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UK government: Social networks should allow users to filter unverified accounts(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by playpause 5y ago|0 comments
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by playpause 5y ago
Why?
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> The big players who started with Ruby during the peak of its 2008~ hype curve are having serious scaling pains and are looking to other more performant languages as a way out. Interesting, how do you know about this? I was under the im
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by playpause 5y ago
This sentiment is so predictable and boring. Also the article literally says the motivation was knee pain meant he couldn’t run more than a few minutes. Maybe people aren’t the cartoons you have in your head.
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No you’re not alone in it. But yes there are plenty of us who find it a really effective way to get drawn into an article. It works for me through infectious enthusiasm. If I have a sense of a curious mind trying to figure something out, I
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by playpause 5y ago
Nothing wrong with security through obscurity as an extra layer on top of encryption.
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Roboto Serif(material.io)
12 points by playpause 5y ago|5 comments
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by playpause 5y ago
It's not just the odd flubbed line, it's loads of problems. I hear a lot of stories about it. Sometimes the narrator's pronunciation of a weird name can drift, very gradually, and the engineer then has to go a long way back t
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by playpause 5y ago
He's constantly listening out for mispronunciations, unwanted pace changes, mouth noises etc. He frequently has to stop the narrator, listen to it back, get them to do a whole bit again... That's why it can take up to 3 hours just
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by playpause 5y ago
> A writing culture can penalize and demoralize non-native speakers Couldn't you say this about basically any skill? > I've worked with brilliant individuals who felt like they're perceived as "stupid" because
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by playpause 5y ago
My housemate is an audiobook recording engineer. I just asked him about it. He says in the best case, with a skilled narrator, an hour of audiobook can take only 1 hour 10 minutes to record. In the worst case it can take up to three hours.
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by playpause 5y ago
Totally agree and to be honest I slightly misunderstood your original comment. You’re definitely being helpful to politely encourage use of the prefix conventions where they are a good fit.
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by playpause 5y ago
I'm curious, what problem does it create for you, clicking a link you momentarily thought was to an external site before realising it's actually a discussion on this site? Honest question, you might have a good answer, I'm no
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by playpause 5y ago
If you actually get some value from re-reading and reorganising your old notes, that's great. It sounds like you don't have the problem the author is addressing. But many people write tons of notes and save them but almost never l
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by playpause 5y ago
Interesting, can you expand on how this creates mental space for new ideas?
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by playpause 5y ago
If I write my friend's birthdays on a calendar, prompting me to contact them on their birthdays, do you think that's treating them as assets not friends? If not, what is the relevant difference?
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Smallest possible syntactically valid files of different types(github.com)
2 points by playpause 5y ago|0 comments
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by playpause 5y ago
From the post (emphasis theirs): > Our mission is to make app logic accessible to the entire team , including developers, designers, and stakeholders. Using state machines and statecharts as a common visual language, the software develo
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by playpause 5y ago
It's the first public beta release, after a huge amount of open source work. Hopefully they'll support Safari soon. If you're a VS Code user, it's also available as a VS Code plugin, which seems more advanced and useful
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Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy(bbc.co.uk)
1128 points by playpause 5y ago|792 comments
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by playpause 5y ago
Cancel culture doesn’t mean people deciding to stop listening to you. It means people actively attacking your reputation so that others are less likely to hear you. It often involves intimidation tactics that mess with your real life, e.g
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by playpause 5y ago
Could you elaborate what you mean here? It seems obvious that it’s consistent with their business model, but I don’t get what point you’re making by saying that. Or how this means the debate is a red herring. Can you thread this together a
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by playpause 5y ago
That’s just Twitter’s redirection proxy. It’s not people using it as a URL shortener. It is Twitter automatically linking all URLs in tweets to go via t.co for tracking.
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by playpause 5y ago
Why not?
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by playpause 5y ago
Once the water settles and you’re completely still, it feels like absolutely nothing on your skin. Zero change from moment to moment in any kind of signal. Sensory deprivation is apt. When you move slightly, you can feel the water.
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by playpause 5y ago
What does “shown the way” mean here?
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by playpause 5y ago
I think it’s more about the series of deceptions as this has come out.
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by playpause 5y ago
> it cannot bring us back to some golden Internet age Why? Because trust is a human problem not a technological one? What does that actually mean?
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by playpause 5y ago
They’ll iron it out pretty quickly if iPhones can’t use their network.
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by playpause 5y ago
I don’t mean to be rude, but if you can’t center content without googling and getting frustrated, you might just need to slow down and take 5 minutes to actually learn how to do it, and let it sink in once and for all. It’s been very straig

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