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Re:Why does science news suck so much? on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:37PM (#31802053)
Well lady, too bad, you have a conflict of interest with the news writers. What you care about is the news, what they care about is how much traffic they get.
Re:Rarely Seen Paintings by J.R.R. Tolkien on Wednesday June 15, 2022 @10:20PM (#31761876)
Such lovely style of painting. By looking at them without knowing the artist, I'd assume it's from someone who's really positive towards life.
Re:Eating at your desk is banned in France on Saturday June 11, 2022 @12:19PM (#31705650)
Sounds like Elon Musk will never open a Gigafactory in France then.
I once saw a similar thing, but not stairs - it was a hall with the whole floor made with mirror, and I went in a summer.
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:26AM (#31628529)
This comment from Parent just got #18 locked. lol
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:21AM (#31628504)
Wait what? I never knew "open source" was different from "Open Source"
Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:14AM (#31628481)
Something like this should have happened 5 years ago. I'm surprised it took so long. It's a proof that github users are generally good citizens.
Re:Science Is Getting Harder on Thursday June 02, 2022 @04:26PM (#31600082)
Off topic but I think movies and TV shows are suffering the same problem. We have exhausted every way of telling good stories. Nowadays if you want to give the audience "something new" or "something they've never seen before", the only way is to increase craziness and intenseness, which is the opposite of good stories.
Re:Ffmpeg Buddy on Wednesday June 01, 2022 @02:54PM (#31586416)
Question: this tool offered start-time and end-time, but no toggle about "accurate seek"? I've always been confused about the `-noaccurate_seek` flag (when cutting clips with `-c copy`).

I use this flag because I don't need accurate seek, but sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. When it doesn't work, there will be a few seconds of frozen image at the beginning of the cut. Don't know how to solve it.

Re:Find Wikipedia photos needed near you on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @08:39PM (#31576679)
I'm confused about wikidata vs wikipedia - I'm surprised by the large number of dots near me, I thought every dot was related to a wikipedia article, then I clicked on the dots and realized they were wikidata, not wikipedia
I'm surprised nobody asked what business the domain was doing, and what could have triggered the flag.

The OP didn't say even one sentence about something like "I didn't do anything fraud related" or "I have no clue why it could possibly be flagged". But from my understanding of the world, if that's what OP thought, he probably would have said it.

I also find that nothing is being served from the domain mnf90.com after it's reinstated, not sure if this has been the case in the last few months.

Re:Remembering Apple’s Newton, 30 years on on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:34PM (#31575236)
Is this the "OpenDoc" thing that Steve Jobs trashed about in the famous video?
At the end of the day, it all comes down to ROI. If this had a good ROI, it probably already attracted enough investors without needing to create such a investment product. If not, then I might as well buy SP500.
Re:Learn the logic of great typography on Sunday May 29, 2022 @02:01PM (#31551225)
It's a great tutorial, turning into great result in the end. However, if you have good taste, you can already do things right without having to learn any theories, because bad typography looks bad to you, and you'll keep tweaking until it looks good.

Conversely, if you don't have an eye for beauty, learning this won't give you one.

Re:How do video games stay in sync? on Saturday May 28, 2022 @09:01PM (#31545244)
It's crazy that blizzard games had done this in 2001 (startcraft1, diablo2 pvp, etc), and did very well
Re:The great junk transfer is coming on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @03:29AM (#31501563)
Fortunately, I like to collect digital things while being minimalistic with physical things. When I die, I'll just tell my children to bury my hard drives with me.
I know the stock photo isn't the one, but just look at the roads that the Chinese built (on the left part of the stock photo)
Re:Keep the web free, say no to Web3 (2021) on Monday May 23, 2022 @09:00AM (#31478429)
I'm a 10-year web developer and I failed in trying to understand how web3 works. For instance, will there be servers? How do you host databases without servers? Who pays for hard drives for sites like youtube?

If I can't understand it, I doubt more than 1% of people can.

Re:The balance has shifted away from SPAs on Saturday May 21, 2022 @10:56PM (#31464486)
Speaking of Rich Harris, is SvelteKit a good framework to build MPAs? If not, what is? I'm planning to learn SvelteKit in my next side-project. As for "Astro, Qwik, and Elder.js" mentioned in the blogpost, I haven't heard about them.
Am I the only one thinking "PlayStation Portable"?