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by pitay 6y ago
I always thought of cancel culture as people facing "consequences" for their opinions, rather than their actions. Although I guess the can also be applied fairly innocuous actions that don't cause much (or any) harm. The com
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by pitay 6y ago
There is also adding the rel="nofollow ugc" to user submitted links that removes the benefits of linking for spammers. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/96569
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by pitay 6y ago
Is just adding the attribute rel="nofollow ugc" to any links in submitted content may be good enough. This tells search engines to not index, or tag them as suspicious, allowing them them to identify SEO spam more easily. [1] Havi
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by pitay 6y ago
Something like 'VideoArchiver' if you want to be safe.
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by pitay 6y ago
youtube-dl can still be used for reference so that people can use as it as a starting point to learn to scrape video. If enough people take an interest in fixing their local youtube-dl individually when things change and it stops working,
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by pitay 6y ago
I'm from a poor background and I didn't cheat. Nor did I commit bogus pull requests just to pad my resume. These things poison any community trust, put people into positions that jeopardize other peoples lives, and make meritocr
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by pitay 6y ago
My experience with CFLs was that they were bad, blue and flickery when they came out. They also made a very annoying buzzing sound. They got a lot better over the years though, and became quite acceptable.
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by pitay 6y ago
Yeah I mentioned it because I got put on dexamphetamine once. Couldn't stand it personally, couldn't sit down or keep still, and made me more annoying I think. Totally understand that even chemically similar medications can be v
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by pitay 6y ago
Thanks for the reply. Is second line treatment, what is heard from others may be derived from drug war propaganda, got it. This clears things up nicely. Thanks.
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by pitay 6y ago
I may need to clear up a misconception of mine, so here goes. Isn't it Dexamphetamine that is the routine treatment for ADHD? As far as I understood, methamphetamine has much stronger effects than dexamphetamine, also meth been prone
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by pitay 6y ago
Pretty sure the GP meant only once for the encoding of each resolution. He was just pointing out the asymmetry of the work, YT only encodes once per distinct resolution it shows, each of these encodings can be decoded by clients millions o
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by pitay 6y ago
You can use one of the many servers that manage the users session for you and only override it if needed. Is there any real problem with a server that uses a cookie to only store the users session ID, storing the other data related to the
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by pitay 6y ago
An interesting contrast is that some early access games have very detailed feature and bug fix notes for their releases. As an example here are the release notes for the build versions of 7 Days to Die (Alpha 19). https://7dayst
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by pitay 6y ago
I have Win10 Pro. Updates put new 'Apps' on very frequently, the number shown on the Start menu have become a lot larger since install. The updates turn telemetry on, I haven't even bothered turning it off now, not using Bla
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by pitay 6y ago
How someone get off GMail if they have already been using it for a decade or quite a few years more than that? Has anyone done this? How do you do that with the fewest issues possible? Having the most important communications with other pe
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by pitay 6y ago
The issue of updates not installing may have saved you from worse issues. Here is a description of updates from June which caused me significant trouble: https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/04/06/windows-10-upd
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by pitay 6y ago
SaaS does an end run around GPL in particular. Unless it is Affero GPL.
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by pitay 6y ago
Isn't that more to prevent corruption and dealing with conflicts of interest?
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by pitay 6y ago
Strangely I had the opposite thing happen, there were freezes after electrolysis, and it ran super fine before. The freezes were the network, where if anything was required from the network the page would just pause for many seconds, this h
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by pitay 6y ago
My problem was people using ORM frameworks and having very little knowledge of the database they were using. Slow as molasses, difficult to figure out what is going on because of many layers of extra "stuff".
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by pitay 6y ago
It also lets you run extensions that are not from the Mozilla Addons site, there is no option for that in the standard edition.
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by pitay 6y ago
Yes, indeed. If you refresh often enough, you will notice the downvotes for a reasonable post come closest to when it is posted, which makes the post fade and gives the impression that something must be wrong with it. I think there is a v
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by pitay 6y ago
ere is a (selective) look at the management of Mozilla in the recent past. From Mitchell Bakers blog https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva... “Gerv’s faith did not have ambiguity at le
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by pitay 6y ago
Note that Brendan Eich resigned April 2014. Here is the original post for that graph and a bit of discussion on HN relating to the dismissal of 70 Mozilla employees at the time. : https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/statu
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by pitay 6y ago
Here is a (selective) look at the management of Mozilla in the recent past. From Mitchell Bakers blog https://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2018/08/07/in-memoriam-gerva... “Gerv’s faith did not have ambiguity at le
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by pitay 6y ago
It would be nice to be able to specify that web fonts and other media elements come from the same site that serves the requested page.
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by pitay 6y ago
That 5G nonsense thing is very like what the news was saying when mobile phones were first starting to get popular, stuff like causes tumours, cancer etc; which didn't turn out to be much at all. But as someone who has looked at a wide
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by pitay 7y ago
Wouldn't only specialised applications need to record ultra fine time resolution? My guess would be that those applications would use a more appropriate (larger) data format than the current timestamp, and the other applications would
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by pitay 7y ago
The reason I have been left without product document is because Oracle bought the software the organisation was using. Cannot stress enough the value of keeping an offline copy of the documentation of a product rather than relying on a com
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by pitay 7y ago
From memory JBuilder did have issues with its GUI builder. Code emitted JBuilder's tools was not isolated from other code that was written for the application. It was easy to add a line of code that would make the included builder too

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