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Re:Maps show how parking lots “eat” U.S. cities on Saturday April 01, 2023 @10:51AM (#35400738)
A lot of European countries tend to regulate the height of buildings to avoid such problems, density doesn't have to come at the expense of basic standards of living
Re:EU will require Apple to open up iMessage on Thursday March 02, 2023 @12:47PM (#34999097)
The whole point of market economies is for those who have the most wealth decide how resources are utilized.
Re:Is the psychedelic therapy bubble about to burst? on Saturday September 03, 2022 @11:53AM (#32703052)
Lamotrigine has been a wonder drug for me, I'm still early days on my treatment but can already notice the massive improvements!

just adding my comment so people see that getting help is perfectly fine (if you get the right treatment/diagnosis, it's a life changer for the best!) - mental health is still a bit taboo in some circles and I remember reading about the good experiences of people online made me finally jump into treatment :)

You can simply split packets into multiple messages and tag them with a unique code and use base64 (or something more efficient), that's how you can do things like do IP over IRC which has even more restricted character counts.

The problem is always going to be bandwidth as doing any kind of communication across systems optimized for human text will throttle you: you'll trigger spam warnings, rate limits, etc - and the modern web is extremely demanding

You can right click on the start menu and get (most of?) the old menu
Re:Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO on Thursday July 29, 2021 @08:03AM (#27995437)
Duolingo is a great example of gamification done well, I'd argue that's the whole selling point of it!

I'll also say it was useful for me to learn basic German for a trip to Germany, 6 months of Duolingo + a few extra (beginner) books do wonders