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nephrite
7y ago
Better just use a mail client instead of browser. It uses standard protocols, has no ads and you decide what interface it has.
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nephrite
7y ago
Just replace black boxes with '#' and voila you have real ASCII.
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nephrite
7y ago
Flying wraiths lack firepower, so they provide no real air support. Just fast transportation/communication.
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nephrite
7y ago
When I see such a device, I always wonder if it can work w/o battery using AC adapter.
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nephrite
7y ago
It's not a Russian trait, it's a common bureaucratic trait, and Soviet Union was bureaucratized over any sane limits.
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nephrite
7y ago
Much better would be selling fuel in kilograms because summer liter and winter liter are two quite different quantity of fuel.
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nephrite
7y ago
It's all fun and games until someone eats something he/she allergic to due to a (featured) mistake.
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nephrite
8y ago
> That is, why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us? Well, if it spoke to us it would not be UNconscious.
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nephrite
8y ago
Switch off JS or use uBlock - it can block arbitrary elements in any page, and works in two clicks.
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nephrite
8y ago
I like RSS very much and use it everywhere I can, but for me the live bookmark feature in Firefox kinda sucked. I use other readers like e.g. Thunderbird.
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nephrite
8y ago
I don't know about fraternity shirts, but in my experience, all and I really mean ALL candidates who came in a suit proved to be very poor qualified. Almost none could pass technical interview (think "fizzbuzz") and those who
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nephrite
8y ago
The FSB wants encryption keys. Telegram won't share, so is blocked. Therefore, Whatsapp and Viber gave up their keys, I suppose. Or provided backdoors.
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nephrite
9y ago
1. Russia doesn't have a motive. Skripal was convicted as a foreign spy and served a prison time in Russia. Then he was pardoned and exchanged for Russian agents. Russian state doesn't have anything to do with him. 2. If Russia ha
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nephrite
9y ago
5. Government mandates that company must repair any equipment it ever produced free of charge or provide replacement free of charge. No timeouts. Basically extend guarantee to infinity.
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nephrite
9y ago
The idea of swiping seems cool at first but when you actually use it, appears that to type a word you should know in advance the gesture needed, which kinda kills the purpose. Idk maybe it works for language with shorter words like English,
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nephrite
9y ago
This reminds me how muslim preachers condemned coffee houses because they would draw people away from mosques.
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nephrite
9y ago
Yes. Also make the batteries standard, like they did with the chargers.
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nephrite
9y ago
At least aluminum hydroxide is solid, so it's easy to collect. Hydrogen is gas though.
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nephrite
9y ago
I really don't like that the hydrogen made in process is considered waste and is escaping. We sure have a lot of water on planet but if the technology will become mainstream and we will just throw the hydrogen away it will become a hug
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nephrite
10y ago
This guy makes a great text editor, but vimscript is awful. He must refrain from making programming languages.
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nephrite
10y ago
I wish all emojis just disappeared. They're stupid, don't add any value, waste unicode space and developers' time.
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nephrite
10y ago
I hate languages with single letter names. They're impossible to google.
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nephrite
10y ago
If I find something genuinely interesting (i.e. not another cat pic) I just save the page to my disk. The costs are minimal and I don't ever lose it.
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nephrite
10y ago
> Agile as a noun > How to Agile? Lol
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nephrite
10y ago
Yeah, it's in the manual. But -u option requires supplying full URL which is very inconvinient.
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nephrite
10y ago
Needs a way to edit tags and comments. Otherwise fine app.
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nephrite
10y ago
No Orthodox Christianity represented.