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Firefox reader mode can often strip out JS annoyances.

I think the discouragement started long before AI, probably before GUI, based on the terminal-like website you host.

> I am not exactly sure what is the timing of this for. Why now? It's simply a clever way to satisfy the current administration's ambitions. Nothing had to change, just the semanti…

Most streaming audio already share the same peak volume. The problem is compression. You can compress the hell out of audio, make it sound extremely loud, and it will still have th…

> those factors affect all the audio similarly... Output volumes can be calculated using standard curves... TV broadcasters have had to figure all this out years ago. Sorry, but al…

Smart ski googles have had this for a while.

When you click "I'm not a robot" it sends the following instructions: To verify your request, follow the instructions below Use the keyboard in this order: 1 Press ⌘ Command HOLD +…

Very curious how you avoid supporting multiple browsers. Apple, Google, and Microsoft each require users on their platforms to use their native browsers for secure connections. And…

> 99% of security experts I know use ad blockers. But if they all use Chrome, wouldn't those be really weak ad blockers?

> My org (or rather, the org they pay to run their IT) blocked browser plugins with a security justification. Same here, but only on Chrome. Firefox works fine.

> You submit useful diffs in areas that having nothing to do with your team, but not at the cost of finishing your official tasks. > You write up what you learned in an interesting…

Your source shows 1.36 billion people using the internet in 2007. In English, when we say "in the billions" it means more than a billion.

> The tech and the implementation was awful, and all credit goes to people who still managed to shine through it. Sorry, that's simply not true. The tech was ahead of its time. The…

The editor was a scripted timeline, similar to a video or animation timeline. It was fantastic for creatives, but counterintuitive for programmers, so most devs hated it.

> No mobile OS could have run it solidly and without sucking batteries like no tomorrow. By the time mobile could run Flash, it was too late. Between Apple & Adobe, it had no shot …

> People hated flash. Even non techies. Billions of people enjoyed using Flash for games, video, music, and animated entertainment.

It will, just not in the U.S. Probably in private resorts in Albania, Saudi Arabia, etc.

At the very least, this is needed for iPadOS and macOS, since both have resizable windows. I'm currently working on a responsive app in Swift and had to develop my own responsive l…

I've heard it as "once you think you're 90% done, you're really halfway done." Tangential: it's always made me wonder about teams that believe "80% effort" is optimal.

I learned about the Pacific Handy Cutter from my local grocer. It's cheap and excellent. It has a dull edge for 95% of tape cutting needs, and a safety guide for when you need to u…

> I live in California, cancelled about five years ago, and they forced me to talk to a person who demanded a reason for my cancellation, and then argued with me about wanting to c…