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by wackget 3y ago
When someone starts earning above the threshold where it becomes literally impossible to spend, start taxing the everloving shit out of them.
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by wackget 3y ago
"The free market" will always result in: * Companies doing what's best for their profits; not what's best for people. * Companies becoming so large that they are literally impossible to compete with. * Customers choosing
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by wackget 3y ago
FYI your animated background should be disabled when your visitor [prefers-reduced-motion]( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/pref... ). Edit: or just disabled in general cos it&
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by wackget 3y ago
Isn't that just a regular aspect ratio issue? If the content is filmed in 1:2.4 and you're trying to watch it on a 16:10 screen, it's always going to be letterboxed. In that case, if it doesn't look letterboxed then it&#
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by wackget 3y ago
COUGH mozilla
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by wackget 3y ago
> If you have done something so terribly wrong to cause your account to be terminated, and to remove all your apps, you would expect at least an email properly written by a human being, with evidences of the mistake you have done. This i
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by wackget 3y ago
Site doesn't work without websockets. Why does a pure text website need websocket functionality?
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by wackget 3y ago
* red dye No. 3 * potassium bromate * brominated vegetable oil * propylparaben
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by wackget 3y ago
You're thinking of "trawling", not trolling.
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by wackget 3y ago
Unreal Tournament patches are still in development with official approval/support of Epic: https://github.com/OldUnreal/UnrealTournamentPatches/ These patches include updates to the master server addresses wh
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by wackget 3y ago
My point was that their supply cost should be minimal especially if they don't fully host and run their own crawlers/indexers.
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by wackget 3y ago
Eh, that's $24/year vs. $120/year. One is justifiable for what is essentially a luxury convenience. The other is not.
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by wackget 3y ago
No support for collation is an enormous dealbreaker. It means you can't have case-insensitive searches or keys (e.g. foo@bar.com is treated differently than Foo@bar.com). You also can't rename databases. The query syntax is also a
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by wackget 3y ago
Call me tight-fisted or naive or whatever but I don't see $10/month as a remotely attractive price point and I don't see how they can justify it, especially when their results are still powered at least in part by external in
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by wackget 3y ago
> show you lost 90% of your users because your button doesn't show up on certain screen sizes How does analytics do that? A mobile usability scanner might pick that up, but analytics?
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by wackget 3y ago
I know Hacker News doesn't want you messing with article titles... but you couldn't have added "Rupert Murdoch: " to the title of your submission?
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by wackget 3y ago
Absolutely. For anything internet-based (social media, chat, meetings etc.) web apps are vastly superior for this reason. In fact, anything which doesn't explicitly need the richness of a true desktop GUI (e.g. Photoshop or games) shou
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by wackget 3y ago
Yeah the syntax comparison is deliberately misleading. They style it as "4 lines vs 10 lines!" when it's actually 4 lines vs 4 lines. # PRQL from employees select {id, first_name, age} sort age take 10 #
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by wackget 3y ago
When submitting a weight, the site should allow you to submit a reference such as a newspaper article, an archived website, or other form of proof. And the proof should be publicly visible.
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by wackget 3y ago
50% of that video is waiting for something to happen.
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by wackget 3y ago
> It comes with one USB-C to USB-C charging cable Why not a USB-A to USB-C cable? The vast majority of existing chargers and computer/console/car ports are USB-A. Seems like this is forcing people to buy USB-C chargers.
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by wackget 3y ago
You haven't seen the shit I throw in my dishwasher every few nights. Seriously. It is jam-fucking-packed to the gills with the nastiest, filthiest, greasiest crap you can imagine. That it uses only a few litres of water to clean it is
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by wackget 3y ago
As a PHP developer of 10+ years, large frameworks like Laravel and Symfony still bewilder me. I really have no idea why 99% of people would ever want to use them. They add a layer of complexity over the top of PHP such that instead of learn
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by wackget 3y ago
As a programmer of over 30 years I still have never used Usenet and the reason is the barrier to entry. There is way too much friction. You need a paid (!) subscription to a provider, potentially a subscription to an indexer, plus client so
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by wackget 3y ago
FYI this isn't AI-powered or anything. It's not even doing speech-to-text synthesis. It just uses yt-dlp (youtube-dl) to download the video with its existing [auto-generated] subtitles from YouTube.
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by wackget 3y ago
Try https://toffeeshare.com/
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by wackget 3y ago
FTA: > As of December 31, 2021, the Endowment held $105.4 million. There is currently $99.33 million in the investment account and $6.07 million in cash. An additional $8 million raised in December will be transferred to the Endowment in
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by wackget 3y ago
Looks like it's open source: https://github.com/Rectify11/Installer Says so on the FAQs page of the (terrible) website as well.
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by wackget 3y ago
Does this make any difference to the new "Settings" UI which infuriatingly replaced about 50% of the old Control Panel in Windows 10? In W10 I'm never sure if I should open the control panel or the Settings "app", t
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by wackget 3y ago
>> “[T]he average user must recognize that YouTube content, unlike media content on other websites, cannot be downloaded with a simple right-click and must be aware that this is achieved using technology on YouTube and that youtube-dl

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