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by rekabis 1y ago
> Still hard to have sympathy for anyone that carried such a mindset with so many examples of it being false. Except in the day, it wasn’t false . Boomers and the Greatest Generation actually lived this reality, where working hard and
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by rekabis 1y ago
> Just a decent WYSIWYG editor that can also manage uploads. There is your problem. Any such editor will invariably be heavily limited to what its developers envisioned the user’s use cases as being, and therefore WYSIWYG software is fie
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by rekabis 1y ago
All I want is an offline iPhone app that can let me know if I have already purchased a book. Because with a collection as large as mine, it’s a legitimate problem. I am using BookCrawler, but I exceeded some internal threshold back in 2017
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by rekabis 1y ago
> a microwave only really needs one (and ideally its just a dial instead of a button). The 1967 Amana Radarange ( https://media.npr.org/assets/img/2017/08/28/microwave_custom... ) had two dials: sh
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by rekabis 1y ago
> if I want to activate the flashlight on my iPhone, I have to know to swipe up from the bottom left-hand corner in order to bring up a control panel where the flashlight button exists. The author even drives the point home by getting th
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by rekabis 1y ago
This is a very smh facepalm bridgepinch sigh moment, where Microsoft could have taken the high road and gently educated users by restricting insecure passwords instead of blocking their use entirely. A simple bit complexity algorithm li
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by rekabis 1y ago
Right when warming has accelerated dramatically, too, such that we will see more warming in the next 10 years than we have in the last 40. Those cuts couldn’t have come at a better time. /s
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by rekabis 1y ago
I’m not even a gamer and I’m applauding this article. The compensation that any member of the Parasite Class gets for “failing upward” is absolutely mind-blowing. Just for one in my career I would like to be rewarded for gross incompetence.
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by rekabis 1y ago
> you'll quickly make up the difference in repair costs when the bucket of bolts you paid ~1k for starts breaking down every 3-4 months. A lack of adequate maintenance and a failure to identify lemon patterns when choosing the vehic
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by rekabis 1y ago
> lots of folks get car loans because they can't afford to buy a car, even a cheap car, without one. Then they shouldn’t get a new car, full stop. Older used cars can be perfectly serviceable with some research into lemon patterns a
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by rekabis 1y ago
For $1,475 CAD, imma gonna have to stick with my DVORAK-hardwired Unicomp 104 buckling spring and my Kensington Expert Mouse. Glad to see this kind of a system back in play, but this is employer-paid or insurance-paid level of cost. Even th
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by rekabis 1y ago
Throw climate change into the model, especially with the recent massive acceleration of temperature rise that now strongly suggests +3℃ shortly after 2035 and +6℃ by 2100, and human populations trend to zero by some time between 2080 and 22
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by rekabis 1y ago
This makes sense for static sites. This makes very little sense for sites that will require constant maintenance and upkeep, such as with WordPress sites. Without said upkeep, they’ll become hacked and unusable in short order.
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by rekabis 1y ago
The worst example I ever experienced was finding an actual flaw within some software with Trac as a version control system - somehow DD-WRT comes to mind - and I submitted a bug report with full reproducibility workflow and everything I cou
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by rekabis 1y ago
Yes, because those grow all over on trees, ripe for the picking. Like holy f**k, can anyone be more out of touch with reality?
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by rekabis 1y ago
The proper term for this is the Ouroboros Effect. Visually represented by a snake eating its own tail, we are now seeing AI results being contaminated by them feeding off of increasing amounts of AI-generated slop instead of purely human-ge
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by rekabis 1y ago
“Would you like a moist owlette?”
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by rekabis 1y ago
A responsible domain owner still will read them. My own postmaster is a catch-all for all my domains, such that typos in the username still get caught. Has proven to be invaluable with the family domain, where harried medical staff make mis
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by rekabis 1y ago
Radical idea: Have the government step in and say, “if you want to sell your drugs in America, you can only sell them to me.” Then the government hammers that price down as low as it can go, and buys in bulk. A small rider is added to every
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by rekabis 2y ago
> if I want to add first party analytics to my site, the data from which I will use solely internally to try to figure out what pages people like and which they do not like, This is doable entirely on the server side, provided there is n
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by rekabis 2y ago
Half the time? More like 10% of the time. Sometimes I think I have to use a paint can shaker on a 5-minute cycle just to trigger it.
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by rekabis 2y ago
I am curious if Wipr protects against all four major fingerprinting types, or if it only protects against canvas fingerprinting.
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by rekabis 2y ago
Reddit has ads? looks up at uBlock origin at the top right of the screen …huh. I guess Old Reddit has nothing to do with the lack of ads?
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by rekabis 2y ago
Tab Mix Plus is the OG GOAT of tab management. Its claim to fame is that it’s still the only add-in that gives you multiple tab rows.
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by rekabis 2y ago
Stocks won’t fall as far as the economy, so when people start selling off everything not nailed down just for tomorrow’s food, the wealthy can swoop in and buy it all up for pennies on the dollar. It’s the whole game plan, after all. Land,
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by rekabis 2y ago
And yet, this is the inevitable end-game of unfettered capitalism: to monopolize a market and prevent new entrants so as to eliminate competition and lock-in customers to a single producer that can set prices to whatever they want. If the o
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by rekabis 2y ago
I have the oddest type of “poor vision”. Some of it is out of focus, yes, but no matter how precise the prescription, I have a “too many sharp+clear edges” problem. Look at the number 0, like the zero on a speed sign that says “60 km/h
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by rekabis 2y ago
> I had to teach people to stop using div tag for everything. And the crazy nesting of divs 5, 10, or even 15 layers deep. Like… _no._ Just hand your senior card back to the issuer, and go back to being a junior. If you cannot create a s
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by rekabis 2y ago
> and Javascript, and the lengths they go to avoid touching them. I love CSS. I can make it do a tap dance and enjoy getting into the weeds with it. JavaScript… is an entirely different ball of wax. You see, I was there in the beginning,
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by rekabis 2y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. And IMO, CSS isn’t even difficult, it just requires you to properly and effectively visualize the cascade to handle downstream effects. My problem is when people start using cognitive crutches such as LESS and SASS,

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