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by mcbits 9y ago
Or a mouse. I'm getting too old to enjoy playing the maze game with 20px nested drop-down menus or Operation with toolbars and razor-thin scrollbars.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Rural America has a similar kind of "brain drain" phenomenon as developing nations, although it might be more apt to call it "ambition drain" as there isn't the same artificial selection as with international migrat
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by mcbits 9y ago
By "park" you mean "invest" in (hopefully) productive participants in the economy. It arguably makes sense to seize wealth that's being invested in ways that are harmful to society and divert it into investments tha
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by mcbits 9y ago
You can buy it in the same sense that you can simply buy cigarettes. Just the documentation requirements are different.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Suppose you have a 5 Mbps data budget, 1080p display, and 4k source material. You will get better quality by first downsampling the 4k to 1080p and then compressing and distributing the result. If you compress and distribute the 4k, followe
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by mcbits 9y ago
To make 100 round trips between Houston and Austin, a total of about 33,000 miles, in 24 hours, the train would have to average 1,375 MPH.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Patreon itself seems to be going strong, but I've only seen a handful of users making anything close to a livable income, and I check out profiles almost every time someone plugs theirs. Usually it's a laughably small amount. The
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by mcbits 9y ago
My reading must be off, then. Is "under any Necessary Claims" the magic phrase?
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by mcbits 9y ago
I've read it, and I'm pretty sure it says that if you initiate a patent lawsuit against Facebook, you lose the license to use React at all. It doesn't revert to BSD. (EDIT: Apparently that's wrong although the license co
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by mcbits 9y ago
Wikipedia's banner ads have grown effectively into full-page interstitials. And then after I blocked the first one, there was a second one embedded in the article.
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by mcbits 9y ago
More like 5%, but it's high enough that if you measure your coffee intake in pots/day then there is still enough caffeine for physical effects and dependence.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Microsoft/LinkedIn has so much more juicy and actually private data that nobody can scrape, I don't understand why they would even make a scene and tarnish their image over scraping. They know who declines connection requests fr
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by mcbits 9y ago
Maybe things are getting better these days (?), but at various points throughout its history, anyone could update your WordPress site from their phone in China.
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by mcbits 9y ago
Maybe they put people on a raft and sent them out to sea as a form of punishment or sacrifice, and some of them made it across. If it was a common enough practice, it wouldn't take long for survivors to start meeting and multiplying.
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by mcbits 9y ago
I probably would when talking about the first people in those specific places. Or the first Europeans in Europe, Africans in Africa, Asians in Asia, Americans in the Americas, etc. "American" also describes the citizens of that on
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by mcbits 9y ago
I can't parse what you're saying. Are you splitting hairs over the word "American"? Context matters, and the context is obvious here.
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by mcbits 9y ago
The known universe was 13.7 billion years old until a couple years ago. Either way, we're still talking +/- tens of millions of years with 68% confidence. At 95%, the interval is something closer to a billion years. Unless they&#x
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by mcbits 9y ago
He also doesn't sound very excited about the name, but "it was already hard enough to settle on this name" is reasonable enough I guess. I wonder what they would have come up with without the self-imposed constraint to sound
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by mcbits 9y ago
Diluting the trademark is an interesting thought, but I'm pretty sure it would backfire. After all that effort, it will still take a court battle just to gamble on proving the trademark generic. The lawyers will dig up threads like t
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by mcbits 9y ago
Based on the other usages in the article, it looks like some kind of link syntax like in markdown or wikitext, but it isn't being parsed/replaced. If so, then it just means "counterintuitive."
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by mcbits 9y ago
If your app ever gets popular and causes unreasonable traffic to your GitHub repo, or if GitHub decides they hate you for any other reason, your app will work only by GitHub's mercy and generosity.
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by mcbits 9y ago
So, it appears the problem is that OpenOffice still has all the brand recognition, while LibreOffice suffers from a lack of awareness. The chances are slim to none that LibreOffice will ever be able adopt the OpenOffice trademark. I think t
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by mcbits 9y ago
If you cover one eye and look at the image of two concentric circles, it gives a slightly exaggerated illustration of how I see text with both eyes open due to misalignment. That's why I hate two-space indentation with a passion. Savin
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by mcbits 9y ago
My fingers are pretty well trained for typing - around 100 WPM, 120 on a good day. As I say, I've tried tweaking my technique for special cases, but it just makes typing more laborious for little or no gain. It could be different for o
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by mcbits 9y ago
Is that how you actually type, or are you speculating? With regular home row typing, e-x-a is 3-4-5, which are the hardest fingers to "drum", and even harder on three different rows. I've tried micro-optimizing special cases
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by mcbits 9y ago
> How many kids looking forward to $130k/yr jobs would choose to join a gang instead? I agree with the your overall comment, but this part is setting up unrealistic expectations. You should be asking "How many kids looking forw
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by mcbits 9y ago
I haven't used their app, but I use the desktop site with the custom subreddit CSS option disabled because otherwise I wouldn't be able to tolerate it. Even /r/webdev is more usable with the default styles, and the ones
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by mcbits 9y ago
> I envision a future where we are all sending ad-company created gifs to each other without even noticing that they're created by ad companies. I thought something like that was already happening in the form of PR firms producing c
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by mcbits 9y ago
GIFs use LZW compression, which is the part that was patented. I think the main problem is that the dithering necessary to make 256 colors look good introduces a lot of high-frequency noise, making the compression less effective.
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by mcbits 9y ago
But both of those articles also start with "When I ..."

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