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by rozab 6y ago
Tom Scott: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgJBD1wf-YQ
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by rozab 6y ago
This is the most insane approach to responsive design I've ever seen. Just scale down everything, including the text, as the window gets narrower?
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by rozab 6y ago
It's gross how in the Reddit redesign comment threads longer than a couple levels deep are actually hidden, even if there's only a single thread on the post. Apparently deep discussion is something they now want to discourage.
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by rozab 6y ago
Ouch. What's wrong with APNG? https://caniuse.com/apng
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by rozab 6y ago
Here's the UK equivalent (a pretty clean web page) https://checker.ofcom.org.uk/broadband-test The majority of ISPs here are in a voluntary program whereby they must provide a certain minimum speed (specified in the co
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by rozab 6y ago
Low Tech Magazine's solar powered site uses dithering to help achieve very low power consumption. I think the results look awesome, just as good as the artfully filtered images used by a lot of sites but with a fraction of the weight.
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by rozab 6y ago
Ah, I meant to type the opposite
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by rozab 6y ago
This seems a lot like the hoagie from Glasgow, a kebab shop staple. Chips, cheese, sauce and doner meat (or chicken), all wrapped up like a burrito.
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by rozab 6y ago
Why are incandescent light bulbs inferior, exactly?
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by rozab 6y ago
Although it has entered the public consciousness as fact, it should go without saying that most work on repressed memories etc has been bogus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse >In 2006, psychologis
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by rozab 6y ago
Damn, you should make a new post for this article if it hasn't been posted yet
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by rozab 6y ago
I was going to bring up how Russia was apparently late to the War of the Third Coalition due to still being on the old calendar, but it turns out to be not true: http://dcjack.org/kagan%20on%20ulm.html I have also heard sim
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by rozab 6y ago
Is being gay political?
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by rozab 6y ago
Legit, did you read the same article as me? I read another comment here that seemed to be referring to this BBC article as if it wasn't the one linked. Was the link changed? I think this article is very fair. It does a good job linking
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by rozab 6y ago
Here's the actual video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67sfZfreOrU These guys have a lot of relevant content for HN types, they're really funny. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o7qjN3KF8U http
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by rozab 6y ago
Penguins are alien, we think of them as living in the last places untouched by civilisation. They feel like the opposite of a domestic animal.
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by rozab 6y ago
If these accounts are meant to be real people, why do so many have stock images as profile pictures?
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by rozab 6y ago
>they cited specific objective criteria showing that their job performance is inadequate The examples given by OP seem like subjective self-assessment to me. I doubt if they were that bad a programmer, they'd be able to identify suc
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by rozab 6y ago
In the UK at least this equipment is not supplied, it has to be bought before you start working. That's why there's so many about, everyone who worked for them at some point has one lying around. You have to provide evidence of ow
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by rozab 6y ago
Seems like gzip would be the bigger issue there. There are millions of valid ways to compress a single file
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by rozab 6y ago
I wonder what the average dependency tree depth is for these 270k projects? How long will it take for the fix to propagate to the majority of them?
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by rozab 6y ago
Either the bugs aren't reported to upstream and it remains vulnerable, or they are reported and get fixed, making paying to access the audit pointless. The first option would basically involve the platform maintaining a closed fork, wh
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by rozab 6y ago
Just turn off js or go incognito. Are you a hacker or not?
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by rozab 6y ago
While this is a good article, it does omit Stallman's opinions about age of consent, which is a huge sticking point for many people.
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by rozab 6y ago
I hate those scrolling chat feeds, and I don't understand how anyone's able to read them? I can barely read a 5 word message when it's juddering up the screen at a million miles an hour. Why hasn't twitch et al replaced
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by rozab 6y ago
Is there a video of this in action?
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by rozab 6y ago
Thinkpad P series has ECC
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by rozab 6y ago
Although I suspect Discord is still some way from profitability, it's monetisation strategy seems to be working well (charge subscription for premium membership with small features like custom emojis, animated profile pics, better audi
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by rozab 6y ago
As a power user, you can just write a little CSS and have it look however you damn well please: https://i.postimg.cc/6w46fmWF/image.png
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by rozab 6y ago
The claims in that wikipedia article and the cited news article seem unbelievable. >Studies suggest pets consume about a fifth of the world’s meat and fish, and a dog’s carbon footprint is more than twice that of a 4x4 car, according to

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