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by perardi 6y ago
This is, perhaps, a better explanation. https://torrentfreak.com/canada-proposes-new-regime-to-block...
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by perardi 6y ago
I’m not entirely clear how the headline “Canadian government proposes website-blocking system for piracy websites” follows from that boring government press release. Not that the Canadian government is at all above engaging in egregious c
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by perardi 6y ago
Huh, glad that is real, and not just my ears. I’m an American, recently back from 2 years in Toronto, and the Toronto accent is just not the stereotypical Canadian accent that I imagined I’d hear. Far less Minnesota, a bit more New Jersey.
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by perardi 6y ago
I thought about NeXT, but that was a bit of a weird one, because NeXT executives and technology replaced a lot of Apple’s executives and technology. That ended up being a stealth takeover by NeXT.
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by perardi 6y ago
Apple has had some decent ones. P.A. Semi, notably. And for $278 million dollars, the ROI on that was ludicrous. But overall, yes. I can think of so many large-scale acquisitions that didn't go so swimmingly. - AOL/Time-Warner
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by perardi 6y ago
I’ve used Photoshop since before you some of you people were born. (I’m 37, but I started very, very early.) I breathe Photoshop. I live in Photoshop. I am like a surgeon with Photoshop. And the vast majority of the time, using Photoshop
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by perardi 6y ago
I think you've about got it. I don't think this was Apple's attempt to stifle the ability to code on your own computer. They shipped Project Builder on, what, day 1 of Mac OS X? It's more likely that… …this was not sup
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by perardi 6y ago
I just don't get this attitude. It's such a sour grapes type of attitude. Either help out, or get out. It’s called “skepticism”. You read enough history, you realize the charlatans greatly outnumber the geniuses, and you do your
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by perardi 6y ago
As far as anabolic steroids go the only one that is in relatively widespread legitimate use is testosterone A minor nitpick: I believe deca is actually used, sparingly, but in the real world, for legit medical purposes. Namely anemia. (Th
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by perardi 6y ago
I have to disagree a bit. There have been plenty of laypeople who have advanced the general knowledge of anabolics for purposes of abuse. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Duchaine But: I’d be scared if I had a do
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by perardi 6y ago
”Online fitness advice. You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. We must be cautious.” The amount of contradictory advice slung online in regards to fitness is immense. (Same as it ever was, the old muscle magazines
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by perardi 6y ago
Good ol’ core competency theory? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_competency Google’s mission is…well, that depends on how cynical you are. But, whether it’s organizing the world’s information or spying on us with ad
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by perardi 6y ago
What a weird non sequitur. From the article: “The move relates only to the software Google uses to track finances, and there’s no indication that the company is moving other systems off Oracle.” They’re just moving payroll. Nothing at all
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by perardi 6y ago
If by “ordinary folks” you mean “spam bots”, then yes, our anthropologist weakly godlike artificial intelligences will appreciate this catalog.
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by perardi 6y ago
Oh, I wouldn’t start that downfall during Marissa Meyer’s reign of error. Remember when Yahoo hired a CEO who lied about having a CS degree? https://money.cnn.com/2012/05/13/technology/yahoo-ceo-out/
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by perardi 6y ago
This would be my gut reaction, but for whatever it’s worth, and however they create this metric: Alexa says they’re #11 in “global internet engagement”. https://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/yahoo.com (Again, whatever that m
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by perardi 6y ago
I am dubious that these incidents are anything but statistical noise. But. This AstraZeneca trial has been a bit of a gong show. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccin... “About 1,500 of the init
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by perardi 6y ago
I think there’s a few orders of magnitude difference in the amount of radioactive material in an RTG in a probe bounds for Mars, and the total radioactive daughter particle output of a nuclear reactor .
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by perardi 6y ago
Historical evidence that we’ve done all the good April Fools’ pranks, and we can just stop doing them now. Please. Please, I beg of you, PR teams, let us be free of corporate April Fools’ pranks. Make the world a better place.
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by perardi 6y ago
I don’t think anyone has seriously suggested such a thing would happen. India, though, has floated such a ban. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-india-cryptocurrency-ban/... And I don’t think it would be crazy to
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by perardi 6y ago
What’s “Apex Crypto”? I am not being obtuse or sarcastic here. Is it this? http://apexcrypto.com Because that website tells me nothing at all. And past that, Google only shows a few press releases. - But on the consumer crypto c
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by perardi 6y ago
1. No, because if a company announced that the SEC had given them go-ahead to go public “for the lulz”, that company would then be in deep shit with investors and the SEC for the rest of time. 2. No, because that wouldn’t even be a funny jo
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by perardi 6y ago
Your feelings are very much not shared in regards to productivity. https://www.pwc.com/us/en/library/covid-19/us-remote-work-su... I will grant you that multi-person video meetings are subpar. Which is a
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by perardi 6y ago
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/333388187_Sex_Drugs... https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/darknet-markets-cryptoc... Anecdotally: people buy lots of drugs using cryptocurrencies. Not th
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by perardi 6y ago
Perhaps using… http://fittextjs.com
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by perardi 6y ago
(Or convert to outlines, and then embed some sort of metadata for accessibility and machine readability. But that’s probably overkill.)
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by perardi 6y ago
Wait, like this? https://codepen.io/cperardi/pen/VwPmMrM I would have no expectation at all that would work without specifying a specific font. Fonts just have different horizontal metrics. That doesn't see
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by perardi 6y ago
Agreed. I simply would not expect this to work properly if you don't specify a font. Just compare Times New Roman and Verdana, two fonts that are broadly available, and broadly different in terms of character widths. Verdana will proba
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by perardi 6y ago
I really wish Subaru made plug-in hybrids I assume the lack of hybrids and pure electrics is because Subaru is tiny, as far as auto manufacturers go. https://www.statista.com/statistics/249375/us-market-share-o..
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by perardi 6y ago
And to flesh that out, as I typed that quickly before a meeting… I have worked on design and events for user conferences for several medium-size-ish software firms. Last year, our long-standing annual conference went online-only. And I tell

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