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by oniony 1y ago
I think hyperlinks killed the underline. Underline was pretty popular when I was younger. We'd underline the dates in our exercise books, it was used for emphasis in textbooks, &c. But when hyperlinks adopted underline as the defau
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by oniony 1y ago
Back on Fidonet/Aminet/Spot on the Amiga in the 1990s, pre-internet, the convention was /italic/, *bold* and _underline_. This was much more intuitive for me than what we have today.
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by oniony 1y ago
Does it have to be their own hands?
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by oniony 1y ago
Why did I just watch a video of first-person perspective of someone climbing a few flights of stairs?
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by oniony 1y ago
It's because shops were traditionally named after the people who owned them. There are still loads of shops bearing people's names, even now. "Sainsbury's" supermarket used to be "J. Sainsbury's" name
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by oniony 1y ago
Each box is a layer. So you put the accent in the second box.
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by oniony 1y ago
A little know fact is that if you want to pack six ants inside an apple, the guy at the bottom has to be at 49.93˚.
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by oniony 1y ago
I don't see any text: just a scrolling down screen of random black/white pixels.
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by oniony 1y ago
Where I live there are entire fields of crops grown under plastic sheeting, and I do not mean reusable plastic greenhouses, I mean sheeting pegged to the ground. And then the produce is boxed up in plastic, stuck on a palette, wrapped in pl
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by oniony 1y ago
Visual Studio was/is the IDE.
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by oniony 1y ago
But then you lose accountability.
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by oniony 1y ago
So then you have extra latency for each repair.
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by oniony 1y ago
Viture too.
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by oniony 1y ago
There is actually a sample in the repo: https://github.com/polarsys/b612/blob/master/docs/sample.png .
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by oniony 1y ago
And then you cannot use your phone for payments.
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by oniony 1y ago
Derelicte.
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by oniony 1y ago
I think it came from the close window shortcut on Windows back when browsers didn't have tabs.
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by oniony 1y ago
Have you checked out Waterfox? https://www.waterfox.net/
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by oniony 1y ago
We're too scared to talk about it lest our faces get added to a list.
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by oniony 1y ago
It's not wrong as England is within the UK: it's just not as precise as it could have been.
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by oniony 1y ago
It's a bit annoying having to listen to book reviews. Do you know of any good written resources?
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by oniony 1y ago
It'll happen through hyper-inflation.
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by oniony 1y ago
Don't forget the browser toolbar.
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by oniony 1y ago
I've used a TODO.md for years. I prefer it to a .txt as I can get some syntax highlighting in Vim. About a year ago I merged my TODO with my work journal. So now, instead of two files I just have LOG.md with the TODO stuff at the top,
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by oniony 1y ago
Some companies want subservient, homogenous employees that come in, do work, and can be let go if they do not perform. That's a simple equation. If you get in somebody who is a star, however minor, that changes the equation, changes th
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by oniony 1y ago
>Though I’m Kenyan by ethnicity, I grew up abroad, in the US and UK, and I’ve found that my foreign accent and perspective other me, even within my family. I had to read this sentence four times before I even considered that 'other&
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by oniony 1y ago
I do not think that has ever been true. Features in Office and other Microsoft products were always more advanced than what was possible in the SDKs. Third party UI toolkits would often fill the gaps until MS decided to allow everyone to us
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by oniony 1y ago
Took out Waterfox mobile too, but was strangely okay after reload.
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by oniony 1y ago
I remember watching a documentary in 1990s that largely explained the phenomenon: it was basically that the human body became a candle with the body fat being the fuel and the clothing/blanket being the wick. I think they mentioned the
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by oniony 1y ago
And we should all chip in together to buy that somebody a new keyboard.

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