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> friends have turned from dovish "can't we all just get along" types into rabid "Russia Delenda Est" types https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

Slightly more involved, but still serviceable: - start typing the text on a link near the icon you want to click (for this comment, `thomasa`...) - then press Shift+Tab to highligh…

Why is the Facebook integration not lazy-loaded only for users who log in through an FB account?

Docs are less likely to be broken if GitHub implements some automated, global way to rename the main branch: when this isn't done in an ad-hoc, per-repo way, they can implement log…

> I think a key aspect of remote work being successful is for the distributed team to be in the same time zone or have less than 1 hour time difference I think the exact time diffe…

I'm very obviously not a lawyer nor lawmaker, but I'm under the impression that anything can be classified as an act of war as long as another country is willing to treat it as suc…

Random thought: we're now closer to 2038 than to Y2K.

Maybe I'm overengineering, but couldn't you store the sanitized version as the normal value, and also store and make publicly available the original unsanitized value in an ominous…

Hm... Features take some time to get to production. The stuff I use/appreciate most launched either before Microsoft acquired them, or shortly after the deal — so its development p…

In those places, old Apple hardware isn't significantly cheaper than new hardware. You might get a 25% discount for a degraded experience (security updates may end in ~3 years) or …

Leaving common knowledge undocumented is, in itself, a misguided attempt at DRY. Your common knowledge isn't necessarily everyone's common knowledge; what you perceive isn't necess…

Brotli has wide browser support ( https://caniuse.com/#feat=brotli ) and comes closer to zstd in compression ratio and compression speed, but its decompression speed is significant…

It's also a lot bigger than the EU.

Not to gotcha this, but "I'm someone whose statements should not be taken to heart" is not a message I'd want to convey in an apology. Then again, corporate communication is often …

I would love a customer-company relationship in which the customer gets meaningful information by privately contacting the company with a polite message, but in my experience this …

For many Internet related phenomena, you can find an example where it already happened a long time ago with AOL. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak

To put it shorter, with permission, liability stands with the organization; with forgiveness, liability stands with the individual. At worst, one or two levels up the hierarchy too…

Per the article, "Mozilla intends to deprecate OpenSearch and eventually remove it from Firefox".

> Both Firefox and Chrome support a common format for defining search engines from add-ons ...which have nothing to do with the Open Web, mentioned in the parent reply. Both requir…