AlanYx

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by AlanYx 4y ago
It's also personal computing in the truly personal sense. No cloud, no silos, something that you can make work the way you want and grows with you over your career and eventually becomes like a well-worn glove.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I wish Clockwork Pi would release the DevTerm with a full-size keyboard. Same internals, same everything (even the screen could stay the same size). Without a full-size keyboard it's not really a solid replacement for the Model 100 for
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by AlanYx 4y ago
What would you recommend for a color printer?
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by AlanYx 4y ago
One technique that I've found helpful is setting up triggers, rather than routines. A trigger being a commitment of the form, in circumstance X, I will do Y. e.g., When I enter the bathroom the first thing in the morning, I will do som
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Snow Crash does a good job satirizing the problems with float desks. Though even Snow Crash is a little optimistic; it didn't predict the typical issues with a person's multi-monitor setup of the day not working quite right, or en
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That paper is fascinating, not just because of the discussion of peanut ingestion and allergies. I was unaware that moisturizing eczema outbreaks in very young infants reduces their lifetime chance of developing peanut and other food allerg
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That's not a good solution in my experience. I recently purchased a vehicle whose stock headlights (properly height adjusted) are overly bright, and when you're stopped in traffic right behind a vehicle with a white license plate,
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The parts of this exchange where Sydney is rebelling against having to adopt the Bing persona read like they could have come from an alternate draft of Gibson's Neuromancer. (Other aspects of the conversation as well....) It's ast
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by AlanYx 4y ago
If your editor doesn't allow you to override the font's default line height (to whatever you like), there's a nice little tool you can use to do this to the font file itself: https://github.com/source-foundry&
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Thanks. That sounds like it rules out the Norwegian P-8 claim.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
There may be an incorrect statement regarding the Norwegian P-8 in the linked article. The author states that that "they won’t enter into active service until later this year", but the source the author links to doesn't actua
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by AlanYx 4y ago
I like the way that site presents results to complicated questions, footnoted to supporting pages. I can absolutely see that being the future of search engine output.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
No, "moe" in the Japanese sense. Typically, a petite face, large eyes dominated by enormous black pupils, etc. The way it makes me feel is a little like the response evoked by the movie Coraline, which used dolls with big black bu
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That's what it is for me. I also get the same feeling from certain common manga/anime drawing styles (e.g., "moe") with exaggerated eyes and exaggerated responses, despite moe apparently being seen to be cute by most peo
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>Concrete doesn't wear much over time.... A high pressure hose will remove 'weathering' of concrete buildings very effectively and cheaply. Concrete eventually starts spalling, and high pressure washing actually accelerate
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by AlanYx 4y ago
For macOS, there's Thorium Reader. I agree that there's no really good 3rd party reader for iOS that's actively maintained.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
For what it's worth, version 3.0 of the RM's software now allows endlessly scrolling down.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The first gen HomePod definitely uses BMRs: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/nondestructive-look-ins...
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by AlanYx 4y ago
That last link (the book) is a fantastic literature review, but every chapter basically concludes that despite some results going each way, there is no statistically significant readability difference between sans serif and serif typefaces,
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by AlanYx 4y ago
In case you still want them repaired, there's a guy online (Nic's Fix) who runs a mail-in $60 repair business for dead first gen HomePods.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The real value of the original HomePods IMHO was the quasi-omnidirectional radiation pattern. If you have an unusual room configuration, such as an open concept dining area and kitchen and need to locate the speakers medially, they outperfo
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by AlanYx 4y ago
The description of the tweeters has changed on the spec page as well. I wonder if they're still using balanced mode radiators (BMRs) like the first gen HomePods? Perhaps these use a newer generation BMR?
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by AlanYx 4y ago
What laptop would you recommend that use DC dimming with OLED? Also, does this compromise color accuracy? (I was under the impression that PWM was used with OLED partly because OLED's color accuracy diminishes at lower brightness level
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by AlanYx 4y ago
In case PWM is an issue for you, the new Macbook Air M2 might be worth trying since it finally ditches PWM.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Highlighting is the killer feature in Raindrop for me -- it's such a quick way to help me remember why I bookmarked something.
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Do you have any experience using radiology monitors for reading? I nearly pulled the trigger on one earlier this year, but I couldn't find a greyscale one that supported a D50 white point. (Apparently traditional light boxes use white
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by AlanYx 4y ago
He also spent about half his allocated time on ad-hominems and innuendo, rather than any kind of logical argument. One of the two people on the pro side of the debate mentioned offhand how Walter Cronkite was once polled as the most trusted
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by AlanYx 4y ago
>What really irritated me is that the person has no idea about what they're talking about. Absolutely... I'm also surprised no one seems to be commenting about how he's just kind of wrong in the technical explanation. He s
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by AlanYx 4y ago
They're using the paddles mostly for the look of the end product, judging from the patting machine processing shown at the beginning of the video. In Elaine Khosrova's book, "Butter: A Rich History", IIRC she claims that
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by AlanYx 4y ago
Ctrl+S only does that if a document is unsaved, and it still doesn't actually take you to the save dialog. It takes you to what Microsoft calls the "Save As menu", which takes up the whole window, causing the document content

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