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Comment #28309144
On the mobile site, go to the settings in the sidebar and enable Advanced Mode. And no, they won't ever get rid of categories. It's just that the phone variants of the site are ver…
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Comment #27081974
> they gave each language a different Cyrillic orthography than the rest to fragment them even further That doesn't seem correct to me. Different languages require different orthog…
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Comment #26869226
They're also using a monospaced font for the body text and aren't limiting the line length.
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Comment #26747635
ffmpeg -i foo.mp4 -c:v h264_videotoolbox -b:v 1600k foo_out.mp4 On macOS, this uses hardware acceleration to reencode a video at a lower bitrate. My macbook is from 2012, so this d…
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Comment #26668231
I read it as "[you] double-time[d] me, oxface", with "ox face" being meant as an insult.
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Comment #26618623
SKIP is about matching the kanji to a pattern and counting the strokes of the two portions. This is more about inputting the kanji's constituent parts themselves. For example, say …
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Comment #26509369
> In formal settings, the problem will be taken care of Forensic evidence has been and still is systematically abused: > * a 2002 FBI re-examination of microscopic hair comparisons…
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Comment #26431676
If anyone wants to be ahead of the next trend of listening to nostalgic Japanese music, check out enka. [0] Even when it was contemporary, it was harkening to a bygone past. Kiddin…
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Comment #25924805
They're quick to tell on themselves. When Biden condemned white supremacy, a lot of conservative leaders were outraged at the attack against them: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2…
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Comment #25466281
Setting your user agent would only be considered hacking by the same people who think the Internet is a series of pipes. The browsers themselves copy each other's user agents for i…
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Comment #25448975
There's some stuff here: https://github.com/Pocket
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Comment #25418478
OED (an older edition): > the process of renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste In this case, it's making the internet conform to Go…
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Comment #25201864
SSR = Server-side Rendering, if anyone else was unfamiliar like me.
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Comment #24851442
Levitt was also a signatory: https://www.aier.org/article/aier-hosts-top-epidemiologists-...
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Comment #24843356
Your quote doesn't even make sense here since they're not suppressing his COVID ideas. Regardless, the scientific community considered it and responded: https://www.johnsnowmemo.co…
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Comment #24843332
There was a NYT article on this today. Most other scientists thought that their idea didn't actually consider how this would be implemented, and ignored those living in multigenera…
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Comment #24840877
I also forgot to mention interactive 3D models in STL format. [0] There's also a user who has done amazing work [1] with SVG files, but these mainly only work if you view the origi…
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Comment #24838580
Wikipedia only accepts freely-licensed content (for example, CC-BY or CC-BY-SA; it must allow commercial use). People who are creating professional-quality video are not giving it …
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Comment #24838503
There actually are two methods of interactivity on Wikipedia right now, the Graph extension [0] and Kartographer. [1] With the first you can create charts, timelines, and histogram…
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Comment #24725151
The browsers could buffer the text in text fields until the field loses focus (clicked another field or submit) or hit enter. It would break search-as-you-type functionality, but n…
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Comment #24636296
CJK fonts also commonly max this out as well.
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Comment #24636276
I think most people would just inline images rather than going through the process to create a font. That's not to say what you said doesn't happen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…
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Comment #24217742
WPS is considered insecure.