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by mgdlbp 4y ago
CNN still has its very first pages from 1995 http://www.cnn.com/EVENTS/timeline/ Its site design in the early 2000s was much like the BBC's http://www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing&#x2
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Don't forget the most common pedal-controlled electric (and now electronic) appliance, the sewing machine! In that case, the speed control pedal was a natural development from earlier machines powered by treadles and bicycle-like pedal
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
FWIW the abbreviations listed in Wiktionary are f.e. and f.ex.
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_shitgibbons [^] --> Category:Shitgibbons_by_language [v] --> Category:German_shitgibbons [v] --> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Arschgeige
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Are they now redirecting (from scp-wiki.net and scpwiki.com) to the Wikidot URL for SEO?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The Scots Wikipedia issue isn't straightforward at all. For one, considering the sheer effort spent in 170 000 edits over a decade, it's quite possible that the editor was acting in severely misguided good faith. More importantly,
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
>>31892421 (OP) >implying https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Also: the Internet Archive's crawler (Heritrix) implements link extractors for HTML, XML, CSS, JS, PDF, Word document, and even Shockwave Flash. Heritrix extractor Javadocs: https://www.javadoc.io/doc/org.archive.h
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
There are several tools for viewing them, primarily based on Pushshift, an apparently individual-run database that grabs whatever it can from the Reddit API, usually within a few minutes. The frontends come and go; currently the major ones
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
How old? The commercial aspect was already inseparable from the rise of the web in the mid-90s...countless startups of the dot-com boom scrambling to find a niche to turn a profit from. Many an interesting site shut down upon failing to do
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
I thought I'd seen those in stations of a different Asian metro...had a look around for photos.* In the few systems I checked, 3D maps can be seen in Beijing Subway,[1] Seoul Metro,[2] and Shanghai Metro;[3] plus this station in Tokyo,
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Are there wired electronic keys? No wireless vulnerabilities, and no picking, either. There'd be something like opto-isolated data and a separate circuit powering the key to protect the lock electronics. Edit: This concept is called a
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
In all the unpickable designs so far, various (potential) attacks are enabled by the ability to manipulate parts connected to each pin/disc/etc using tools held in the hand. So why not make a lock where the mechanism can't be
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
According to the video's pinned comment thread, that lock was sent to LockPickingLayer a few months ago, who never responded. I suppose, from my cousin comment, that it's with the other locks LPL can't pick yet .
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
LPL was actually challenged a year ago with unpickable prototypes made by an engineering YouTuber, Stuff Made Here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ecy1FBdCRbQ (see also description)
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
A rationale for custom notation from Merriam-Webster's Twitter:[1] > IPA has some problems if you grew up speaking English: some of the symbols can be deeply confusing. > For example: the symbol 'i' (lower-case 'i&
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Per the other thread, the interpuncts mark accepted end-of-line hyphenation positions, not syllables. Merriam-Webster does also indicate syllable breaks with hyphens in its pronunciations, which I assume are (some variant of?) Americanist n
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Only wanted to look up etymology at first https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/concision hmm... 1. ( somewhat rare ) Conciseness, brevity or terseness. 2. A form of media censorship where discussions are limited in topics o
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
There should be little current through the battery while the phone is plugged in, virtually none if the charger can meet its peak power draw. If degradation over time is a concern (perhaps it boot loops if the battery is very dead), a charg
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Relative age effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
> > understand GP's statement is quite true with that wording, though expected for any video software; there's no way a tooltip could adequately explain chroma subsampling choices, frame types, or lavfi filtergraph syntax, f
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
The meaning of lag is notoriously varied--I think GP understood it as a consistent delay, and you and GGP are saying that OBS introduces an inconsistent delay, i.e., dropped frames or stuttering. The one using the virtual camera should be a
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Kind of like DNS over Wikipedia whereisscihub.now.sh ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409674 ) https://github.com/aaronjanse/dns-over-wikipedia ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Note that youtube-dl's workaround tends to be broken due to lack of maintenance, and currently even yt-dlp doesn't work on the most severe of the 'tiers' of age restriction.[1] The less/non-anonymous method of using
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Re: Phillips drive, it's actually a common misconception that this was an intentional feature of the design. The original patent for the driver[1] specifically describes resistance to "camming out" (seemingly in the modern
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by mgdlbp 4y ago
Coincidentally posted 2 days ago: https://github.com/zerodytrash/Simple-YouTube-Age-Restrictio... > This extension uses some API tricks to access age-restricted videos from YouTube anonymously.
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Human Placentophagy(en.wikipedia.org)
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You just sent me on one of the oddest paths to gathering research on something I've ever taken. :P The song reminded me of a much more recent one, Jonathan Coulton's "First of May", which I decided to look up the inspira
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VLC media player should be able to handle them. It inherits its broad support for codecs and containers obsolete and obscure from the FFmpeg libraries that it's based on. You can also transcode/remux to a newer codec/containe
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Some are collected at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_name#Commercial

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