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lloeki
2y ago
I will naively assume you are commenting in earnest and have missed the (old) news, which is most certainly what GP is referring to: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/cre... Examples of cont
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lloeki
2y ago
and cooling systems. https://onlyfans.web.cern.ch/ EDIT: oh it disappeared... https://web.archive.org/web/20231010131612/https://onlyfans....
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2y ago
Can't recall the exact timeline but: - I think Free had it since forever and a half, although IIRC it was some weird 6rd or something. Freebox v6 (2011) for sure had it, v5 (2006) may had supported it from the start and for sure suppor
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lloeki
2y ago
With such contrast and all, I didn't even notice that "right to object" was a link til late after I took that screenshot. I don't even know if it links to the form page. Also note that "Privacy Policy" has caps
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lloeki
2y ago
> There should be absolutely no reason for Meta not to honor your request. There should be absolutely no reason for Meta to not have "Accept" and "Reject" buttons right there instead of a mere "Close" button
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2y ago
> in a world of multi-monitor setups and common cross application workflows, I find it absolutely bizarre that I might have to scroll across 2+ monitors to get to a dropdown menu for an application that I'm using These days the menu
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lloeki
2y ago
Tell that to the people that decided that Strasbourg should have a cathedral: the whole area is a freaking swamp (water table + sand and clay). Not to fret, they punched 15cm x 1.5m tree trunks into the ground, as if you were standing on a
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lloeki
2y ago
> the ISPs want a stateless solution, so customers get a dynamic prefix. Maintaining the same prefix across power outages needs a stateful solution, so only business plans offer them for an extra fee, much like static ipv4 addresses. I&#
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lloeki
2y ago
To be fair, I don't think it really mattered, I mean there was so much hackery going on (either because of oversight or as performance tricks)† than a pixel off isn't really a problem. † such as https://www.youtube.com&
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2y ago
Microservices provide encapsulation and an API interface, but are not composable the way Unix programs are when e.g called by a Unix shell on a Unix OS. Either microservice A calls into microservice B or there's a glue service calling
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lloeki
2y ago
My memory is fuzzy, there might not even had one at all in the first version. I had one of the first publicly distributed one (on a promo CD) and I remember it sure lacked a lot of stuff that were present down the road, IIRC even early 3dfx
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lloeki
2y ago
I liked the font myself, but as with every such "handwriting" font it sits in an uncanny valley of "sketchy but regular": a given glyph, however sketchy in isolation, always looks exactly the same!
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lloeki
2y ago
From the link: > Radio time signals for setting chronometers were sent from stations such as NAA in Arlington, Virginia, which began broadcasting in 1913. The time was supplied from a direct communication line with the clocks of the U.S.
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2y ago
This proves that the parallelogram diagonals, both being diameters of the same circle, are equal, akho was pointing out that there's a leap from that to "the parallelogram is a rectangle", which can be proven with Thales. But
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2y ago
It is, but Thales is what this article attempts to prove (a). By the point you've proven Thales with isosceles (b), proving that a parallelogram with equal diagonals is a rectangle thanks to Thales(b) in order to go forward along the T
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lloeki
2y ago
> Proving that a parallelogram with equal diagonals is a rectangle is an exercise in itself; I’d prove it through Thales’ theorem, myself.. IIRC you prove it via angles. a) The sum of angles of any triangle is pi. b) The sum of angles of
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lloeki
2y ago
> It's been around for at least a decade I just logged into tunnelbroker.net to check: my HE account has been registered November 22, 2010 11:30:00 UTC. Today it's unused because IPv6 is basically always available in France. Th
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2y ago
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming
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lloeki
2y ago
I remember those as far back as filesystems were 8.3 all caps, so D would not rotate to P though.
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2y ago
I assumed it was short for "distribution", stylised.
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2y ago
That, and at night a LED device is literally putting a flashlight in direct line of sight, which does not help in making one sleepy (even with night mode stuff cutting some blue light it's still a flashlight, albeit tinted) so more pot
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2y ago
If I may indulge in some silly OCD feedback: the hero animation with pages turning has the shadow on the top right line up with the corner, which makes it as if the device has an inset chamfered bezel, which I feel is of disservice to the d
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lloeki
2y ago
> There is a belief that removing graffiti quickly discourages it. If graffiti artists find that their work won't last long, they may be discouraged from doing it in the first place. Ephemerality is known, understood, accepted, and
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lloeki
2y ago
In french we occasionally portmanteau -itis (often qualified with "acute" or "mild"), for a comedic yet genuinely emphatic effect. e.g: acute dumbitis/boreditis/tireditis
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2y ago
At least bears have "hands", I seem to remember crows pose a similar challenge, defeating garbage can locks that could be straight out of a Myst puzzle. Positive that a non-negligible portion of the human population would be hopel
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2y ago
> They're also going to be the ones coming back with all sorts of game likely raising prestige, increasing odds of procreating, and so on. Or more simply, the actual food to feed one's mate(s) and offsprings, further fostering
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2y ago
Here's an old (14yo!) BBC Earth documentary about it: > Human beings are a particular type of mammal. In this compelling clip, we see a tribesman runner pursue his prey through the most harsh conditions in a gruelling eight hour cha
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2y ago
> We didn't sign a termsheet, and we didn't calculate the impact. Which is very much like going to the bank and trusting it that it's going to be ok without looking at numbers; or going to a mob shark for a loan, but it&#x
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2y ago
There was no zoom in Command & Conquer (1995) :p
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2y ago
Reminds me of USB Overdrive, a very nice piece of software that also covers e.g gamepads. Got a license back in the day to make some mouse that had a strange always-down button 14 behave. https://www.usboverdrive.com/
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