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by aendruk 6y ago
“Droid”Cam does a good job of turning my iPhone Xs into a USB webcam for Ubuntu.
902.
by aendruk 6y ago
Here’s where SVG with prefers-color-scheme would be useful.
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by aendruk 6y ago
The trick to enjoying this is opting in/out on a per language or project basis. Iosevka has a proportional variant with all the fancy ligatures that’s just delightful.
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by aendruk 6y ago
Probably not the whole post, just the uncommon characters. A few days ago HN deleted several characters from my comment immediately upon posting. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24851415
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by aendruk 6y ago
Looks like it's just distance from the center, probably for the sake of visualizing 3D space in a press release.
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by aendruk 6y ago
I don't know what, but something causes it to leak. I've been using it for about a year and several of the low numbered containers have accumulated duplicates: Edit: Apparently HN strips box drawing characters. Imagine the output
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by aendruk 6y ago
If you like this, darktable has a delightful slider worth exploring.
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by aendruk 6y ago
What's happening here? Automated spam? Surely hundreds of people aren't all submitting nearly identical PRs?
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by aendruk 6y ago
I feel strongly enough about this that I had “js;dr” stickers made and have been distributing them at conferences for a couple years.
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by aendruk 6y ago
Some day we’ll collectively learn to replace all the crude beeping with less abrasive, natural sounds like the gentle and informative clicking of the iPod’s touch wheel. Think the crunch of a fallen leaf, the satisfying zip of a sweater, th
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by aendruk 6y ago
Uppercase %S for unescaped, e.g.: https://web.archive.org/web/*/%S
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by aendruk 6y ago
> SMS app I don’t get Choosing Signal over iMessage. Signal can serve as your primary messaging app, prioritizing the Signal protocol but falling back to SMS as necessary per contact. Except that it can’t, because iOS won’t route SMS to
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by aendruk 6y ago
> protest After switching from Android I disabled iMessage for precisely this reason. A green bubble I shall proudly remain.
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World Federation for Culture Collections(wfcc.info)
2 points by aendruk 6y ago|0 comments
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by aendruk 6y ago
> you can grab the scroll bar to scroll at hyper speed I think it's called using a scrollbar. :) That's typically how they work. To spare readers the content marketing piece: tap and hold to grab it.
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by aendruk 6y ago
Whatever disturbance that presumably causes is its own violation.
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by aendruk 6y ago
RSS feed of only the most significant items, e.g. HN over 500 votes, subreddit top 10 in the last month.
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by aendruk 6y ago
I don’t understand why this was flagged. My thinking in sharing a screenshot was that these kinds of sites often show different things to different people (e.g. by locale, browser size, session history, etc.) so it would be helpful to docum
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by aendruk 6y ago
Yeah it's pretty jarring to have this suddenly stare you down while trying to read. https://i.imgur.com/2f8hLqs.jpg
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by aendruk 6y ago
Not sure that helps much; I’ve never heard of NCIS. Some people just don’t spend their time watching TV.
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by aendruk 6y ago
> do they even offer it? Just to answer this—technically yes, but they use dark patterns to dissuade people from learning about it.
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by aendruk 6y ago
> a mobile number is needed They're laying the groundwork to change this. Part of the purpose of the PINs rolled out last month is to enable centralizing some data to allow for other addressing schemes.
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by aendruk 6y ago
A fun variation on the idea is to cling to rough vertical surfaces like an insect: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/drones/stanford...
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by aendruk 6y ago
Approximately 2011–2018 [1]. For most of that time it existed as a browser extension similar to this one, but it started off as a first-class feature of the site. [2] [1]: https://github.com/codyogden/killedbygoogle&#x2
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by aendruk 6y ago
They did! Then of course killed it.
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by aendruk 6y ago
Happened to me twice. Still upset.
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by aendruk 6y ago
Don't miss: > PINs will also help facilitate new features like addressing that isn’t based exclusively on phone numbers
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Signal PINs(signal.org)
226 points by aendruk 6y ago|189 comments
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by aendruk 6y ago
> unpredictable A short feedback loop (e.g. live preview) should take care of that.
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by aendruk 6y ago
Having been warned about Instacart I made a point of doing just that, only to have the grocery store run the order through them anyway. The whole experience felt fraudulent, from the bait-and-switch between service providers to the bait-and

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