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by nfoz 6y ago
> It's like calling a civilian contractor at US Army an army officer. Is this difference really so significant?
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by nfoz 6y ago
In apps targeted to kids I've found it to be often a useful deterrent. And can even shift the culture a bit; it makes it very clear what is "ok" and what is not.
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by nfoz 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Placebo_button
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by nfoz 6y ago
> How interesting to see attitudes change. Today, using a web browser and HTML/CSS/JavasScript to write your app (whether as a SaaS or a desktop app using Electron) is one of the most popular options for creating apps. I'm
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by nfoz 6y ago
Devices were a lot safer for us as kids when they weren't connected to the aggressive messy warzone that is the modern internet.
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by nfoz 6y ago
Meanwhile, in Canada: teenager charged with going 308 km/h (191 mph) in his dad's car on Toronto highway. https://www.citynews1130.com/2020/05/10/ontario-police-19-ye...
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by nfoz 6y ago
Off-topic, but I wish they would make a "Surface Laptop Pro". The Surface Laptop is more like an "air" with its limited connectivity (ports). Whereas the more capable Surface Book is a bit awkward as a laptop.
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by nfoz 6y ago
I blame browsers for implementing such an obnoxious anti-feature.
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by nfoz 6y ago
> right wing This can't be relevant. > have no place at the table for rational discussion. What if I'm researching "conspiracy theories"? What if I want to ridicule his stupid conspiracy theory, or make comedy&#x2F
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by nfoz 6y ago
As per https://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html > The 'symbol fallacy’ > The 'symbol fallacy’ is to confuse the fact that "symbols have semantic content" with "in text, it i
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by nfoz 7y ago
No Fate: #000fa8
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by nfoz 7y ago
So.... are any or all of these what you would call a process "sandbox"? Do operating systems make it easy to sandbox an application from causing harm to the system? What more could be done to make that a natural, first-class fea
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by nfoz 7y ago
No prob. Another option for ultraportable with good ports, 10gen cpu and touchpad buttons (my personal obsession lol) is the Vaio: https://us.vaio.com It's pricey but their SX14 is almost surely my next laptop. I'd
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by nfoz 7y ago
If you like the XPS 13, I also recommend to look out for their "business laptop" Latitude 7xxx series (12", 13", 14"). They tend to have more ports, physical buttons on the touchpad, and slightly better keyboards.
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by nfoz 7y ago
Would it be theoretically possible for CC to change its trademark policy on those symbols in a way that affects documents that use them?
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by nfoz 7y ago
Sure but if it's to emulate a computer from 1985 with half a meg of RAM, it might not be so bad :) Edit: my bad, somehow I thought this was UAE the amiga emulator.
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by nfoz 7y ago
A mail-order mattress company advertises via fivethirtyeight so I wonder if this out-of-place piece is partly fuelled by that advertising effort.
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by nfoz 7y ago
I'm talking about a legal mechanism relevant for the sale of hardware devices. Do Not Track was useless, but GDPR was not.
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by nfoz 7y ago
The signal could give you an identification for who/what it is that's recording. I'd rather normalize knowing who's tracking me than normalize the tracking without me even having a chance to know. You could imagine exten
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by nfoz 7y ago
Here's a weird request: any video-recording device, when activated (shooting or ready to shoot), should be required to emit a low-power radio signal. So your own device (e.g. cellphone) can listen for that signal and let you know what
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by nfoz 7y ago
The HTTP Referer header is a horrible bug that should never have been part of the web IMO. When I tell laypeople that this happens they're often very surprised.
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by nfoz 7y ago
As a very happy DDG user for many years now, I agree. I'm embarrassed to search things when anyone can see my screen, because I usually get weird comments about it.
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by nfoz 7y ago
IMO there is a privacy loss to you. Amazon should not get to know what search engine you use.
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by nfoz 7y ago
Devil's advocate, why not let Vermonters vote in their own privacy law for their own government?
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by nfoz 7y ago
Wow thanks! Good grief that's a long time.
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by nfoz 7y ago
Does anyone know what version introduced the problem?
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by nfoz 7y ago
What useful information do you gain from asking about it?
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by nfoz 7y ago
The idea sounds cool but it is perhaps too early for public launch. The github is just hosting a zip that contains executables, no source. (Do many projects (ab)use github this way??). I'm not going to run a random binary from an &q
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by nfoz 7y ago
That sort of convention sounds fine for a solo project, but I think if you have more or changing developers then it would make things more confusing.
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by nfoz 7y ago
I think these sorts of notes belong somewhere external of the code itself; an issue ticketing system or whatnot. Because more often than not, I find those "TODO"s lose meaning over time. They often suggest a particular way to so

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