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kshay

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    Comment #39346464

    I like how he didn’t explicitly request 22. It was more like “anything 1-255 would be great... oh, by the way, I happen to be using 22...”

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    Comment #38777006

    I always assumed the 1969 movie “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice” had something to do with the use of these names... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064100

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    Comment #37808011

    It seems like the U should be “Unambiguous” rather than “Ubiquitous”?

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    Comment #37777673

    Huh, never realized you could target individual elements of an SVG with CSS :hover rules! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/Comparis...

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    Comment #36977972

    So basically Perl autovivification for Python?

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    Comment #36030850

    Glider was the Flappy Bird of its day!

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    Comment #35905439

    I’ve been using it for most of those years, and still use it every day. We recently had to wrangle a bunch of 400Mb+ XML files, and everyone else’s editor struggled even to open th…

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    Comment #35828342

    I’m going to hear the Paul Simon lyric as “Don’t I know you from the megachiropteran’s party?” from now on

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    Comment #35396934

    It seems you can buy reproductions of these now (of course). https://boingboing.net/2018/11/21/monster-shirts-based-on-an...

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    Comment #35396702

    Hmm, pretty sure the Beav was long gone from the airwaves by 1969…

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    Comment #34884002

    Yes, exactly. “Bake your mocks into your third-party library implementations” is an interesting idea and might be a useful thing to do, but it’s certainly not “testing without mock…

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    Comment #34882807

    > The factory should create a “Nulled” instance that disables all external communication, but behaves normally in every other respect.... >...For example, calling LoginClient.creat…

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    Comment #34414884

    Yeah, I guess maybe this is what a 300 Multiple Choices[1] response was intended for but that seems to be underspecified and I’ve never seen it used. [1] https://www.rfc-editor.org…

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    Comment #34413763

    > There's nothing in the underlying HTTP response from https://csvbase.com/meripaterson/stock-exchanges that tells me I can get an HTML or CSV version. Is there a JSON version avai…

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    Comment #34396448

    Right, for the average user the barrier to entry for userscripts is significantly higher than for extensions. I recently released one (a small enhancement to the Netflix UI) in bot…

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    Comment #34390610

    Honestly, the thing about other sites using your GA tag seems like the biggest red flag/potential for some Google algorithm to have actively started penalizing you. The timing does…

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    Comment #34390430

    > It's not one thing that cause the drop but a combination of things Let me propose a bold generalization based on observations of sites of all sizes wrestling with Google over the…

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    Comment #34327676

    Neat! One idea might be to switch it to one octave at smaller (mobile) viewport widths... the keys get a little small :)

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    Comment #34312666

    Does it please you to believe I am of a certain age) or( if I am not...) I've almost certainly experienced a knock-off of your's?

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    Comment #34181789

    I’ll blot out the sun! http://stewartgreenhill.com/articles/eclipse-saves-the-day/i...

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    Comment #34173444

    One nitpick about the responsive design—between width 1535 and about 1920, the Comments box appears in the left rail but it’s partly obscured. Seems like you should either adjust t…

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    Comment #34173322

    The study itself: https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01463-5

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    Comment #34156081

    There are dozens of tools marketed specifically for this (search “phone port cleaner” on Amazon) but I’ve had the best luck with a pushpin.

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    Comment #34149419

    402 Treats Required

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    Comment #34145857

    One interesting alternative (that I can’t remember actually encountering, but just occurred to me when reading this) would be to have an Age numeric field before the calendar, entr…