Tipewryter

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by Tipewryter 6y ago
There are some convenience issues with Firefox that bother me: - It starts slower then Chromium. - Right click and "Open in new private window" actually opens in a new private window. I prefer how Chromium does it, grouping all si
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
To avoid this type of thing I start Chromium via a script that replaces all settings with their defaults when I quit Chromium: chromium-browser \ --password-store=basic \ --enable-dom-distiller \ %U
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
For smartphones, this site has a cool "similar phone finder" that finds similar phones based on their euclidean distance over the specs: https://www.productchart.com/smartphones/similar The charts for other p
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
solar can't supply more than 30-40% of the energy mix With enough batteries, why not?
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Google Trends: Trump vs. Biden(trends.google.com)
2 points by Tipewryter 6y ago|0 comments
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
What is the meaning of the "Entrepreneur", "Forbes", "Fortune", "Inc 500" and "The huffington Post" logos on the page?
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
How about we build a village somewhere in NZ or elsewhere with very strict rules for every new person who arrives. Like bringing a negative test and self isolating for 14 days. Then slowly grow this village this way and celebrate life wit
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An oil tanker with 60M gallons of oil aboard is currently sinking [video](youtube.com)
245 points by Tipewryter 6y ago|51 comments
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
SQL is how I want to talk to my storage abstraction layer. And I want it to do that one thing and do it well. Syncing to a server is another issue and I am not sure if it should be part of the same library.
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
A question to the people among you who have tinnitus: When you put a finger in each ear and create overpressure or underpressure, does the pitch change? Does it change when you clench your teeth? Is it louder on one side then on the other?
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
So a storage abstraction layer on top of IndexDB with a proprietery API. I would not want to tie my projects to that API. What I would like to see on top of IndexDB is an SQL database. So you can run SQL queries on the client against your I
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
I think in Flutter, you do not define the interface in HTML. That is a no-go for me. I think HTML is the UI language that will outlive all others in existence. It would be a mistake to use something else and then have to rewrite everything
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
One guy out of 7 billion? I had exactly one Google account and I lost it - along with all data - too. So for me it is one out of one. No reason given. They just don't let me log in anymore.
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
I lost my Google account too. One day they just stopped letting me log in. They show me a text saying that to log in, I have to give them my phone number. Well, I don't want to give my phone number to Google. When I signed up, it was n
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
For "Arc4Random" it says "Reproducible Results: Not Always". Can an algorithm really produce a non-reproducible result?
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by Tipewryter 6y ago
It would probably be easy to write a bookmarklet that extracts your music into csv. Then you can save it and upload it to wherever you like. You probably would have to write a second little script to convert the csv into the format of the s