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by tirpen 5y ago
That's amusing. Personalized results are the reason I stopped using Google and switched to DDG, this option might actually make me give Google another try.
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by tirpen 5y ago
There's no way it's easier to use a second browser profile every time you want to search and get useable results than just toggling this toggle once.
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by tirpen 5y ago
No, people are think that them collecting "Data necessary for law enforcement, litigation and authorities’ requests (if any)" harmful. That has nothing to do with crash reporting, and there is no sane reason for a desktop, offli
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by tirpen 5y ago
Maybe I could build a robot that goes out in the city and steal cars. As far as licenses go, idk. Presumably it could delete the number plate and repaint the car or otherwise obscure where it's taking the car from. Maybe this part is s
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by tirpen 5y ago
Bitcoins are directly harming people! Climate change will probably kill millions and Bitcoin is creating an economical incetive to accelerate it.
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by tirpen 5y ago
Yes, some people will ignore the law and it's impossible for law enforcement to catch all law breaker. Great insight. I guess we might just as well make murder legal as well, since it's some people will still kill each other no wh
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by tirpen 5y ago
> Basic features, like getting a permalink to a line of code, take 3-4 clicks in GitLab, when it's just 1 in GitHub That doesn't seem right. In Gitlab: Right click the line number, choose Copy Link in the context menu. Two cl
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by tirpen 5y ago
It does. At least it works in PyCharm, so most likely it works in all IntelliJ based IDEs.
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by tirpen 5y ago
But how can you be sure that the content you get in a browser is the same content that you get with curl? Serving different content based on the user agent header or similar is not exactly difficult. And there are even [sneakier ways]( http
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by tirpen 6y ago
Wow, It's sure is a nice feature that Bitcoin doesn't have any way to dispute charges and that it's mostly anonymous. This article is yet another amazing illustration of why that's definitely two features you want from
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by tirpen 6y ago
Usually so you can control the devices from your smartphone. Phone talks to hub over local wi-fi, hub talks to devices over Zigbee. They might have a web interface where you can program schedules for the lights, define "scenes" an
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by tirpen 6y ago
Yes, just close your eyes and ears to reality and pretend to be safe. It's the easy way to handle problems.
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by tirpen 6y ago
So does Thunderbird.
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by tirpen 6y ago
Yes, just like functions are just a new buzzword for goto. Structural pattern matching is a lot more than just switch/case, and I while I think pythons implementation looks imperfect , it will still be an amazing boon to the languag
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by tirpen 6y ago
The problem is that Stadia is streaming only, so no downloads or offline play, but you still have to buy each individual games. So it doesn't fit either side in your analogy since it cherry-picks the bad parts of both alternatives.
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by tirpen 6y ago
> Using bad data to make bad decisions about employee careers does not benefit the employer. It's another useless number that they can pretend to care about when negotiating salaries in order to keep down wages. - "Weeeellll...
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by tirpen 6y ago
I don't think these stats correlate at with anyones productivity.
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by tirpen 6y ago
The Wikipedia page "Free and open-source software" agrees. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open-source_software#... "Netscape's act prompted Raymond and others to look into how to bring the
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by tirpen 6y ago
That's pretty neat. It's interesting that the frame rate in Firefox seems to be at least more than double than what I get in Chrome. It's always nice to see Firefox beat the competition. Great work Firefox team!
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by tirpen 6y ago
What's wrong with removing busy roads from urban areas? The idea has been tried many times in many European cities and it has been proven to be an excellent idea almost every time. Making city centers into pedestrian zones with bike pa
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by tirpen 6y ago
You are saying that as if it's a problem. Having a birth rate below the replacement rate is a good thing that every country should strive for. The earth is overpopulated and that's a major factor in almost every major global pro
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by tirpen 6y ago
Definitely. You can still opt in to keep using their old interface thankfully, the difference in both performance and UX is staggering. When that option disappears from the site, so will I.
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by tirpen 6y ago
But how many such comments would you need to read per day to replace panel heaters would you say?
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by tirpen 6y ago
Well, we seem to averaging on one every 20 years or so. Spanish Flu, 1918-1920 Asian Flu, 1957–58 Cholera pandemic, 1961–1975 Hong Kong Flu, 1968-1969 H1N1, 2009-2010, Covid-91, 2019-????
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by tirpen 6y ago
No, because because of the next virus.
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by tirpen 6y ago
Why wouldn't I want that? It's not like I want to be successfully manipulated by ads, so getting shown irrelevant ads is just a big win in my book.
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by tirpen 6y ago
Neither alternative makes sense, so you are both correct.
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by tirpen 6y ago
μ is used a fair bit by anyone who uses the metric system, so it makes sense to include it. It's used as a prefix to denote a millionth for those that don't know, as in µm = micrometer = a millionth of a meter. It's mapped to
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by tirpen 6y ago
> Now they're in trouble as their income dries up. Good.
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by tirpen 6y ago
Neither can jpg.

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