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by msla 2y ago
My point is, that process of convincing is advertising. So they'll only ban non-political advertising... until they decide your movement isn't political for the purposes of the laws. It's too obvious, and too tempting, a cudg
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by msla 2y ago
Rallies aren't advertisements, now. Well, I suppose that's one loophole. It isn't as if companies can't hold rallies. It isn't as if flash mobs don't exist. And "spreading your message"... what do you
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by msla 2y ago
Too bad Wikipedia made their site less accessible (and less readable) with the recent redesign.
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by msla 2y ago
Well, you have to convince people to vote for you and your policies. How would you do that? How exactly would that work?
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by msla 2y ago
Sans serif fonts can't distinguish between Weird AI and Weird Al, so I don't know what makes them readable.
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by msla 2y ago
The dyslexia fonts don't work: > Researchers put the font to the test, comparing it with two other popular fonts designed for legibility—Arial and Times New Roman—and discovered that the purportedly dyslexia-friendly font actually r
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by msla 2y ago
It looks like every "designer's font" introduced since the designers went insane over the iPhone. Anyway, I'd like sans serif fonts more if they were readable, including being able to distinguish Weird Al from Weird AI.
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by msla 2y ago
I'd like sans serif fonts more if they were readable, including being able to distinguish Weird Al from Weird AI.
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by msla 2y ago
CSV's actual problem is that there's no single CSV, and you don't know what type you have (or even if you have single consistent type through the whole file) without trying to parse the whole file and seeing what breaks. Is t
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by msla 2y ago
It's like the symbol for rain being a "raindrop" that's shaped like a teardrop: Bulbous bottom, with a top that tapers to a point, which is manifestly not the shape rain takes in the air. https://gpm.nasa.gov&
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by msla 2y ago
No? Thinking the world has gotten worse is classic old person chuntering from time immemorial.
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by msla 2y ago
I survived cancer because of modern medical advances. I'll take the world with Rituxan and CAR T-cell therapy, thank you.
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by msla 2y ago
Now imagine how obsessed the people with gasoline cars will look to normal human beings who drive electrics in twenty or so years, if not sooner.
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by msla 2y ago
No, my point is that even if I had the idea (abstract art) I wouldn't be taken seriously as an artist because my art would never make it into galleries. I'm not in the art world, so it doesn't matter what my ideas are.
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by msla 2y ago
Because V and W weren't firmly established as their own letters until later: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V > During the Late Middle Ages, two minuscule glyphs of U developed which were both used for sounds in
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by msla 2y ago
Why was this comment erased? > Here's a topic I don't see people engaging with: I could in principle make the same kinds of completely abstract paintings Pollock did, but if I do it, it won't be art because I'm not in
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by msla 2y ago
> Do you think simply copying a 70 year old idea would make you a world famous artist if you had more connections in art? No, I meant like Pollock in terms of being completely non-representational.
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by msla 2y ago
Here's a topic I don't see people engaging with: I could in principle make the same kinds of completely abstract paintings Pollock did, but if I do it, it won't be art because I'm not in the art world. I have no access t
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by msla 2y ago
Here's the debate in a single compressed text file. https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/historic-linux/ftp-archives/suns...
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by msla 2y ago
> `\` for anonymous functions A one-character ASCII rendering of the Greek lowercase letter lambda: λ λx → x + 5 \x -> x + 5
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by msla 2y ago
> I've never really understood why some C programmers actually care about the standard as such. Because I want the next version of the compiler to agree with me about what my code means. The standard is an agreement: If you write
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by msla 2y ago
More comprehensible: Apple Stops Work on Mac-Connected Augmented Reality Glasses In case you were wondering what "Apple Scraps" are in this context.
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by msla 2y ago
Do the Republicans want us to be having this discussion? Will there be repercussions?
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by msla 2y ago
Aside from the fact it persistently confuses linear time and constant time, it is good.
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by msla 2y ago
Here's a debunking and a history of the myth the ARPANET/Internet was designed to survive nuclear war: http://9ol.es/nuclear-myth.html A bit more: https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/1
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by msla 2y ago
Related: "Fear of Forking" by Rick Moen http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Licensing_and_Law/forking.html
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Completely non-surprising.
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The dividends of damn near everyone who still matters copying Unix and developing similar ideas about subdirectories and filenames and so on. There's still differences between Windows and Everything Else, but it's easier to ignore
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> It is a BASIC based language By which they mean Object Pascal, but I suppose expecting a line-number BASIC these days is a bit much.
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> The R8000 is not a CPU in the traditional sense. It is a processor, but that processor is comprised of many individual chips And retrocomputing geeks (and just any geek sufficiently old) got rueful grins on their faces. This is traditi

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