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ford_oon GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

I wish there was HTTP header that meant "I want to give you the minimum amount of data, to make your site work".

ford_oon BlackBerry sells mobile patents to patent troll for $600M

Why not just limit patents to 3 years before they expire. In today's world this should be all you need to pay for the research and go from startup to established company.

ford_oon Danish government makes its new economic model open source

An ELI5 on what are the imputs and maximization criterium?

ford_oon MiniVM: A zero-dependency cross-language runtime on par with LuaJIT and C

How does this compare to MIR?

ford_oon Water drinking acutely improves orthostatic tolerance in healthy subjects (2002)

I have never heard of dry fasting. It sounds pretty dangerous.

ford_oon Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

So what is your theory?

ford_oon Evergrande has defaulted on its debt, Fitch Ratings says

I have seen this opinion presented multiple times without any supporting facts. When did deflation in history lead to collapse of society? Japan is in deflation for a long time and the life goes on. On the other hand, the inflation in Germany lead to WW2, inflation was also at least partly responsible for the hunderd year war in Europe and the fall of the Roman Empire.

ford_oon YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

No idea what HOW TO videos you watch, but in my domain, 80% are garbage, where the dislike ratio saves me minutes of watch time on each.

ford_oon YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count

There are better ways to prevent downvote brigades than removing dislikes altogether. Not to mention that keeping likes around doesn't solve anything, as it can be exploited in the same way by upvote brigades! As long as you don't start to actively detect fake accounts and don't limit the number of upvotes / downvotes per day a person can give, it will always be possible to game the upvote metric by a small group of people / bots.

ford_oon After a part of his brain was removed, guitarist Pat Martino got his groove back

Tell us more.

ford_oon Scryer Prolog: A modern Prolog implementation written mostly in Rust

It has already been done. Look at Curry.

ford_oon Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (2013)

Does it feel weird to call spaghetti a meal?

ford_oon Facts every web dev should know before they burn out and turn to painting

How can you burn out by painting?

ford_oon Senegal Programming Language

Mistyped variable will lead to unused variable warning. The swift example is problem of API, not shadowing.

ford_oon A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Maybe list the synonyms under the query, so its easier to try different formulations.

ford_oon A new way to detect ‘deepfake’ picture editing

However, the detection process could be so slow, that it wouldn't be practical.

ford_oon Satellites Spot Oceans Aglow with Trillions of Organisms

This remind me of the dark forest hypothesis.

ford_oon A crucial idea for silicon PV cells was excluded by a patent for 20 years

Just pay a fixed % gross income to the patent owner.

ford_oon Onivim 2 is a retro-futuristic modal editor

Why does it try to look like vscode clone?

I understand that the vscode ecosystem is awesome. However, I always felt like the UI was severaly lacking behind proper IDE like intellij.

Give me intellij-like documentation popup, run, build & debug buttons and debug UI, and I will switch in an instant!

ford_oon Oregon has legalized human composting

For one, tombstone cannot lead to prion desease.

ford_oon Zig Makes Rust Cross-Compilation Just Work

I would go with Zag.

ford_oon Google is going to turn on 2FA by default

Bitwarden can do it too.

ford_oon So I finally sorted out what happened to my brain

Wait, that's exactly what has been happening to me for the past few weeks. Each night I woke up after 2 hours of sleep with heart racing. Then I woke up another 2 times, due to tingling in my arm. My heart was calmer at that point. I was wondering what could be the cause..

ford_oon Better drainage of brain debris improves Alzheimer's disease therapies

Is it just about muscular contraction, or does any kind of motion have positive effect on the lymph system? Say a rollercoaster or jumping on trampoline.

ford_oon TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M

Well, I think the question really is, how much real money its creator got for selling his shares. If the number approaches anything near 1 million, I still think the situation is completely ridiculous.

ford_oon TikToker makes ‘scamcoin’ as a joke and within an hour it’s worth $70M

What is AMM and liquidity pool@

ford_oon Enso. Open source visual programming in Python, Java, JavaScript, and R

I love the idea of having file source code next to the tutorial.

However, it doesn't work that well on small mobile display. Perhaps keeping them next to each other, displaying only one and switching between them with right and left swipes would work better?