lukepothier

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by lukepothier 5y ago
This isn't how driving works in practice. Suddenly stopping on a fast freeway isn't a reasonable thing to do unless it's absolutely necessary, and it's not reasonable to expect the following driver to constantly be consi
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by lukepothier 5y ago
I thought I and all my colleagues were getting 500s, but then I checked the status page and saw a green check. Silly me!
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by lukepothier 5y ago
Recent discussion on the same topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25946103
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by lukepothier 6y ago
What's the best way to prevent this for Chrome? Can the F-Cache be disabled entirely? Otherwise, would a Tampermonkey script or Chrome extension which just GETs /favicon.ico on every page load work? EDIT: Seems to be preventable
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by lukepothier 6y ago
> fonts are larger than you might think because they need full Unicode support Correct me if I'm misunderstanding, but don't the vast majority of fonts _not_ include full Unicode support, or even close to it? I know of GNU Unif
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by lukepothier 6y ago
Maybe I'm being naïve, but why don't browsers ship with more popular fonts bundled to avoid problems like these? I have no issue with any of my browsers taking up fractionally more space for an extensive cache of the most popular
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by lukepothier 9y ago
Of course. I know even more who whitelist sites with ads that aren't overbearing.
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by lukepothier 9y ago
StackOverflow ads are not the same as typical ads that technical users tend to block - they are typically just simple text links to job offers. Additionally, SO has fantastic analytics on logged in users which would drive the cost per impre
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by lukepothier 9y ago
> I'm personally not sure which VPN providers are supposed to be trustworthy to begin with. I can recommend Mullvad[1] which takes none of your information for registration, and which ticks all the right boxes on That One Privacy Si
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by lukepothier 9y ago
There are a few more for numeric types: var integer = 1; var long = 1l; var float = 1f; var double = 1d; var decimal = 1m; var unsignedInteger = 1u; var unsignedLong = 1ul;
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by lukepothier 9y ago
Fingers crossed it has desktop clients that aren't written in Electron...
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by lukepothier 9y ago
That's interesting, and a relief.
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by lukepothier 9y ago
If it's true that Chrome on Oreo genuinely prevents picture-in-picture for YouTube specifically , that's a troubling precedent to set. Why not allow all websites to enable/disable PiP (maybe via a meta tag, in the way that t
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by lukepothier 10y ago
The entire Southern Hemisphere gets light on December mornings. The summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere is during December.
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by lukepothier 10y ago
> "One can walk just about the whole way from Mumbai to Kolkata without stepping foot outside a constituency whose MP isn’t facing a charge." So there's a line of clean constituencies from Mumbai to Kolkota? That 'isn