tuxracer

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by tuxracer 6y ago
If society may be destabilized because one has the knowhow to create something of this scale but not the resources to properly moderate specific violent threats then perhaps a barrier-to-entry preventing that is a good thing
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by tuxracer 6y ago
Safari on iOS is already the new IE6
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by tuxracer 6y ago
Please don't let CRTs come back in style. After a while they tend to develop this headache inducing high pitched tone almost akin to tinnitus that is emitted constantly while they're powered on. It seems to be so high pitched most
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by tuxracer 6y ago
What about this enables Google to snoop on all DNS?
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by tuxracer 7y ago
It's laggy in large part because it should be using https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/window/requ... instead of setInterval
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by tuxracer 7y ago
Play a game where typing is required to communicate. Never took any formal typing courses just started playing a lot of EverQuest back in the day. There wasn't voice chat at the time and the gameplay requires a lot of quick communicati
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by tuxracer 7y ago
The risk of the communication being compromised isn't necessarily the sole concern. There are also varying levels of consequences for various types of communication for different countries. When it comes to a country that has developed
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by tuxracer 7y ago
Is there a good end-to-end encrypted alternative to Evernote?
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by tuxracer 7y ago
Sounds like it's not brute forcing simple using the same email/password for some random site that then gets compromised, malicious actors then try those same credentials to log into Ring and they're in first try
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by tuxracer 7y ago
Sure they created a lot of apps but they never replicated THE key feature of iMessage which is seamless SMS fallback within the same app. You don't have to even think about "Oh this person doesn't use such and such app"
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by tuxracer 7y ago
> It is a common misconception that people with disabilities don't have or 'do' JavaScript, and thus, that it's acceptable to have inaccessible scripted interfaces, so long as it is accessible with JavaScript disabled
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by tuxracer 7y ago
Doesn't sound like a problem you get with typing, sounds like it was actually catching what could be a runtime error in production. If the variable is possibly null but the function you're passing it to expects it to not be null t
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by tuxracer 7y ago
Both of these permissions already require consent.
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by tuxracer 8y ago
Unless the underlying resource you're referring to is airspace we can definitely increase the supply of housing (and in some cases quite dramatically) without using more of the underlying resource by allowing the construction of taller
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by tuxracer 8y ago
"No, correlation does not imply causation, but it sure as hell provides a hint." https://slate.com/technology/2012/10/correlation-does-not-im... > I would argue that the bacteria shows up AFTER t
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by tuxracer 8y ago
https://docs.npmjs.com/files/package.json#private anyone hoping to avoid the same fate
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by tuxracer 8y ago
Kept waiting to see where the data would come in and it never did. This is entirely data-free conjecture. This is the engineering equivalent of an article calling out a particular medicine as being ineffective purely on the basis of "I
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by tuxracer 8y ago
Japan is a democracy with basic rights like freedom of speech. China is currently an extremely censorship heavy totalitarian state. It doesn't seem unreasonable to be concerned about such a repressive state gaining increasing influence
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by tuxracer 8y ago
Ubuntu Mono https://design.ubuntu.com/font/ Changed the font of Hacker News to Ubuntu Mono a while ago with https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader and can see the difference between those charac
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by tuxracer 8y ago
They seem to have the advice slightly mixed up. It's not "revoke Samsung Messages storage permissions OR switch to another SMS app" it should be "revoke Samsumg Messages storage permissions AND switch to another SMS app&
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by tuxracer 8y ago
Another gem: Trying to use `npm shrinkwrap` will cause npm to enforce peer dependencies as required instead of just a warning https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/12909 Despite the issue being automatically clos
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by tuxracer 8y ago
This site definitely kills the Firefox on both Mac and Android (can barely scroll or not at all). Hopefully not a sign of things to come...
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by tuxracer 9y ago
https://wire.com/
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by tuxracer 9y ago
> they're words on paper that governments or populist movements can easily ignore For example, China's constitution also contains "Article 35. Citizens of the People's Republic of China enjoy freedom of speech, of the
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by tuxracer 9y ago
If you have the context of having been there then those ultra-shitty videos are more like a trigger for your own memory of that moment to help you relive a really good time. It's a phenomenon similar to how certain smells bring people
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by tuxracer 9y ago
Is the TOSDR data included with the add-on and referenced offline or is every URL being sent to TOSDR?
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by tuxracer 9y ago
For some reason they didn't link to the HTTPS versions: https://lite.cnn.io/en https://text.npr.org/
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by tuxracer 9y ago
If you're not willing to restructure your entire life to the point of renouncing citizenship of the country you were born into then you shouldn't ever make any choices based on moral principles whatsoever? uh.. what?? https:&#x2F
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by tuxracer 9y ago
The author's ideal language seems to also describe TypeScript https://eng.lyft.com/typescript-at-lyft-64f0702346ea
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by tuxracer 9y ago
Immediately confused this for an announcement of a new version of https://signal.org/

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