oneeyedpigeon

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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I think you've done a great job identifying the three main options and why two of them (parents, censorship-by-default) just will not work. That leaves regulation; the only way we will prevent children—or anyone —from coming to harm i
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
Thousands of tiny humans crawling all over you...
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
Because the impact of something can be felt even when the object doesn't appreciate they are feeling it. People choose fonts for the particular impact they will have on the reader, even though that reader won't think about it.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I think this is a localisation issue; in the UK, it's much more common to see space-surrounded em dashes.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
Em dashes don't nest (but that's probably a good thing).
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I think it's generally accepted that parentheses are more parenthetical than emdashes.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
> I have no reason or desire to change my default branch name And you're absolutely entitled to. I have no problem with anyone choosing to stick with "master", provided they have no issue with me preferring "main&quot
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
More meaningful name, shorter to type.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
There are advantages beyond avoiding the use of a charged term.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
Yeah, this is the bit where it really falls down, regardless of how you define "mostly"!
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
> placing that responsibility on the government will not work either. I agree, but a) the responsibility is on us all: citizens, government, and the media b) we can definitely introduce regulations that force government to be more open,
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
Copyright infringement used to be illegal in the developed world, then we started building exceptions for AI. There's no reason to expect this won't happen for advertising laws too.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I prefer "Democracy only has value when the majority of voters are informed". This covers your case, but it also redresses the balance to shift blame away from everyday people and onto society as a whole.
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I agree that they have different connotations. However, in the absence of other information, I don't see how we could ever collectively agree on a better value. The least subjective option, as far as I'm concerned, is "more t
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I think it's reasonable to assume >50% by default, unless the source clarifies what they mean by "mostly".
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
It's so weird how slightly different usage can create vastly different experiences and impressions of a site. I wouldn't really describe Reddit as "politically biased to the left", but I never go to the front page, just
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
Yup, I agree. There seems to have been a trend recently to output a LOT on `cmd` (poor), even more on `cmd --help` (unpaged too: bad), and to not have a man page (terrible!). Every program should have a man page, a bare command should give
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
I find it far more convenient for tools to take options to use a pager, rather than to having to manually type "| less" for every command that I want to behave nicely. Just behave nicely by default; if I want you to behave awkward
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by oneeyedpigeon 2mo ago
That test looks pixel perfect in Chrome Android.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
But now we're back at "Not everyone is building complex UIs like google sheets". I agree with the underlying sentiment of this thread: overengineering is way more common than underengineering.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
Ex act ly.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
I love the average time! I think it would be quite nice to have a % of how many others found each bonus word too.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
You can just click the first letter, then drag through the rest. When I moved from mobile to desktop, I also thought it was click-only, but dragging works in Chrome and Safari.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
Wow, I found the Hacker News one way easier than normal (01:15). I'm devouring these, though—every day you release one, I'll play it!
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
> The problem is that not all parents are "concerned parents" Unfortunately, this doesn't address that problem.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
> Within OS consistency is much less of thing a thing than Web design conventions. Sorry, are you saying that two random web apps will typically share more UI consistency than two random Windows apps? Because, although I'm not curre
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
There are two types of consistency in this context: consistency within an OS and consistency across them. I, too, prefer the first because I only really use one OS, but this preference varies. I don't think it's right to say that
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
Obligatory Stephen Collins: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/picture/2025/nov/07...
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
The term "often" wouldn't relate to the overall rate, but to the frequency. According to my back-of-the-envelope math, it happened about once every 7 minutes.
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by oneeyedpigeon 3mo ago
> Honestly, that sounds appealing to me at least. Absolutely, same here—but it has to look good. I know that's subjective, but this thing looks atrocious .

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