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by wanda 5y ago
Isn't this what all firms do to each other, all the time? Like, isn't this just normal business these days? Isn't this sort of thing a natural eventuality in a capitalist world? Capitalism crowns the person who wins, regardle
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by wanda 5y ago
So link to one in the other's comments.
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by wanda 5y ago
As I said to another respondent, my post was tongue-in-cheek. I meant no offense to anyone.
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by wanda 5y ago
It was actually intended as a harmless joke. I spend most of my time on front-end development myself, these days.
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by wanda 5y ago
Nope, you're not missing anything really, but I'm sure glad that not every website looks like a Bootstrap 3. I think these government ones are more about keeping a consistent style and look across departmental websites, than adver
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by wanda 5y ago
Because more people will click on it and read it. Call it "Countering CVE-0284-b" and 50 people will read it. Go with a political catalyst title and you get thousands if hits, even if they then close the tab immediately. It means
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by wanda 5y ago
What is a woman ? Some might answer that woman is a mother, a sister, a daughter, a protector and someone who needs protecting -- but if you generalise these to parent and child, you get a protector and a protectee without gender anyway.
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by wanda 5y ago
The mind of a person, in its authentic and self-aware form, has no gender. Any gender normative behaviour is imprinted by habit or selected by the subject by choice, because that's how they choose to identify. This person then has two
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by wanda 5y ago
If I am not mistaken, I believe the paradox arises not when matter enters the black hole, but rather in the anonymity of its expression as Hawking radiation later in the black hole's lifespan. I was also under the impression that a sol
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by wanda 5y ago
Errata: Windows 8 became very tabletified, but with options... should read: Windows 8 became very tabletified, but without options...
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by wanda 5y ago
> no side taskbar This is literally the first thing I do on a fresh install. What the hell were they thinking > start menu further ruined but whyyyyyyyyyyyy I honestly never had a problem with Microsoft Windows over its UI decisions
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by wanda 5y ago
> I think a lot of people on forums focus on the difficulty and gameplay aspects because they're easier to have a conversation around. The key is that there is probably a fairly uniform consensus that the art direction is good, whil
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by wanda 5y ago
> Wow. This blog post is unbelievably condescending and arrogant. I really don't think it is. The author simply seems to have very little tolerance for that onboarding process, and do you know what, that process actually does sound
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by wanda 5y ago
Mobile browsers frequently come with gestures that can effectively override any attempts to scroll horizontally, instead taking the user backwards/forwards in browsing history, for example. This is certainly true of Safari, the default
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by wanda 5y ago
I'm quite sure we have already invented several chemicals that match your description -- like sarin gas, invented in 1938 by someone who, indeed, wanted to create a decent pesticide. A lethal dose of sarin gas is something like 28-35m³
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by wanda 5y ago
Never doubted for a second that HHGG would be represented. There are many great lines, here's another one I've always liked: "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry, and has been
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by wanda 5y ago
I had a ThinkPad 380ED I think. I remember it had a 3GB hard drive, and I'm pretty sure it had both a floppy disk drive and a CD drive -- in a laptop! 166MHz CPU, probably 16MB RAM or something hilarious like that. And it was just this
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by wanda 5y ago
Yes, social media is essentially a wall of noise. It's someone throwing their ego into sharp relief. Instead of a handshake and an opportunity to judge a book by its cover, you're greeted by a literal and loud book cover of the pe
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by wanda 5y ago
> the powers that be I think the powers that be are the ones who are resisting intervening or even bearing their teeth ~ because in reality, they'd rather just go back to trading with or at least ignoring Russia. So much so that t
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by wanda 5y ago
For those of you who can't wrap your heads around why Putin is invading Ukraine, I invite you to recall the invasions of Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in 2003 by the US and its allies. While artfully justified to Western audiences at th
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by wanda 5y ago
Sadly, the notion of "free energy" in a capitalist context is probably why the concept hasn't taken off.
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by wanda 5y ago
In the same timeframe, much more success has been found in improving the efficiency of renewable power solutions which are functional out of the box, easier to maintain/update, cheaper, and an easier sell. I agree that fusion is import
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by wanda 5y ago
Because it is a feature. It is one of the last and most triumphant remnants of the era of forums. You log in when you want; you read things you want to read, when you want to read them. It is not a cult of personality revolving around who
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by wanda 5y ago
Another vote for Affinity Photo and the Affinity apps in general actually: https://affinity.serif.com/
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by wanda 5y ago
Have you tried Affinity Designer? https://affinity.serif.com/en-gb/designer/ One-off purchase price, like Adobe apps used to be, and a very reasonable price at that.
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by wanda 5y ago
var particle = new Resonance(); as for why, probably so that literature written now still makes sense following on from older material from the 20th century that isn't wrong but does include some antiquated terminology. Pedagogically
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by wanda 5y ago
Fortunately, all the good video games have already been made.
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by wanda 5y ago
What I said is a long way from "ultra cynical" And I didn't say it for any feelings of my own, or for anyone's feelings for that matter.
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by wanda 5y ago
Don't forget to promote chopping off everyone's hands. I hear some ultra-right-wing people might be typing their nonsense with their hands. So we should make sure no one has hands, that'll get em. ~ Also, this list of US ne
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by wanda 5y ago
> protecting the public Are you serious? This isn't high on their agenda at all. > surely there's tech people whose job is to explain this to politicians You have a very, very optimistic view of the world. If the government

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