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>> Usually, dupe's sacrifice quality for price. The fact that a market exists for this at all indicates a strong consumer acceptance of lower quality items. I think it is the other…

Funny you'd mention MS Gothic (fixed-width), since old school Japanese ASCII-art on image boards assume MS PGothic (proportional!) instead. Some sites even try to detect ASCII art …

Perhaps modeled after the book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Thousand_Whys

That explains the recent useless UI update on Quest OS, I guess

Thanks for the detailed and thoughtful reply! I agree that in both of the scenarios you mentioned, this API does provide better usability. I guess what feels wrong to me is the imp…

(rant warning) Well, if I wanted to return to the parent screen in a single page application, I'd click on the back button in the app itself. No need to prevent me from back tracki…

Please explain the legitimate uses. Not once I have ever encountered a website that does something useful by modifying the behavior of my browsing history.

The Affinity suite was made free to use, with optional paid "AI" features behind a subscription. The betrayal was probably against the promise of a perpetual license sustained not …

Trigger warnings are not there for some scientific effect. I view them as courtesy for consumers to have an chance to opt out of possibly unwanted experiences beforehand.

Are there links I can read up on this? Ethernet as on-chip bus blows my mind. I guess it's cheaper than having to redesign an entire SoC, but still...

> You still need to use your phone number to sign up, though. Which defeats the whole point. What if the FBI politely asks Signal about a phone number?

Totally understandable and even reasonable position, but the paying customer gets the worse treatment, which does not sit right.

> marking clipboard text with some magical locale indicator The geniuses behind Unicode managed to make it mandatory anyways, at least if you want correct CJK text rendering :)

Calling Half-Life 2D somehow feels right and wrong at the same time but I get what you mean.

That's what Sigil did with Buckethead, in a way.

Those fonts look awful in a hard to describe way. Font uncanny-valley? I feel like a barcode reader trying to OCR meaning out of ink blots.

I'm convinced whatever Torment Nexus we can think of will get built.

That's just English being irregular. One that hosts websites should be called a hoster in principle :)

Wow, perhaps Nintendo/Konami actually learned this tactic from IBM, threatening smaller game developers with patents when their case for copyright is too weak...

That's like saying online banking is doomed because rubber-hose cryptanalysis exists. The defense does not have to stop 100% of the exploits to be effective. I hate kernel level an…

To give them the benefit of doubt, English may not be their first language, so they might not be aware of the implication this comment gives. It would be such irony if they asked G…

> Generally speaking, orgs aren't trying to replace high-quality human translations with lower-quality machine translations. Seems that this is exactly what Mozilla did? And Micros…

Not OP but the phrase in Japanese also carries a negative connotation, that important issues are decided by a shadow process hidden below the surface, beforehand by those in the lo…

I understand, and I apologize for the rant. Thank you for all the efforts that went into preserving the memories of those that built the world around us.

Please do not let my comment take away your enjoyment of the article. I hate to nit-pick on such a beautiful story but that it ended with a faux-Ghibli profile picture is just sad.…