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by rrwo 4y ago
It's gotten to the point where simply reporting information that is unpleasant for one group of people is treated as biased and political. Report about the cost of housing driving people to homelessness? That's the "left-wing
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> In addition it's almost impossible to have a civilized discussion, it often feels more like two people standing in different corners of a public space screaming insults at each other, and various crowds cheering them on. It's
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by rrwo 4y ago
A pair of shoes, a bike or a phone will be used a lot more, and with no license restrictions, than a hobbyist copy of Mathematica.
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by rrwo 4y ago
There are a few place names of Celtic origin, for example, Kilburn.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Markdown is appealing because you can read a markdown document without knowing markdown. It's intended to make sense on it's own.
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by rrwo 4y ago
English has inconsistent spelling and pronunciation because it is a pigeon language, a mix of various Anglo-Saxon, Norse, Celtic, Dutch, and Norman French, then later with a lot of Latin and Greek words added. The grammar is simpler (no gen
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by rrwo 4y ago
Extending BST is not as popular in Northern England and Scotland. It's bad enough when sunrise is after 9am in the middle of the winter, after most people have travelled to work or children to school.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Depending where you are and what you income is, €447 is a lot of money to spend on a hobby. That costs more than a month's rent in some European cities https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/region_prices_by_city?..
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by rrwo 4y ago
I was going to post the same thing.
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by rrwo 4y ago
If you're using a version of a Chrome-based browser or Firefox from the few years, you don't need to worry about the UA. At $work, once we dropped support for Internet Explorer, site development and maintenance became much easier.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Neither can I, but see https://www.chromium.org/updates/ua-reduction/ (which the article links to)
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by rrwo 4y ago
The song "Du hast den Farbfilm vergessen" (You Forgot The Colour Film) comes to mind. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_hast_den_Farbfilm_vergessen
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by rrwo 4y ago
Log4 wasn't malicious.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Is there something about Python or PyPI that makes it more attractive for malicious developers to add malware? Is this also happening for repos for other languages (e.g. CPAN, RubyGems)?
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by rrwo 4y ago
> Thanks to the internet, the free speech clause of the First Amendment is bearing a level of strain that few other legal doctrines face in modern times. This had nothing to do with the internet. Speech has always been under attack in th
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The Second Congo War,Also Known as the Great War of Africa(en.wikipedia.org)
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"Began in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 1998, little more than a year after the First Congo War [1996-1997], and involved some of the same issues. The war officially ended in July 2003... By 2008, the war and its after
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by rrwo 4y ago
> I'm not responsible for people acting on whatever basis they do unless I actively blackmail or incite them to do something. If you make false accusations about people, and that results in them losing business, or being harassed or
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by rrwo 4y ago
This article https://tatham.blog/2008/10/13/why-light-text-on-dark-backgr... refers to studies in the 1980s that suggest dark colours on light backgrounds is easier to read. I recall reading an article about
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by rrwo 4y ago
Yes. Adding a small amount of redundant data to your cache as a safety check check is important. Imagine instead of a user profile at Royal Mail this was patient data in a hospital. Getting this information wrong could endanger someone&#x2
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by rrwo 4y ago
I'm really sympathetic with this. I don't think another "improved" social media or blogging platform is the answer. Even if you have a perfect way to fix the social problems with social media, it's still a massive t
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by rrwo 4y ago
If it's actionable by the ICO, it isn't a low impact one either.
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by rrwo 4y ago
It seems like good practice is to check data retrieved from the cache is what is expected, e.g. the user id from the cache matches the logged-in user id. Unfortunately, most devs don't think there is ever a need to check that until it
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by rrwo 4y ago
> We record anything you’ve seen, said, or heard and make it searchable. For your privacy, we store all of the recordings locally on your Mac. Only you have access to them Until an unauthorized person gains access to your computer. I&#x
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by rrwo 4y ago
No, Meta should not make a new Twitter. Meta has an awful history of managing users' data and harvesting users' emotions to make money from advertisers. They don't care about the damage they do to users or to their culture a
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by rrwo 4y ago
The first amendment means that the government(s) cannot prosecute you for what you say. But there are exceptions: - You can be prosecuted for the effects of speech, e.g. inciting people to riot/commit crimes; - Threats of violence are
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by rrwo 4y ago
The headline does not match the article. The headline is "Massive pandemic relief fraud has Congress eyeing digital IDs" but it's not talking about it being an excuse for financial surveillance. > McKinsey reports that th
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Did he have any left after his tantrum when the cave rescuers in Thailand rejected his submarine?
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by rrwo 4y ago
I think his troubles will come from the fact that he's p**ed away billions on for an ego wank.
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by rrwo 4y ago
Why do we need anything to replace Twitter?

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