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jonchang

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About jonchang

https://jonathanchang.org

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    Comment #47967726

    Why wouldn't you just recycle it instead of throwing it in the trash? Seems wasteful.

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    Comment #46698950

    Got any sources for that?

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    Comment #45905163

    The author of nethack4 (Alex Smith) subsequently joined the original nethack (nethack 3.x) dev team: https://nethack.org/common/news.html#newmembers

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    Comment #45270909

    It seems like this is the corresponding iPhone 8-era update: https://support.apple.com/en-us/125141

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    Comment #45169468

    Her name is actually Rachel, not Karen.

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    Comment #41699458

    [flagged]

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    Comment #41259465

    Developing media literacy is an important skill! One way to approach this work is to understand the genre of the work you are reading! We can determine genre in a few ways, but in …

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    Comment #40054213

    You'll be interested to know that Safe Browsing was introduced in Firefox 2 in 2006, and the malware check feature was introduced in 2014! I suggest you search using your favorite …

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    Comment #38520704

    CZI and CZF are structured as a for-profit LLC and a non-profit arm, respectively. Depending on where the money came from, it might not be a problem at all, though it could potenti…

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    Comment #37500067

    These kinds of union votes are all publicly available online with the NLRB, if you want more details: https://www.nlrb.gov/case/31-RC-323290

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    Comment #36606072

    https://jonathanchang.org Mostly bits of code and explanations that I took notes for and then later realized would make a good blog post.

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    Comment #33993485

    It's because of fingerprinting. See https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting for the official standards position.

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    Comment #33611662

    Firefox and other browsers use an optimization called the bfcache (back-forward cache) that is intended to do exactly that. However, lots of web developers write their pages in a w…

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    Comment #32966202

    Sounds like a rebranding of the much-reviled Clippy.

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    Comment #32528576

    When has the state declared bankruptcy?

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    Comment #31839031

    Our solution to the infinite-backtracking pip dependency resolver was to instead rely on poetry to do dependency management via lockfiles. This way dependency resolution only needs…

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    Comment #31309999

    > I think that what this means in the long-run is that this small number of very highly resourced private colleges (Ivies, a lot of the small New England liberal arts schools, Duke…

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    Comment #29322996

    These are the first paragraphs of the email I got: > On December 13th 2021, the Firefox browser will be officially "resorbing" Firefox Lockwise. Don't worry, all your saved Lockwis…

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    Comment #28934791

    This article appears to be focused on laptops, desktops, and servers, and the author uses the term "system" to collectively refer to these. If this really is "infurating" (and you'…

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    Comment #28645908

    This should be updated to link to the original website, rather than to R-bloggers, which is a blog aggregator. http://skranz.github.io/r/2021/09/24/bundestag2021.html