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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> link: components/carousel/ >> "Snap to " [start|center|end] This is new to me: What on earth is "snap" and how is it done? My screen certainly does not react to finger clicks. (Btw, I don't thin
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> I hope we eventually get to a place where browsers that don't support these features Uhm... I wonder whatever happened to "decay gracefully"?
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> The 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers Strictly speaking it's between Alphabet, the company popularly known as "Google" (and subdivisions - here's another from the same family[0]), and ad blockers
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Why, oh why? A choice between four American multinationals is no choice at all, IMHO To play, please identify yourself via one of these services: [GitHub] [Google] [Twitter] [Reddit]
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> Why does PageRank not combat ... PageRank was the toy that got Google started, it has since been left for other toys. AFAIK around a decade ago it was succeded by the toy "quality signals". So, the reason PageRank does not is
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
- bitbucket is one option. Added: for clarity, while they do not require SMS/email/fingerprint/yubikey they do have an "app code" thingy which means that whenever you push, pull, etc you will have to enter one extra
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> I think we’re months, maybe days away from ... I have reasons to think years. Ie. that you are years behind. Profiling individuals based on public data already exist, and it's a profitable business as well. > using it for nefa
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
IMHO, LLMs will increase the amount of programming done, not reduce it. People with absolutely no programming experience or -skills can now produce programming, which was not the case before. Second, as they do this mindlessly some portion
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> three full time jobs... The math does not add up. One full time job is 8 hours per day (added: often more, as this is in IT). 3 x 8 = 24. There are no more than 24 hours in a day. This leaves no time for rest, eating, etc...
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> a way to passively activate the mic Two comments: 1) I would not be using the singular, even if there is just one mic that you can turn on-off. From an audio perspective it makes perfect sense with extra microphones to measure amb
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
May I suggest, as a mental experiment only, that you consider for a moment that the business that they are in is not only Software but also Industrial Espionage. That ought to change your "poorly run" evaluation somewhat in a much
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
The article is by an author named "Maarten Boudry". Not "Andy Ngo". It is about demographics worldwide, not specific to Portland. It does not even mention the words "riot", "confrontation", or "P
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Came here to recommend the article, but see it is now flagged? Why? The article is well written, thought provoking, fact-based, filled with links, and may inspire a lot of different discussion. I see one (1!) comment below claiming that the
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
... one, perhaps more constructive, comment: On most days it seems worthwhile to outright skip the majority of discussion and use the site for browsing the links posted only ;)
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
1) Create an extremely long wordpad document with a whole bunch of very unrelated posts from random tech fields and sprinkle in some select words, like eg. "overton window", "kagi", "Go", "WASM", &quo
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> why not simply let trees do it? because money
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Article is in German language. From my limited German it seems that Microsoft transfers all email-related information to a Microsoft-owned server on signup; including not only the access data (ie. SMTP passwords of all acounts, and such) bu
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> The fate of our world may depend ... Two observations here: 1) "our world" is an illusion, no matter who utters these words. The "world" does not "belong" to any specific target demographic. On the c
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> The only reason people don't like talking to computers in public is that ... It does not seem right to speak of a single reason. There are probably multiple. So, IMHO it would be more productive to come up with a list and put some
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
I have not used Google since they had their IPO. It's been quite a few years now. I've tried most of the others, and I never feel any need to use Google. Once in a while I switch search engines from one brand to another just to br
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Exactly the same "tech stack" as I used before that term became popular: - HTML - JS (Ecma Script, not some "framework") - CSS (not "Typescript" or whatever, standard CSS) For backend I'd
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
There is such a thing as off-line. And, with email that can be a good thing for multiple reasons - except when trying to send or receive of course :) With the current incarnation of Thunderbird there is even a switch you can flip to
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
Dear Sirs, hold your horses. There are notable definitions and references we may lean against here :) Commmmodity: "In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that has full or substantial fungibili
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> Gmail Ok, so that's why people want threaded view? I've always thought that was puzzling, as I don't use it myself (neither threads nor Google). Gmail might have gotten the inspiration after they purchased DejaNews a
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> Our fastest ... ever Last time I installed Thunderbird seems to have been in the 00's sometime[0]. Since then I have used the same install, only updating it, and moving/cloning to other units. Back then PCs were s-l-o-w b
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> if you build a better mouse trap... ...and from another post > will bubble up... Excuse me for being blunt but this is way too simplistic and the world does not work like that. Artists (= suppliers in over-crowded markets) don&#x27
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> I needed someone who was a known quantity more than I needed someone who was possibly great. There's also an economic side to this: Higher skill most often has higher costs, so it would not be rational to overshoot in a business
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
>their DSL Non-American here: - Digital Subscriber Line? Damn Small Linux? Urban Dictionary certainly is no help[0]. Please connect the dots for me... [0] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=DSL
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
> I deleted my LinkedIn account... Genuinely curious: Can you delete now? How? Around 15-16 years ago I _tried_ doing the same and found out that deletion was _not_ possible. I had a personal profile as well as a company profile there
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by yetanother12345 3y ago
FYI this seems to be an app for cellphones. No Q&A on the web site, that's just a landing page. Not that there's anything wrong with that. I just thought it was a web site.

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