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by lozenge 4y ago
You can say anything in China as long as you don't question the legitimacy of the Party's right to govern. The people who get disappeared are people who organize protests or try to sue the government. Not people who just attend pr
782.
by lozenge 4y ago
There used to be a lot of experimental keyboards but the invention of swipe typing seems to have killed most of them. https://gizmodo.com/12-smartphone-keyboards-that-are-trying-...
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by lozenge 4y ago
Shall we start having Apple certified power sockets now in case a dangerous socket misbehaves and fries your electronics?
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by lozenge 4y ago
If CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER A deserves a code point despite being so similar to LATIN SMALL LETTER A, why doesn't a Japanese character that actually looks different from a Chinese one get a codepoint? And the idea that something can have
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by lozenge 4y ago
Duolingo has 500+ employees, surely they can afford a 5 person Spanish team to actually write content for their most popular language?
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by lozenge 4y ago
What happens when you get stopped and searched in the UK (probable cause isn't a factor here) and they find a "special encryption" phone?
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by lozenge 4y ago
The revenue of the developer is the cost paid by the users. They are one and the same. We can't say that subscriptions help keep developers in work without also saying they are costing users.
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by lozenge 4y ago
I think the Go developers argued for it very well, but there is a reason they decided to go with opt-out, so calling it a mistake makes no sense to me unless you address that reason.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Yes, the author of the article makes the mistake of... not listening to or responding to what the other side thinks, just because she disagrees with them. No concern was addressed in her article.
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by lozenge 4y ago
I just opened Chrome to a news website and got 400MB of usage on the "GPU Process", 150MB on the "tab" process, and 100MB on the "browser" process. In Electron the webpage doesn't have access to native API
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by lozenge 4y ago
They laid off 300 developers including some of the most experienced ones.
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by lozenge 4y ago
This might sound stupid, but why would you take less than a week off in two years? Actually, why not take off something more like eight weeks?
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by lozenge 4y ago
They aren't going to talk are they? But I think the Lularoe documentary covered some of this.
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by lozenge 4y ago
> The new trading relationship between the UK and EU, as set out in the ‘Trade and Cooperation Agreement’ (TCA) that came into effect on 1 January 2021, will reduce long-run productivity by 4 per cent relative to remaining in the EU. &gt
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's meaningless to say that users didn't want them when PWA were so difficult to install and every company was forced to invest in writing a native app instead. Of course users prefer native apps but they're incredibly expen
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by lozenge 4y ago
There's a startup that combines a 2 week FreeStyle sensor with some blood tests, online courses and other things aimed at improving your diet. https://joinzoe.com/ Now that I know how little the sensor costs, I would s
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by lozenge 4y ago
You definitely can report an underage user.
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's not like HTTP stops working if you choose to send something besides HTML. Most of its features still work and make sense for JSON payloads and the usual building blocks still work (eg HTTPS, load balancers, proxies, status codes,
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by lozenge 4y ago
The only way to continue supporting all those things is to never change anything. Even if all the APIs are still around, are they going to be bug-compatible?
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by lozenge 4y ago
It has more to do with the Dutch gaining their wealth through colonising their underclass, instead of what the US did which was import an underclass as slaves. Well, they did enslave Africans, but they were sold to the Americas instead of b
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by lozenge 4y ago
Where's the evidence this difference is specifically due to the population or "size" of the country rather than history, culture and any other factors? It's like you put two countries on a scatter plot and drew a line fr
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by lozenge 4y ago
Are you not interested in contributing to existing projects like Postgres, CPython... or being able to use the many libraries with C APIs?
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by lozenge 4y ago
It seems like AWS isn't good with cross cutting concerns. Eg instead of Cloudformation being part of a service during development, that they could even use during testing the service, every team creates a custom api and cf is an aftert
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by lozenge 4y ago
Are there any URL fields in the form, even if the URL doesn't come out onto the page? Could they be sending HTML that your blog is stripping out?
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by lozenge 4y ago
The point of the book is to entertain, not to make someone feel scared and like an outsider. Dahl also made changes for this reason.
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by lozenge 4y ago
You're reading it today, when big noses don't immediately make you think of antisemitic stereotypes, /because that's not what antisemitism is today/. When the books were written, it was. The thrust of your argument
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's difficult to tell whether this is a stage or a permanent feature in media. Look at black representation - there was a time where they would either be black stereotypes or just be normal characters with black actors but no referenc
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by lozenge 4y ago
Both examples use the word male as an adjective. The right example would be "He was a boisterous male."
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by lozenge 4y ago
It's not silent, they added a note in the copyright section. Which as a child, was oddly interesting to me.
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by lozenge 4y ago
OK, but how does an Indian child feel reading that, who has their name mispronounced every day (sometimes carelessly, sometimes with profuse apologies, sometimes deliberately), and knowing that Pondicherry could never be the name of an Indi

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