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rat_on_the_run
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Comment #47767331
I wish the browsers had a function of disabling all keyboard shortcuts of a website. I binded Ctrl+E to opening a new tab just beside the current tab (built-in hotkey in Brave). It…
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Comment #47767220
They can have a search button for that, not hijacking default browser functions. Often I want both kinds of search.
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Comment #45224020
This website looks terrible on mobile. It shows a horizontal scroll bar any time I do a vertical scroll and there's no space for horizontal scroll in the first place. It has very l…
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Comment #41931519
I really wish that we have an operating system that's not controlled by a U.S. person.
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Comment #41213380
Yeah, I saw the author says it depends on the units. But like, why is this interesting? This is not physics, just some number coincidence in the metric unit system, and I'm sure on…
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Comment #41213246
There is nothing meaningful about this. I can change the unit system to make g any value I want (this is done all the time in research). I try really hard to ignore all the physics…
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Comment #40776434
The thing is, I do like to see details and I'm curious. That's why I check them in the first place. But we can't know beforehand whether it's useful or not. This is true for both f…
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Comment #40775905
I don't like side notes. It tries to separate the readers to two groups---one who wants more details and the other who doesn't, but the problem is that there's no such natural divi…
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Comment #40525505
A bit off-topic, but the website has large white space on the right side on mobile.
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Comment #39123650
They should have rules preventing this from happening in the very beginning of that organization. The turn of events shows that their form of governance is not effective.
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Comment #36778224
I tested Chrome and Firefox about 1 week ago. On about 30 tabs, Firefox uses about 1G more RAM than Chrome. Their speed is difference is unnoticeable. I also tested Edge and Vivald…