orangeoxidation

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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
True. The problem is the default browser settings. They are middling to bad, almost universally, and you cannot really expect visitors to fix their font settings before opening your webpage. In a perfect world the defaults would look great,
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
Are distros doing too much customization? The kernel is famously backward compatible, upgrading during a distro cycle shouldn't be a problem. Yet fedora doing so is somehow exceptional.
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by orangeoxidation 4y ago
> I mean they're still putting some money into Chrome and HTTP/3 and the like Looking at the misnamed "Privacy Sandbox", Chrome is not just there to improve the Web (and therefore google usage), but also to control it
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Note that this is only about known and disclosed security vulnerabilities. It will not be enforced by an overworked regularly body, but by customers suing software companies. No reason for the government to investigate proactively (as long
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Terminals don't just render what you see, but everything that programs output, which can be enormous amounts of text, grinding non-accelerated terminals to a halt. I don't know if they actually have to do this (It might be necessa
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> I've yet to hear any credible argument - one that doesn't reduce to entitlement and wishful thinking - for distinguishing between these asset classes. Owning a physical thing and "owning" information is fundamentall
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Certainly impressive. ... But we are still doing this, today. Though not excactly by hand-crank. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_relocation
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
That shouldn't have happened. The law is super problematic and they can, for example (try to) hit you for finding (or even stumbling over) and responsibly disclosing security vulns, if you were not hired to do so. But the part about ha
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
I don't expect the plant based products to outcompete high-quality, expensive, free-roaming cattle. I hope it will outcompete cheap, monoculture-soy fed, medicine pumped, densely grown and factory slaughtered cheap meat. The second is
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
No idea if they do it, but I imagine you could pull the whole thing up pretty easily, even easier with some type of winch.
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
It's a signal that the creator does not want do engage in moderate / discussion on YouTube. There's perfectly valid reasons for that (e.g. topic is controversial, video is only for embedding or archiving on YouTube, there&#x
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
My wording might have been wrong there. There's artists building the game experience and CS people building the game technology. The latter do use and reuse smaller software components to build the level editors, scripting interfaces,
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Virtually every other discipline in CS has moved towards loosely-coupled, composable components, but game development is still mostly happening against proprietary monoliths. I'd argue that's because game development is not a
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Regulation, education, inertia. All of those tell specialist things like "streets have to be at least this wide in residential areas". Zoning can make it impossible for the requirements of daily life to be in walkable distance. Th
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
The side is doing nothing but embedding this YouTube video https://youtube.com/watch?v=uynhvHZUOOo
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> is the main thing which affects the Earth's climate Yes. Though that sounds like weasel words, the word change is missing. It was 100% proven that human contribution is the main and most important culprit of (the current) climate
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Then when those accusations prove to be bullshit, crickets. Yeah, a nobody (in the public's mind) making false accusations is not a story worth telling. Facebook stealing billions worth of IP is. That's obvious so far, isn&#x
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Is monitoring your kids for alt-right radicalization propaganda the new monitoring your kids for porn? This seems even worse. More like reading their diary than snooping for pornographic magazines. Super creepy and I cannot help but se
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Why, though? Why would they be worse? Typically, when you have even two competitors, the quality is improved. > Typically, when you have even two competitors, the quality is improved. If those state services weren't available f
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> The theory (since discarded) was that a heavy patent portfolio would give you a better negotiating position if you were sued. There was no thought of actually asserting these patents against Microsoft, or anyone. Doesn't it kind o
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> I think this is remarkable, how common people with some level of scientific literacy were able to get this correct much better than the whole medical establishment. I don't think it's remarkable at all. Common people with som
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> Sadly, switching to the "powersave" governor may not, in fact, end up saving you power, depending on what you're doing Independently of whether that's true, isn't most consumer hardware (laptops) running "
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
(2001) - Not some strange content collector, Gamasutra rebranded Definitely worth a read. The deterministic simulation is easy to understand (though not to do), clever and allows for great networking performance. Afaik this approach is stil
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
That sounds like a bad idea. We want to keep our connections and not be unfriended by the machine. Instead of fighting human psychology the apps should sidestep it. How about unsubscribing, but not unfriending? Shadow-unfollowing, settings
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> But if it's true that natural immunity + vaccination) is stronger than vaccination alone, is it worth it to leave her unvaccinated against Covid, at least for now, in order to get some natural immunity No? If she does not get infe
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> FF is scoring an own-goal here and eroding trust Excactly them trying to find more sources of income is fine by me. The hiding it and the deceptive messaging is awful. "enhance and speed up your searching experience" - I&#x27
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
Firefox has Bookmark, Settings, Extension sync and send-tab to device features independently of Pocket.
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> not about nationalistic pride, it's about control and yet even this explanation contains loaded phrasing suggesting excactly that > Ferrari's pride has always been engines > Nothing says made in Italy more than a Ferra
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> But that’s because there wasn’t widespread acceptance that there was a shared social cost. If they were taxed high enough to offset that shared cost completly or even more than that it would be fine. ... but that doesn't seem to b
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by orangeoxidation 5y ago
> They simply had no other choice Why give them a choice now? They will still be able to stay in business and make great cars. They will be called Ferrari by them and the rest of the world. Some whining over them no longer being "re

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