cannonedhamster

Depending on who you talk to I am either unreadable, a jerk, a creep, insanely nice, demanding, nit-picky, angry, obsessive, or one of a myriad other things. I think it's definitely possible to be a well liked jerk.

Reddit's problems go far deeper than just the type of content they have though. Specifically, the fact that it creates a space for polarizing opinions and encourages groupthink through the upvote system would seem to be anathema to what most advertisers are looking for. Perhaps they can start running the same advertisers as Alex Jones and Breitbart who don't seem to be as shy of divisive content.

How exactly does one put a warning on "Posting here may cause you to get death threats, brigaded, doxxed, etc..."? I think Reddit's problems are that their most fervent users are their biggest problems. They actively encourage trolls. Whatever was good about Reddit needs a better site to go to.

The Old Reader - Has a Firefox Dark mode extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/the-old-reade...

Scrivener - Can be styled to have a dark mode and the newest releases for iOS have one you can select.

Sabnzbd - Has a night mode for their web interface

Boostnote - Has a variety of themes. Great for markdown notes and coding notes.

SumatraPDF - Allows customization of the color scheme in the Advanced options section. Requires knowledge of HTML colors

It's a userstyle from stylish. Click on the link to take you to the style. You will still need to install Stylish for whatever browser you are using.

Internal rates have gone up for USPS customers to subsidize Chinese vendors. American taxpayers are generally the consumers of the USPS. They are still self-sufficient.

Nice, thanks for the heads up on that. A small thing makes a surprisingly big deal. I'm unsure as to why that isn't available in options other than the monetary reasons. Nothing against pocket personally, I just clutter it up enough on my own. :) Cheers.

I just switched back on the latest release.

* Sadly I'm missing a single really important Add-on and there are some annoying and apparently long-standing bugs that have been ignored and I've had to work around, but otherwise it's a major improvement and it's good enough to work with.

* I'm glad that they've ditched the rounded tabs and cleaned up the interface.

* I'm still annoyed that Pocket is integrated into everything without an option to disable it.

* It is dramatically improved in speed and stability.

* The browser animations are very pleasant.

I'm giving it a chance to shine for the next week or so, if there are no blockers I'll probably end up sticking with it.

I don't know, if you develop and are used to being able to click a word or field of text, having to go through and highlight the word is more time consuming and potentially a flow breaker especially when you're talking about variables in some languages.

I think the worst part of this was that there was a patch to bring this into line with other software and it just got ignored.

Where to start with this study.

* Study authors are tied to dairy farming and, animal and poultry farming.

* America is never going to be a vegan, or even vegetarian nation. There are too many jobs tied up in fattening cattle and pigs to go that route.

* Americans manliness is tied up into how much they kill, it's not going to happen.

* There are some horrific oversights such as the fact that a large portion of our farming is already for animal feed. Something like 800 million people could be fed if we planted different crops instead of animal feed.

* There is literally no reason to go vegan instead of vegetarian for most people. Almost all the ethical reasons behind veganism can be routed around with minimal effort.

* As someone who eats a mostly vegan diet, the dietary concerns for the vast majority of people are nonsensical. Yes, of course there are exceptions to everything, but there are entire countries that are mostly vegan/vegetarian that don't have these issues. B vitamins and calcium? Has his person done zero research? Both are absurdly easy to obtain in vegan form in the local grocery store of most somewhat populated areas right now, if everyone was vegan these would be staple foods.

This is absolutely the worst kind of sensationalized junk science to once again discredit a lifestyle that affects no one negatively.

If you have to do this to see the different then the differences are minimal enough not to matter to the average user.

Hardware acceleration is a feature in the options. I've not found that it's very useful and had to turn it off for performance reasons.

I would try turning off hardware acceleration in the settings. I was having a problem with stutter and jitter in previous versions and this helped with my issue.

I agree I've had my gmail open for nearly 24 hours without issue.

If they took a (less horrifying) Black Mirror approach where it was stories in the same universe that could be interesting, but I don't think it would play. There's a lot of story fruit still in LOTR universe that hasn't been plucked yet, so I think that they could do something really good that was episodic as well, but I suspect it will end up closer to "Legend of the Seeker" than something with a good, lasting story.

What you just said is basically "let them eat cake." You're talking about a captive monopoly with no real-world alternative. We're still being charged fuel surcharges even though the prices have gone down for fuel. The choice is between flying and not flying and in many cases having a job and not having a job.

Now realistically airlines aren't thieves, they generally have a hard time with their profit margins, but that doesn't mean that they shouldn't be severely regulated.

...So are they deleting the original image afterward? Are you now giving Facebook the right to advertise to you based on your nude images? What happens if someone breaks into your account? Are your nude photos of yourself visible to them? Also trusting a company expressly set up to data mine to help you prevent abuse is pretty much the fox guarding the henhouse. Facebook is meant to share. Let's hope they don't accidentally overshare.

Edit: I'm seeing the researcher saying they aren't storing an image but I'm not seeing where they say they aren't.

