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by wdr1 4y ago
The booing wasn't so much about IE. Netscape was still the 800lb gorilla when this deal happened. The booing was about Microsoft. It's hard to explain how much Microsoft was both loathed & feared by a lot of the tech industr
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by wdr1 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd use this for a logo. IANAL but my understanding is the ability to copyright the output from something like DALL-E 2 is questionable at best, due the lack of human authorship. (See "Monkey selfie copyright dis
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by wdr1 4y ago
The LA Times covered the conservatorship battle a bit back: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2021-08-15/... https://archive.ph/ungP4
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by wdr1 4y ago
Is there a TL;DR on what happened?
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by wdr1 4y ago
No, it's a GIF. This is explained in the FAQ I linked, but the file suffix (which probably made you think it's a JPG) doesn't matter. If you check the magic number, it's a GIF. I changed the file suffix to "trick&
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by wdr1 4y ago
I've been running a Calvin & Hobbes bot for ~20 years now. Back when Google Reader was a thing, the bot published an RSS feed which had greater than >1M subscribers. It's now a bot on Reddit (/u/CalvinBot) with
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by wdr1 4y ago
The litmus test I often apply is: Do I feel more informed on the topic, such that I understand different POVs & can make up my own mind? Or am I being pushed a narrative? There are some exceptions, but most media fails. I don't w
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by wdr1 4y ago
I was a longtime NYT subscriber who cancelled a few years ago. I switched to the WSJ & have been pretty happy with it.
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by wdr1 4y ago
MM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_MM
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by wdr1 4y ago
> In a zero-trust marketplace it is impossible to ascertain the truthfulness of such statements. I guess. I mean, my account has been around since 1997. We do a fair bit of ordering each year. And this was the only time I've repo
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by wdr1 4y ago
Do apps report back how often notifications are turned off? I'm wondering if the people who are spamming notification have any insight into the damage they're causing -- and if they did, if that would incentive better behavior.
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by wdr1 4y ago
Every year when I file my federal taxes, there's the little box to give $3 to fund presidential election campaigns. I've never checked it. However, if there was a box to say "Give NASA $20", I'd check it every time.
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by wdr1 4y ago
A seller offered me a gift certificate if I left a 5 star review. Basically a little note in the box saying if I left a 5 star review, took a screenshot & sent it to their email address, they'd send me the gift certificate. It was
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by wdr1 4y ago
> Can we not just have moderate success? Sure, but Hacker News is a strange place to lament about that. The country is full of exactly what you're looking for. Go work in an IT department in a medium size business, or a non-profit.
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by wdr1 4y ago
One of the things I love about it, is that Sneakers has a mathematical consultant in its credits: Len Adleman. The "A" in RSA.
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by wdr1 4y ago
My alma mater, University of Chicago, is currently clocking in at a staggering $85k. https://financialaid.uchicago.edu/undergraduate/costs That said, they offer free tuition for families making less than $125k.
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by wdr1 4y ago
Do you have an RSS feed?
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by wdr1 4y ago
> I just don't understand why cities in California won't let go of single unit zoning. It has. California has passed SB9. It allows up to four units to be built on a current single unit lot. https://focus.senate.ca
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by wdr1 5y ago
"This Story is Unavailable in your region" I get the message both directly & via archive.ph https://archive.ph/Bq8af
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by wdr1 5y ago
It baffles me how it's completely normal to avoid any mention of nuclear power when discussing climate change. Kurzgesagt just did a great video[1] on what we should be hopeful for addressing climate change, but again, absolutely zero
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by wdr1 5y ago
IMHO, those who spent the last several decades opposing nuclear power have as much blood on their hands as those who denied climate change was happening at all. History will not be kind to either.
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by wdr1 5y ago
I feel like musicians were doing Little Bobby Drop Tables long before the XKCD comic.
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by wdr1 5y ago
Oh please. You're cherry picking examples. Did you use Microsoft Foxpro on Mac? I can assure you MS killed it without a migration path. What about the Zune? MS Money? Microsoft Reader?
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by wdr1 5y ago
> MAGMA Out of curiosity, why do some people change "F" to "M" for Facebook to Meta, but leave the "G" there for Google?
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by wdr1 5y ago
It's ironic that some feel Russia is justified in thwarting the expansion of NATO for its national security, completely overlooking the fact that the regions other countries want to join NATO is for their national security . I've
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by wdr1 5y ago
It was much easier to understand everything about a system. I remember working at an e-commerce system in the late 90s. I knew how Apache worked, I knew which modules I had compiled in, I knew how our proprietary code worked, I knew ho
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by wdr1 5y ago
"Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."
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by wdr1 5y ago
These guys created an AirBnB from one in worse shape. https://www.airbnb.com/rooms/45816677 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-KKIb8rvtMQnKZOfxShr...
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by wdr1 5y ago
A lot of people don't realize the United States has the second largest air force in the world. Oh, it has the largest too -- the US Air Force. It's just the second largest air force in the world belongs to the US Navy. https:&#x2
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by wdr1 5y ago
> Loading up your printer with DRM is having your cake and eating it. It is anti-competitive and ought be outlawed. Why? Just don't buy the damn printer.

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