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by sellyme 6y ago
> You risk making discourse difficult when you continue punishing people who are attempting to do the right after doing wrong for a while. On the other hand, a few days of doing the absolute bare minimum of quality control doesn't u
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Unless you’re flush with cash, you rename the app. Or if you're willing to take the gamble. My default response to C&Ds (and other similar notices) that have no actual legal justifiability behind them is a nice succinct "
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by sellyme 6y ago
> They should be an option to limit your feed only to the people you follow You can functionally get the same thing by using the "list" feature instead of following people.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Open source developers presumably tend to work on projects that they genuinely like and are passionate about. Aiming to help as many people as possible in a subject you're passionate about seems extremely natural to me.
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by sellyme 6y ago
I think you're missing the distinction between "office hours" (what most people would read as 9-5 Monday through Friday) and "Office Hours", the term Simon is using to describe the 4-5 hours a week that he specifica
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by sellyme 6y ago
> In fairness, the moment you realize ASCII strings are a tiny subset of what a string can be, you also understand why strings are actually very complicated. Oh absolutely, but it's a pretty reasonable expectation that any contempor
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by sellyme 6y ago
> But I think people have a survivorship bias (we remember the good examples over the bad ones) Exactly! Survivorship bias is great, we get to only pick the examples that we know were good enough to survive! Why on earth would we want to
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by sellyme 6y ago
There is approximately zero overlap between the userbase of Tor and the group of people who get to Facebook by Googling "facebook".
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by sellyme 6y ago
> to check that you were not sentenced for a crime/offence deemed incompatible with the specific position. But we're talking about a crime that is not incompatible with the specific position.
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by sellyme 6y ago
There's a similar bug with the age of consent laws where I live. General gist of things is that the age of consent is 17, however if both participants are under 17 and the age gap is small (typically less than 1 year), there's an
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by sellyme 6y ago
"Putting up" isn't proof that an RSA decryption algorithm exists, but it is proof that someone has found a way to reverse RSA either way. The latter is much more important.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> The number of messages on Parler that had content like that was probably very limited. Why are you saying "probably"? A lot of it was backed up. You can go check for yourself, it was very markedly not limited.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> But no, how about we completely rebuild a music service on top of YouTube, miss a bunch of minor simple features that every streaming service offers (you know, like save current playlist/radio as Playlist) and FORCE every user ove
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I see the hesitation to change legacy code if it ain't broken as a wide spread mentality. Load times measured in double digit minutes on a significant number of machines meets absolutely every reasonable definition of "broken
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by sellyme 6y ago
February 28 2019 ticks over to the next day. Their date parsing library says this is February 29. Someone notices this and implements a patch to make the date parser realise that this is actually now March, but doesn't bother testing p
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by sellyme 6y ago
When the spec for software you're developing changes after you've finished developing it, what percentage of the time do you need to significantly refactor your logic instead of just making a minor tweak/extension? Might not
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Wait, why hasn’t that happened yet? You mean apart from Pale Moon, Basilisk, Waterfox, Tor, XB, Iceweasel, Swiftfox, Swiftweasel, Cometbird, and IceDragon? Yeah no idea why that thing that has happened several times hasn't happene
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Ok, well suggest a different way they can make money then. Don't. If that means not doing further development, great. Leave that to people who want to make the software better, not worse. If you can find a way to monetise software
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I have nothing against straight ads. I do. They are actively hostile to the user experience. I will criticise any update to software that deliberately makes the user experience worse.
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Now both firefox and chrome dont allow you to change the adress easily to manually remove amp. I don't see what the single-click functionality has to do with removing something from a URL (as almost all users would perform selecti
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Low margin businesses like groceries can't advertise an all-in price for their stores in the metro area when every tiny municipality in a metro has a slightly different tax rate. Yes they can. Just have a constant price in that ad
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by sellyme 6y ago
> It's possible(? not very likely?) there are QR and/or NFC using customers who without QR/NFC links working can't figure out any other way to contact Translink to let them know. More "can't be arsed" t
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by sellyme 6y ago
> Chess played in matches, not games. I actually originally typed matches and then corrected it to "games" for that exact reason. > Being white is like having serve in tennis. Yep, exactly. But if there was no advantage to h
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by sellyme 6y ago
In fairness the advantage from going first in chess is really significant at high Elos, so a design improvement that resolves that imbalance would be pretty good for the game anyway. It would save playing two games to get one result. But gi
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by sellyme 6y ago
> I'm from Germany and our power is around 35 cents per khw. I don't know if this is a typo or just a slightly different way of writing it in German, but now I'm trying to work out exactly what a "kilohour watt"
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by sellyme 6y ago
Probably not, Australian public transport authorities learned that lesson the hard way pretty early on when at least one metropolitan area issued completely unlocked and unencrypted NFC travel cards that allowed you to just issue yourself m
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by sellyme 6y ago
Almost certainly loads of people noticed, just no-one with both the motivation and funding to do anything about it. One of the downsides of your website being down is that it's really hard for anyone to get to the "Contact Us&quot
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by sellyme 6y ago
> The oddest solution I can think of is gamers lease graphics cards at a low low price and nvidia mines on them in the off-hours. This would be a complete non-starter in markets with high electricity costs or temperatures. Running a GTX
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by sellyme 6y ago
That's HN filtering your input, nothing to do with the actual encoding. Plenty of non-ASCII symbols show up perfectly fine. For example, '£'.
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by sellyme 6y ago
Sweet, I'm going to be immortal.

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