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by shpx 4y ago
As a counter example, I need about 100x what I have today.
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by shpx 4y ago
That comment is 7 years old. I clicked around in Xcode for a bit and it doesn’t anymore. I didn’t expect “I can’t click “Open Downloaded File” on a file downloading application because the scroll bar is in the way” would generate any discus
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by shpx 4y ago
It's not Apple's issue to fix, I don't know what that person is talking about. On macOS the scroll bar is hidden and only shown when you scroll, over the window's content and gets wider if you mouse over it. It has worke
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by shpx 4y ago
I'll be honest, I'm glad people are working on this again but the most important change for me would be fixing this minor UI issue: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/issues/261
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by shpx 4y ago
I use uBlacklist. It supports 10 search engines. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ublacklist/pncfbmi... https://github.com/iorate/ublacklist
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by shpx 4y ago
Googling "cellphone prison" I get a bunch of articles saying that "almost everybody has a phone" in prison. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/us/03prisoners.html https://w
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by shpx 4y ago
The sample is "1,502 U.S. adults from Jan. 25 to Feb. 8, 2021, by cellphone and landline phone" if this is the same survey as linked in this article https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/01/13&#
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97% of American adults own a cellphone or smartphone (2021)(pewresearch.org)
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by shpx 4y ago
Instead of an S3 bucket you can use GitHub Pages. You push stuff to the upstream git repo and it gets deployed. It’s free (you have to pay for GitHub Pro if you don’t want to make the source code publicly available) and comes with Fastly CD
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Deep Biosphere(en.wikipedia.org)
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by shpx 4y ago
I think if any large player in the market or the entire market acts in any sort of trivially predictable way then you can extract money from it by manipulating it.
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by shpx 4y ago
Frédéric Chopin https://open.spotify.com/album/4marX3D0PVQkL8a08MS4mP
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by shpx 4y ago
Flying machines seem unsafe because the pilot has limited control. Birds can quickly change the shape of their wing more drastically than planes or hang gliders, so there are less unrecoverable situations.
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by shpx 4y ago
If many of these thousands of tech people start just spending their large savings and not working, that could lead to more inflation.
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by shpx 4y ago
If we’re going to change the timestamp let’s do it correctly this time and start counting from 0001-01-01 (like “ticks” in C#) or 0000-01-01 because adding another number (1970) for other people to have to learn about and memorize is bad de
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by shpx 4y ago
iPads predict user input https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/touches_pres... . Did they do this back when this article was written or is this a newer thing that lets them get to even lower user perceiv
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by shpx 4y ago
I do wish I could put a SIM card in my Macbook and not have to buy a phone.
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by shpx 4y ago
It seems like there's no good license that places absolutely no restrictions or requirements on people using your code (such as attribution and respecting patent rights) worldwide. I want my code to be used the way people treated text
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by shpx 4y ago
And Lightning is physically a better connector.
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by shpx 4y ago
If you can “film” videos without film, why not post a GIF without a .gif?
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by shpx 4y ago
We shouldn't call this open source. The model definition + the data is the source code. The model weights are a compilation artifact. > The source code must be the preferred form in which a programmer would modify the program. [...]
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by shpx 4y ago
If it's just for fun and not a lot then the enjoyment she gets is probably worth more than the thing being stolen and the negative externalities of it. Some men do martial arts to practice violence, if she wants to practice thievery an
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by shpx 4y ago
It's not possible to perform any action without using energy, so why not just say "No one has the moral authority to tell [me] what is a good or bad."?
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by shpx 4y ago
At Google and many other tech companies, internal machines are configured to have go/<whatever> work just like you describe. Looks like someone even made a whole company around it https://www.golinks.com/blog&#x2F
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by shpx 4y ago
It is, but I’m disappointed that it’s flagged because regardless of how much we might dislike it, it’s still a common view.
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by shpx 4y ago
Programming is more powerful the more people you do it for. Writing software for one user is rarely the most effective thing you could be doing with that skillset.
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by shpx 4y ago
> how many engineers are going to publish their FOSS with a “using this as AI training input is forbidden” clause That clause would make their software not Free and Open Source by definition.
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by shpx 4y ago
What if the variable is used for array indexing and something else, like displayed to the user?
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by shpx 4y ago
His semi-autobiography is his greatest con. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Abagnale#Veracity_of_cla...
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by shpx 4y ago
You should show me all 10 of my guesses at the end. And something that'll tell me how much better I am than everyone else.

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