mallaidh

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by mallaidh 9y ago
And here, we went from being able to get ABC from literally anywhere in the house without the antenna extended to having to get the position right when in a good location; we also lost plenty of other channels.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
People will still remember when they were able to get more OTA channels, because analog signals degrade when weak instead of being non-decodeable.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Correction, Mastodon has used ActivityPub instead of OStatus since version 1.6, only using OStatus to communicate with software such as GNU Social that doesn't support ActivityPub.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
It's how Whitney's always done it: http://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Essays/Incunabulum
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Now for smashing magazine to change their font colors to #000, for legibility's sake.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
I'm having none of these problems, it's more legible than all of the "modernized" websites I've seen. Reasonable serif font, pure black text, pure white background. More legible than any posts on here, with the choi
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Why does it need to look "modern?" If it's not broken, why try fixing it?
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by mallaidh 9y ago
"a car you can put your kid into to drive them to school" Also known as a schoolbus.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
I prefer curl -s "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$1" | jq ".[0] .price_$1" | sed 's/\"//g' for silent curl and no quotes in output. Unfor
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by mallaidh 9y ago
And the Roadster doesn't have real side skirts to seal up the tunnel, which significantly degrades any diffuser downforce.
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ARISS Moves One Step Closer to Flying New Ham Equipment to ISS(arrl.org)
1 points by mallaidh 9y ago|0 comments
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by mallaidh 9y ago
It's text-only when you use http://thin.npr.org
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by mallaidh 9y ago
externalities are inherently costs/benefits, the only thing that's different is who is affected.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Amp doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of best practices, what is new is agglomerating even more online content under Google's control via caching. Lightweight page design never became impossible, it's simply th
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Unless it's a dictionary attack.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
It's definitely empirically true, and you've got a vague anecdote to prove it.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Multiple people in one place can still be completely wrong. Concussive events are what matter when it comes to CTE; many of them occur without physical contact to the head just as impacts to the skull may not have concussive effects on the
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by mallaidh 9y ago
That has nothing to do with aspects considered in the context of linguistics, however.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
That's exactly what they're doing: http://www.businessinsider.com/verizon-netflix-youtube-throt...
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by mallaidh 9y ago
And urban streets used to be for pedestrians first, until the automotive industry lobbied to create the crime of "jaywalking."
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Funny how that changes all of a sudden, with the whole history of printing being an effort to get as close as possible to perfectly black ink on perfectly white paper.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
If you're implying what I think you are, that's still not justification for torturing the aforementioned person.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Even a week is too long, the effects on the brain can be measured by EEG within a few days, specifically a state of stupor and delirium. The psychological effects are dangerous and permanent.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Slavery was specifically written into the 13th amendment: "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place
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by mallaidh 9y ago
A note: Herman Wallace was released on October 1, 2013 because of advanced liver cancer. The state reindicted him on October 3, but he died the next day a free man. Albert Woodfox was released in February 2016. The Angola 3 were held in sol
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by mallaidh 9y ago
And that's exactly why there is power in a union, to quote Joe Hill; it has the potential to turn the situation around.
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by mallaidh 9y ago
And for a third example, Busybox's implementation: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/coreutils/yes.c
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by mallaidh 9y ago
"Cultural Marxism" is nothing more than a fringe-right conspiracy theory that develops into antisemitism at its worst. [1] [1] https://web.archive.org/web/20040217231449/http://www.splcen...
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by mallaidh 9y ago
Medium is hardly a paragon of lightweight page design, though.
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Escape charge dismissed because state didn’t prove prison’s location(loweringthebar.net)
4 points by mallaidh 9y ago|0 comments

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