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by thwarted 5y ago
This is getting stupid, if it wasn't already. Requiring vaccination is "curtailing liberties". Restricting movement due not being vaccinated is "curtailing liberties". No shit. One can either be part of society or n
512.
by thwarted 5y ago
Why even come to this solar system when the amount of minable resources that isn't our solar system is so much greater?
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by thwarted 5y ago
There is nothing "simple" about the concept of flat earth. It's one set of exceptions on top of another set of exceptions, ad infinitum. To use the pre-enlightenment list of exceptions: It's flat, but not infinite. It&#x
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by thwarted 5y ago
I saw 3 flying orbs in the 90s that I thought were ufos (or, one ufo) This terminology is all screwed up. You did see "unidentified flying objects". But you thought, and were ultimately hoping, they were "identified flyin
515.
by thwarted 5y ago
If you can generate almost infinite energy, what would you gain by invading earth vs, say, consuming resources from an uninhabited planet? Earth makes up a small amount of the mass in our solar system. But the inverse is also just as likely
516.
by thwarted 6y ago
So it's like a mobile game with in-game purchases and loot boxes. It's the entertainment industry in the finance industry's clothing.
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by thwarted 6y ago
This has escalated from the claims of being "simple" and "fun to use", and a bunch of other highly subjective, and distracting, terms.
518.
by thwarted 6y ago
The performance of website SPAs over time isn't the comparison I made. In my experience, the first, second, and any later load-to-usable time of a SPA is longer than the load-to-usable time for websites that are implemented like this n
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by thwarted 6y ago
Noticeably faster on subsequent page loads compared to the first one, sure. But many SPA take longer, in general, to get to the usable point than this netscape page.
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by thwarted 6y ago
And all the SPA frameworks were created to make pages load faster for a better experience, and now the original, simpler stuff is a much faster loading experience.
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by thwarted 6y ago
Yes, it is odd to pass the address of a local variable from the enclosing scope like this to a go routine.
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by thwarted 6y ago
for UWP apps the OS shell is in charge of creating and managing apps' window frames, unlike Win32 where it's the apps' responsibility Sounds like the linux ecosystem moved to client-side-decorations, and Windows moved to a
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by thwarted 6y ago
Making a high quality replica of the Mona Lisa requires work, and it still won't be identical—thus the term "replica". Making a high quality copy of a digital work requires exactly no additional work. It actually takes more
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by thwarted 6y ago
Remember P3P? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P3P
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by thwarted 6y ago
> It's an extraordinary claim. The claim that the being who ends up exerting significant effort and time to reproduction (effort that immediately and directly eats into the non-reproductive economic output) is looking for a mate w
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by thwarted 6y ago
Why isn't an identifier included in each request ("a cookie") not a valid way to track state across requests? It's the solution that makes sense with an otherwise stateless interaction. With a persistent connection, yo
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by thwarted 6y ago
"Humans had their chance, and nature selected them... for extinction." ~ paraphrasing Ian Malcolm, Jurassic Park. Human intelligence is a product of evolution, and that evolution apparently didn't provide us the kind of attri
528.
by thwarted 6y ago
It's literally in the definition of "butler". Butler: 1 : a manservant having charge of the wines and liquors. 2 : the chief male servant of a household who has charge of other employees, receives guests, directs the serving
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by thwarted 6y ago
There is a big conflict here between what is practical for users and what is best practice for developers. What about the conflict between what is practical for users and what is best practice for users? Security isn't just a develop
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by thwarted 6y ago
"We can't pay you, but you'll get exposure"
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by thwarted 6y ago
Isn't this usually attributed to the Reagan administration's repeal of Mental Health Systems Act? Not that the situtation was necessarily all that great before it was repealed, but my understanding is that the federal government
532.
by thwarted 6y ago
There was an endeavor sometime around 1998-2002 to reimplement a lot of coreutils, textutils, and other GNU-ish *utils in perl with regular, structured output formats (I believe XML at the time). Unfortunately, I don't remember the ex
533.
by thwarted 6y ago
People won't continuously reload a web page that is a political leader's stream of thought? Something can be a highly currated narrative and be accessible to everyone. Shit, people even have web browsers on their phones and compu
534.
by thwarted 6y ago
It would be just as fast to give high level officials a textbox and a submit button that adds content to a web page.
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by thwarted 6y ago
You are "that guy". I didn't say we didn't know about this distinction, I said we have a better understanding. It used to be the case submitting originating email on port 25 was accepted. Now, if you have that configure
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by thwarted 6y ago
Fetchmail grew to be a mail transport swiss army knife and encompassed half baked functionality of a domain-wide MTA rather focusing on single user async email consolidation and collection for a logical single account, which is largely what
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by thwarted 6y ago
Don't you solve at least half of this by putting a load balancer in front the service being hit (which is internal, so we control it), then the clients don't need to know which machines are up and working, you don't overload
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by thwarted 6y ago
If the decision comes down to "I can't get the exact shade of cornflower blue I want on this button unless I make it a div, but that will hurt accessibility" and you chose the exact shade of cornflower blue, your priorities a
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by thwarted 6y ago
The goals of the project includes "custom buttons"? There's so much functionality that you get for free/low effort if you don't feel the need to customize everything to the nines.
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by thwarted 6y ago
Yes, but the brand, being non-tangible, has stronger staying power as the platform marketplace expands to encompass more sellers. The brand then becomes more powerful as it eats up the reputation of the individual sellers. Additionally, no

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