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One thing we can do to slightly mitigate this as devs is to use Firefox ourselves while working on our job's front-end. Even if the company doesn't prioritize Firefox, we can make …

How does copyright work with recorded music? The article mentions that Charlie (Bird) Parker's music is now public domain in most of the world (life + 70 years), but most of his re…

> The TH3 test harness is a set of proprietary tests [...] > The dbsqlfuzz engine is a proprietary fuzz tester. It's interesting that an open-source (actually public domain) softwa…

Case in point: @testing-library (the JS one for React, Vue, etc.) Besides, this type of overly generic names makes it harder to search relevant stuff, which makes them more annoyin…

Oh yeah, "creerse" and "creérsela" definitely have different connotations from "creer" even if they're technically conjugations of the same verb. I found an article that offers "fa…

Intuitively, I agree with the thesis. But the example for Spanish confuses me. One of the illustrations says: "Absence of negatively biased mental verbs in English slows down the d…

It's true that learning an alphabet shouldn't take as long as learning the entire language. However, there's still a difference with cuneiform: All of the examples you mentioned ar…

I just read "I've locked myself out of my digital life"[1] and it explains a concern that I have and sometimes struggle to explain. > In the boring analogue world - I am pretty sur…

> F-Droid is different. It distributes apps that have been validated to work for the user’s interests, rather than for the interests of the app’s distributors. F-Droid's curation s…

Yes, Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream are mentioned under "Krautrock", as it's usually the case with music databases that lump every 1970's German "progressive" music under the same g…

I'm glad that the "new" (post-Flash) version keeps some of the sarcasm from before, even if he toned down the level of spite that he had against some subgenres. There's too many we…

The article has a paywall for me and I was curious about their methodology. Fortunately, Wikipedia has some information: "Nationally representative samples of respondents are asked…

I assume that they mean sending either a direct Linkedin message or an email to the recruiter or hiring manager. When I was recently unemployed I started doing that after months of…

I'm surprised with how most of the people that felt worse after the conversation seem to be paired with someone that felt better after the same conversation. I would expect any neg…

Does it? It doesn't seem reasonable to me to effectively ban a non-criminal citizen from the economy and from civic life, not even for "just" six months, no matter how "irresponsib…

Some banks require an app for pretty much everything other than retrieving cash from an ATM, because they don't have a web app anymore: 1. Transfer money to another account. The al…

The most important advice for people in this situation, from the article: > I’d say my overarching advice, based on how difficult tech recruitment is right now, is to sadly play al…

The border is a river. But rivers slightly change their course over time. Croatia claims their original pre-Yugoslavia border, based on the historical course of the river. That's b…

Thanks for the heads-up! Yeah, I'm running ESR 128 right now so when I upgrade to the next ESR I'll keep an eye on these settings.

I didn't know about this 2 settings but they were already disabled in my about:config. I wonder if Debian distributes a non-default about:config with Firefox.

In over 6 years of using Mailbox, I only remember one website that rejected the domain. It's a government website and they only started rejecting "invalid" (non-duopoly) domains so…

Yes, even OP admits it in a comment down the thread: > Commenter: Sounds like you have no product managers [...] > OP: haha we don't :) we pride ourselves in not hiring any product…

In this context, literacy would probably be constrained to accounting or similar forms of record keeping, rather than literature as we know it nowadays. Or at least that's the main…

> the team took a small sample from the cord’s loose end and used an instrument called a mass spectrometer to measure tiny variations in the hair’s isotopes of carbon, nitrogen, an…

Based on the title I thought that the article was going to include the Mexican Revolution, which also started in 1910.