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Comment · 1 month ago
Street View where you are offered "See more dates"
Comment · 1 month ago
Similar to syntactically meaningful indentation, as with Python.

It's weird for a half hour, then it's second nature.

Comment · 1 month ago
Sometimes images from the past will disappear.

Right now it's Aug 2025/Jun 2022/Dec 2019/Sept 2017 but come back a few months later and Dec 2019 has disappeared. Don't know if it's licensing issues or what.

Comment · 1 month ago
Often the headline is not created by the author of the article.

Also newspaper headlines used to give a quick summary of the story, online articles as you say, clickbait.

Comment · 5 months ago
In some parts of the USA like the interior of Alaska, hunting is a big part of actually getting food to eat, not just for sport.
Comment · 5 months ago
If they look like regular cars, then the owners don't get the special feeling when people see their car.
Comment · 5 months ago
Agree with you on DDG.
Comment · 5 months ago
> The switching cost for search is essentially zero.

Those of us who remember when Google first appeared and revolutionized search can testify to that.

I tried Google and that was it, Yahoo, Alta Vista, etc, where just little dots in the rear view mirror.

Comment · 7 months ago
There was fitness tracker that posted locations without user names.

Well, wouldn't you know, in Iraq there were all these square paths on the map. Yes, it was Americans jogging just inside the perimeter of small bases.

Just like with the aircraft carrier, these bases were not secret but it shows how locations can leak unexpectedly.

Comment · 8 months ago
Some universities, especially in Latin America, use the term "autonomous". Is that the same thing is "free" in this context?
Comment · 8 months ago
RMS calls it Linux, not GNU/Linux in the second quote.
Comment · 11 months ago
Consider what it costs to lift material to orbit. How can it possibly make sense except as a science fair project?
Comment · 11 months ago
I know where my confusion comes from.

I studied from a first edition of volume one before there was a volume two, so it wasn't marked as Vol I.

Friend dug it up from his old books, since I seemed to be quick learner.

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