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by troyvit 3y ago
wkhtmltopdf[1] uses the QT WebKit renderer. I used it as part of my job hut work-flow with pandoc to get pdf resumes from markdown. It got me a job, so there's that. [1] https://wkhtmltopdf.org/
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by troyvit 3y ago
They also did that! > Because we lost so much data, we also instituted a self-reported attribution “how did you hear about us” survey. Eight months in, and we’ve actually found new channels and learned a lot about our old ones. Ironicall
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by troyvit 3y ago
It's literally about marketing, and probably the most complex marketing issue facing web sites in 2024. It's gonna be long.
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by troyvit 3y ago
I block it too. However, it is only what it says on the tin: a tag manager. IOW it's a convenient place to hold all those useful snippets[1] of javaScript in one place. Most companies want that place to be google because it's seen
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by troyvit 3y ago
Two minutes? That's less than half a cigarette. It took awhile but I finished the article. I don't see much self-gratification in phrases like: > we saw around a 30% increase in our cost per click (CPCs) in Google search. Or th
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by troyvit 3y ago
Some hack lawyer in charge of the Boeing 737 Max 9 is reading your comment right now and drooling. "It was the wrench's fault!"
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by troyvit 3y ago
This is really cool! How many photos are in your album? Do more photos slow it down?
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by troyvit 3y ago
> FDA staffers play a pivotal role in drug approvals, presenting evidence to the agency's advisory panels and influencing or making approval decisions. They are free to move to jobs in pharma, and many do;in a 2016 study in The BMJ,
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by troyvit 3y ago
Gotcha. As somebody who bikes a lot I totally agree.
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by troyvit 3y ago
I see where you're coming from. To me we all _are_ figuratively in a tower on fire. The fire's just started, but nobody's doing much about it. As one of the masses I try to do my part in my personal and professional life. The
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by troyvit 3y ago
I'm not sure which side I'm on in your comment ;) Right now I'm focusing on the first 2 R's of the 3 R's (reduce, reuse, and recycle). I'm reducing my footprint by reusing an existing car and fixing it with use
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by troyvit 3y ago
I don't need it to, and I don't need a separate room in my freakin' house for a car. I spend 5 minutes while I'm washing the windows and then it's done.
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by troyvit 3y ago
This is so true. Even an ICE car has those problems.
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by troyvit 3y ago
An EV just doesn't do anything that my 2007 Pontiac Vibe doesn't do better. My car is worth about $3,000. It: - Has a 400 mile range - Can stop anywhere and refuel in just a few minutes, including very isolated areas - Plays all t
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by troyvit 3y ago
I'm not one of these guys, but what I imagine is that it's purely ego-driven. They just see themselves as too important to die in squalor with the rest of the masses. When "the end" comes their estate would be too vulner
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by troyvit 3y ago
If you agree that we'll always be mortal then there will always be sickness, etc., even without capitalism, and in fact this breakthrough (if it is one) didn't originate in a capitalist system. With that in mind, liberation is a m
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by troyvit 3y ago
> Wayland protocols hit 1.0 in 2015 and [...] (from further up in the thread[1]) > Also, I can take screenshots just fine on Wayland via KWin. I can't pick arbitrary 3p apps just yet but KWin's screenshotter is fine. Maybe i
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by troyvit 3y ago
> Google has agreed to pay $700 million and make several other concessions to settle allegations that it had been stifling competition against its Android app store > [...] it’s a fraction of the $10.5 billion in damages that the atto
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by troyvit 3y ago
Maybe not (unless you want to get at that 'roid from the long way around) but some people are vegetarian because they want to avoid killing animals as much as possible. It seems that shark liver oil comes mainly from sharks already con
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by troyvit 3y ago
Personally I think articles like this are actually the shreds of evidence you say don't exist. If there isn't life on Enceladus this is still incredibly exciting because then it might make the perfect lab for us to put life and st
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by troyvit 3y ago
I am now illusioned!
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by troyvit 3y ago
I skipped to chapter 9 in the article ("Clogged"), and it looked like Pipes failed because it didn't have a large enough team or a well-defined mission. As a result they couldn't offer a super robust product that would l
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by troyvit 3y ago
I was about to be like, "Yah well is Kiwi a 'major' browser?" Then I looked at android browser share[1] and realized that Firefox certainly isn't either. [1] https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market
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by troyvit 3y ago
> Secondly, Xorg only does windows, with no sense of importance. What's the problem with that? For a long time, this meant that the Lock Screen was literally just a window, drawn on top of all your other windows. If anything crashed
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by troyvit 3y ago
Late to the party, but these are the things people were saying about Apple in 1999/2000. Apple was sitting with a < 4% marketshare and also (luckily) $5 billion. They turned it around. There are massive differences between Apple and
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by troyvit 3y ago
I use Telegram FOSS. They refuse to use firebase for notifications, so I forever have a message in my drawer that leads to this link: https://github.com/Telegram-FOSS-Team/Telegram-FOSS/blob/mas... I doubt it
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by troyvit 3y ago
The reason I contacted both of my state senators is this: We will never get a constitutionally-protected right to privacy. What we will get is federal entities, state entities, international entities and private entities consistently erodin
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by troyvit 3y ago
It's simple for me. How has the TSA done handling security since its inception without facial recognition? No buildings knocked over by airplanes? Cool then we don't need to degrade our expectation of privacy any more than we alre
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by troyvit 3y ago
Come to Colorado! Not the most fiscally conservative but we have the TABOR law which greatly limits the government's power to tax. Reason magazine said our governor, a Democrat, "might be the most libertarian governor in America&q
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by troyvit 3y ago
> Bigger picture, I just like seeing attempts at stuff that is quite different. It feels like we’ve become incredibly risk averse. That's a good point. Seeing this headline immediately filled me with schadenfreude, and I bet I'

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