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Re:Foot and Inch Marks: Use Straight Quotes, Not Curly on Friday November 20, 2020 @11:21AM (#25161867)
Please make a whole new post about non breaking spaces and dashes.
Re:Microsoft Leaked Shit on Thursday November 19, 2020 @01:11PM (#25152391)
Pretty fun that this is on github
Re:MIT Media Lab hid excessive chemical dumping from regulators on Friday September 20, 2019 @09:47AM (#21026596)
When you read this article, mentally substitute "nitrate" when they say "nitrogen".
Take your daughter to war day.
Man earns $97M, decides his brain is worth more than another $58M. Seems like his brain still works,
User didn't back up his iTunes purchases, blames world.
Re:Elizabeth Warren's Banking Sector Napalm on Monday July 22, 2019 @11:44PM (#20504245)
She's the only one saying what needs to be said. Those bankers can go get honest jobs.
Re:Cloudflare outage caused by bad software deploy on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @05:07PM (#20339415)
Kind of funny that it was a regexp.
Google, obvs.
That's where I think this is headed. The old model of them mining your emails just wasn't good enough for them.
Re:Ragtime is neither classical music nor jazz (2009) on Monday June 17, 2019 @10:36AM (#20203391)
This whole article and discussion reinforces my decision to remove any and all genre tags from my music files.
Re:Absolute truths I unlearned as junior developer on Friday June 07, 2019 @02:44PM (#20127495)
A paean to normalization of variance.
Re:Update to Security Incident on Friday May 17, 2019 @04:56PM (#19943490)
I would be having a close look at whoever checked in that bug.
Too dark; didn't read.
Re:I sold a pen during an interview on Thursday May 16, 2019 @07:09AM (#19927855)
I hate it when a salesman starts asking a bunch of phony personal questions.
Re:Falsehoods programmers believe about Unix time on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @02:44PM (#19922446)
A whole second of leap? So grainy. Planck scale or go home.
Re:The inception bar: a new phishing method on Monday April 29, 2019 @01:32PM (#19780531)
Reading this reminded me of the time in the 80s when I discovered hex editors and changed COMMAND.COM to reverse every DOS command. So to get a directory listing you had to type RID, COPY became YPOC, etc. The error message was !sdrawkcaB. I know I'm no hacker but everyone else thought I was.
Agree. Extended quote of email rant is hard to appreciate.
Re:Ask HN: Are there too many people in the world? on Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:38PM (#19355483)
Say what you want about Ebola, it's one of the few things that could actually halt global warming.
Re:Teaching an AI to Draft Magic: The Gathering on Sunday March 10, 2019 @07:23PM (#19355404)
I believe the author said he used MTGJSON, which certainly does include the colors of a card as well a host of other characteristics.
Re:AdNauseam – clicking ads so you don't have to on Friday March 01, 2019 @01:08PM (#19283629)
Which is one reason why they are pushing lusers toward phones and away from desktops.
I hate that there are special rules for "enterprises." Every person and every business is an enterprise.
Re:Nobody Likes the “Idea Guy” on Friday March 01, 2019 @12:03PM (#19282747)
Title is misleading. Was hoping for more dislike.
Re:Problem solving with Unix commands on Thursday February 14, 2019 @01:43PM (#19164570)
For heavier duty text processing, try

emacs -e myfuns.el

When it comes to mashing text, nothing beats emacs.

Robert Caro. The Power Broker.
Re:Particle physics may have reached the end of the line on Thursday January 24, 2019 @08:34AM (#18988478)
To first order, environmental impacts are roughly proportional to the amount of energy used, which is proportional to the amount of money spent. To first order.
Re:Particle physics may have reached the end of the line on Wednesday January 23, 2019 @06:26PM (#18984300)
Um, water weighs 1g/cm3. He means 5 particles.
Techdirt
Re:The Woman Who Bested the Men at Math on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @10:51AM (#18609317)
Thanks for posting this!
Re:Hidden in this picture: steganography on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @09:44AM (#18121553)
So, if I understand correctly, the Silkwood shower involves randomly twiddling the least significant bits of the image's bytes? Seems like a good idea, but does it affect the ability of things like Content ID to do their job?

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