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by least 4y ago
It's a ban on the rental companies, not e-scooters themselves.
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by least 4y ago
Gabriel Fauré's Pavane Op. 50 is an example of a song that really turns into something drastically different when played much slower than the prescribed tempo. To me it sounds much better that way. In the case of this rendition of Merr
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> In fact they have very good audio properties as monitors given their specifications They're "good" for mixing engineers because they enable them to make better decisions about their mixes. That does not mean they are &qu
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by least 4y ago
Vim is a tool for editing text, and plugins exist to make manipulating text easier or make it easier to write code. I use vim over other editors because of its editing paradigms. I extend vim because I want to make my life easier. Emulation
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by least 4y ago
> They often sound like they just got a midi file of the score and played it back through a piece of software. I'd say it's more than likely they did play the piece themselves, just it's often done by individual piano pla
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by least 4y ago
There's certainly a finite set of combinations but in order for you to create a segmented display that isn't just a dot matrix, you need to have few enough variations that it can 1) actually encode all of the characters and their
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by least 4y ago
Because the information coding is dense. Arabic script has a lot of tiny shapes that indicate what letter it is and it also has diacritic marks, which on their own are similarly intricate and small. You can't represent one line, two
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by least 4y ago
This might provide some insight for setting up your editor [1]. W3C has guidelines for localization [2] and for using RTL script online [3]. [1] http://andreasmhallberg.github.io/typing-arabic-in-vim/ [2] https:/
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by least 4y ago
Interesting. I think it probably hasn't really taken off because there's not really any reason for it to at this point. We have high resolution displays and printers and software that is powerful enough to render and input regular
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by least 4y ago
> Is there an arabic equiv of a 7 segment display? A 7 segment display would have nowhere close to enough resolution to properly render Arabic script. Digital signage would at least be using a low-resolution LED matrix but more likely y
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by least 4y ago
I also thought it might've been about the differences between them, given that Pashto has its own characters unique to its script and Arabic has diacritic marks not used by Farsi or Pahto. This is a different subject, though, that has
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by least 4y ago
> The core issue is people without familiarity with how non-native (to them) script can function - in the English centric world it means assuming one letter == one visual glyph, and the visual glyph won't get a different rendering d
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by least 4y ago
> Well, they used the ⎇ symbol for the “Alt” key, which is also very rare No, they used the ⌥ symbol, which is the option/alt key symbol also established by Apple. All of the symbols they used for their keyboard layout are Apple&#x2
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by least 4y ago
> The author seems to want to use symbols instead of words on keys, so I feel I have to inform them that “^” is not the proper symbol for the “Control” key; rather, the standardized (ISO 9995-7) symbol is “⎈” (2388, HELM SYMBOL). I don&#
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by least 4y ago
Somewhat tangential, but ever since a recent update of the MacOS tailscale client, I've been unable to connect to any other exit nodes. I click on the exit node I'd like to connect to and it just silently fails. I tried making a
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by least 4y ago
I'm glad that there's controls in place to help minimize the issue, but I also know that companies do a good job of making people think that they need to enable settings on their phones that they don't. That's of course
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by least 4y ago
> I completely agree about notification spam being an issue, but why should native apps get a head start over PWAs here? They shouldn't, which is why I think this is an overall positive change. It's mostly that when you add wa
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by least 4y ago
I'm already dumbfounded by the number of notifications I see pop up on relative's screens, this can only add to it. My default is to not allow notifications unless the application has a very good reason for needing it, and even th
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by least 4y ago
> Ever seen a frayed lighting cable? This was due to a particular material they were using that was more environmentally friendly, if I recall correctly. It wasn't just lightning cables, pretty much all of Apple's cables from t
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by least 4y ago
> That's what made 1.6 so wonderful - you could run it on single core Pentium 4 processor and literally anything better. I played CS 1.6 on a Pentium 1 133mhz processor and no discrete gpu and it worked fine, though I did eventually
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by least 4y ago
I remember attending a LAN party a friend was hosting (I couldn't bring my computer because it was a family computer but the friend had an extra PC) but because I would just demolish them, they switched my display to a projector that w
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by least 4y ago
I was around CAL-M level in 1.6 and I never had a surround sound setup, but I'm unconvinced that it has any meaningful benefit over headphones, which worked perfectly fine for intuiting where someone was. That's hardly a real bene
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by least 4y ago
> So Safari has outsized influence over which standards are actually feasible to build an application around. Which, considering the alternative is Google having complete control over the web, I'm quite thankful for. It doesn't
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by least 4y ago
Apologies, then, my knowledge of the state of music services is apparently quite outdated. Has Deezer always offered a free tier? They're not really on my radar. In either case, I do think some of the points the other comment made are
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by least 4y ago
You're right, I do think Spotify connect is an absolutely killer feature that I'm surprised it hasn't been replicated by other companies. I'm a fairly happy Apple Music user but that's definitely one of the things I
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by least 4y ago
Spotify's killer feature at this point is probably that they have an ad-supported tier while none of the other services (that I'm aware of) do... unless you count youtube? I think lyrics was a bit of legal hurdle so Spotify had to
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by least 4y ago
Spotify still hasn't reached feature parity with Spotify when it first came out. Only recently did something as basic as lyrics return. It's still not extensible like it once was.
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by least 4y ago
Dark Reader is available as an extension for Safari on iOS and iPadOS, for what it's worth. I could see why these rules might not apply to iPads, but I don't think they would bother with maintaining that dichotomy for pretty much
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by least 4y ago
F-Droid is an odd one. The apps aren't malware but in my experience most of the apps on it are pretty low quality in at least one area (especially in user interface and experience), but that's a problem prevalent in FOSS in genera
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by least 4y ago
I don't like Marxism but it shouldn't come across as me simply disliking Marxism. I've provided plenty of ideas supporting why I disagree with both Marx and you that you are more than welcome to respond to (so far, you&#x27

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