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I don’t agree with the parent that the solution for SEO spam is paying for the search engine (I think there are other good reasons to do this though), especially since people have …

> Finally, anonymity didn't exist for my grandparents. Your grandparents could walk to the next town over and give themselves a different name and nobody would ever know who they w…

Man, this sucks. I doubt there’s anything that I can say to get people to stop doing things like this, but the eventual outcome here isn’t going to be freedom for you to scrape sit…

> There is no successful social media company that actually cares about the negative impacts it has had on society. They speak about things such as "providing value" where value = …

As with the cars, those are not alcohol issues, they are violence issues. Whether a drunk person turns to saccharine displays of affection or destructive acts of violence is likely…

The article isn’t arguing that if ICL facilities are disrupted, that’s it, no more bromine forever. It is saying that if these facilities are disrupted there will be an even bigger…

> real scientists’ This is a classic “no true scotsman” fallacy. Some people working in genetics allow their personal politics to draw conclusions about racial superiority. Some pe…

> Why are you so insistent that people don’t do what they clearly seem to do? I’m not rejecting the idea that people fixate on stimuli that produce anger. The question is why they …

> In these gossip circles they brush off anything that doesn't make them upset Things that they have no fear about, and so do not register as warranting brain time. > eager to get …

You aren’t the only one who remembers. But in that time it was a self-selecting process. The problem with “the algorithm”, as I see it, is not that it increases the baseline toxici…

> When they don't have outrage media they form gossip networks so they can tell each other embellished stories about mundane matters to be outraged and scandalized about. But again…

Your response is a non-sequitur that does not answer the question you yourself posed, and you are responding to yourself with a chatbot. Given that it is a non-sequitur, presumably…

It used to be the case that a web developer could be reasonably expected to actually learn and know pretty much all of CSS, but it has reached the point where it is actually not po…

As someone who uses Debian and very occasionally interacts with the BTS, what I can say is this: As far as I know, it is impossible to use the BTS without getting spammed, because …

> Also, allowing CSS inside SVG is not a great idea because the SVG renderer needs to include full CSS parser, and for example, will Inkscape work correctly when there is embedded …

> - cannot wrap text This is possible, but only in the stupid way of using a ` ` to embed HTML in your SVG (which obviously only works if your SVG renderer also supports at least a…

As others have noted, this is not actually a Lua engine written in Rust. It is a wrapper over existing C/C++ implementations of Lua. There is, however, an actual Lua engine written…

When opening POSE without a previous session, on Windows it would open a reasonable window with some buttons (New, Open, Download, Exit). On *nix, they instead decided to open a bl…

Oh, how frustrating. I have no idea how I missed that since I feel like I spent quite a while looking for some later update that included the source. Well, thank you for making sur…

Yes, I saw that, it would have been really great if the source code had ever been released, instead I had to start from scratch… My implementation does not require editing SDK head…

It is 64-bit fixed (along with a bunch of other show-stopper bugs in the ancient FLTK code, and I got rid of the bizarre UI they they used only for *nix and replaced it with the UI…

Last year I tried to extend Retro68 to support Palm OS and made quite a lot of progress, but in the end it ended up being too much work and I abandoned the attempt. I suppose now i…

No. This is why salts[0] are used. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_(cryptography)