Timpy

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by Timpy 6y ago
I agree with the premise: be proactive about mental health. However, this should be read with some skepticism. The author relies on their own authority as someone who "has been thinking about mental health for 19 years." I was i
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by Timpy 6y ago
I spent two years (2014 - 2016) living in a foreign country without a phone, they were some of the best years of my life. I moved to a new country and there were a couple of barriers that prevented me from getting a phone right away. I dec
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by Timpy 6y ago
I've been experimenting with Xmodmap on Linux for this reason. I remapped my capslock key to a symbol modifier, and then put all of my symbols in different places based on ergonomics and easy to remember mnemonics. Here's a smal
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by Timpy 6y ago
That's a good point, calling for reform in British/Hong Kong relations should also call for reform in US/American Samoan relations. While Hong Kong is more pressing at the moment, the purgatory-citizenship of American Samoan
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by Timpy 6y ago
That's only the case if subjective convenience were the only deciding factor in ebook vs paper books
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by Timpy 6y ago
I was trying to think of a way to organize different sections like "work" and "personal", header web pages is a great idea.
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by Timpy 6y ago
Im reading Permutation City right now and that message is really messing with my head
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by Timpy 6y ago
Along with this, I added this snippet to firefox/userChrome.css: #TabsToolbar { visibility: collapse !important; } I absolutely love it, now there's no title bar on my Firefox. My screen is big enough that I have the hor
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by Timpy 6y ago
I'm using Multi-Account Containers, I never paid attention to the Sort Tabs button. This is great! I'm looking for a keyboard shortcut for it now.
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by Timpy 6y ago
I like this because it organizes my tabs in the same way I do mentally... however it doesn't actually reorder my tabs. What I mean is, Ctrl+Tab surfing through my tabs doesn't iterate the list as it is displayed sequentially.
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by Timpy 6y ago
I'm a vim loyalist, I use Surfingkeys for Firefox, but I have to say that for a lot of non-power users I understand the GUI aspect helps keep their mental model of what's happening on their machine. This problem can have many equ
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by Timpy 6y ago
I recently wrote a script that I call with Meta+F, assigned via a Linux Mint keyboard shortcut. It will open Firefox, or focus it if it's already open. Multiple presses will cycle through open instances. Meta+T does the same for ter
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by Timpy 6y ago
You've never stopped at an inn to restore your party to full health, o weary traveller? It's hard to learn to swim if you're too busy drowning. There's nothing wrong with enjoying relaxing and aesthetically pleasing me
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by Timpy 6y ago
I bought this on Kindle after seeing it in another HN thread but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. After reading your comment I think I'll bump it up higher on my priority list.
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by Timpy 6y ago
This drives me absolutely nuts about Microsoft. I don't want to have to login to anything just to use a simple app.
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by Timpy 6y ago
Bryan Cantrill gave a talk that included how difficult it was to take something that wasn't originally intended to be open source and then open source it. I think it was something at Sun before they were acquired by Oracle (iirc Cantr
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by Timpy 6y ago
I'm sure use cases vary to some degree, but awk clicked for me when I had some data that wasn't formatted well. I didn't use it in a script, I just worked in the shell and kept iterating until it looked good, then redirected
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by Timpy 6y ago
I see the taki0112/UGATIT github project that it's based on but I don't see the project itself linked anywhere. I could easily be missing it though.
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by Timpy 6y ago
It's possible to keep security up to date without imposing the tasteless crap I've non-exhaustively listed. I would save time and pain if the only problem Microsoft gave me was that I had to manually run security updates.
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by Timpy 6y ago
You can actually use !g anywhere in the search strings. It's useful when you finish typing your query, you can change your search engine at the last second.
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by Timpy 6y ago
> Microsoft forced people to install their browser, and other tasteless things. > Windows 95 was also heavily about choice. I recently received a tech support phone call from my mother because her "computer was showing an error t
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by Timpy 6y ago
I was recently toying with the idea of hacking on my old Gameboy Color, I'm excited to see this on the front page. Has anybody else had some positive experiences hacking their GBC?
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by Timpy 6y ago
There doesn't have to be one truth, there can be a landscape of truths and that's fine. Imagine a youtube personality with a large following made some absurd claim like "drinking bleach will help." You don't need
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by Timpy 6y ago
I've seen a lot of Animal Crossing screenshots recently; people will spend an incredible amount of time working on something to make it look nice. They can spend hours to make simulation-life more productive in a way that gets such a
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by Timpy 7y ago
I don't agree that signaling can explain 90% of human behavior, however I think you can find signals (intentional or otherwise) in about 90% of human behavior. When I became aware of my signaling habits I tried to reduce my signals, on
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by Timpy 7y ago
I think this works well, I live in Eastern US and I'm interested in talking to somebody in Hokkaido, Japan... I just instinctively typed "New York" and "Toyko" time.
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by Timpy 7y ago
While we're brainstorming and day dreaming about ideal tiny rigs, has anybody ever heard of a good paperwhite/e-ink screen for programming? Imagine an e-ink tablet that only had a terminal emulator. Plug a keyboard into it, ssh
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by Timpy 7y ago
And you don't find sacrificing the well-being of others to be a moral dilemma?
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by Timpy 7y ago
If we're going to update, I think we should stop using C for /s/ and /k/ noises (we already have characters for those). It can exclusively represent /tʃ/, as in "China" would become "Cina&q
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by Timpy 7y ago
I've never worked in macOS before, is there something exceptionally difficult about decent boilerplate code?

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