also require a secret key. If the program is not licensed to hold the key, that could be considered circumvention.
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by ldjb 6y ago
It doesn't have to. But ideally you only want to have to produce and distribute a single file. Also, a lot of people don't consider accessibility when generating PDFs. If LaTeX produced accessible PDFs, the PDFs would be tagged au
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by ldjb 6y ago
Monzo Bank here in the UK does that. Your account doesn't have a password. Instead, when you want to log in, it sends you an email with a link that expires after a certain amount of time.
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by ldjb 6y ago
In fact, Click to Chat links are not QR codes but URLs that are manually constructed from a phone number. https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/chats/how-to-use-click-to-c... Of course, you can generate a QR code from
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by ldjb 6y ago
So long as instances are serving content from other instances (pretty much required for a social network), there will be demand to be able to block other instances. Of course, people could just host their own instance, which is possible wit
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by ldjb 7y ago
I don't think there is any evidence of reinfection. What seems to have happened in some cases is that a person's symptoms have dissipated but resurfaced a bit later. In other words, the patient thought they had recovered when they
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by ldjb 7y ago
I think what is being discussed here in liability for companies purchasing insecure devices, rather than the manufacturers of those devices. It is reasonable to say that, even if companies are discouraged from purchasing insecure devices, t
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by ldjb 7y ago
I'm guessing they're using the Web Audio API which allows you to generate audio samples: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Web_Audio_A...
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by ldjb 7y ago
It's certainly not illegal to inspect unattended items in the UK. An assessment is typically made of whether or not it should be deemed a threat. If the item is not hidden, not obviously suspicious, and is typical of the environment in
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by ldjb 7y ago
Having a view that the law is wrong is not a crime, and nor should it be. If it were, who needs legislature?
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by ldjb 7y ago
What _about_ BSD? If my understanding is correct, BSD only started becoming free software in 1989 with the release of Net/1, and even then large chunks of the codebase were not free software. GNU, on the other hand, kicked off some yea
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by ldjb 7y ago
Bespoke software; software tailor-made for a particular client/customer, according to their specifications. As opposed to off-the-shelf / generic software that is put out to market and is then purchased by whomever thinks it would

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