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   by shrikant 5y ago

   I think it's unfair to look past the tone and language of OP's subsequent comments (not an OS in a meaningful way, "can't run on an actual computer", "social disability", "It's just dogshit, and
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   by shrikant 5y ago

   There are various first-level responses "reacting" to OP's "negative feedback" with (what I think are) very reasonable suggestions (try this thing, try that thing, ask on forums, etc.) This is a sub-thread to the or
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   by shrikant 5y ago

   Uh yeah, that's sort of a BIG DIFFERENCE to hand-wave away. OP might as well have said "it's interesting how China's and UK's fertility rate is almost the same" while ignoring how each country got to that level
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   by shrikant 5y ago

   OP has conveniently left out a few lines just before their quoted bit: > We report excess mortality estimates from three different data sources from the pandemic’s start through June 2021. First, extrapolation of state-level civil regist
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   Unicode Consortium's “Adopt a Character” Program(unicode.org)

   2 points by shrikant 5y ago|0 comments
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   by shrikant 5y ago

   Obvious answer: Spotlight https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotlight_(film)
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   by shrikant 5y ago

   The code does check your browser locale of "en-US" and sets it to the "wacky" unit (Fahrenheit). Given that it's plain vanilla JS and only some rudimentary XMLHttpRequest, I'm not sure it can do much more?
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   by shrikant 5y ago

   I don't know if the snarky replies to you have actually read the PDF -- some of the EGREGIOUS grammatical errors should've at the very least set someone's spidey senses tingling about the legitimacy of the takedown notice (or
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   The new golden age of kids' TV(thenewfatherhood.org)

   1 points by shrikant 5y ago|0 comments
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    Apple threatens UK market exit if court orders 'unacceptable' patent fees(appleinsider.com)

    131 points by shrikant 5y ago|181 comments
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    > [...] because the only purpose behind such categorization is to assign value judgements like "a 'real' programming language can be used for systems programming". And the other unstated purpose is gatekeeping. Oof, f
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    I agree, I love subtitles, and prefer watching everything with (English) subtitles, even films/TV shows in English. Mainly because of the same reason as you, and just to add, I also watch a lot of stuff that has strong regional UK ac
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    FYI, you can (could? I dunno now, don't use an MBP any more...) use Cmd+Backspace to simulate a Delete key. In my five-ish years of using a Macbook Pro though, I could never get used to this in muscle memory.
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    I don't use snaps though...
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    The packages.microsoft.com repositories are by far THE SLOWEST for `apt` updates. I wonder if there's a way to pick a faster mirror.
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    I often used to say (somewhat in jest) that it takes a million microservices to build one service.
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    I'm a big fan of smart_open -- it makes moving stuff around in Airflow DAGs so much simpler, esp. with its transparent compression and S3 multipart upload handling. (which you can tweak, but comes with sensible defaults!) Also, I'
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    I believe dstick meant to say "paying [someone else] for links is still very much against Google’s policies."
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    Sure, this is what I use on both machines: #main-window[tabsintitlebar="true"]:not([extradragspace="true"]) #TabsToolbar > .toolbar-items { opacity: 0; pointer-events: none; } #main-window:n
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    It's been a while since I used a Mac so I can't speak to that, but this is categorically NOT the case on my Linux (Kubuntu) and Windows machines. I have TST enabled with the "regular" tab bar disabled, and can very much
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    The original source is much better written and explains the core of what the paper actually uncovers: > [...] found a vulnerability in the algorithm that decides Twitter Trending Topics: it does not take deletions into account. This allo
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    Some of us remember when YC funded InstallMonetizer and people around these parts were defending it. I doubt it'll affect the brand.
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    Without even looking it up, I'd hazard that Chrome has at least a couple orders of magnitude more users than the Fediverse. This renders any move the Chrome developers make available and usable to something approaching an actual critic
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    Oh wow, you made webhook.site??! Thanks so much for it, it saved me just last week when I was beginning to worry about one part of a data pipeline that I'm responsible for :)
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    Facebook Login Updates: A New Limited Data Mode(developers.facebook.com)

    4 points by shrikant 5y ago|1 comments
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    by shrikant 5y ago

    Free markets are best, except for sex. IOW, capitalist in the streets, communist in the sheets?
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    by shrikant 6y ago

    I've no doubt btw that the language and the strident tone used by the rep are meant to nudge (perhaps even shame?) the customer away from enabling this option. Joke's on them!
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    by shrikant 6y ago

    We've got that in the UK. Most (all?) cell service providers require you to call them up and ask them to unblock your access to "NSFW" sites over mobile data. I recall the Vodafone customer service rep very distinctly asking
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    by shrikant 6y ago

    Seconding sibling comment -- I'm running Ubuntu 20.10 and Timidity ran the MIDI file out of the box just fine.
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    by shrikant 6y ago

    I saw it as part of a Tweet thread: https://twitter.com/awilkinson/status/1376986007711711245