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That’s what the regular scroll bar should be for, instead of auto-hiding.

> Parler was being used to organize violence. So are Twitter, Facebook, Whatsapp, Telegram, ... IMO criminal behavior on social platforms should be investigated and prosecuted by the police and FBI…

That’s actually a disconfirmation. He doesn’t pronounce the second syllable as a short “i”, but as a short “u”. The problem is that a short “u” sound is almost nonexistent in English, so native Englis…

I still involuntarily vocalize it that way everytime I see it.

IDEs arguably already do that, at least for the innermost scope the current line is part of, plus breadcrumbs for the surrounding scopes.

On the one hand I agree. On the other hand the discrepancy to solar time is growing quadratically due to tidal friction of the earth with the moon, which is prone to create interesting issues some cen…

Just a quick reminder that this is in UTC. The missing second will be at varying times of day depending on time zone.

Greylisting and DNSRBL always worked sufficiently well for me, in addition to Spamassasin.

I meant the mute indicator in the video-conferencing app. :) At least in some apps participants can see for each participant whether they are muted or not.

So, people will instead see your mute indicator flicker haphazardly while you’re typing. ;)

RFC 3987 never really caught on. See also https://www.w3.org/International/wiki/IRIStatus …

True regarding the late-comer aspect, although it is less of an issue when using mailing lists with an archive. In the past, when lacking an archive I also just asked another participant to send me th…

Email is not a chat system, and chat systems are unsuitable for asynchronous long-form threadful discussions. There is some overlap, but combined they form a spectrum of communication modes so wide th…

Some pro-level Nvidia GPUs have ECC RAM, they are very expensive though. I don’t think regular gaming GPUs have parity, due to the extra cost, performance impact (probably minor but measurable) and ir…

Re urge surfing, I wonder if there’s something like aversion surfing. For me the urge is often triggered by an aversion to what I should really be doing at the given time. Thus not acting on the urge…

Because it evolved to also be a client-side form fill-in & validation etc. format. It’s quite similar to Javascript use for HTML forms.

It doesn't mean that a sentence can't contain line breaks. It means that there's a line break after each sentence. This causes paragraph reformatting (for maintaining line length) to be…

I do the same in source documentation, to limit the portion that has to be reformatted when changing something in the middle.

For me two spaces in fixed-width fonts is too jarring, as the spaces themselves are significantly wider than in proportional fonts (relative to average letter width), and also the period glyph already…

More importantly, you’re implying that it’s not surprising that people don’t read articles whose titles they’re commenting on. (I don’t disagree.)

“5% of those who took the vaccine developed covid19 symptoms” is somewhat misleading. Rather, for a vaccine and a placebo group of the same size, the number of people in the vaccine group who develope…

https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2019/05/27/the-origin-o... …

I agree with the GP that letting your mind wander in those situations is often better for creativity than trying to fill every minute with activity.

Loop quantum gravity seems like an important contender, although as you say it isn’t developed far enough yet to make any predictions.

Agreed, though in such “adverse” situations I would probably stick to conventional nondigital art (drawing, painting, writing, playing music, woodworking, sculpting, origami, etc.), or maybe to photog…

So much this. To get real work done (creative or not), you want a desktop OS and a big screen, keyboard and mouse.