Jakob

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by Jakob 6y ago
A custom CSS could fix that for you. p { max-width: 65ch; } I personally don’t like web sites which restrict line lengths. I can read longer lines just fine and it makes skimming easier.
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by Jakob 6y ago
OP asks about Apple’s animated "QR cloud" which was used in some iPhones and with the Apple watch: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/301563/what-is-the... https://www.quora.com/Ha
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by Jakob 6y ago
Great idea! Works flawlessly for me on an iPhone XR.
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by Jakob 6y ago
Yes, ctrl-F7 (de-)activates keyboard navigation. When activated, the problem of grand parent does not exist. I don’t use a mouse or touch pad normally.
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by Jakob 6y ago
I’m the city I lived, the street lamps turned on when they sensed someone in the vicinity and turned off again after some time. So it’s not actually dark where you are and walking, it’s just dark where no one is.
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by Jakob 6y ago
You can disable the Facebook SDK phoning home: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/app-events/gdpr-complia... Any idea why seemingly no one of the big apps does this?
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by Jakob 6y ago
I’m sure there are some use cases where you absolutely need a screen. Phone calls and maps directions though are actually very nice, and I would argue superior, using just a headset instead of the screen. The usage of mobile screens differ
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by Jakob 6y ago
`tail` is just loading the last bytes of a file. If the server supports byte ranges you can do this with `curl` over http as well: Last 100 bytes of a website: $ curl -sr -100 https://example.com An approximation of `tail -
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by Jakob 6y ago
This article uses spaced-repetition. I haven’t seen that in an article before.
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Quantum Computing for the very Curious(quantum.country)
26 points by Jakob 6y ago|8 comments
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by Jakob 6y ago
You are correct. In fact old English didn’t have it as well. "Yes" comes from "gese" which means "So be it".
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by Jakob 6y ago
I’m curious because I have never heard from someone preferring the Gmail client-side experience. Can you elaborate? While certainly usable, isn’t the client-side experience one of the negative points of Gmail? (generic icons all over the pl
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by Jakob 6y ago
Nice project! There is "Automatic HTTPS Upgrade" in the iOS Safari (experimental) settings. Wouldn’t that do the same?
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by Jakob 6y ago
I enjoyed the articles on https://www.redblobgames.com/ a lot in the past. They are nice starting points for making a game.
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by Jakob 6y ago
The tools on the linked website are very basic which are used on a daily basis: "Issue trees": Write your problem down "First principles": 5-whys, which you do e.g. in a post mortem "Second-order thinking": thi
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by Jakob 6y ago
You can change the order of share items. When you are in the “...” screen, tap on “edit” at the top right. This is what OP complained about is not possible on Android out of the box.
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by Jakob 6y ago
> it then exposes all of the images to the _app developer_ Not if the app developer proxies the encrypted traffic. That way the app dev does not know the content and the third party does not know which original IP requested it. This is a
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Groupe PSA goes remote-first (max 1.5 days in the office/week)(groupe-psa.com)
2 points by Jakob 6y ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 7y ago
Oh sorry I didn’t mean the jump bikes but the aforementioned DB bikes in Munich: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=call+a+bike+munich I would be very surprised if someone can dismantle them on the street. But nevertheless if you ha
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by Jakob 7y ago
The bikes are built in a way that you don’t want to steal them. They drive down that probability in at least two ways: Quite heavy and their specific number highly visible. The lock is nearly unbreakable, a bolt which is locked inside the b
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by Jakob 7y ago
Without GPS or internet: put the bike at a cross road and tell the app (or call center) at which cross road you put it. Every now and then they get serviced, if the bike is not where you put it as the last owner, you pay a fine. That’s how
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by Jakob 7y ago
Have you tried the content blockers? They work fine for me on Safari (kablock or wipr) and mobile Safari (adblock plus and kiyoshi, the latter against custom fonts) and I’m highly allergic to the usual adserver ads.
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by Jakob 7y ago
IT projects be it open source or closed source often span the US, Asia and Europe. After a while you memorize the time zone differences. But to be sure and take daylight savings in account world clocks are not bad.
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by Jakob 7y ago
An interesting exercise. OP is still creating something for consumption, though. This is an old argument: SOCRATES: You know, Phaedrus, writing shares a strange feature with painting. The offsprings of painting stand there as if they are al
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by Jakob 7y ago
You can set caps lock as escape key in System Preferences since one of the last OS versions. For me this works even better than the original escape key position since it’s on the home row.
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by Jakob 8y ago
Does anyone have a solution by now on what to do with the millions of tons of salt which are produced by desalinating water? I read that right now the salt is just dumped somewhere being a huge burden for flora and fauna.
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The magic behind configure, make, make install(thoughtbot.com)
2 points by Jakob 8y ago|0 comments
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by Jakob 8y ago
In iOS Settings search for “smart invert”. This is basically what you are searching for.
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by Jakob 8y ago
For VoD I like the approach where you use a fast and reliable CDN for the first seconds and in the background buffer the rest of the video from a cheap location/CDN. This works if you download video faster than real time which is almos
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Fifty Fizzbuzzes(vihart.com)
143 points by Jakob 8y ago|57 comments

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