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by lelandfe 3y ago
> The research included vintage cars up to 70 years old to see if their less aerodynamic shape meant they killed more bugs, but it found that modern cars actually hit slightly more insects https://www.theguardian.com/en
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by lelandfe 3y ago
Never happened. Thanks Propublica! https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-reforms-free-file-pro...
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by lelandfe 3y ago
It sure does. The repository's standards don't matter one whit until I'm ready to submit my code. I squash, amend, and delete history with aplomb as I develop. I simply do not need to be informed of adherence to code standard
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by lelandfe 3y ago
I turn them off. I commit early and often, and hooks just get in the way.
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by lelandfe 3y ago
Can confirm this is how macOS does it. They remove the file from the stack of Undo actions after it's been modified post-copy.
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by lelandfe 3y ago
> "A couple years ago, I read Beezus and Ramona, by Beverly Cleary. In it, the protagonist writes a letter to Santa: "Dear Santa, I would like a MacBook Pro, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch"" > Describe what is unusu
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by lelandfe 3y ago
Indeed - I took lkbm's comment and removed the "originally published in 1980" bit (too easy), and asked ChatGPT "What's unusual about this paragraph?" > the unusual thing about this paragraph could be that
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by lelandfe 3y ago
> I block YouTube trying to monetise things that are built into the internet and my phone - eg. Video that plays in the background Sounds like the situation is unchanged for you then?
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by lelandfe 3y ago
My lifetime of road trips is just a really inefficient flood fill
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by lelandfe 3y ago
Webkit browsers have `-webkit-font-smoothing: none`. Does an equivalent exist for FF?
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by lelandfe 3y ago
> Vs Code? wtf? there's a lot of other IDEs/editors and many would argue that they are better VS Code is hugely dominant in terms of IDEs used by developers per the StackOverflow survey. It commands more than double the percent
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by lelandfe 3y ago
More or less the plot of Fallen London
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by lelandfe 3y ago
It pretty clearly serves different purposes, given your different reactions to them :)
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by lelandfe 3y ago
This is pretty common. The NYT does this with large stories. I think it’s a nice way to add some mood-setting images and concepts.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
They just mean "load your JS from your own site, not some other person's site"
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by lelandfe 4y ago
> There isn’t a meaningful performance win And is usually a significant performance loss , since starting a new connection to the CDN domain is quite expensive during first page load.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Not to mention the middleground of handmade pieces and putting them together in a randomly generated way. That's how a ton of games work - from Noita, to Cataclysm DDA, to Dead Cells.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
How did you find the articles?
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Uh, sure. Sort of a pedantic side note, but yes: all browsers' default to a fancy page zoom these days. It's even more buried in Chrome. For good reason: using rems or ems in sizing values will cause "text only" zoom t
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Expensive in a few ways. Deferring styles to execution time means users on slow networks or devices will have an absolutely brutal load experience. This might all be an acceptable trade off depending on one's user base, of course!
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Meh. "Add a new breakpoint when things look bad" has worked pretty well for the web for a long time. Also, all browsers these days just do a fancy page zoom instead of directly manipulating font size. It's a much better setup
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Note that while container queries are available in modern browsers' most recent versions, it is still very fresh, with broad support landing in September, and Firefox support just last month: https://caniuse.com/css-c
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Catalyst, fka Marzipan, definitely did not help alleviate the concerns that Apple would prefer for the operating systems to be unified. Them pulling ill-suited features over to macOS, like the Control Center[0] and toggles, also give me pau
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by lelandfe 4y ago
That's a bit handwavey. And the problem for the economy (and the people that make up that economy) lies in the time in between them finding those other jobs.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Most people do jobs that produce junk. Automating them all into unemployment would be disastrous.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
Two of my friends did this and were immediately terminated and ushered out of the building by security. Both were very large companies in the US.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jimderogatis/parents-to... Jim DeRogatis is the person most singly responsible for bringing justice to R Kelly.
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by lelandfe 4y ago
https://pdx.su/blog/2023-04-06-rip-reddit-compact/ They just killed i.reddit.com, the old mobile site. I am fully expecting old.reddit.com to be killed off in the near future as well. It's unfortunate. The re
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by lelandfe 4y ago
That’s one of the bleakest parts in US medical history. Just completely in opposition to the Hippocratic oath. They stood by and watched as so many Black patients died. And all of it was preventable with cheap penicillin. Another thing that
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Workplace fitness trackers allow bosses to monitor your every step (2019)(washingtonpost.com)
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