snarkyturtle

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by snarkyturtle 4y ago
If you're at a cash register and there's a slight chance that when you use your credit card that it won't accept a payment for an hour, wouldn't you not want to use that credit card?
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by snarkyturtle 4y ago
You either do single-cam and a laugh track, or a multi-cam with no laugh track. They made the poor choice of mixing the two.
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by snarkyturtle 4y ago
There are two things that differentiate this from other announcements: They're disabling certain versions of IE and redirecting users to Edge [1] and the global usage of IE is far, far, lower than it was even a couple of years ago. ht
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by snarkyturtle 4y ago
Not a new thing. SEGA had a service that let you play games through a coax cable for instance: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega_Channel . It loaded everything into RAM and got deleted as soon as you reset the console.
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by snarkyturtle 4y ago
Abs aren't built in the gym, they're made in the kitchen.
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by snarkyturtle 4y ago
Yep, it's gonna just be like when they "open-sourced" their image cropping algorithm and it's just that they provided the model and didn't specify their training data. Granted, yes, you can provide analysis like the
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
This is the case as it is in Australia, they have five timezones. https://www.timeanddate.com/time/australia/time-zones-backgr... I don't know exactly how that fares with scheduling and whatnot but it's
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
It's almost like every media company is competing against each other like any other business who would've thought
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
The Rectangle app has been a great window tiling system for me: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
Is being well-connected a bad thing? I don't get it. Surely I'd trust people with lots of great connections over someone who doesn't — it shows that they're great at soft skills, networking and being a decent human being
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
A thread on Twitter that I can't find confirmed that when they implemented the redirect, they took the stats in localstorage on the co.uk. domain, encoded it into json and passed it through a query param where the new site just parsed
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
But by taking money in exchange for a transaction that persists on a blockchain that separates OpenSea from, say, Pirate Bay. It was free to create an account and upload a torrent file and then the sharing occurred off-platform. But since O
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
Yep, all the warts are totally forgotten the moment you have to use Powerpoint or Keynote again and have to coordinate with changes with multiple people.
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
Wakatime
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
Someone didn't read the article, his overall point is that vaccines work: "However, while these numbers are true, to quote them as evidence for low vaccine efficacy is wrong and misleading."
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
Dude needs an editor. If mainstream news is bullshit, at least it's readable bullshit.
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by snarkyturtle 5y ago
At the same time, you could tell that he deliberately didn't include those moments in The Martian because he's not comfortable writing from that standpoint. In Project Hail Mary, those moments seem shoehorned in and the voice turn
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by snarkyturtle 6y ago
Icons with labels are best practice for accessibility.
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Contentful announces Community edition, free for developers(contentful.com)
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by snarkyturtle 7y ago
The melting point of marble is 800ºC and if reports are true that it's a construction mistake and not something more drastic it stands a good chance of not collapsing.
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
The main reason why Python is trending is mostly because of the data science community. Things like Pandas, NumPy, Jupyter Notebooks and Tensorflow all are built on python, mostly because of its simplicity and ease-of-use more than anythin
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
I'd say it encourages collaboration moreso. It's way easier to get somone's attention and get a quick clarification, although in this day and age I'd probably even Slack someone sitting next to me rather than talk. For
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
I feel like this move is like Radiohead releasing In Rainbows as "pay what you want". Abramov already has a devoted fanbase that'll probably read anything he writes, but not everyone has that kind of clout. For writers with
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
There's an xkcd for that https://xkcd.com/1897/
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
They're doing fine, their Daily Active Users is higher than Twitter even.
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
Some software is only available on OSX (like Sketch)
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
One thing that PM's do that I don't ever see a computer doing is managing clients/workers. It's the classic idiom: technology is easy, it's people that's the hard problem.
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
They still track you with Location Services off, according to this map: https://interactives.ap.org/google-location-tracking/
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
Because the wheels are proprietary and full of quirks. For instance, $('.foo') returns an array of jquery objects and not HTMLElements that you can act directly upon using the standard API that was made for replacing it.
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by snarkyturtle 8y ago
Well XMLHttpRequest has support going back to IE7.

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