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by sjy 7y ago
The standard tool for professional typesetting and book design – Adobe InDesign.
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> These people just love the tools that they've known; it's part of their workflow, and they wouldn't be happy with a change even if there were some utilitarian motivation for it. This is a pretty patronising way to talk a
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What better technology do you have in mind? HTML? Because as much as I like it, I find myself converting HTML to PDF every now and then so I can annotate, paginate, and yes, print it. PDF isn't perfect, but the art of typesetting is in
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Thanks for providing a citation! When you say that profiling isn't "reasonable," are you still using the word in the sense of "rational"? That seems inconsistent with your concession that (potentially racist or othe
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> Judges have an independent duty to pursue the truth of the substantive legal matter Do they? That sounds pretty inquisitorial, rather than adversarial, to me.
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You swear to it in writing or in the witness box.
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The purpose of a consent form is not usually to create a contract but to comply with a statute requiring written consent to be obtained.
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You're probably thinking of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parol_evidence_rule .
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I got sick of not having a pinch to zoom gesture on my Windows desktop, so I bound Ctrl to a mouse button and hold it while using the scroll wheel. It's pretty handy, I wish I could do it on all mice.
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For most desktop users this is solved with links and shortcuts; I might navigate directly to a document's location in the hierarchy, but it's more likely that I'll rely on an automatically generated link in the 'recent f
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Sounds a lot like ZFS.
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> I mean no disrespect to you or your abilities, but being a C-level executive, especially in a large corporation, isn't something that someone can just "train up to". My hunch is that this is no more true of C-levels than
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Are you saying that 150 wpm is easily attainable? Because most sources I've checked (eg. [1]) say that 100 wpm puts you in the top 2% of people who are interested in fast typing. I think you could spend your whole career hiring program
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I'm inclined to agree with the author, but sadly I think that getting a "little bit of software help" and "maintaining a culture of mindful and efficient communication" is simply not viable in large enterprises that
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> If anything, speaking is marginally slower. I disagree – typing at 100 wpm is exceptionally fast even for tech workers, and speaking at 150 wpm is normal. Have you ever tried to transcribe a conversation in real time? It's hard, w
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> The consequences of being caught by the police as a black man, for example, is far far worse in the US than it is in China or many other places. This claim is almost impossible to evaluate. What do you mean by 'caught'? Are y
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Julian Assange hasn't been charged with 'publishing classified information' either. In both Australia and the US you can be prosecuted for participating in another's crime of leaking classified information. The question
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Australia is a globally influential country with high per capita wealth and emissions. Australia has the capacity to show leadership to other similarly-sized countries, by incrementally addressing (potentially at economic cost to itself, a
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Regardless of whether you agree with the outcome in that case, Australia's defamation laws are more plaintiff-friendly than those of countries like the US and UK, and have been subject to criticism for years [1], independent of the mor
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I think the recent compromise at matrix.org [1] is a good example of how better defence in depth could have mitigated the damage done by an attacker who compromised a trusted machine. Specifically, access to a developer's SSH agent was
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When you say you 'see the other side of it' that suggests that you think the status quo is inevitable. But wasn't tuition much cheaper when you were an undergraduate?
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This is infuriating, and was one thing that motivated me to quit Gmail. I'm much happier now – traditional mail clients like iOS's Mail app work much better with a mail host that implements IMAP properly.
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How can you be so sure about the outcome of a jury trial when the investigation hasn't even reached the point of a specific allegation, let alone one that Google wants to defend at trial?
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_v._Texas is an example. But these constitutional decisions are about the validity of particular State laws; they don't create free-standing rights that can be enforced agains
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Which internet would this site be on?
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> I got a completely wasted degree in journalism, but now I work for a FAANG as a software engineer. The degree wasn’t even a consideration. Are you sure about that? I've always thought that a degree was essential to get past HR at
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Plenty of solo amateur web developers, some of them teenagers, were doing this stuff alone 12+ years ago. I was one of them. I'm not saying my code was elegant or secure, but it tried to solve the problems you have described (maybe not
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Well, did you read the link? The top answer puts forward a convincing case that the book fails to show that "people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it." There are wrongful char
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That's competition. In a properly functioning market, in the long run, the company's reduced costs should be passed on to consumers and not captured by developers. (Unless we're talking about an exceptionally talented individ
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Wouldn't you expect even more frequent regime changes in a system where the vote was split between three or more parties? This is a common criticism of minority government.

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