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Comment · 9 years ago
And here, we went from being able to get ABC from literally anywhere in the house without the antenna extended to having to get the position right when in a good location; we also lost plenty of other channels.
Comment · 9 years ago
People will still remember when they were able to get more OTA channels, because analog signals degrade when weak instead of being non-decodeable.
Comment · 9 years ago
Correction, Mastodon has used ActivityPub instead of OStatus since version 1.6, only using OStatus to communicate with software such as GNU Social that doesn't support ActivityPub.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
Now for smashing magazine to change their font colors to #000, for legibility's sake.
Comment · 9 years ago
I'm having none of these problems, it's more legible than all of the "modernized" websites I've seen. Reasonable serif font, pure black text, pure white background. More legible than any posts on here, with the choice of gray text for certain things.
Comment · 9 years ago
Why does it need to look "modern?" If it's not broken, why try fixing it?
Comment · 9 years ago
"a car you can put your kid into to drive them to school"

Also known as a schoolbus.

Comment · 9 years ago
I prefer

    curl -s "https://api.coinmarketcap.com/v1/ticker/?convert=$1" |
	jq ".[0] .price_$1" | sed 's/\"//g'
for silent curl and no quotes in output. Unfortunately, this does add a third dependency to the script.
Comment · 9 years ago
And the Roadster doesn't have real side skirts to seal up the tunnel, which significantly degrades any diffuser downforce.
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
externalities are inherently costs/benefits, the only thing that's different is who is affected.
Comment · 9 years ago
Amp doesn't bring anything new to the table in terms of best practices, what is new is agglomerating even more online content under Google's control via caching. Lightweight page design never became impossible, it's simply that most websites couldn't care less about investing work into improvements.
Comment · 9 years ago
Unless it's a dictionary attack.

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