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Comment · 3 years ago
Fire rate becomes faster as you collect powerups.
Comment · 3 years ago
Chinese vaccines are not that effective and China refuses to use other countries' vaccines.
Comment · 4 years ago
"99.9% of websites on the Internet will only let you create one account for each email address. So if you want to see if an email address has an account, try signing up for a new account with the same email address."

Yes, but signing up is a more cumbersome process and usually has a CAPTCHA attached to it, unlike logging in.

Comment · 4 years ago
"I suspected it had something to do with my involvement in a certain group named after a certain slavery abolitionist."

What's the group? I clicked on the link and it points to a podcast that's over 1.5 hours long.

Comment · 4 years ago
Interesting. You can also have emojis in URLS apparently. (rolled up newspaper emoji).fm, for example.
Comment · 4 years ago
Is it just me who has no idea what a "rotary encoder" does?
Comment · 4 years ago
Honestly I feel like jQuery is my "secret weapon" similar to how Lisp is Paul Graham's in Beating the Averages. It's so much more productive than vanilla JS with negligible impact on performance, especially with caching.
Comment · 4 years ago
My least favorite form design "feature" is when they don't allow you to manually enter the date and you have to click a dozen times in a calendar to select the correct date.
Comment · 4 years ago
WRT the query not in the address bar - this is probably because then something like tuxdex.com/?terms="embarrassing search" doesn't show up in history or suggestions.

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