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AndrewCHM

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    Comment #15674243

    Its XML which requires a more difficult tree abstraction instead of a mapping/list abstraction and the XML wraps html-formatted articles, so unless you hate yourself, you'll need t…

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    Comment #15674233

    Its XML which requires a more difficult tree abstraction instead of a mapping/list abstraction and the XML wraps html-formatted articles, so unless you hate yourself, you'll need t…

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    Comment #15470607

    "who", the people who were distributing union related materials "why", because they were distributing union related materials? "without offering any evidence", which is why it says…

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    Comment #15441312

    Google's is similarly excessive https://i.imgur.com/fWvV7R4.png Though I get the feeling google's approach of trying to desensitize me (emailing me about how great I am for traveli…

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    Comment #15435537

    Doesn't that just make the program opt-in instead of opt-out? (And it separates the ActiveX stuff from the application too, which I'm happy to hear, applications that use it for de…

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    Comment #15409333

    Its good technology-wise, but out of all the browsers I've touched, its the one that I feel like I have the least control over

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    Comment #15378225

    problem is, having unimpeded speech online requires being harbored by private companies, as there really isn't much in terms of government-managed domains, government-managed DDoS …

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    Comment #15371763

    And strengthening the stranglehold of copyright holders, doesn't help them ruin lives in a similar way through court systems?

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    Comment #15338762

    fwiw there is nothing that web extensions lack that would prevent that from working https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/Na... exists to allow web extensions t…

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    Comment #15329508

    "I’ve heard a few reasons:" ... that you've considered, then cherry picked two of them, so you can confirm your views? To properly reason why the approach is wrong, shouldn't you c…

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    Comment #15323568

    chrome is free, windows ain't

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    Comment #15309262

    Never said it applied to all electron terminals I would of tested this one, but no windows build, and I'm not using a linux install atm editors don't roundtrip to a separate applic…

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    Comment #15304983

    I don't notice any notable latency in discord, vscode, etc But I do notice latency in hyper.js, and it just makes it feel very "dull", and that's what I think a lot of people know …

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    Comment #15291017

    So, a 3d graphing program, competing with the TI-84+ from the project's README... Is going to be notably tied to a custom eth token? That idea does seem to contribute to the nonsen…

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    Comment #15281672

    pip being a dependency is defined at upload time, it is parsed by the creator of the package, not the consumer, afaik if you used any other package manager, it would need to resolv…

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    Comment #15279996

    wouldn't it be Google or Adobe who would write the plugin? its not like they lack the developers or the such

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    Comment #15279977

    Does not define a specific method of DRM, only an interface to those methods of DRM

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    Comment #15272221

    or just inject (via extension or JS) .itemlist .subtext {display: none;}

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    Comment #15272070

    There is no ad blockers There are blockers which can use lists, some of those lists might contain ad domains, some of those lists might contain miner domains.

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    Comment #15259880

    sorta from my understanding, when you build the package, your computer extracts the relevant required packages, and sends up that data to pypi, which then in turn sends that data b…

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    Comment #15241303

    if I'm not mistaken, requirements are parsed out to be installed before installing the desired package, so that should be fine

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    Comment #15239070

    peronally, while totally leaving my life unaffected, it'd be one of those thoughts in the back of my head, both knowing that there is some random text being output (need to optimiz…

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    Comment #15228042

    they could of responded, "no, random is uniform" (the answer to the written question) and that wouldn't of answered anything!

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    Comment #15212193

    transfer is different from filesize its more around 90% JS, 10% content After the first page load (with scripts cached) its around 87% content (unfortunately they don't seem to be …

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    Comment #15173446

    I'm confused So its agreeable that the building pipeline of NPM calling some packer does replace any-other-language calling any-other-packer, but what is the point in replacing the…