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by needle0 5y ago
Then there are the people whose names ARE in Kanji, thankyouverymuch. Ah, no big deal, there's only around 1.6 billion of us.
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by needle0 5y ago
Wait, is this the same Kagi that used to provide shareware payment processing services some decades ago? Edit: Hmm, I guess not https://www.macrumors.com/2016/08/01/kagi-shuts-down/
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by needle0 5y ago
The iTunes service/app in Japan also has a bad habit of automatically converting western artist names into their Japanese transliterated equivalents (eg. Billy Joel → ビリー・ジョエル) despite me not asking for it. Some tracks in your library
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by needle0 5y ago
It IS x86.
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by needle0 5y ago
One advantage of commonly known licenses and their legalese is that it allows people who don't speak the same language to still collaborate without talking to each other in their non-native tongues, through understanding and adhering t
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by needle0 5y ago
"Hiding certain sections like "Watch Now" is NEVER going to happen. Don't be delusional." It's already available: https://www.howtogeek.com/509468/how-to-remove-icons-from-th...
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by needle0 5y ago
"There could even be an option to hide the most distracting parts of an app, like Facebooks video tab" The iPhone Facebook app DOES currently let you hide certain icons in the shortcut bar, including the Watch, Events, Groups, Pro
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by needle0 5y ago
To Firefox only. Switching to Brave does not improve the Chromium engine hegemony.
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by needle0 5y ago
…and then management asks you to make a Nintendo Switch version.
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by needle0 5y ago
Oh boy, god knows how many international text rendering bugs this is going to uncover
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by needle0 5y ago
Even putting aside the performance issue, Apple and gaming have never worked together quite well. Apple's modus operandi of quickly and frequently deprecating old architectures and requiring app developers to constantly keep up goes do
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by needle0 5y ago
What disgusts me perhaps even more than seeing all those people in the US flinging hatred at each other is just how thoroughly they've armed themselves in all sorts of logic(?) to justify that flinging more and more intense hatred is t
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by needle0 5y ago
Maybe so, but that still doesn't change that PoS on Ethereum itself has been "coming soon" forever. Until the switch actually happens in full, it's still a power-guzzling PoW chain.
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by needle0 5y ago
A domain where its default home page is a PDF? That's a new one... ps. And I'm not buying the "environmentally friendly" argument until proof-of-stake is actually live and completely displaces PoW in mainline production.
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by needle0 6y ago
Though, wouldn't the BTC price fluctuating in the wrong direction one day instantly blow past whatever transaction fee there is? It seems way too volatile for long-term storage...
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by needle0 6y ago
I get the historical relevance and figurehead aspect, but to follow your example, nobody actually uses the early first computers (ENIAC, UNIVAC, Altair, etc.) anymore -- everyone today uses their improved descendants. Why hasn't the sa
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by needle0 6y ago
But aren't those benefits also available in other cryptocurrencies that came later, with various added features and capabilities (eg. anonymity, stability, DApps, etc.) thanks to the benefit of hindsight? Why haven't the cryptocur
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by needle0 6y ago
After all the years I'm still having trouble comprehending what Bitcoin - and Bitcoin in specific - is useful for aside from speculation. I get that Ethereum and several other cryptocurrencies have the ability to execute code on the bl
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by needle0 6y ago
The wisdom of the article aside, pg's web page seems ripe for a redesign...it's odd to see the line widths being so narrow in the era of wide HD monitors
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by needle0 6y ago
You should switch to Firefox than to keep using a browser whose owners are pretty obviously trying to kill uBO.
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by needle0 6y ago
Yeah, it's sad that the author of xBrowserSync seems to be against implementing Safari support.
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by needle0 6y ago
This discussion is quite the testament to the incredible influence of Comic Sans when people are raising fuss over it when it’s not even the topic of the thread!
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by needle0 6y ago
That this installation was conceived as an advertisement for the Sharp SH-08C, a 3G mobile phone that's long been obsoleted, discontinued and forgotten, and that the installation itself holds up nearly a decade later, kinda makes you t
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by needle0 6y ago
Though not many people would've had have access to a Cray X-MP back in its time, and certainly not to use it for compression in creating a hobbyist Apple II demo that's not expected to generate any profit. Again, possible in theor
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by needle0 6y ago
That's true in principle, but beyond a certain degree it would leave the realm of practicality, eg. You can pre-render something complex in 3D or do some complex calculations to populate a precomputed table on any computer no matter ho
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by needle0 6y ago
The final products of those amazing programs that show up late in the platform's lifetime are indeed running on the same hardware, but aren't those programs often developed using faster computers of later periods? For instance, Do
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by needle0 6y ago
Btw, how specific is the American CAN-SPAM act in terms of how the unsubscribe link should work? In my country I sometimes get emails with unsubscribe links that require you to log in first, which can be a pain to pull out the credentials w
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by needle0 6y ago
> eXoDOS is an attempt to catalog, obtain, and make playable every game developed for the DOS and PC Booter platform > The focus is on games that were either released in English Oh. So not "every game" at all.
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by needle0 6y ago
FWIW, the word “batakusai” has become so ingrained in the language that one might not think of butter, the food topping, when you mention the word. (much like how you don’t always directly think of Jesus Christ specifically when you casuall
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by needle0 6y ago
FWIW, I’m a Japanese native living in Japan and have never seen any of these unusual butter knives. I wonder where they’re sold.

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