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> Maybe for some internal usages. but imagine someone from a country using different language and characters gives me a card with their email. It's now far less portable for me to …

Here's a good intro to the topic (not that I personally have put it into practice) https://runyourown.social/ It focuses on Mastodon but that's probably an artifact of when it was …

https://archive.ph/spMzH

> Well - the point of involving the AI is that very often it explains my intuitions way better than I can. It instantiates them and fills in all the details > I like to think that …

If 10 people on the internet tell you they want to kill you, how do you tell if 1 of them is serious and is actually going to show up physically? The answer is that you can't, and …

Sounds like: https://boroughmarket.org.uk/articles/the-spice-series-cinna... https://books.google.ca/books?id=SpmdDAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75&lpg=PT...

I have some frustrations with browsh's docs too, but the readme in the github repo does link to a build guide[1], and the build steps are also reproduced in the Dockerfile. [1] htt…

There are "low profile mechanical" switches now that are more chiclet-like, but I'm not sure if they've been put into an ergo design yet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lAokeiYbz…

I think this expression would be familiar to most native English speakers, but it is idiomatic. It's using "near" as a synonym to "close" -- as in "a close shave" (actually close) …

While fictional, the Canterbury Tales portrays pilgrimages as a kind of extended carnival, where some of society's normal rules are suspended. You can argue that tourism was born o…

It is a physical problem with the key. You can fix it by disassembling the key and cleaning the contacts: Original guide - https://imgur.com/a/elAFF#0 Thread with context - https:/…

There's an in-browser quantum computer simulator called Quirk https://hackaday.com/2018/01/24/quantum-weirdness-in-your-br... and the author's blog explores related problems http:/…

I might agree if the author hadn't clearly listed their (very reasonable) objections to HackerRank near the start of the email. I wish I had more teammates who could write as effec…

If this analogy is accurate, isn't it absurd that many/most of us live right next to a "live firing range" with no safety barriers? We know that kids are unpredictable, adults get …

"dotnet publish" should have you covered for restoring from nuget, compiling and producing a deployable package. Is there something it's missing for your use case? Noda Time might …

It was never particularly true with respect to minority rights. It's just become more difficult to pretend that it's broadly true.

First, tweeting the anti-CoC article was only one of the issues listed, but some of them were on the private issue tracker so I can't speak to those. The article was definitely wha…

What are the other benefits from your perspective? To me, they are: - license cost (a small hurdle if you're buying $60 games) - open source (mainly a moral/ideological advantage r…

You made a good choice, because the current version of those switches has a problem with repeated keystrokes: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/comments/4t08br... https:…

The keyboards they're copying are based on the IBM 4704 rather than the PC AT keyboard http://kishy.ca/?p=894 It's more desirable because its layouts are a bit closer to modern 60/…

Steam accepts bitcoin. Quite a few domain/web hosting/VPS companies accept it, like Namecheap and Namesilo. Online gambling sites accept it for obvious reasons. It's hardly ubiquit…

1. The purpose was to illustrate the difference between white-only discrimination (the origin of our current discrimination laws) and modern exclusive group events. 2. There are lo…

Each of your sources says there is still a gender wage gap in the range of 5-9% after controlling for education, etc. You could say "the myth that women earn 77% of what men earn",…

There is a recent study where they saw the opposite, that quotas caused less-capable in-group members to be pushed out: http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2017/04/05/gender-quotas-a…