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    Comment #41528697

    doesn't every moving magnetic field produce an electric field? given that the galaxy is moving, i'd say yes.

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    Comment #40655985

    do you have a link to the video essay you're referencing?

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    Comment #40143626

    it used to be the case that reddit threads became read-only after six months, but they removed that limitation about a year ago i think

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    Comment #39838885

    > just like they almost embraced Ruby instead of Swift do you have any more information about this?

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    Comment #39274497

    and it makes sense that lithuania is the bottom one (ie, closest to poland), since there used to be a polish lithuanian commonwealth

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    Comment #39259610

    most of the views (in the iOS app at least, idk about android) are asynchronous, in that they will always prefer to load data from their servers over using locally cached stuff. me…

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    Comment #36929563

    the total volume of all oceans is roughly 1.335 bn km^3. the volums of this sattelite is ~6.612m^3, which is about 4.952*10^-16 % of the total ocean volume. i think it will be fine…

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    Comment #36890702

    i could be completely wrong here, but i do seem to remember something about there being some physical chip in the machine that needed to be present for e.g. iMessage to work. this …

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    Comment #36824733

    do you have any examples from node.js?

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    Comment #36819805

    it still is one of the largest internet use cases today, iirc ~30% of all web traffic is porn.

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    Comment #36648230

    i'm not denying anything. the comment i replied to stated that developers can use iAd to "display [ads] in apps to receive a percentage", which i pointed out is no longer the case.…

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    Comment #36647676

    that used to be the case, but they discontinued iAd [1] about 7 years ago [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IAd

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    Comment #36566785

    another modpack that should be mentioned here is pyanodons [0]. similar to space exploration it also extends the game significantly after the rocket launch, but it also adds additi…

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    Comment #36391182

    wouldn't it, in the long run, also lead to increased potential for screen damage?

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    Comment #36068795

    i'm also a bit confused why e.g. they have an explicit rule that they only use `let` instead of `const` when declaring variables, "for reducing the bundle size", which seems like a…

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    Comment #36040871

    they're actively trying to make the site more "family-friendly" (i.e., advertiser-friendly), since they have their IPO coming up later this year.

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    Comment #35437642

    The official Tor browser is also a fork of Firefox, and intentionally not Chromium-based.

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    Comment #34873319

    i feel like there's a difference between the author themselves doing the rewriting (which i'm fine with, because you're essentially just publishing a new edition of your book), and…

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    Comment #34705525

    and also the buttons on the Lua shirt are all shifted by one

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    Comment #34437686

    just tested this, and it seems to be the default (at least when i navigate to the english-language wikipedia in a new incognito browser tab). Dictionary app still seems to be worki…

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    Comment #34322571

    in most cases you can just say "continue" and it'll pick up where it stopped (even if it was mid-sentence). this also works if the output ends in the middle of a code block.

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    Comment #34290583

    > and remains nameless WebKit is open-source, so it is actually one of the few Apple projects where the developers do not not remain nameless (the other big one being Swift). > the…

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    Comment #34147571

    you'd know for a fact the sources from which the executable you're using was compiled. this would, in theory, allow you to make sure it doesn't contain any malicious code. in reali…

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    Comment #33518864

    TypeScript has the same; the whole type checker is in one massive file with 46,393 lines: https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/main/src/compil... IIRC they cited performanc…