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by wvbdmp 1y ago
I think this one is less of a Trump flip-flop in particular. It seems that US presidents just can’t defy these things, even when their whole point is being an outsider. The pressures and propaganda a president is subject to must hit substan
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Unlike, India, Pakistan or, say, Israel, Iran is a ratifier of the non-proliferation treaty and subject to inspections making sure they don’t. Meanwhile Israel not only has had nukes for decades but also continually refuses any accountabili
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
The pizazz clients want sites for their customers, the no-frills clients want sites for them to use themselves.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Of course it has “Reaper Drone” as well as several different tanks and war planes, but not, for instance, “dildo”.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
This is a great idea and I love it but somehow I’m randomly having issues hitting the Drop button, which make this unbearably stressful/frustrating. (iPhone SE)
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Yes, oh my god. Stop using .db for Sqlite files!!! It’s too generic and it’s already used by Windows for those thumbnail system files.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
I used to love PSP back in the day. Is it still any good? I don’t much like Affinity Photo and unfortunately Adobe is completely insufferable. Another, more current, example is the audio workstation Reaper. After the generous 60-day trial i
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
GIMP = Green Is My Pepper. Problem solved. https://imgur.com/gimp-green-is-pepper-eeq6han
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
> the name of Mexico is "Estados Unidos Mexicanos" - or United Mexican States TIL. That’s funny because afaik Mexicans refer to the USA as “estados unidos”.
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by wvbdmp 1y ago
Any chance the guy who programmed history.com to redirect deep links to your local tld version’s frontpage is on HN? What a helpful feature
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Probably helps with paying attention/not falling asleep during meetings, too. And for everyone involved, if it’s public. It’s a bit like a swear jar.
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
have you tried reddit?
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
One neat thing about them is that you can combine, for instance, all font-* properties into a single variable for reuse.
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Not really, cause these guys don’t seem to be afraid to use the Windows logo, so why not use historically accurate fonts, icons etc.?
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
What’s the latest in Forgejo vs. Gitea?
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
* Express is free and will take you a very long way. * SSMS is great. * T-SQL is great. * Integration with .Net is great. * It’s cross platform (I’ve only ever done Windows though). * Windows auth is pretty sweet, no passwords in your confi
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
I know what you mean, but my point is, if you have a strong convention that right click a) never actually runs anything, so you can’t accidentally break stuff and b) usually shows contextually relevant actions That makes for great discovera
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
> Some things were good, but there were lots of problems too like features hidden behind right-clicks, not knowing if you had to double or single click, being required to read help/manuals to find features, too much jargon and techn
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
USD 99 in 1986 would be $288 today. Indeed, if adjusted by the price of Coca Cola, it would be $590, according to this weird site https://moneynotmoney.com/historical-price-of-coca-cola-in-u...
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
This is not a joke: it stands for Intelligent Design. When pronounced english ID pretty much has the same connotations in German as in English, but the phrase “Intelligent Design” isn’t connected to creationism in Germany (or rather, creati
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
HTML5 is if you’re lucky. Usually it’s a PDF or even worse, a PDF inside some embedded javascript viewer with page turn animations.
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Apparently you can specify the text encoding in a thing called “ECI”, but support varies and most readers just guess the encoding by the bytes. I imagine these days most are UTF8 https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9699
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
I own both games on disc and played part of the first one a couple of years ago on Windows 10. Absolutely stellar game, I’ve always meant to finish one of these days and get to the sequel… IIRC it did indeed require some fiddling with confi
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Germans are a bit touchy on this. There are a bunch of two-letter or two-digit combinations you can’t have on your license plate, for example. Somemore far-fetched than others. At some place I recently heard about they use two-letter initia
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Blink is Chrome’s rendering engine, originally forked from Webkit. Interestingly, it is indeed named after the blink tag.
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
It’s a motte and bailey thing, where “it costs nothing to be nice” is the motte and “you’re a nazi” is the bailey. The people in the motte aren’t necessarily the same as those in the bailey, but this is roughly what has been happening for t
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
I just meant sensor pixels, because you’re obviously losing those when cropping, but you get the same perspective as from larger focal length (since you’re not moving).
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Isn’t it optically? Ignoring lens imperfections and assuming infinite resolution, you should get the same image cropping vs. equivalent focal length, no?
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Thomas E. Kurtz of BASIC fame https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42141761
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by wvbdmp 2y ago
Obama was elected because that election followed 8 straight years of Republicans in power, in which they squandered the world’s sympathy after 9/11 by starting two retarded wars, opening guantanamo, curtailing freedoms, going after jou

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