AlphaGeekZulu

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   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   Alternative keyboard layouts are fascinating, but always raise a couple of questions for me and I wonder if anyone here can come up with actual experiences regarding the following topics: - I have been using standard german QWERTZ for about
2. 62.▲
   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   Remind - https://dianne.skoll.ca/projects/remind/
3. 63.▲
   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   Yes. But the enjoyment is the result of your own programming education (otherwise you wouldn't even be able to recognize the art in it). It does not apply to everyone, it is not built into the human kernel. I definitely believe that co
4. 64.▲
   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   This is, because computer programming is lacking the immediate, emotional triggers that are hardcoded into our human ROMs (aka DNA) and that strongly react to music, colors, visual experience or the satisfaction of needs like food and sex.
5. 65.▲
   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   I use Rust with Rocket and Tera.
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   LiveCode drops its open source support(livecode.org)

   54 points by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago|13 comments
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   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   I am using Remind since more than 20 years and it is the ultimate productivity tool for me. The idea of Remind is to have every scheduled event of your life in a plain text file (or a collection of plain text files). Remind is like a markup
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   OWASP Amass(owasp.org)

   1 points by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago|0 comments
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   by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

   "Please pass this long stream of wibble to your system admin. That's me, by the way. I wasn't much help." This made my day ;-)
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

    Just to save everyone's time: This article is almost free of information and the conclusion is a slightly extended version of the headline: "[...] So, do aliens exist? Many scientists believe that humans need to work even harder t
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

    Org Mode (with my heavily customized labburn-based theme).
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

    More information: https://www.livescience.com/chinese-long-march-rocket-uncont... The reentry is uncontrolled by design: "This, sadly, wouldn't be the first time. In May 2020, a Long March 5B rocket slammed throug
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    Chunks of “Long March 5B” will hit earth around 10 May 2021 (again)(orbit.ing-now.com)

    4 points by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago|2 comments
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

    I have been there. I recommend the book: "Refuse to Choose!" by Barbara Sher. Short intro: https://www.getmotivation.com/motivationblog/2017/04/barbara... In short: get over the feeling of guilt fir
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

    I have a copy lingering in my shelf for a couple of years now and just started a private project to implement the algorithms in Rust the other week...
16. 76.▲
    by AlphaGeekZulu 5y ago

    If I'd only knew how to accomplish this!!
17. 77.▲
    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    Yes, I understand. But I seriously consider doing this as a preemptive provision.
18. 78.▲
    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    Wouldn't it be possible to replace the internal battery while bridging it with an external power source? How would the device know, that the battery was exchanged?
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    First: no need to downvote the poster, there is nothing wrong with "I absolutely dislike dark themes"! I extended the personal opinion aspect to the second sentence as well. But lets take the second sentence for itself. Actually i
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    This is a very nice project, well done!
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    Yes, absolutely. But... The reason for the rather complex implementation with a backend is, that we actually did not have Social Media Image Cropping in mind when we started development more than two years ago. The problem we set out to sol
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    This is really great advice, thanks! I am definitely going to add some sort of visualization of the final result to the page...
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    Cropping.Rocks is a free online tool to perfectly crop and resize an image into all established Social Media formats in less than a minute. This app is a MVP for our qCrop technology: a way to easily and quickly provide an image with a univ
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    Show HN: Cropping.Rocks - free Social Media Image Cropping(cropping.rocks)

    10 points by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago|8 comments
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    Brace, brace, brace ...
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    67.820°N 176.552°O (north-east Russia)
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    The two satellites involved are: OPS 6182 (10820, 1978-042A): https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=10820 SL-8 R/B (12443, 1981-041B): https://www.n2yo.com/satellite/?s=12443 They are on head-on
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    Eu_sst: 20% probability for large satellite collision(twitter.com)

    142 points by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago|95 comments
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    No. On the other hand: if there is still any living person out there voluntarily displaying HTML mail as such, they probably want to suffer. So, ok. I won't see any of it anyways. HTML-designed mails go straight to my bin...
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    by AlphaGeekZulu 6y ago

    I can not enter space in the search widget on - MacOS/Firefox - Ubuntu/Firefox I can enter space in the search widget on - Ubuntu/Chrome - Ubuntu/Brave - Ubuntu/Opera - Ubuntu/Vivaldi