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Re:Play Leisure Suit Larry free in DOS running in browser
on Friday October 06, 2023 @02:43AM (#37787823)
This game was a bad look then and it's a bad look now.
Re:We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”
on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @11:46AM (#37148887)
It is ableism wearing the mask of curiosity.
Re:We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”
on Wednesday August 16, 2023 @02:01AM (#37143367)
And you won't get any enlightening information via text chat like this. Go experience sign language.
Re:We Call on FOSS Contributors to “Exit Zoom”
on Tuesday August 15, 2023 @07:56PM (#37140954)
What's your point? The same can be said with regards to oral communication.
People who communicate in sign language do so in a very expressive way, a way that pure text cannot capture. You should go out of your way to experience this for yourself.
Re:Ask HN: Signal Down for You?
on Friday January 15, 2021 @11:38AM (#25792735)
This is unusual, and probably in part due to the influx of many new users, such as yourself. Stick with it, they'll have it back up.
I just upped my monthly donation to the Signal Technology Foundation to help them offset some of their costs.
Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines
on Thursday December 26, 2019 @08:28AM (#21883621)
I agree. All the more reason colleges and universities ought not engage in such behavior.
Re:Colleges are turning students’ phones into surveillance machines
on Wednesday December 25, 2019 @01:31PM (#21879798)
That's likely a violation of the institution's academic honesty policy.
Re:Throw Your Laptop into the Sea, the Surveillance Economy Will Still...
on Wednesday May 15, 2019 @12:54AM (#19916536)
There are plenty of examples of alternatives to gmail that are more privacy friendly. You can have your email hosted pretty much anywhere, and still be able to email anyone else.
But similar alternatives to facebook, twitter, etc., are not as available.
Re:What Is a Manifold?
on Sunday April 14, 2019 @11:35AM (#19659976)
And I always think of the mathematical definition. It's nice to see the mechanical terminology explained. Thanks!
Re:Bombing forest fires sounds ridiculous, but is grounded in physics
on Saturday August 11, 2018 @08:00PM (#17742200)
"...an aircraft will generate a sonic boom along the length of its flight path at a rate of one mile per thousand feet."
Can someone explain what is being measured as one mile per thousand feet?
Re:Readme-Driven Development (2010)
on Friday June 29, 2018 @06:29PM (#17428337)
I forget where I saw this, but it struck me as very good advice: Don't document your code, code your documentation.
Re:CA Senate Votes to Restore Net Neutrality
on Wednesday May 30, 2018 @08:39PM (#17193103)
The CA State Assembly still has to vote on this. But California state laws and regulations can have a nationwide impact.
Re:A new study of the rules of spacing in English sentences
on Sunday May 06, 2018 @10:30AM (#17006529)
I tend to use new lines between my sentences in LaTeX. It makes it easier for me to do editing.
Two new lines between paragraphs.