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phantomread

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    Comment #33925168

    You might already know this but niche conferences are part of some larger marketing strategies. Seeing conferences for a product can add legitimacy in the minds of people who are s…

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    Comment #33517026

    Ironically if you hit the “Raw” button near the top of the GitHub file view then the resulting plaintext is nicely wrapped on (my) mobile.

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    Comment #32771298

    It also helps when trying to put limits on greedy users or maintain a ban-list. Attribution is also important, like you said. Granted, an abusive user could just keep creating new …

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    Comment #32594123

    I wonder if they meant “for the stray dog population”, specifically.

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    Comment #31417206

    Just checked using a camera and you're right; a person right around "conversation distance" from the camera focusing at 35mm looks pretty natural in frame for a video call. It soun…

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    Comment #31415579

    Amateur photographer looking to learn more here. My initial impression is that a 35mm focal length on a full-frame/35mm film equivalent sensor would have a relatively _wide_ field …

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    Comment #31005877

    Biggest issue I can think of is trying to do PWM _and_ WiFi work simultaneously on an esp8266. If you have, say, an esp8266 serving up a small webpage for control and don't want to…

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    Comment #30679036

    On that note, TIL about screen reader issues related to dialogs in general, including this built-in. Seems like the question is primarily around how to update the focus target from…

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    Comment #30673925

    Once it became a target, the precision of the term was at risk. Especially if you consider that the ability to redefine "what it means to be sustainable" is a means to greenlight h…

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    Comment #30408776

    I realize documentation is only half the battle but I get a lot from using something like explainshell when I see unknown argument lists: https://explainshell.com/explain?cmd=nmap+…

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    Comment #30293821

    I agree with your point on investing in a good IDE. In the Jetbrains family, a game changer for me was "tapping the shift key twice in quick succession". This brings up an input bo…

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    Comment #29588904

    I like your idea and agree that implementing it would improve outcomes for customers. However, the ISP would be on the hook for additional customer support; it's a lot more involve…

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    Comment #29585153

    I might be misunderstanding but doesn't the feature also help prevent home users' devices becoming part of a DDOS effort (high number of outbound connections)? There's stories here…

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    Comment #29481483

    In Chicago I believe “commuter rail” almost always refers to Metra.

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    Comment #28731680

    If you’re on an i-device then reader view in safari (or other browsers) works well to get around the scrolling issue. Ditto for Android.

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    Comment #26999005

    Definitely an instance of "to each their own" for me, starting a project in Audacity was refreshingly straightforward the first time I tried it. The non-destructive effect stacking…

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    Comment #21466092

    This doesn't change the point you're making, but thankfully it was only 9/134 people according to the article's tagline. The mix of the word "nine" and the number "134" makes it ha…