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by aimor 5y ago
At some point I had a moment of realization that most things are meant to be used. That is, those fancy decorative soaps smell better on your hands than on the shelf, chocolates taste better in your mouth than in the box, if someone gives y
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by aimor 5y ago
What parties motivate Google? For example: does the US Government make requests to Google directly? Do advertisers? Lobbyists? Wealthy individuals? Friends and family of higher-ups? Is the source completely internal to Google? I'd love
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by aimor 5y ago
As soon as I said "Punch it!" Android 10 (Firefox 91.4) crashed. Haven't seen that happen before :)
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by aimor 5y ago
Trying this out right now with a keyboard and laptop and I'm immediately a fan! I'm pleasantly surprised that Shift works across keyboards. I really dislike keyboard key layouts, that is the physical staggered location of the keys
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I just want to read and write: x = if condition(): 4 else: 5
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by aimor 5y ago
Perhaps there should be more emphasis on sustainable lawns? That is: don't force it. Don't water it, don't use toxic pesticides, don't fertilize, and for smaller lots don't use gas powered lawn equipment. If the law
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by aimor 5y ago
I got a new Dell laptop that has End and Home overlaid on the function keys. Normally the F keys are doubled up with hardware specific features like brightness and volume. But I guess they had some empty ones and figured, "who even use
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by aimor 5y ago
Something I've notice the past few years is how annoying it is to look at small highly compressed images. You can go to http://news.google.com and look at the thumbnails to get an idea of what I mean. Part of it is that pic
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by aimor 5y ago
That's interesting, maybe this is the results of a change regarding when the button is shown, or simply in how reader mode works? Previously we have had success in forcing reader mode when the option is not available. See, for example:
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I'm wondering if anyone has used optical illusions as a way to screen for bots.
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by aimor 5y ago
Firefox USED to allow accessing reader mode by prepending the url with 'about:reader?url='. This doesn't work anymore and I don't know what to use instead. There is a reader mode button that toggles it on and off, but so
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by aimor 5y ago
This might sound like a stretch, but I wish I could just pay without having my phone or card or cash or anything else on me. In general I'm growing weary of authentication hell, but specifically with how it all seems to come back to re
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by aimor 5y ago
I also don't agree with the author during the first half of the article. If anything captcha photos have an overwhelmingly suburban feel, probably because (I assume) they're taken from Google's street view. The six points lis
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by aimor 5y ago
Are these the articles in question? https://web.archive.org/web/20200425044010/https://www.craig... https://web.archive.org/web/20200426041821/https://www.craig...
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I'm tempted to experiment. If I take a blue LED and a green LED in the dark, when I focus on one the other should appear blurred.
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by aimor 5y ago
My favorite is during navigation when my current location is placed 3/4 of the way across the screen, that is 3/4 of the screen is used to display the route I've already driven.
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by aimor 5y ago
One of the things I like about code is that it's usually very easy to read. There are problems with characters like 1 l I 0 O i j etc that are addressed by font choices. But even with those problems I find it much easier to read the AS
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by aimor 5y ago
How much effort does it take? I got a lot of misinformation about how to maintain an iron skillet. Internet cooking blog trolls had me convinced I should never use soap or else I'd have to scrub it down to bare metal, soak it in oil, a
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by aimor 5y ago
I see this in my own beard hairs. I'll have a dark hair with a grey root, but then I'll also have a grey hair with a dark root. I didn't do any research into it, but I always felt like I saw more of the latter when I'd b
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They are supposed to approve of each candidate individually. This avoids problems such as the one you allude to in your example where Sanders may lose to Clinton despite more total people approving of Sanders, simply because Clinton support
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by aimor 5y ago
Is the python code missing a square root? https://github.com/mdmaas/julia-numpy-fortran-test/blob/main... For fun I ran in Matlab with a 2.9 GHz i7-7820HQ and get about 1.83s for N=10,000 single threaded.
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by aimor 5y ago
I don't believe the customer service people knew what had happened. They were chatting about how there was a "service disruption" and that it was from "American Airline's system" not theirs so it was "out
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by aimor 5y ago
I found this funny because I did very briefly consider driving to the layover airport. Agency is a great thing to have, and I think it's much more important for a happy life than efficiency, but there are limits. My limit is apparently
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by aimor 5y ago
I've had a terrible time because of this. Nothing seems to work well when stressed. I had a flight with one layover. At the airport my first flight was delayed an hour, making the connection unlikely. I asked the customer service what
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by aimor 5y ago
Those are two separate sentences. All video streaming is capped at 480p, even if 4G data speeds are enabled.
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by aimor 5y ago
The better control I have over styling the more empowered I feel to use semantic HTML. It was frustrating, years ago, to jump on board wide eyed only to realize that styling is a minefield. I believe this is much improved today.
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by aimor 5y ago
Is there any cellular phone service that throttles to a usable speed (say at least 1.5 Mbps)? I was looking forward to the spread of 4G because I naively thought throttled speeds would also increase to "3G equivalent" instead of &
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by aimor 5y ago
"Now, if this were all that was happening, sellers and brands could just sell outside of Amazon, avoid the 35-45% commission, and charge a lower price to entice customers. “Buy Cheaper at Walmart.com!” should be in ads all over the web
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by aimor 5y ago
The problem is that Amazon is strong arming sellers to prevent them from offering that item for a lower price elsewhere.
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by aimor 5y ago
Looks like in Texas the gas tax is $0.20/gallon. A sedan might get 33 miles per gallon, drive 10,000 miles a year, consuming 300 gallons of gas: $60 paid in taxes each year. Is that right? The US average looks like 25 mpg and 14,000 mi

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