Scapeghost

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by Scapeghost 6y ago
1. Is solved by "N Pages left in chapter" which is more useful than "Page N" 2. There is no "absolute number" of pages on a e-reader app or device because the window or font size can change, changing all the pa
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
Yeah Plus is one of my favorite memories of Windows too, which happened around the same time I discovered drivers to let me see more than 256 colors for the first time :)
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
easytiger has multiple comments here attacking the same parent(s): https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=easytiger You may need to enable your "showdead" option to see some of them. I'm not sure how I've
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
The most key point of this is right at the start: "I decided to just answer straightforwardly" That can make all the difference in your interactions with your child and how they learn about this world. Too many problems are caused
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> You may as well argue against page numbers in books. Actually, yes, when was the last time you looked at a page number in an e-book? They don't make sense anyway when you can resize the reader.
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> An always visible scroll bar or indicator is conceptually simpler than one that disappears randomly. An always visible scroll bar takes up a good chunk of screen space when you have multiple of them, and it's easy to develop intui
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> XP styling was pretty good for its era. XP was skinned like a very tacky Fischer Price toy, with garish colors and oversized elements that would have been more at home on a touchscreen. I don't think anyone called it a good theme
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
> If your host is an animal lover, you don't pick up roadkill on your way over, either. It all comes down to the "plants don't have feelings/aren't really alive" bias we have. Some people will go to great co
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by Scapeghost 6y ago
I don't know, Windows 95 looked crude even during its day. Functional, but not pleasant. I guess Brutalist would be the term? As soon as there was the ability to skin it, people tried to veer away the default look, with Mac-like styles
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
The "trashing of the night sky" was already committed by all the light pollution being emitted from cities since decades ago. It's a shame. Cities are no longer cool. I plan to tell this to everyone who will listen.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
"Rule By Law" This is sorta what all the mass surveillance and tracking is about, or at least enables: To ruin the life of any potential dissident. If they can't dig up any dirt from your history, they'll inject it.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
All this is heading towards a small fraction of the human population controlling and watching everything the rest of us do, with no way for us to do anything against them, and I cannot help but hate the engineers who are helping to make tha
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
None of that is true, aside from maybe your first encounter with programming.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
I really wish iOS would allow you to select which contacts/photo album to give an app access to, instead of all hundreds/thousands of them.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Apple has some good muscle in the privacy war too, if for no other reason than to reduce Google's advantage. Not sure what Microsoft's game plan is though, apart from preloading Windows with spyware.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
I used to put a tape recorder up against the TV to record C64 game music :) What the hell happened to video game music though? It used to be fun and not afraid to sound nothing like any other genre. How did we go from (1) (2) to the sterile
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> WhatsApp's vulnerabilities are intentionally created as part of surveillance programs with government agencies. This has been obvious in places like the United Arab Emirates (aka Dubai) where services like FaceTime etc. (sometim
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Ask HN: Does HN censor some topics by removing them from the list of posts?
7 points by Scapeghost 7y ago|5 comments
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Thanks for the different perspective. I guess Moroccans are/were relatively more prosperous than other Middle-Eastern nations.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> I don't know exactly what the fetishes/unrealistic expectations you say mainstream media is promoting Toxic masculinity and macho-isms, submissive femininity and repressed sexuality, hard-to-maintain body types, glamorizing h
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
You are correct and that is true.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
Oh this actually brings up a whole other can of juicy worms: Forced monogamy. Almost every culture guilts people into remaining in unsuccessful relationships and makes people feel like a failure if they have to break off a relationship.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
As soon as you say the word "proper" you mean "What -I- think you should do"
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
It seems that even HN has censored this topic. I couldn't see this post on any page without searching for it.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
I hope you realize that the stories in books etc aren't the real thing either, but a hollow facsimile, an ersatz marshmallow.
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
While not exactly homeless, employed people not being able to afford their own house is the norm instead of the exception in the majority of the world. In the "East" and Middle East, many employed young adults live with their pare
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> Books and movies retain their core purpose: storytelling. While pornography and professional sports don't. Porn has storylines. And I suggest watching WWE :) > It's like asking someone how can they approve of steak and dis
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> A history book would neither back up the claim about unfettered travel, nor the claim about corruption. I don't think any ruler would have been able to easily hop to another continent on a whim for an orgy with a wide selection of
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> The second problem I have is with the industry and its employees, I can't recall any ex-porn worker having anything good to say about their previous profession, instead what I've seen described comes across as a really shitty
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by Scapeghost 7y ago
> Modern professional sports are much like pornography: completely empty in both regards. Again, why do you think they're any different from movies, music, books, art, or any other form of entertainment you approve of? Surely you fi

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