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6,657karma·1,778submissions·June 27, 2009
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What is this? A map of sausage and cake availability on election day. I still don't understand It's practically part of the Australian Constitution. Or something. But how do you get all of t…
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Surprised that no-one has already mentioned the impact of the BDS movement. This is from January this year: “McDonald's has missed a key sales target, partly due to customers boycotting the firm …
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Severance quietly covers the topic. The conversations in season 1 on the Macrodata refinement uprisings and that big painting of the event come to mind.
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For anyone with a basic understanding of a tariff as a measurable levied tax on a product vs inflation as a general measurement of price increases, this has to be one of the most wild and best example…
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Fascinating article documenting a clear challenge over multiple versions of Rails. My read on the subtext of the article is that these issues of proper SQLite support within Active Record won’t fix wi…
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Not mention in the article was the birth of the thumb drive or “USB stick”. For me at the time that felt like a huge step up from the floppy disk, heaps more memory space, faster transfers and a devic…
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Might be less people using the tool on the phone and more folks discovering your site via socials etc. the homepage at least needs to be responsive.
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Love it! I’m guessing a few here have already come across the streaming show “3615 Monique” also called “Cheeky Business” that tells the story of a few college students in France who launched a sex ch…
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Cool service, difficult to use website. On my iPhone random videos kept full screening as i scrolled down and the site was almost unreadable with Firefox dark mode on (I’m reading at night).
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A few months ago I would have been excited and telling my friends and community. But no longer. My long term endorsement is over. Trust once lost is not easily regained. Fix your trust issue.
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A few months ago I would have been excited and telling my friends. But no longer. I had long been an outspoken Firefox advocate in my city. Fix your trust issue. Trust once lost is not easily regained…
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This is very cool. I've added my pixel.
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Something that would be insanely useful is if your tool could be users to do validations. For example being able to define data types for each column and say required columns. And then run your tool a…
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https://archive.is/LAjZr
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> “.. to ensure seamless integration with C#-based game engines.” Which game engines do they probably have in mind?
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This is now a falacy. We’ve burnt through the time we had to do this. Nuclear solutions now cost much more comparatively. Solar won and it’s the storage of cheaply generated power than now needs maxim…
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The larger problem is when your password gets hacked for whatever reason that the MFA protects your account. Anyone else here had friends have their say Instagram account hacked, none ever have MFA on…
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You’d think so. But over and over plain text leaks of passwords is the practical reality of the modern internet. A disgruntled staff member, poor tech practices or someone working out a way to get in …
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> I never spell it out, let alone write it down, but it is in my muscle memory as I haven't changed it for years. There is no way someone on the internet can break into my ssh account or gmail…
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The old adage of posting something wrong on the internet. Cheers! It was a scrambled look around. Appreciate you clarifying that the country code is not in the barcode number. How sweet that would hav…
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Eric, I’m interested in what you learnt picking up a 10 year old open hardware project. I’m especially interested in the “revival” nature of this project. How did staying mostly true to the original v…
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Excited to see this live. Seven years since the last major release went live they reckon. Which new features look most interesting to you?
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Ha this took me down a rabbit hole. I once did food packaging design and we had to sort out correct labelling including the barcode so I had vague memories of the barcode system. If I’m not mistaken,…
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Credit to Ben Schwarz for providing me with this excellent implementation. Supports: Light/Dark/System as well as storing the user preference. Implements via a simple dropdown select box. h…
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I started looking at this as I'd like to add one to a few of my sites, but soon started down a rabbit hole: 1. Many code examples just handled light/dark and once clicked you cant easily get…
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