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doabell

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About doabell

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    Comment #45464020

    If you look at the URL, this is the stdlib for debugging leadership. One project deciding to call their standard library stdlib doesn’t mean others cannot.

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    Comment #45238929

    Nitpick: there are a couple cities covered in North America as well, so not exactly European.

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    Comment #44558565

    > They should be investing like crazy to make Safari the best browser out there So true. It didn’t occur to me that I had naturally assumed Safari to be worse, when it would have b…

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    Comment #43959229

    > I am a man of simple tastes, and running the “vanilla” Minecraft server as a Systemd unit on a Linux VM in the cloud Minecraft is famously under-optimized and needy in terms of C…

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    Comment #43421097

    The actual list is longer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_diplomatic_missions_...

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    Comment #42105256

    Yes, for Chinese & Japanese, not breaking words is nice, but not always practical. Maybe if you’re writing a speech, so as not to mispronounce the word in the 5% of cases when that…

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    Comment #40798582

    Sounds like a simple user script, found one after some searching: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/401345-force-redirect-mobi...

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    Comment #40102782

    I imagine that the usual protections will deal with this (e.g. too many requests from the same ASN or same user agent or something). Then they can ask for a phone number or credit …

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    Comment #39896015

    I remember encountering an arithmetic toy which had buttons for 1-9, as well as +-*/. If you pressed 6/2 it’d go “three”, but 7/2 would be “Haven’t learned that yet”. Though that w…

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    Comment #39386626

    Wow, I would imagine this being very effective in election campaigns (for better or for worse, probably for worse).

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    Comment #38639086

    Unfortunately no, Goodreads says it’s only been translated into Korean and Chinese. I’d say buy it from Amazon or wherever, but then the paperback needs OCR and afaik Amazon.co.jp …

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    Comment #38400797

    Amazon had something similar around 2021 called "Amazon Explore" for $10-$99, where a local tour guide would lead a small group. You could also buy souvenirs and have them mailed b…

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    Comment #36978970

    > Warp's insistence on passing my origin IP to my destinations IIRC WARP was only able to forward your origin IP to websites using Cloudflare. Then, as of Aug 2022, their FAQ[1] sa…

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    Comment #35528748

    The Nevada State Bank once recommended a Uni-ball 207 (any pigment ink pen will probably do) to prevent check washing fraud: [video] https://youtu.be/zhR-koBU4zM

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    Comment #35183097

    They've been trying out a lot of things lately - Loops, Scheduling polls & email reactions in Outlook to name a few. Excited to see how this will turn out.

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    Comment #35168029

    The case is Hachette v. Internet Archive , searching for controlled digital lending also works. Here are some links collected by UMass: https://blogs.umass.edu/copyright/cases-and-…