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by sidpatil 7y ago
I wonder if it could also be due to the fact that Internet usage has increased, which lowers available bandwidth—maybe as a consequence, streaming quality isn't as consistent.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> The UI is somewhat dated but the functionality is great. I like Zotero precisely because of its UI. It's efficient, and reminds me of the Firefox bookmarks manager. In fact, I wish I could replace or merge Firefox's bookmar
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I believe that "worse is better" can answer a lot of these questions. Convenience and simplicity are highly attractive.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
There is a trend of infantilization within modern culture. This has been underway for some time now.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Those two things aren't correlated. Lots of people without access to the banking system have mobile phones, and services have emerged to bring them into the system. For example, M-Pesa [0] is the first one that comes to mind. [0] http
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> I see echoes of the work of Donald Tufte, Jost Hochull and Hans Hagen. Do you mean Edward Tufte?
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I believe they use the term "coriander" to refer to the seeds, while they use the term "cilantro" to refer to the leafy matter.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I always assumed this a was a dark pattern designed to get people to click on lucrative links swapped in at the last minute.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
What are some typical "Australian Italian" dishes?
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by sidpatil 7y ago
WiFi 2: Electric Boogaloo
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Similar idea with (very) similar name: https://github.com/kndyry/horcrux
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by sidpatil 7y ago
The article's original title is much more readable than this post's title.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Jingle All the Way is one of my personal Christmas favorites, along with Trading Places .
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Sounds like Hanlon's razor.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
https://newschannel20.com/news/local/school-district-facing-... https://www.wdbj7.com/content/news/School-takes-away-bathroo...
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by sidpatil 7y ago
OP's website isn't much more readable either, in my opinion. The color scheme is horrible, and the main text isn't much wider than that in the Fortune screenshot.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
No transaction fees to the customer . There are absolutely transaction fees (also called processing fees ) involved, but they're usually paid by the merchant . That's why many shopowners usually post required minimum purchase
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by sidpatil 7y ago
It's a bit clickbaity in that sense. She didn't write an OS as the term is understood. What's being described in the article would be better called her productivity stack.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> However, it doesn't render well in Firefox: it's moved to the right by a lot. Which version of Firefox are you using? I'm on 71.0 and it looks okay to me. (It's consistent with the IE11 that I have access to.)
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by sidpatil 7y ago
How is this considered minimal? When I think of minimal, I think of something like dwm ( https://dwm.suckless.org/ ) or awesome-wm ( https://awesomewm.org/ ).
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> The customer accepted the contract with no rights for him (software AS IS, no warranty) That's only specific to FOSS.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Parent's complaint is specifically that he can't remember which books he read.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I would highly recommend learning PowerShell. It can handle all of those usage cases, and if you're using Windows, is almost certainly already installed on your system. I've been using PowerShell to automate various tasks with dif
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by sidpatil 7y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKoK9znaPSw
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Reformatted for easier reading: - Smaller, niche communities that allow people to talk about common interests instead of just scrolling through shallow, forgettable, crowd-pleasing posts - A voting system that lets better comments get more
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Tangentially related: I wish composting was more widespread. We could solve so many issues with waste management with it.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
> At least for beers with a more delicate flavor, the bottled version tends to have a certain subtle hint of soggy cardboard that's absent in the canned version. Canning is generally considered to be a better packaging method for be
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by sidpatil 7y ago
Huxley wrote a letter to Orwell, claiming that his own prediction of the future would be more likely than the recipient's. http://www.lettersofnote.com/2012/03/1984-v-brave-new-world....
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by sidpatil 7y ago
I think parent agrees with you—I think he's saying that the treatment would have no effects on anyone other than the person receiving it, so it doesn't present an ethical challenge.
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by sidpatil 7y ago
That's because it is Windows XP.

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