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    Comment #45021674

    waterfountain.com ?

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    Comment #45020245

    These companies are in bed with the government, you're not going to be saved by any legislation. Many people on this site supported Google censoring the Covid anti-vax idiots, but …

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    Comment #45019449

    > Instead it is being used to make everything it touches worse. Your bias is showing through. For what it's worth, it has made everything I use it for, much better. I can search th…

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    Comment #45019417

    And shovelling leads to actual muscles in our arms. People said that calculators would be the end of mathematical intelligence too, but it turns out to be largely a non-issue. Peop…

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    Comment #45013184

    My guess is that guys being replaced by the steam shovel said the same thing about the quality of holes being dug into the ground. "No machine is ever going to be able to dig a hol…

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    Comment #45011276

    But once an algorithm to drag the colours back in-gamut was applied, would the lost perceptual uniformity still be a problem practically speaking, with DCI-P3 monitors?

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    Comment #45011178

    Very interesting. Is this just a limitation of our current hardware? How much of this problem would still exist if everyone had a wider gamut monitor, say full DCI-P3? That still d…

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    Comment #45010729

    Let's ignore those people too. A master branch is just fine, and should offend nobody who has a real life to live.

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    Comment #45010694

    If ipv6 ever becomes a thing, it'll make blocking all that much harder.

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    Comment #44938909

    There was nobody named Sophie Wilson at the time the ARM ISA was being developed, and the reason the docu-drama was called Micro Men, is because there was nobody who appeared to be…

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    Comment #44739168

    Well that's a view from the Go world, but it's the first that I've heard of : https://http1mustdie.com/ Should be interesting, and worth keeping an eye on. Only a week away.

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    Comment #44687287

    Just define Tab as 1 space, and they can be used interchangeably. Peace in our time.

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    Comment #44667087

    FWIW, reader view in Firefox made it easy to read.

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    Comment #44667067

    It's slightly worrying that they talk about its applicability in "smart terminals" rather than personal computers. I hope that's not them saying the quiet part out loud, about the …

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    Comment #44666637

    Perhaps, but it is a historical fact that religions often define themselves on their moral superiority. Anyone can claim that their position is the one that is morally correct. If …

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    Comment #44666515

    Perhaps you could add to the conversation, rather than slinging personal attacks.

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    Comment #44665393

    [flagged]

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    Comment #44662415

    Can you please post a link to high quality images of your own fingerprints? It should be fine, probably nobody has the technology to make them show up on a threatening letter maile…

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    Comment #44653860

    Thanks, that is very helpful! This particular font seems to have very inconsistent kerning. The "isMultipleOf" identifier pushes the s & M & u and e & O way too tightly together, a…

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    Comment #44636879

    I must not be communicating very well, because everyone is arguing with me about points i'm not trying to make. Sorry for that.

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    Comment #44631255

    Indeed. But the premise of the objection, was that it is understandable, and a shame that we're not putting such understanding before implementing these systems. If you're right, a…

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    Comment #44631186

    We see much worse than that all the time. We go to movies that portray horror, torture, murder, depravity, slavery, etc. There are books that contain all those. There are tattoos o…

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    Comment #44629354

    > you're building intelligence without understanding why it works. But if we do a good enough job of that, it should then be able to explain to us why it works (after it does some …

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    Comment #44627798

    Direct links to their web landing page, and Github code: https://xmlui.com https://github.com/xmlui-org/xmlui