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by needle0 6y ago
It's quite ironic when one company's anti-competitive behavior paradoxically results in them preventing another company from achieving total monoculture domination.
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by needle0 6y ago
Perhaps it looks like it works "almost perfectly" because you're only using English (and similar western languages)? the problems that arise in Asian text are numerous -- and they do frequently hit end users.
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by needle0 6y ago
Slightly irksome when by "Browser Extensions" the author only means "Chrome Extensions" and provides no links to equivalents for other browsers. That in itself is fine, but they could've titled it with "Chrome&
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by needle0 6y ago
Similar stories in retro shmups: Gradius was obviously supposed to be Gladius, while R-TYPE was named with the intention of R standing for "Laser". Upon discovering laser is spelt with an L, the creators retconned the R to stand f
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by needle0 6y ago
The concept is taken to extremes in types of fish in Japan, where there are a huge number of characters with the "fish" character (魚) in the left side of the letter, and some element that relates to the characteristic of the fish
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by needle0 6y ago
As someone with RSI-strained fingers, there's no way I am concentrating all fingers' worth of input movement into just my two thumbs. Sounds like a recipe for carpal tunnel/tendinitis/miscellaneous other flavors of RSI.
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by needle0 6y ago
All the GPT-2/3 articles around appear to be based on English language, which is natural as it is probably the native tongue of its developers, but has there been research and/or learning done on non-English languages at similar s
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by needle0 6y ago
“428: Shibuya Scramble” _is_ writing, pretty much literally, as the game resides in the visual novel genre. However it manages to weave a complex tale of parallel interconnected narratives that is only possible in the digital medium; if you
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by needle0 6y ago
The perfect opportunity for a hardware entrepreneur to start selling 0.1mm ultrathin camera covers.
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by needle0 6y ago
Apple has tight enough grips on their hardware and software ecosystem that they can force major architectural changes onto the userbase with a hardline take-it-or-leave-it attitude, which led them through the previous three transitions. It&
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by needle0 6y ago
I hope at least 20-30% of the people involved in the project are at least near-native level speakers of non-Indo-European languages. Linguistic biases based on your mother tongue die hard, and I know this from having waded through tons and
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by needle0 6y ago
"Unless we support alternatives we really shouldn't complain when they gradually die off in a space that is increasingly coming under the control of giant corporations with bottomless pockets." Exactly this. Sure Firefox some
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by needle0 6y ago
I wonder if the audio are actual slowed-down recordings or re-creations? They sounded awfully sloshy for how little amounts of water there are.
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by needle0 6y ago
The "Bad Apple!!" music video, with its monochrome silhouette aesthetic, has been the subject of many other creative rendering hack demonstrations using esoteric means. Laser art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2P
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by needle0 6y ago
The "Antialiased text in low PPI is better with hinting" argument is unknowingly underlain by Eurocentric assumptions. Asian characters such as Chinese or Japanese have always looked significantly better on the macOS style of text
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by needle0 6y ago
AFAIK, in academic VR parlance, the word "display" is used for anything that outputs sensory information, regardless of the type of sense being targeted.
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by needle0 6y ago
I'm sure there are some extremely design-heavy sites that do it, but by then you would be fighting the DOM/CSS pretty hard, as default behaviors for stuff like underline position and 縦中横 (short bursts of horiz text within vertical
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by needle0 6y ago
Another one: "この先生きのこるには", which should be broken up at "この先/生きのこるには" to mean "To keep surviving going forward", but since 先生 (teacher) is such a common word, it jumps at your eyes and turns the sentence i
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by needle0 6y ago
Yes. One that comes to mind is "[name]さんじゅうななさい" which can be either interpreted as "[name]-san, 17 years old" or "[name], 37 years old", depending on whether you interpret the さん(san) as an honorific or part o
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by needle0 6y ago
So this has you take a sample and ship it to their lab. How is this going to deal with the risk of biohazard for parcel delivery personnel?
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by needle0 6y ago
Are stablecoins viable in the real world for this kind of use case? Anyone have any firsthand experience?
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by needle0 6y ago
Also the creator of Elevated[1] and Oculus Quill[2]. [1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5CTFMuFvb0 [2]: https://www.oculus.com/experiences/rift/1118609381580656/
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by needle0 7y ago
Why the sudden use of the "Black Jack ni Yoroshiku" manga comic art? I know the author released the entire thing with permissions to freely use the art anywhere, but still.
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by needle0 7y ago
Not anymore. Tokyo is already [edit: entered the hockey-stick part of] an exponential trajectory as of around 5 days ago. https://stopcovid19.metro.tokyo.lg.jp/en Every press conference ending with Koike (Tokyo governor) or
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by needle0 7y ago
At this point, I doubt anywhere is safe.
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by needle0 7y ago
This. We are now at a point where a platform allowing more choice will actually worsen the monoculture.
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by needle0 7y ago
Yes, for us folks using Firefox it would make things more convenient, however in the grand scheme of things I fear the gains made by Chrome would be much larger. Though I agree Apple's methods in retaining Safari's marketshare isn
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by needle0 7y ago
I too almost found iCloud sync to be the be-all end-all solution of browser syncing, then I discovered that the same iCloud sync on Mac does NOT support Firefox/Chrome - only Safari. I'm relying on Xbrowsersync for now but it&#x27
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by needle0 7y ago
While I consider this to be a good thing in general, I do fear it may cement Chrome's browser monoculture dominance further (even if on iOS it does still use WebKit instead of Blink).
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by needle0 7y ago
So far they say they're "not being considered", which is quite worrying if that means they're not even planning ahead to it as a possible outcome. I sure hope they make the right decision if it becomes necessary, instead

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