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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Better links, for some specific value of "Better". But then they're not exactly a "15 min read". Here you go https://archive.org/details/grammarofornamen00joneuoft https://libr
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Seems to be unavailable for PC/Linux, so even if I must I can't.
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
There's no reason to expect that FF will "fall" any day soon. If not for any other reason then Europe. We have EU-wide legislation that demands alternatives in the browser space. And while Eurocrats are not extremely tech-sav
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
It was[0] excruciatingly slow on 32 bit Linux too. Had to use an alternative lightweight browser most of the time, but some sites worked only with FF (eg banking and such). There was no alternative for these sites, as no Chromium or MS brow
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Go to your "mozilla/firefox" folder, and locate the file "profile.ini". On linux the path is ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini It is a regular text file. And here's a shortcut for you:
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> bug hunting I read this as "pest control", and literally thought about living bugs. Bed Bugs in particular c/would be a multimillion dollar business in the US, I believe. In general, to the OP I'd recommend finding
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
FYI it should perhaps be mentioned that the deadline for participation has passed [0]: Team Qualification open for self-funded teams Sept 1 – Nov 27, 2023 Challenge Kick-Off November 6-7, 2023 It seems that the challenge e
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Uhm... I didn't read. And, I'll comment anyway. Sorry if I miss a point or two. I did read the whole thread, though (116 comments as per now). Reason was not "Too long" as I never even clicked the link. It was due to the
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> World's knowledge During my ventures into public space it is impossible not to notice this "knowledge", and that so much as to even note the character of it. I would personally use another word. Perhaps "pastime&quo
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> I 1000% blame social media companies for intentionally designing their apps I'm not a smartphone user, so I ask out of curiosity: Do people really have no agency anymore? No self-discipline? I've read this statement that it&#
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> my memory of the world pre-smartphone was that newspapers and magazines were everywhere May I add... Television!
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Amigurumi (Japanese: 編みぐるみ, lit. "crocheted or knitted stuffed toy") is the Japanese art of knitting or crocheting small, stuffed yarn creatures. Had to look that up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amigurumi
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Ironically I had to use a search engine to discover what "Mwmbl" was. It's apparently a search engine. But, visiting the front page, I see something akin to a git commit log?! I'm not sure I'd have guessed that this
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
IMHO, they've made the whole space industry. Oh, and of course there has been other players than spacex. We didn't really have a space industry anywhere in the world until recently. We had government funded space exploration, whic
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> the US or other nations These vehicles do typically not "belong" to a traditional nation state. They are typically operating from (= registered in) some tax haven (Bahamas, Caymans, etc). This particular ship, I don't kn
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
In other news: Four (allegedly Houthi-) motor boats attacked by American helicopter; one escaped, three downed with full crew killed. Consequenses for Maersk are hardly as dire as that.
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> the first marine fish extinction I have one problem with this wording: I feel confident that as an absolute minimum several thousands of fish species (even "marine fish" species) have faced extinction throughout history and p
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Thanks but no thanks, I hate these modern JS fameworks. https://hckrnews.com has the advantage of a reverse chronological sort, and it works for me as a front page, using this user script in Stylus: * { font-size: 23px
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
This may be a stupid question, but there's England, Britain, Great Britain, The City, United Kingdom, and The Commonwealth, and whathavewe... All is somewhat related, some is (sometimes) part of something else, but nothing is quite the
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Idea: You pay a fixed fee at the start of the month. This is your subscription. With it comes a right to a certain amount of consumption. Every individual item of consumption will then have a set price. If you use all, you've paid prec
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I'd suggest the GP is indeed working in advertising pitching subscriptions to readers thousands of times per minute. Begging them to renew for this limited time offer, prodding them through the checkout process. (but shh... p
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
minor issues. Not even annoyances. And old hat on top (even long solved issues are kept here just to make the list appear longer). If you really want to find faults you can, everywhere. These are all items that an experienced PHP dev will s
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> suppress working class wages via mass migration and ensure the UK public are educated enough to not need to compete with foreign low-skill labourers The nature of migration is such that the foreign migrants become the national public
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
This is journalism for web brought one step nearer its true potential! Not like reading the papers on radio (when radio was new), or a visual speaker on television (when tv was new), or video in a little YouTube box. This format is truely u
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
The tractor as well as the horse are both capital equipment . Also, hardware. Material stuff. While the horse may to some degree represent a variable cost, the degree of variablility on the tractor amounts to basically fuel. AI and LLM on
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
In the Visual Arts (drawing, printmaking, painting, even sculpture) copying the masters has been practised, and even recommended for centuries (if not longer). I believe it's the same with music. It's what you will want to do to s
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Ok, so it appears we just approach some problems differently. If I had to work in the middle of the night and found a problem spanning ten LOC my procedure would be "fix, commit, back to sleep". I would never feel any need (nor ha
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Squashing is nice IMHO, and even a must after a while. For one recent very small project a squash of the commit history reduced the storage from tens of kilobytes to a few hundred bytes total. Orders of magnitude. That was a very small proj
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
In general, browsers do not cause broken websites This, again, can be restated as incompetent developers cause broken websites (!) ("... do not attribute to bad faith that which can be explained by stupidity")
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I would not use the "we" word with quite that much confidence. You are essentially arguing that a monopoly position in this particular industry minimizes what is known as "welfare loss". That would be quite an exceptiona

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