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by valvar 4y ago
I think the flagged commenter was probably thinking of the quote in terms of a framing related to trans people.
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by valvar 4y ago
Happens with a lot of websites, unfortunately. Also experienced this with Samsung when trying to manage my account for their SmartThings app.
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by valvar 4y ago
Isn't that just stressful? Are you ever going to look at more than 20% of the things on your backlog? My approach is to bookmark things and then if I feel like it's time to read up on something or just a good time to work on the r
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by valvar 4y ago
> attributing, to historical figures, modern concepts which they surely never even conceived of, and which would undoubtedly baffle them until they had been brought up-to-date with current knowledge. I don't think that's quite
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by valvar 4y ago
Oh no...
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by valvar 4y ago
Why is that "not a lot"? What would be "a lot"?
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by valvar 4y ago
uBlock filters for the loginwall: www.nytimes.com###gateway-content www.nytimes.com###app>div>div[class^="css-"]>div[aria-hidden="true"]+div[class^="css-"] www.nytimes.com###app>div&gt
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by valvar 4y ago
>Apparently it's legal for Congress to insider trade. It's legal for CEOs to insider trade. I'm pretty sure it isn't.
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by valvar 4y ago
The main difference is the amount of JS bloat. Twitter takes many seconds to load and navigation is sluggish.
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by valvar 4y ago
Email addresses are notoriously hard to parse.[0] I'd wager that one probably misses a bunch of corner cases. [0] https://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html
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by valvar 4y ago
I fail to see how this could be called anything else without resorting to newspeak. It's politically motivated downranking of sources that the operators of DDG are in ideological disagreement with. It's a way of exerting narrative
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by valvar 4y ago
No, I only have their word to go on, but at least they explicitly say that they are avoiding censorship[0], while DDG are quite open with it. I also did some smell tests by searching controversial topics, and Kagi does seem to present a mor
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by valvar 4y ago
I switched to Kagi[0] when DDG announced their implementation of selective censorship[1]. The results are much better, and I use the !g bang way less often (for DDG I was basically always using it, making the bangs the only actually useful
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by valvar 5y ago
I took that course in 2015 or 2016, so yeah, I guess that's about a decade in which he could have added it. I just browsed around Chalmers' course pages and am very happy to see that he's still teaching that course.
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by valvar 5y ago
I have a similar anecdote which completely stunned us, but which may possibly be part of his standard routine, and thus something he does for every set of students: He always wore the same striped sweater. At one point, he took a break to d
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by valvar 5y ago
It may be a Kremlin talking point, but that doesn't make it baseless. It's a pretty well-known (and I should actually think uncontroversial) fact that Washington and its allies have been bolstering Ukrainian military capabilities
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by valvar 5y ago
An absolute legend! My favourite of his jokes: "when I moved to Sweden from Norway, the average IQ went up in both countries".
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by valvar 5y ago
Same experience here. As far as genre fiction goes, the prose itself is pretty good. But the plot and themes did not resonate with me or strike me as particularly interesting. I do understand its historical context, but I don't really
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by valvar 5y ago
Maybe? Your alternative seems to be to let a few people die every now and then, so that some companies can get better margins.
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by valvar 5y ago
Because they didn't design it around that possibility. If the battery blows up, regardless of cause, it should do so in a controlled manner which minimizes the harm caused to the wearer.
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by valvar 5y ago
Yes, just look at the terrible state of Switzerland.
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by valvar 5y ago
There is no such thing as fact-checking without an agenda. What would the incentives be? No agenda, no demand, no-one pays for it.
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by valvar 5y ago
This is why one should watch our for TLAs ;)
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by valvar 5y ago
To further illustrate that point, would you say that someone who is deeply concentrated while reading a book or solving a puzzle looks like they're on drugs?
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by valvar 5y ago
Is there any evidence that supposed beta testers are not receiving the source code?
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by valvar 5y ago
Selling exemptions is a thing.
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by valvar 5y ago
But the GPL is much better if you want to avoid having your work stolen.
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by valvar 5y ago
What's the issue with GPL here?
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by valvar 5y ago
If you're joking, do be aware that it's not very obvious.
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by valvar 5y ago
I find the wording itself interesting. I guess it's a sort of class-tribalism that's developed to the point where it's so ingrained in some people's mindsets that they causally append bizarre comments like that to their

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