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by wolpoli 5y ago
Yes, it's perfectly legal and done according to law. There are some oversights. Under the Emergencies Act, the Parliament and the Senate get to confirm the use of the act. What surprised people were the fact that the action of voting d
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The canadian government declared an emergency under the emergencies act. The act enables the government to make any orders or regulations, so there is no need to go through the court.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
We could solve the privacy issue by implementing an installable plugin system into the browser. Let's call it NPAPI!
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I would love to be able to downvote step-by-step tutorials with obviously non-working steps or missing information.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> In modern Windows, press Win-key and start to type, oops, it missed the first keypresses, presented the completely wrong results and made a mess of your workflow. Every time I bump into these interaction issues, my stomach churns a lit
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I am not a Javascript expert: Would the XOR version work in Javascript where numbers are Doubles? Perhaps that's the reason the article used addition/subtraction instead?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I never considered that this algorithm would work so well with unsigned int. Looks like I learn something new today.
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User Interface History for Mozilla (1999-2012)(nicubunu.blogspot.com)
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I don't understand why modern toolbar icons are basically abstract shapes represented by lines. It's 2022, we have 32 bit colors, but toolbar icons have less color than back 30 years ago in Windows 3.1.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The person that developed this trick is obviously familiar with the Mathematical properties of numbers. But this is the wrong approach from many prospective, including the impact to performance, the potential of under/overflow, and the
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by wolpoli 5y ago
It sounds like part of the difficulty has to do with the general poor quality of online tutorials. There is a need for properly written guide books and magazines, but unfortunately, it seems like there is no way to pay for people to write t
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I got the impression that Windows used to make APIs so that others could use the same UI elements as the OS in their programs. Have they stopped doing that?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
If anyone is wondering about the user studies that Microsoft did for Windows 95, you can read about it here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060615110538/http://www.acm.or...
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The operating system would look consistent, but we would still have to deal with all the applications that decided they need to draw their own UI, including everything from Microsoft Office to all the web browsers to all the electrons apps.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
There's WPS Office that runs on Windows, MacOS, and Linux. The user interface has a level of polish that rivals Microsoft Office. Sadly, I didn't have a chance to explore if it is seamless to move a file between MS Office and WP
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The Windows 95 User Interface: A Case Study in Usability Engineering(web.archive.org)
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Windows 11 looks great in screenshots, but when I actually try to use it, it was terrible. I tried to move a file in Explorer using the context menu and I couldn't confidently tell Cut/Copy/Rename icons apart because they are
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by wolpoli 5y ago
This could be solved with selectable ranking strategies. Of course Google isn't going to offer that.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
I would encourage readers to also review this [1] document which compares and contrasts MMT and other economic theories. The author concluded that "MMT contains some kernels of truth, but its most novel policy prescriptions do not foll
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by wolpoli 5y ago
It's important to note that the Federal reserve normally controls the overnight rate, and let the market determines the interest rate for other durations (eg. 30Y). That changed with the introduction of Quantitative Easing where it red
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Yes, I check traffic much often than looking for Food/Hotels/Groceries, but somehow the toggle for traffic is hidden behind a small layer icon, while Food/Hotels/Groceries occupy the top of the screen.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> don't allow scrapers and sites that just reuse content from other sites. I remember there used to be ranking penalties against scraper sites. I have not been following Google's SEO rules in a while, so does anyone know what h
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by wolpoli 5y ago
This sounds very much like work harder, not smarter, which is the complete opposite of what they should do.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Anyone know why the Tempo control looks like a knob, but works like an up and down slider?
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> You mean like leet code, white bording and take home tests? Except that instead of being standardized/credentialized, every company has a different variation you need to study or do unpaid work, for every interview. We don't
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by wolpoli 5y ago
> To accumulate wealth, you either have to exploit the planet, other nations or it’s own people. This applies for countries, companies and even individuals. That's an excellent way to put it. Our regional Dental Surgeon association
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Yes, it wasn't the world's only RSS client, but the existence of it, along with Google's backing, had somewhat stifled innovations. So there weren't that many options to choose from at the point. There were a few reasons
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by wolpoli 5y ago
The nature open protocol makes it easy for companies to join. They could invest and insert itself somewhere in the ecosystem to add value, and once they dominate, they could evolve and close it up. Web sites with fantastic content are stil
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by wolpoli 5y ago
Also, independent (and interconnected) blogs simply have no place in their future where valuable/insightful content would be on Google+. Thus, to choke off the audience for blogs, Google Reader had to die.
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by wolpoli 5y ago
There's something special about the picture of a pencil serving as the navigation bar for the comic.

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