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Fucking pngs, how do they work?
Gotta make sure it's rendered the same on IE5 still.
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Fucking pngs, how do they work?
Gotta make sure it's rendered the same on IE5 still.
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Why do radio stations keep playing the same stuff over and over?
When they tried playing different stuff, people didn't like it.
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Why?
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Best I can do is password login that requires passwords to be typed from a specific keyboard app. You know, for security.
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Google Chrome's next update will mark the end of popular ad blockers
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Chrome is in a similar position that IE used to be. It uses its majority position to move web development away from standards and so devs need to write extra code to support both chrome and others - or make chrome only sites.
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Only approved phones can pass Google’s new reCAPTCHA, locking out privacy-focused alternatives
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I'm still not on graphene, but even on android I'm not gonna read a QR code to pass a captcha test
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Have you ever been labelled as weird?
"you're the weirdest person I've ever seen" was quite common, heard it from several unrelated people. Some of them even said the classic "you don't look autistic" eventually.
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Someone didnt take home ec hahaha
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Yeah we find better things to do, but 18 years is a long time to have never ever seen any part of the cooking process.
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If you speak another language besides ENG, are the subtitles terrible?
It varies a lot from movie to movie. Some are very well done, others not so much. Back in the old days they would go as far as pick a new name for a movie just to make some pun work properly when translated. Sometimes references are replaced for others that make more sense in the localized context.
But in general these days the subtitles don't get much attention and they often pick simple/literal translations for everything, while dubs often get a lot more work put on them but also tend to dumb down the content to simplify things for a wider audience.
One English expression that often gets overlooked on Portuguese subtitles and I get really annoyed when I see is "it can't be helped". In Portuguese it feels like you're talking about yourself in third person.
And another, closer to your example, that I have seen used wrong at least two times before. "Screw you" being used in the movie with the meaning of "fuck you" and the subtitle translating it with the word used for tightening a screw.
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How people in 45 countries view the U.S. (2026)
Both direct neighbors see it unfavorably. I wish I had data about other countries to compare this to (how each country is seen by its neighbors).
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Why are folks so anti-capitalist?
Why is capitalism so anti-folks?
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Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library
There's a lot of misinformation on Wikipedia too, of many different kinds. Some smaller pages exists purely for someone's PR. I've seen blatantly false (but "verifiable") stuff too but the most common thing is to have pages that are just creative with the truth.
Also sometimes I'll notice an article make multiple different claims that all point to the same source and then check the source and realize it is not a valid source for all of those claims, just some.
And also there's stuff that gets flagged as verified based on extrapolation of data from a combination of sources. For example: one source says "John Doe facing 1 billion dollars fines if found guilty" and another source says "John Doe was found guilty", then the article says "John Doe fined 1 billion dollars after being found guilty" as verified, then you go search the web and find no mention of any fines actually being issued following the verdict.
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Anon likes Mario
They aren't wrong though. Mario 64 (and even Ocarina of Time too) were great because of how much they evolved videogames as a whole, but as pioneers they have a lot of flaws that game devs took a bit longer to figure out.
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Github, the first enterprise cloud solution to reach zero nines reliability
There's two nines there: "95 issues in last 90 days"
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Wikipeter founded the website in 1993 when he wanted to know more about model trains without having to visit the library
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Btw this is not an argument against Wikipedia in any way.
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pinwheel rule
How did Pinwheel survive the previous presidents?
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Has this ever happened to you?
I had a girl ask if it was OK to bring a friend once, I said it was fine. She ended up coming alone anyway.
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There was no other way!
Careful, if you push them too much someone might make their own Linux, with Javascript (and hooks).
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Seems a great many of you need this.
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"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
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Jair Bolsonaro arrested after tampering with ankle tag ‘out of curiosity’
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After three months exactly when a crowd was organized near his house.
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Linux Rules
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One other factor that also influences Linux' market share is that a lot of people just don't use PCs anymore and rely only on smartphones. I assume that Linux users are less likely to stop using PCs completely than Windows Users are (or rather, that people who don't even get into PCs would have been less likely to become Linux users if they did)
So it's not just direct conversion from Windows to Linux, but also a higher retention of users somewhat.