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by lelandfe 2y ago
Wow, that was an aggravating read. I don’t think I would have been able to keep my composure. Is/was that user notable on that forum?
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Decades later, John Romero looks back at the birth of the first-person shooter(arstechnica.com)
4 points by lelandfe 2y ago|2 comments
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by lelandfe 2y ago
They are way ahead of you: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Wire-guided_missile
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by lelandfe 2y ago
The courts will be pleased as punch to hear it is that easy /s
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Nice one, this was new to me. Looks like as em has rem, cap also has rcap for deriving the value from the root font.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Not much here, and a lot of the (overwrought) commentary comes off as stilted/immature: > Rather than say something sensible like, “art isn’t defined by merit,” or, “not all art has to have a message behind it, art can simply be,”
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by lelandfe 2y ago
…on Pornhub? Why does it matter?
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Struggling to find it now, but one of the crazier scams I’ve seen was for an NFT company who was making, IIRC, cards. A person joined their Discord claiming to be a former Ubisoft 3D designer and was confirmed by other former coworkers. The
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by lelandfe 2y ago
There are more "one-party consent" states than two-. Notably for HN's crowd California requires all parties be aware: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_call_recording_laws#One... I am in NY, a one-par
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by lelandfe 2y ago
My local gym ducked my calls, ignored my emails, and then after finally canceling, actually restarted my membership two months later. Gyms thrive on those bad with finances, people who don’t know what services they subscribe to.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Mind the s: http://literateprogramming.com/
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by lelandfe 2y ago
It really feels like companies' Terms & Conditions just serve as canaries at this point, only indicating to users when they begin to be taken advantage of. Like, why even say something as clear-cut as "Sonos does not and w
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Unix – The Hole Hawg (1999)(team.net)
2 points by lelandfe 2y ago|0 comments
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Agreed: .cell * { color: black !important; } .cell:not(.lede) { background-color: white !important; background-image: none !important; height: auto !important; border: 0 !important; }
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by lelandfe 2y ago
I.e. where one would make a bookmark, you make a copy? That's interesting. Videos and all?
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Remarkable writing considering OP is just NaN
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Levels.fyi has no Paris salaries @ Google >$292k (for a 12y tenure) https://www.levels.fyi/t/software-engineer/locations/greater...
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Oh yeah, there's pull requests now (2008)(github.blog)
2 points by lelandfe 2y ago|0 comments
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Hmmm, I'm not so sure. If bots are perfectly mimicking humans then instead of a dark forest, it's more like a forest with a noisemaker fitted to each tree.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
In Chrome Dev Tools, we can inspect those glyphs by scrolling to the bottom of the Computed styles tab. The sibling commenter is correct: they don't exist in the font yet, and are falling back to the browser default: https:/&#x2F
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by lelandfe 2y ago
I can pay you by tapping the top of my iPhone to the top of your iPhone. https://youtu.be/Own9MiaP57o?t=270
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by lelandfe 2y ago
2021, a classic, “we made a whoopsie” response. https://theguardian.com/technology/2021/jun/04/microsoft-bin...
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by lelandfe 2y ago
You know what must feel weird? Being one of the folks paid to lobby against changes like this.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
I am pretty sure that TikTok causes the iOS “Please share your contacts” modal to appear when they believe you are most likely about to tap the area where the “Agree” button appears. The amount of dark patterns they have is approaching in
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by lelandfe 2y ago
> I’d love to go edit the Wikipedia article and set the record straight… But would that count as “primary research”? Would the edit be reverted because it disagrees with most of the web? Does publishing this post mean editing wikipedia
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by lelandfe 2y ago
I... yes? I'm sure their ToS covers opening a file. That page is not talking about filesystem access, however.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
It would certainly be a pretty wild turn of events if the sources for this story were all lying. That the reporter themselves had already been given a quid pro quo request to drop a previous story is telling, though.
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by lelandfe 2y ago
> this is and remains an extremely common hand gesture routinely used by people with no racist overtones Yep, agreed > no, this has not escaped containment in to the real world > Trolls continue to use it ?
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by lelandfe 2y ago
Self-replying since the sibling is getting buried. What they say: > Access is needed for Adobe applications and services to perform the functions they are designed and used for (such as opening and editing files for the user or creating
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by lelandfe 2y ago
> Not to diminish the value that a DJ brings Proceeds to diminish DJs’s value. A mix isn’t a playlist, nor a platform. Comparing a DJ’s mix to a retail store hawking individual songs makes it seem like you don’t have much appreciation fo

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