Jaruzel

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by Jaruzel 7y ago
As a lefthander I find using the numpad difficult as it is on the wrong side on standard keyboards. As I use more than one machine daily, having a custom reversed keyboard is not an option. As such I basically never do number entry using th
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I stick with BBC News, but I balance it out with news from other sources, and somewhere in the middle of it all, is the 'real' story. In so far as the media are prepared to tell it.
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Google is to blame for this. If you run your site through their usability wizard, it will warn you when links or buttons are too close together, along with insinuating that you won't rank highly for mobile devices if you don't fix
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I think it auto saves only for Office 365 or SharePoint based documents. It definitely doesn't auto save my documents when they are local or on a network share.
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
> This is one of those rare HN moments that I wish more would notice. Sorry to cut in... but I concur. Sometimes you read comment that makes you think 'wow this person is so similar to me!' but it's a single comment in th
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Didn't 'MODE MONO' need a Hercules graphics card though?
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
MODE CON LINES=50 Indelibly burnt into my long term memory. You needed an EGA or higher graphics card though.
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
A little bit of social media (twitter posts, product page on FB), and a big push via Google AdWords at Easter and Christmas. Sales tended to be fairly seasonal so we focused on those periods. Also, spent a lot of time getting the meta tags
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
For the period of 2008 to 2014 I built and ran an online webshop[1] selling Bath bombs and soaps - the product was specifically picked because in 2008 there wasn't that many online shops selling low cost bath products in the UK. What I
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I found I needed music to keep me motivated, and after trying out Rock/Metal (my normally preferred genre), I cycled through baroque and classical, and eventually ended up settling on Trance/EDM. It ended up just being all about t
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Not to mention, that the burnout rate is VERY high. People should not underestimate the pressure of producing interesting content every couple of days for years without being able to take a break.
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Nothing will change significantly over the next 50 years, despite people constantly predicting otherwise. My personal take is that we've reached peak humanity. Without some large shock to the global eco-system there will be no signific
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I was puzzled by the article authors statement on this. My main daily machine is Windows 10. It's been running the same 'copy' of Windows 10 since late 2016, and has gone through all the major updates since then, and has had
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
> In all seriousness, older people are more opposed to UI and other types of change. It's not that. We just have more experience of Change, and know that Change Without Purpose rarely provides any benefit.
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I used to think this, until I went on my quest to find a better fonts. Microsoft did a really good job on Consolas to make it look great on Windows. Unfortunately a lot of coding fonts dont hint well on Windows, or only look good in hiDPI..
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International Space Station: Eva(spaceflight.nasa.gov)
1 points by Jaruzel 7y ago|0 comments
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Imho, everyone should use ISO8601[1] as standard. Then there'd be none of this 'it's an american who wrote it so it's the month first for some reason' rubbish. -- [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
> It does not "add" colours, it overwrites the first colour in the list. It's not bugged. It's just non-obvious. Select the empty custom colour first , then select from the colour box the colour you want to add, the
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
> It was, as the historians Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon put it, like "having a den cluttered with several television sets, each dedicated to a different channel". This is how I feel about modern streaming TV; needing multip
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
There's a detailed breakdown of the restoration process from page 66 in this Christie's online magazine: https://www.christies.com/zmags?ZmagsPublishID=7baedae9
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
> Why is a magazine like New Scientist pushing magic? New Scientist is not a high brow journal despite it's name. It's sold in supermarkets and newsagents (corner shops). I used to subscribe to it for a very long time, until th
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Hyper-V host: Active Directory (x2) Exchange Server 2013 MS SQL Various Single Purpose VMs providing automation Debian for SpamAssassion Debian for my web domains Custom SMTP MTA thats in front of SpamAssassin
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I do. I have over 1,000 CDs losslessly ripped on my media server. I stream these around the house into good quality amps and speakers, and also down convert them to mp3 for portable devices. I don't like being held hostage by streaming
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
The 'obligatory' was tongue-in-cheek to be honest, I should have add the /s suffix.
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/681/
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
You can buy children's clocks that have an analogue hands and a face of a cute animal. The animals eyes are closed (asleep) until a pre-set time (that the parent can set) at which point the animals eyes open[1], and the child knows it&
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by Jaruzel 7y ago
I think people forget how prevalent IPX/SPX and Netware was back in the late 80s-early 90s. Fun anecdote: I used to work on a large MoD site as PC support during that era, and one call I got was to visit a bunch of porta-cabins to fix
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Coherent OS(en.wikipedia.org)
82 points by Jaruzel 7y ago|48 comments
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Duh, yes. I meant MUSH not MOO. Thank you. :)
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> The whole ecosystem needs to be preserved. I disagree. If humanity collapses, and a new fledgling civilisation grows out of the ashes, then maybe we should let them follow their own path, and make their own discoveries and mistakes. It

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