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by mrec 6y ago
Same here. I (old fogey) use a 1080p 24" monitor with my desktop, and don't feel any particular need for more.
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by mrec 6y ago
It's a petition which Parliament is bound to consider, having passed the magic 100,000-signature threshold. Petitions like this are usually a waste of time for everyone concerned, but the UK's record on digital rights is pretty di
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by mrec 6y ago
Due to limited memory, I think most compression algos have a window of "stuff they've seen recently" which they use to detect duplicates. If the duplicate is of something too far back, it's fallen out of the window and b
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by mrec 6y ago
People who don't know what to do are in danger of being dragged under by the drownee.
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by mrec 6y ago
Fair point, although this example is ephemeral by necessity rather than by design. If you could experience those shows again whenever you felt like it, maybe via some improved VR setup, and share them with your friends/kids/postma
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by mrec 6y ago
It'd be a sadder world if modern audiences could no longer enjoy Homer, or Shakespeare, or P.G. Wodehouse, or Firefly . It'd be a poorer world if current art could no longer build on or remix older art. Does this really need an a
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by mrec 6y ago
Marvellous; I'd never seen this. The format and humour remind me very strongly of the Bird & Fortune (aka The Long Johns) skits here in the UK: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bird+%26+fortun...
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by mrec 6y ago
IIRC it also had an appendix entitled "Testable Predictions", which as a philosophy graduate came as a breath of fresh air.
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by mrec 6y ago
It's good to see experiments along these lines. I really like Wikipedia's recent-ish rich tooltips on link mouseover, and the HTML <summary>/<details> elements deserve to be more widely known. From the demo it loo
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by mrec 6y ago
I'm not even particularly interested in environmental sounds, just turning off the cognitive input for a bit to let the stuff that's already there shake down.
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by mrec 6y ago
Beggars take about a second of eye contact and a slight head shake. Chuggers/leafleters/salespeople you can just ignore completely. I've never had an issue with tourists (London); what kind of conversations do they waylay you
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by mrec 6y ago
Has anyone ever seriously suggested that it isn't OK to take a walk without headphones? I like walking. I walk a lot. I've never in my life worn headphones while doing so.
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by mrec 6y ago
> I've seen many self proclaimed environmentalists straight up advocate and encourage women to never have children for the sake of the planet OK, I think you're talking here about VHEMT [1] and the like, which is only very ta
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by mrec 6y ago
What's "pilotability" in this context?
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by mrec 6y ago
> I seriously fail to understand anti-natalists I think it very much depends on how one experiences life. The two ends of that scale are largely incomprehensible to each other. Your point about "the next Newton" is unrelated,
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by mrec 6y ago
Similar. Built a very complex app officially aimed at oldIE but made a point of ensuring it worked on other browsers too, largely on a skunkworks basis. A few years later (when we're no longer actively working on the app) everyone swit
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by mrec 6y ago
Right. One "proof" advanced by Moon landing conspiracy theorists was that dust settled much faster in videos than it should if it were really in Lunar gravity.
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by mrec 6y ago
Emmanuel Cafferty is one (extreme) example that springs to mind: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin... Also any number of academics, who wouldn't normally be considered cel
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by mrec 6y ago
My SVG is extremely rusty, but it doesn't look as if that xmlns:v="https://vecta.io/nano" serves any purpose besides advertising.
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by mrec 6y ago
It's more of an idle speculation than a serious hypothesis, but... To your 1, I don't know but I wouldn't be surprised. "Value" own-brand ranges are typically packaged to look cheaper and cruder than fancier lines
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by mrec 6y ago
The parent site is definitely cool. I'm currently in the position of looking for somewhere cheap to move to and not really having much in the way of geographical constraints, and other UK sites like Rightmove are decidedly unhelpful th
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by mrec 6y ago
Is it? If it was really that easy to track and identify customers without using loyalty cards, why would they bother with the faff and expense of loyalty cards? I half-wonder whether there's a more pernicious plan which actively wants
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by mrec 6y ago
Don't think it needs a plugin, could just be a one-liner bookmarklet e.g. javascript:window.location.host = "github1s.com";
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by mrec 6y ago
Unfortunately I don't think your last sentence is true. The article itself refers several times to "equity" as a top priority, and that word now refers very explicitly to equality-of-outcome as opposed to equality-of-opportun
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by mrec 6y ago
Not sure if you were just abbreviating, but my understanding is that there's a "Rust" plugin for VS Code which is not the same as the rust-analyzer plugin, is nowhere near as good and yet shows up first in searches.
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by mrec 6y ago
That was '42; the (in)famous Dönitz order below was from November or December '39. > Rescue no one and take no one with you. Have no care for the ships’ boats. Weather conditions and the proximity of land are of no account. Ca
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by mrec 6y ago
> Things like after sinking a ship letting the enemy know where they should come pick up their survivors. This did happen, at least early on, in the Battle of the Atlantic. And some U-boat crews not only stopped to pick up survivors bu
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by mrec 6y ago
I'm working through it now. It's odd; I'm finding it interesting but at the same time, as you say, a real slog. Not sure why. It seems to hop about a lot and I have real trouble keeping track of who's who.
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by mrec 6y ago
That's possible. I don't agree with most of your examples, but only one of them would make me want to reach for a pitchfork, and they're interesting enough to trigger a "hmm, okay, how would that work in practice?"
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by mrec 6y ago
That's certainly controversial, but seems to avoid the major Hot Buttons Of Doom i.e. anything coded on (or insufficiently coded on) the officially important kinds of identity label.

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