TremendousJudge

reddit video is complete garbage though

he was replying to the last sentence in grandparent

relevant, as always: https://xkcd.com/1102/

And a league is the distance a person can walk in an hour. The actual distance doesn't actually matter; two places can be 5 leagues away and be at different distances. However, it'll take yo…

yeah, that's what they want to achieve

In fact, land wasn't really measured in units of area as much as it was measured in units of productivity (ie bushels), which was much more useful to know

They actually tried to introduce decimal time[1], as well as a decimal week[2]. They didn't stick though. If you are interested on the topic of the history of the metric system, check out The Mea…

at least it's easier to spot though

is obeying the letter of the law but violating the spirit legal to you?

Humans didn't implement physical reality, you have no choice but to live in it. If you use the internet to distribute your content however, you agree to its rules. And unlike physical reality, yo…

>if you write an article, you don't believe that you have the right to say "you may read this article, provided that you also display this ad"? You have the right to say it, and I ha…

Since I started using the Web Annoyances Ultralist[1], sites like medium blogs became extremely minimalist. I recommend it [1] https://github.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances …

yeah because fuck having fun right

probably the second one. at some point in the signup process it will offer a free trial and require a credit card. not sure what happens next because I've never proceeded, but I'm pretty sur…

my bank's password has to be exactly 8 characters and is case insensitive it's pretty insane considering it's like the most important password I have

400 is pretty great though. a straight angle is 100 gradians, and a bunch of things get simplified. 30 and 60 degrees get worse though

I use Spotify web with uBlock. It doesn't mute audio ads, they just aren't there. Not sure how it works. As a side note, the web app is hidden -- they want you to download the desktop app, f…

email was killed by spam, current email is sadly a walking zombie that's getting eaten by maggots

That happens with large enough communities everywhere, since the dawn of the internet. Eventually users move to smaller subs where there's more quality discussion

I don't think so. Most content on the frontpage is pictures and videos, not news. They added image and video hosting relatively recently so users wouldn't leave the site while consuming medi…

>Now pretty much anything is on the table. Not really. The_Donald hasn't been banned even though Reddit doesn't like it. They have kind of hidden it though.

You're right. I love it when websites run slow and hog resources to provide less functionality than they used to.

porting to a backwards incompatible a language version? you can't use most of Python 3's new features while some part of your codebase is in Python 2

i'm betting they remove the chat

> No matter where you put the stress on, say, "authoritative", people will understand which word you meant would they now? remember that read rhymes with lead, and also read rhymes with l…

turns out that if you build something that requires zero trust, you end up not being able to trust anybody. who knew

The thing is, Netflix now is very different from Netflix 5 years ago -- most of the content is the one they produce. Music doesn't work this way, many people just want to listen to old music whil…

it's obviously satire

This puts them just below Google, Youtube, Facebook, Baidu and Wikipedia[1]. That's absolutely huge. If the interface was so bad surely they wouldn't have been able to get there now, would t…

It's as rare as high dpi laptops, which are less and less rare nowadays. If you have a laptop, you're gonna plug it to an external screen at some point, and regular dpi screens are very not …