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by sli 6y ago
1/137 is just 42 in a different base.
482.
by sli 6y ago
Sometimes bizarrely aggressively by the most unexpected companies, too. Taco Bell's website downright refuses to work if it catches a whiff of a VPN or any attempt at privacy. A VPN means 403 errors on everything and turning it off doe
483.
by sli 6y ago
It's usually better to have established alternatives before they're needed than to try and establish one after significant hurdles have been put in place. I'd say Steam on Linux is plenty credible without currently being a
484.
by sli 6y ago
> ... but there is a whole world of absolutely critical programming that cannot simply eliminate messiness, due to interfacing with humans and our flawed practices. I understand what you're saying, but I don't think you'll
485.
by sli 6y ago
I've always been partial to a seemingly normal form field for data I don't need or want (e.g. id="name") that is visually hidden with CSS. Dumb bots will fill the field but humans won't.
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by sli 6y ago
> This kind of thing makes me yearn for a solution that does this in VR. I would absolutely love a VR take on this. A year or so ago, I figured I could manage running games in TTS as a VR player while everyone else just played. Turns out
487.
by sli 6y ago
It's a little strange to make a direct comparison between human cognition and computer vision given that the latter lacks the true ability to understand what it sees. You can train the computer for these edge cases, but humans largely
488.
by sli 6y ago
There's always the option of typing your stuff in another program entirely and copy/pasting. Sure, not everyone would be willing to do that, but it's really not that inconvenient if you know your keyboard shortcuts (ctrl+a, c
489.
by sli 6y ago
Correct. It was a single table, or at least a version of it, from a Maxis pinball game called Full Tilt! Pinball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_Tilt!_Pinball
490.
by sli 6y ago
I've never worked a development job where I get any say in avoiding buzzwords or delivering solutions I would call cool. I typically get caught up in clients bikeshedding irrelevant details and managers enabling and promoting it. I hea
491.
by sli 6y ago
GoDaddy nameservers will show up in a WHOIS for the domain and GoDaddy uses a branded parking page. Attempting to register the domain would offer it for whatever sum. They don't really hide it at all.
492.
by sli 6y ago
There's quite a lot of diversity in coffee already. Coffees from different regions taste wildly different. Climate change is just ravaging the coffee band. Ethiopian coffee will likely be gone in a couple decades as the growing region
493.
by sli 6y ago
Been a hot minute since I've thought about Gaim. Thanks for the memories.
494.
by sli 6y ago
Additionally cloud saves are not supported on some games, including single-player first-party games, and Nintendo's excuse for that is because "cheating." Animal Crossing and all four (technically two but you know) Pokemon
495.
by sli 6y ago
This article keeps using piratebay.org and thepiratebay.org interchangeably despite the fact that only the former was sold. The latter still points to TPB and was not sold.
496.
by sli 6y ago
This description rang pretty true for me. My mother is much, much better about it now, but practically all of my tech support with her for a while was little more than stopping her from closing error messages immediately, then just asking h
497.
by sli 6y ago
This doesn't really surprise me. Between music streaming, cars more commonly having extra inputs (AUX, USB, Bluetooth), the market for CDs is probably shrinking while vinyl appeals to the same enthusiasts year after year.
498.
by sli 6y ago
Reader mode in Safari on iOS works great as well, but the zoom level doesn't seem to be fixed, either. It's initially zoomed in but I'm able to zoom out and it will stay.
499.
by sli 6y ago
My mother's friend was told to give up her Facebook password for a job at the police station. She accepted the terms, for some reason. This was for an administrative-type job at a police station that did not involve police work or any
500.
by sli 6y ago
Really the only answer this thread needs. Companies can be bought and sold and the information they have can change hands and change retention and privacy policies. There's no trustable verification method for knowing, for absolute cer
501.
by sli 6y ago
CNN's website always tries to start up SteamVR for whatever reason.
502.
by sli 6y ago
DNT just became another fingerprinting datapoint, so it ended up being better to just set it to whatever the critical mass is using (which is typically off).
503.
by sli 6y ago
I would say the downside is Google, because they may just kill Flutter and/or Dart even if they get popular. I just can't make myself hitch anything important to Google's tech anymore. I do think Dart itself is a fine languag
504.
by sli 6y ago
They're being beaten by a competitor.
505.
by sli 6y ago
All it needs is something for calls and something for MMS. Every other "app" would just be a Windows application. Windows application developers would be developing apps for it, but continuing to do what they do.
506.
by sli 6y ago
Unfortunately, everything surrounding this remake implies that the project is dead and gone. The Twitter account and the IndieDB entry have both been deleted.
507.
by sli 6y ago
Sometimes there's a very fine line between cynicism and realism.
508.
by sli 6y ago
You really cannot even begin to blame websites for using HTML5 and CSS3 just because an obscure browser doesn't support them.
509.
by sli 6y ago
There are already a few formats that work just like JPEG but for modern video formats. Some of them even compress better (FLIF). They just haven't caught on at all. JPEG just has so much momentum. Those other formats weren't dev
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by sli 6y ago
I definitely do not have the chops for this, but I would love to see some sort of visualization that traces major, seemingly-modern computing ideas to their roots.

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