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Probably a repo for the Muslim affinity group within GitHub. You'll also see repos for the blacktocats, octoqueer, octogatos, christian-hubbers. Everything in GitHub has a repo.

additionally with the proposal "put together a list of known corporate MDM server URLs in a public repository" I think the idea could be to only block users with an MDM server from…

Also a click handler on a div isn't going to do much for someone who isn't using a mouse, which would include a lot of screen reader users.

Sales and/or property taxes are typically used to make up the difference. TANSTAAFL

There's an IBM Deathstar (sold to Hitachi, sold to WD) model that has its own section, at least: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deskstar#IBM_Deskstar_75GXP_fa...

Not only did the magnetic fuses not work, the impact fuses would collapse and fail if the torpedo made a direct hit. And the torpedoes would consistently run deeper than they were …

I'm not an expert but I have seen Titanic (1997) and I would think a floating bridge is most vulnerable to sinking.

And/or they cashed out $TEXAS in stock and rode off into the sunset.

I'm thinking it must be tornadoes. There were 907 tornadoes across all of 1984. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tornado_events_by_year

It was before most of our times, but I don't think the Esso brand was "in the mud" when they rebranded to Exxon and that seems to have worked out ok for them.

Even at submarine depths, the oceans are poorly mapped. In 2005, the USS San Francisco collided with an uncharted (but suspected) seamount at 160m depth. [0] https://en.wikipedia.o…

I also didn't realize that this problem was common, but I switched to using an optical toslink cable to an external DAC which seems to have fixed it for me. Although now the system…

> Twitter/X is still where everything happens It's not where the W3C happens, clearly. That statement becomes less true by the day as more and more accounts leave.

Not just in absolute terms, what could possibly justify a 600% increase in salary in 7 years?

Typically you're supposed to throw the dice far enough that they bounce off the back wall. Maybe the electronic table doesn't enforce that?

> the united states is primarily run by business interests since the 80s The 1880s.

Even if arbitration is in play, it would cost Facebook more to hire a lawyer to go to small claims court and have it moved to arbitration than it would to just settle the $300 at s…

It's interesting that this is your perception of "the spirit of the web" whereas other people are going to say that requiring JavaScript at all is "counter to the spirit of the web…

There was a time when if I went to a room in a MUD with a long text description, scrolling that text would cause the MP3 I was listening to to stutter. Of course that was 25 years …

/*/tree is only for directory listings. File contents will be under a /blob/ path, e.g. https://github.com/facebook/react/blob/main/AUTHORS , and should be, AFAIK, indexable. (mand…

I think there's a lot more that goes into where someone chooses to eat than price, otherwise Taco Bell would be putting Chipotle out of business. As explained above, I don't take i…

I don't think that those are the only two solutions. Off the top of my head you could 1. Reduce expenses in other areas 2. Accept the reduced profit 3. Find that the cost is offset…

There were nuclear reactors run by the military in Antarctica, Greenland, and Alaska in the late 60s and early 70s, but they were all shut down. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_…