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by syrrim 10y ago
Gestures are easy. Just install libinput-gestures, make it launch on startup, and you're good to go.
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>"infrastructure" (painting lines on streets that have to be repainted periodically anyway) Bike lanes aren't really for bikes - they're for cars. If a cyclist isn't afforded a lane, they'll take the rightmo
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They never would. Unless somebody decided to make public that they were advertising to neo-nazis. Only then do they have to go into damage control.
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>from what I can tell this is from 4chan and gaming I do not think so. Gaming and 4chan have been around a while, but this development is, as you say, relatively recent. I think there is some force that is new that promotes this curve. O
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Who gives a shit. The point of writing natives apps isn't just to check it off your bucket list - natives apps can have advantages over web apps if done right. Those advantages include better performance, integration with native UI com
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It's funny, because many of my professors already do write what amounts to a small textbook, in the form of notes/slides. These are then freely available online. By saving, editing, and expanding on these notes over the course of
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If that sounds bad, then wait 'til you hear about Apple's situation - they don't support custom hardware, at all. Not only does sound not work, nothing works. Linux is a step above macOS in that it not only does it work very
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True, but your ISP is expected to resolve domains to the same thing as everyone else, which is based on the distribution setup by ICANN/IANA/whoever. I2P has complete control over what a domain will resolve to, and can choose name
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When you xor data with truly random data, the result is just as truly random as the original random data. Consider this: considering that xor is its own inverse, how would a court distinguish the original and the xored random data? Perhaps
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Coding is only difficult because we have made it difficult. It should be possible for a user who is not overly familiar with programming to open up the source, find the part they want to change, change it, and rebuild the changed software.
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"Colour" overcomplicates what could be a simple issue. There are bits that describe how to turn it from random data into copyrighted material (eg sound, visuals). This is easy to see. Imagine you took some copyrighted material a
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Of course, not only are markdown style links unsupported, nothing but raw urls are supported as links. For whatever reason, the majority of people here choose to relate links to locations in text using a particular footnote style. Since thi
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Uber should pay it, yes, but they aren't. Further, not paying it is unlikely to make them go under - in fact the reverse. Charging more, or giving more to the drivers, will take away from their profits. Conversely, not paying their dri
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You don't get to set the minimum wage, and perhaps have difficulty determining the precise wage without tips, but tips allow you to choose the maximum wage. If you knew $5 of what you paid Uber would go towards the driver for a 20 minu
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>subsidizing a corporation's business strategy This is called paying them, and occurs even in the absense of tips. Tips give people the second option of not subsidizing the corporation; were tips removed, everyone would be forced to
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Were I a lawyer I would argue that they are covered under points (1) and (4). For (1), even though they aren't nonprofit, they aren't using the work directly to gain profit. Rather, they are using it as a base on which to annotate
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Chrome isn't open source.
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The trick of password rules should be (and this is what xkcd was getting at) to trick users into using passwords that they find easy to memorize, but are still high entropy. Long passwords can be high entropy, but, as highlighted at the end
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by syrrim 10y ago
I read an interesting explanation for how lying developed in humans: when we became capable social creatures, lying to others would be a quick way of gaining an advantage, so it would be selected for in the individual. However, a culture ma
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Western government is a democracy in name only. The US was designed to be so large that no individual can expect to cause a change in its function, even if they organize large protests, or send torrents of mail. You could run for office, bu
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except Exception: is useful when you have two alternate ways of accomplishing a goal; one default that might fail, and one extra that is less complete. Although you might only expect a certain error, since you have an alternate, you might a
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>I think SHA-512 is resistant to near-collisions All good hash functions have an even distribution, and are therefore resistant to near-collisions. Hash tables for example require this property to work properly.
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by syrrim 10y ago
Charging more for something that costs more to the ISP isn't a net neutrality issue. Net neutrality is about charging for things that cost nothing to the ISP, but are worth more to the consumer.
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You're making the assumption that companies need to accomplish a constant amount of work, and that they only hire enough developer to perform this work. I would argue that many companies have a limited budget, and will continue hiring
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I believe they do what you described, but it's not perfect. In order to do it, they need to know what a song sounds like and who owns that sound. If the owner hasn't uploaded it, then they can't take down copies. They also ha
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The current product is only considered by the creators to be alpha. They don't expect anyone else to found their business on it, and they aren't yet making their business rely on it. Even if it does become more stable in the futur
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The equivalent does sortof exist. You can of course preview your layout in the browser, and chrome (and possibly others) allows you to change the dimensions to reflect mobile devices. You can also link the source code in dev tools to a file
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>the web is inferior to native in the first place The web is de facto inferior, but it is not de jure inferior. That is to say that many people would very much like to see the web match native in capability, and efforts that derail t
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I was enlightend once to finish reading an article in a business magazine, and realize that everything discussed benefitted me. The executives in the article had made decisions in order to improve the state of their company, and in doing so
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I heard you could hot patch the kernel as well somehow.

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