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duo-space indent ⟹ monospace text https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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HN strips the variation selectors—there aren't any in your comment (also, they go after, like combining characters). What do you see here? https://qaz.wtf/u/show.cgi?show=15%3A%E2%86%94%EF%B8%8E+16%3... Edit: I th
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Interestingly, SLICE OF PIZZA (and many other unlisted emojis) can render as text for me (on Windows 10). Did Microsoft implement them out-of-spec? Here along with FIRE EXTINGUISHER , which doesn't: https://qaz.wtf&#x2F
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Good old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalyp... Makes a good keyword for finding related previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=infocalypse&prefix=true&sort
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Unicode already has a way to specify that emoji should be rendered black-and-white for consistency with surrounding text: affixing the combining character U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 (examples[0]). Some touch keyboards have the text-styl
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Highly recommend Kim Stanley Robinson's novel Aurora , an exploration of precisely these concepts written in the fascinating perspective of a generation ship's AI instructed to narrate its journey.
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They stopped giving out the monthly allowance of 10 links to free accounts in 2019.[1] New accounts now can archive 10 links, and that's it. You might have access through a registered institution (e.g., libraries and universities get i
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But the second driver of a tiller truck only steers the rear wheels, more like the pilot of a glider being towed.
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Both the Wayback Machine and archive.today handle redirects by recording the redirect under the redirecting URL and recording the actual snapshot under the final URL (neither perfectly, though—see below).[0][1] And a short URL that occurs m
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Like https://archive.ph/ivKNO ? I've actually never seen a long link from archive.today in the wild: http://archive.is/2022.04.26-061642/https://news.ycombinator... (For the unaware, the
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The problems with url shorteners https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=545565 – 2009-04 (56 comments) URL Shorteners – the herpes of the web https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=570041 – 2009-04 (17 comm
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And considering how VB.NET was incorporated first-class besides C#, Roslyn seems rather ahead of its time, with both language abstraction at the compiler level and language-agnostic analysers based on semantic info. I still can't get o
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And the course of Web 2.0 so far makes for a perfect case study of this form of community dynamics. Regardless of how this goes, it'll go down in history, and Musk is well aware of that.
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I find that I'm able to deliberately structure my thoughts in what feels like a string of real English words without much difficulty, yet I have a very similar feeling of being slowed down when I attempt to speak those thoughts out lou
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I've noticed that whenever I find a bit music particularly enjoyable on the first listen, my enjoyment at listening to it declines sharply within a couple days and will never again as high. I guess it's like the idea of ruining a
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Styrofoam almost perfectly demonstrates the issues of recyclability and suitability for food containers that also apply to plastics in general: (Note that what we generically call styrofoam is expanded polystyrene (XPS), which isn't
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But it's also these extreme cases that most expand the limits of our medical understanding and ability, such advancement being analogous to dividends that will pay out for all eternity. The Wikipedia page does mention Bågenholm's
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And today's lucky 10 000 are thankful for your doing so. https://xkcd.com/1053/
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Even though HN recently added the prev / next buttons, I find it much more convenient being able to click on the indentation bar in Reddit to collapse the comment that the bar drops from. Specifically, I often decide partway down a t
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pragmatics
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Their website shows heavy influence from Swiss design, [1] with grid-based layouts and ragged-right lowercase grotesque type. I actually haven't seen such a textbook example since Microsoft's Metro. [2] [1] https://en.w
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I wonder why despite their ubiquity, there's almost no public awareness of polymers and their properties (outside of 3D printing enthusiasts), especially when compared to woods or metals. [a] I'm reminded of this by the slight mis
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The realistic detail I remember from that movie is that the drones had plausible-looking reaction control thrusters (like those from missile interceptors [1]). There's a behind-the-scenes video that mentions the idea and has some (spoi
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https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q467
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Huh? Couldn't anyone just re-encode the lossy version? Though with some generation loss, since a transparent lossy encoding presumably would also preserve any watermarks.
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I unfortunately can only affirm with my experiences: well engineered exterior feel, but plagued by unreliable hardware. My Surface Pro 4 managed to simultaneously experience flickergate and battery expansion, and the soft surface of its key
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But don't you think a query containing the exact name of a website is fairly likely in search of content from that site? In terms of recognizing user intent, I'd consider the need to use a search operator here a failing. I comme
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I noticed some time ago that Google refuses to offer up Encyclopedia Dramatica unless you use the site: operator. There was some drama in 2010 over ED being censored in Australia, but it looks like Google has since quietly delisted it compl
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The workaround for vanilla youtube-dl is to use it with aria2, with options like: --external-downloader aria2c --external-downloader-args "-
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Making a private repo public could also be delayed.

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