Edit 2: They are apparently storing a link to the image on the internet, but aren't storing the image itself, which again leads me to wonder how the hash is being generated. The image has to be uploaded to the servers at some point. Is it then deleted?

That kind of policy is stupid. Is it fair to pay people for more experience in coding if the younger person has more experience in that literal language? Life isn't about being fair it's about making sure everyone has the same opportunity to succeed. If they aren't willing or able to negotiate that is on them. I negotiated/job hopped my way from below 30k to six figures within 5 years. What your compensation is shouldn't matter to what someone else is being comped. What about all the snacks, parties, etc you're not invited to? Do they factor that in?

It makes an amazing about of sense from a layman's point of view. On a human-sized scale, it's like that plastic bucket you left out in the cold rain. It's a heck of a lot more likely to break when it's sloshing around.

We do in the US? Really? Salaried workers in tech routinely have 24-hour shifts without notice or compensation, especially when tied up in equity. I'd say if anything, worker rights have gotten further eroded with the loss of union power, add to that pay in most fields hasn't kept up with inflation, there's no paternity leave, more jobs being created are pushing education, retirement, healthcare, etc onto the worker, further eroding their wages just to keep their current job. Add to that the number of jobs being lost to automation, and workers really are not in a great spot, especially going forward, there's no way the current employment force can outstrip what a robot can do. It makes little sense to hire anything but contract employees at a certain point. Pretty soon you'll see micro-contracts to repair the bots, with a race to the bottom on price. I think that there's a massive market correction due to the employee-employer relationship.

Or Blacks get charged far more than whites, or that Blacks are policed more heavily, or that it has to do with poverty more than skin color, etc.

The issue is that the data can't be conclusive unless you have an issue where you took two groups of people, gave them the same economic starting point, gave them the same systemic disadvantage, same opportunities and then could make a determination as to whether or not it has anything to do with culture.

Or you could easily look into the fact that economically there is a long history of repressing people of color and that systemic collection of repressions them still exist leading to the exact outcome expected, but still blame those people for "not picking themselves up by their bootstraps". It's as though you haven't seen Trading Places.

I used to have somewhere around 100 in a wallet from the early days when bitcoin fountains were still a thing. Platters are shattered and no backups, I thought I had it backed up, but it's gone. I can't tell you how many times I've searched for a way to recover that wallet.

Because any old chump can file a patent request and get it approved. There's a reason patent trolls exist.

A man generally is not at the same disadvantage physically should someone decide to attack or overpower them. Even if things were uncomfortable they could reasonably expect to defend themselves.

Mark volunteered time into a project. Let's frame this as an open source project where you can also volunteer.

* Person X is in charge of a group and has an idea for a coding project

* Person Y decides to volunteer some coding time

* Person X, with full authority to do so ends, the purely voluntary relationship

* Person Y now decides that they are a co-founder and has equal rights and starts demanding compensation for the project that doesn't exist but could potentially exist in the future. They also continue to fire off emails becoming more demanding after it's made clear that the relationship has been terminated.

Were this an open source project people would think what the contributor is doing is insane. That's clearly harassment. If I fire someone on a Friday and they show up on a Monday saying that they have a right to the company's future earnings and oh, by the way, do you want this t-shirt I made about the company, I'm going to call the police.

But it's not clinical. It's splitting hairs and in some cases clearly biased against him. They literally call a piece he wrote as "agenda driven" and "proofless" based on their own personal opinion. Also just because someone knows someone doesn't mean that they have a "personal relationship". That's like saying every time one recommended software to their boss they should discuss everyone that they know in the company because you couldn't possibly deliver a valid review of a product if you know someone there. They also don't provide any context, don't provide how many "non-biased" reviews the person has done for contrast, in short, it's nowhere near clinical or data-driven. It's written like a high schooler out to prove to their love interest the reasons that they should drop their current significant other and date them instead.

I'm not judging either way. My political leanings tend to fall under the frame of left-libertarianism.

Depends, which version of libertarian do you believe in? The ultra-right libertarians that align with Christian conservatism and the prepper ethos or...uh...the ones who are big on Porcupines. I think the first group far outweighs the second group as a voting block. If the former I'd say the U.S. is right what Ted Cruz and the Tea Party crowd want right now. Environmental regulations, social safety nets, and public institutions are getting rolled back so that taxes can go down. Texas seems to be a hotbed for this. If you're for the latter, New Hampshire is probably okay, but you'll still get quite a few of the former.

* Reddit is a cesspit waiting to fail that encourages abuse as a platform. I am waiting for what replaces them as there is a lot of information people are looking to share without the torrent of garbage that comes with it currently.

* Slashdot faded because new buyers came in who didn't understand the product.

* RSS still exists and is going strong. It just does the job without the flash, the reason content producers don't like it is that you can't monetize it in the same way as email. I personally use TheOldReader for curating this.

* I'm going to add Sourceforge as a site that shot themselves in the face. It seems like it's newest owners have done a lot to try and repair the damage.

Raindrop looks fantastic, I'm glad you brought it up. I'm guessing we few are the kind of people keeping this type of service alive.