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sammoth

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    Comment #17936093

    You can hold shift while right clicking to get the normal menu anywhere that it is disabled/replaced

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    Comment #17927847

    I find that really useful

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    Comment #17885277

    You sound like an entitled employer

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    Comment #17549200

    I tried a MacBook touchpad in the Apple store and I didn't get what the fuss was about. It has that annoying feature where when you click the cursor freezes for some period of time…

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    Comment #17458263

    That would include domains like dropbox.com or drive.google.com then?

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    Comment #17401547

    Open about:config and search for 'wheel'. There are ~50 options for tweaking scrolling, including one to disable smooth scroll and ones to tweak the scroll distance.

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    Comment #17311250

    >you can easily add in an additional 24 or 56 Yeah, for like $700

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    Comment #16941619

    >The only significant thing to change was American policy Straw man - the above was just objecting to this characterisation of recent SK political changes as insignificant

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    Comment #16911777

    Is it possible to just 'hire more teachers' though? The teachers that I had in university didn't seem to be the type of people you could just hire more of.

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    Comment #16831321

    But your ability to do that may be directly infringing on the ex-convict's right to make a living or feel safe themselves

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    Comment #15987204

    Why would you base that decision solely on your experience 14 years ago? The driver is completely different now.

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    Comment #15950833

    Well, the comparison of cooking rice that way to making instant coffee is apt

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    Comment #15417708

    How's the redesign ugly?

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    Comment #15340644

    But then you are probably using the WebExtension compatibility shim which severely reduces the performance gains in the newest versions anyway.

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    Comment #15311334

    In what way are Oyster cards/credit not refundable?

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    Comment #15125283

    Don't the two bits of code have completely different behaviour? And the code with the bitshift is undefined on negative integers (in C). So the bottom code could indeed be the "cor…

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    Comment #14977827

    In my experience tracking protection breaks a lot of websites so I am not surprised it's not enabled by default

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    Comment #14929347

    "It only reduces pollution by half, so there is no point"

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    Comment #14820027

    Except, you know, how they said that they are seeing improvements after reversing some of the isolation. Oh and the study in the article.

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    Comment #14797143

    Because developers may need to delete large folders in Windows

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    Comment #14753459

    Interesting, ok. I am not sure above what you are suggesting is more secure about Signal compared to HTTPS though. In both cases you start out with an address (phone number or doma…

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    Comment #14751083

    If I acquire a SIM card that takes over your friend's phone number, I can install Signal and sign up as your friend. Then when you use Signal to communicate with your friend, you a…

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    Comment #14636529

    Have you tried running it in wine? It works perfectly