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throwawgler87on Every (US) cyclist who was killed by a driver in 2020

Really? You routinely have near misses that would have been fatal?

throwawgler87on Are top websites using WebGL for fingerprinting?

To make fingerprinting illegal, you mean? Or were you thinking of some other way to solve the problem with regulation?

throwawgler87on 7% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they?

Nitpick: In the table where they break it down by category, it seems implied what percentage of each demographic says they don't use the internet (e.g. 25% of people 65+), with no mention of what fraction of non-internet-users are 65+. Both numbers would be interesting!

throwawgler87on Redefining what a map can be with new information and AI

Absolutely. I wish Google would do simple, sane routes by default, emphasizing roads that were meant to be thoroughfares. I feel bad, and carsick, treating a quiet and winding neighborhood like a highway. And I hate all the traffic that goes along my residential side road presumably due to Google Maps.

throwawgler87on Final Calvin and Hobbes Strip

throwawgler87on Fecal transplant turns cancer immunotherapy non-responders into responders

Anyone know if gelatin causes extra animals to be killed? If not, you probably could feel okay about it.

throwawgler87on EFF's response to social media companies' decisions to block Trump’s accounts

This seems like a completely reasonable response.

throwawgler87on Cincinnati is home to the largest unused subway system in the world (2016)

More photos please!

throwawgler87on Super Nintendo World theme park

What a wonderful video! He's obviously having so much fun, it's impossible not to have fun watching this.

throwawgler87on Improving Cross-Browser Testing, Part 1: Web Application Testing Today

I think there's a minor mistake:

"The program does not continue until the remote end receives the corresponding HTTP response. In the initial browser.go call, for example, the remote end will only send its response once the browser has finished loading the requested page."

I think this should read "until the remote end SENDS the corresponding HTTP response", or "until the LOCAL end receives the corresponding HTTP response."

throwawgler87on Why a land-value tax is inevitable

2018

throwawgler87on Google Photos will lock some new features behind a paywall

I will pay for it because it's a really good product and I want to have it. I agree that the fee doesn't guarantee Google will always keep the product around, but it certainly seems to signal some investment in Google Photos.

throwawgler87on Pandoc – A universal document converter

Huh. What do you use it for on a daily basis?

throwawgler87on Issue Grooming

What do "dev question" and "user question" mean? Are these support questions that get asked using a GitHub Issue as the medium, rather than bug reports?

throwawgler87on AWS forked my project and launched it as its own service

Legally no, morally yes

throwawgler87on Matt Levine makes sense of Wall Street like none other

Really enjoyed this, hasn't heard of him before. Just subscribed to his newsletter. Thanks for posting!

throwawgler87on I Hate My MacBook

I became a Mac fan before I was a developer, because it was a lot more pleasant and less buggy and crash-prone than Windows XP or 7.

Then I became a developer, around the same time that MacBook keyboards started to suck, and now I use a ThinkPad and haven't looked back.

throwawgler87on Comments by a developer inside the Windows Media Player source code

Understandable. The meaning is easy to grasp intuitively if you've studied Latin for a semester or two and happen to know the word "pulchra." If not, I'm having trouble thinking of any cognates in English that are in any kind of common parlance.

throwawgler87on JSON

Protocol buffers solve most of the issues mentioned by people here, on top of being typesafe, space efficient (no need to encode key names because everything is an ordered struct), and having great tooling.

https://developers.google.com/protocol-buffers