RobertRoberts

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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
Last few times I went for a teeth cleaning, I was told about how "tarter" (the supposed "bad stuff") develops mostly around where the saliva glands excrete into the mouth. I added this to how I was able to have a full ho
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
Look up Chinese cancer villages, this is the real scary pollution. Thankfully we have the EPA in America (and unions, and many other things) that have defended the US population from mass poisonings. This is evidence that our laws and regul
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
This appears staged. I have had messy spaces, and it's never so evenly dispersed. What is the purpose of glorifying clutter and mess? It was hard work to get out from under this kind of bad habit, I would never want to go back. Maybe t
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
How would you save the "reject all" selection without using a cookie for that user's session?
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
> What _is_ difficult is corresponding a position on the staff to a physical note on a keyboard, especially when you have a treble clef and a base clef. This is my biggest issue. I played piano for years and still struggle with this. (th
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
Fair enough. My battle with Gnome was when they tried to merge touch screen devices with desktop, and every day tasks took multiple more clicks or navigation.
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
The usability on Gnome is the worst of all the desktops I have ever used. I will never use it again. (been on Linux 14 years, windows/mac 20+)
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
I agree, and I like the suggestion of the Perixx keyboard. (seems like a knock-off brand though, any ideas on quality?) MS ergo keyboard's (current mainstay) keys fail every so often, so I have to buy a new one every so often. So yes,
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
This _could_ be the ideal keyboard. But to find out, I'd have to invest a lot of hours of effort for DIY and/or spend a lot of money. And then what if it's terrible in the end? This is part of the challenge I face, so I am li
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
> I want more keys . I want my dedicated f-keys back... This is my issue as well. I want a "normal" keyboard, only ergonomic, split, with all the fancy joint happiness that brings. It seems these are impossible to find without
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
State attorney generals are voted on by state elections, and it's unlikely many people know or can meet an attorney general. The Sheriff is a county election, and is likely to be known (or even well known) in the community even before
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
The Sheriff is the only law enforcement officer in the US that the people vote for. All others are appointed. This brings the most powerful enforcer of the law in the US very close to the citizens and voters. They know this person and can p
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
I tried writing code to simulate the "Monkey's typing on a keyboard === Shakespeare" concept. It was a simple "hello world", and then with only the characters needed for the program. I didn't see it spit out an
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by RobertRoberts 3y ago
I have simple rule to start with that helps with so much. If it has a processed sugar, I don't buy it. (I have an exception for organic sugar because, how bad can the processing be?) This includes maltodextrin, artificial sweeteners, e
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
Does Mastodon have an API I can use to access everyone's feed? I am curious because I have never used the API, and I can see Mastodon taking over if they have an API that let's 3rd parties interact and download content.
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
I was surprised to see feature phones prominently linked on Nokia's site recently. https://www.nokia.com/phones/en_int/feature-phones-series
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
Are you building sites or apps? I got to the point a long time ago where I just didn't care to cover every single design need and just made my own mini-framework.
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
The lack of capitalization (even on HN) is a regression far worse than dash mis-use.
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
You can mix this recipe and "bake" in in a frying pan in minutes. A tiny bit of practice and perspective change to get something you like and you can have fresh bread daily for the rest of your life.
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
Freshly baked bread is available to _everyone_. Buy some flour, take a cup of flour, mix some water, maybe some salt, squish it some and bake it. The downfall of society will happen within arms length of wisdom and knowledge.
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
It's finding systems like this that make HN valuable from time to time. I didn't even "think" to look for a system like this, and I could use it right now, and I find there are multiple other ones similar in the same pos
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
I have never even heard it called "the Ukraine" or said it myself, so I don't need convincing of that. I think it's inherently wrong for one culture to make demands of another because of a perceived offense by such a sma
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
What helped me: - Exercise. - Change of diet. (No junk food, learned to cook) - No/limit/control caffeine. I only ingest caffeine when my behavior isn't critical, ie I can have coffee if my tasks are all computer related. But
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
Come back to this comment in a few years and I am fairly confident they will be considered racist or "evil" or a micro-agression to spell or say these things you say we are free to say. Sure, we are "free" to say them. T
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
We can say "nitch" instead of "neesh" and we can say "legos" instead of "lego bricks" and we can certainly put a "the" in front of any word we want in our own language. This is another examp
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
My understanding is that dry cold air doesn't feel as cold either... I learned from a swimming teacher "water transmits heat/cold 10 times faster than air", therefore a logical conclusion is that dry air is insulating mo
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
This comment is on track, and it's amazing that it's gotten a single down-vote. Though I would de-prioritize "rinse your dishes" and say the food we eat is more of the issue. Is there some logical reason you would down v
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
I would recommend you research how decaf is made. There are multiple methods, and some are really nasty sounding. The argument I got from a chemist once was something like "Yes, but they take all the toxic chemicals out of the beans af
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
Based on the comments above, I think I should have specified that this works well for very cold places that get very dry air in the winter.
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by RobertRoberts 4y ago
It depends, with super (I mean very, very dry air) you can have pockets of warmth just around the heat source. But add a little moisture and the whole room feels warm. In my experience 60 is cold no matter what. But feeling cold at 70 degre

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