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by arantius 7y ago
Really? For me it's getting halfway undressed (no jacket, belt off, shoes on the conveyor, empty your pockets) that takes the most time.
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by arantius 7y ago
I agree with you. I dislike digital distribution in general, largely for this reason. I believe it's likely that as long as I can find (say) a working PS4, my physical media PS4 games will continue to work as long as I would like the
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Scroll Anchoring in Firefox 66(hacks.mozilla.org)
76 points by arantius 8y ago|12 comments
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by arantius 8y ago
Whatever they feel like it being. Including images. For some reason, this keeps getting flipped to "on" for me, and I have to keep turning it off, to get images to load correctly in both my RSS reader and via a convenience user s
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by arantius 8y ago
GP's third sentence: > I keep 180 days with snapshots on the remote backup and 30 days for the local.
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by arantius 8y ago
> ... box-blocking laws aren't enforced as it is in NYC. I'm from NYC and they're definitely not enforced. (Outside of rare exceptions?) They happen all the time. On the major street I live on (two lanes each way), they
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by arantius 8y ago
Limits the potential battery impact. Without this restriction, how long before an app maker schedules their alarm every millisecond?
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by arantius 8y ago
Interesting. I wrote a (much) simpler version of this a short while ago, which I also find terribly useful: https://bookmarklets.arantius.com/unfix Might need to add a "nuke" like option.
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by arantius 8y ago
If you just want big maps, that's already been done (by hand): https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=legend+of+zelda+map
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by arantius 8y ago
Overall agree, but for some reason I can't grasp, they never have the full menu, at any such place I've ever used them.
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Novel method enables infinite walking in VR(eurekalert.org)
1 points by arantius 8y ago|0 comments
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by arantius 8y ago
Electronics is a similar situation to programming: from the right perspective, it's quite easy: all of the details are very small and simple. The complexity is all to do with the way that many (MANY) small details are packaged togethe
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by arantius 9y ago
http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/woof.html
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by arantius 9y ago
Note that it said "top level" navigation.
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by arantius 9y ago
This is an immediate non-starter for me. I have had plenty of real-world situations, with Google Docs, whereby I have fixed someone else's spelling (or vice versa) as they have been typing. Working on sheets/slides where this isn
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by arantius 9y ago
> 20 years ago, Netflix had a few million DVD customers ... Off topic, but I was amazed/interested, so: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netflix#Founding_and_establish... "Netflix was founded on August 29, 19
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by arantius 9y ago
> I like your idea of a slow fade after scroll. Things blinking/fading/shifting/changing when I'm taking completely unrelated actions (or, worse, all on their own) is one of the most unreadable/unusable design de
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by arantius 9y ago
> I don't get why LED bulbs need to flicker though It's _much_ cheaper/easier to blink an LED on/off for 75% of the time than to drive a constant but lower current to produce 75% of the brightness. Most products are
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by arantius 9y ago
I've seen plenty of suboptimal code in review, commented about what I consider a better/more readable version to be, and gotten the response "this is what the clang formatter produces". Boo to automatic formatting. It
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by arantius 9y ago
This. I've got incremental snapshots sent to a box in a family member's house (and vice versa).
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by arantius 10y ago
AIUI It's about separating all untrusted web content from everything else on your computer. As long as you have _one_ content process (and one parent/browser process), you get the vast majority of security benefits (by limiting th
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by arantius 10y ago
> It's certainly in both the consumer's interest I have to disagree. I dislike subscriptions for several reasons, especially in an area like video games where there is replay value. (I, at least, don't re-watch tv/m
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by arantius 10y ago
See sibling post about PAR2.
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by arantius 10y ago
> The obvious solution is to add full-text indexing by page content. And maybe even store pages for offline use. I built something that did exactly this, over ten years ago! I was a much less capable developer then, and it never worked
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by arantius 10y ago
challenge "just the files" description says "Print all files in the current directory". You mean "print the names of all files ..." Lots of the challenges have awkward/ambiguous wording like this. (If you
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by arantius 10y ago
In my experience in NYC, most buildings have some mechanical and some recreational space somewhere on their roofs and/or balconies. Sometimes this is private recreational space, sometimes shared, sometimes a little of both.
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by arantius 10y ago
Not if you can get access twice. A variety of "evil maid" style attacks exist. For example, imagine I replace your FDE's bootloader with a version that appears identical, except it also logs your passphrase. Then I come ba
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by arantius 10y ago
I did roughly the same thing twelve years ago, with even less security built in (hey, I was young(er)): https://bookmarklets.arantius.com/password+maker+bookmarklet I did not market it so heavily. It has the same problems,
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by arantius 10y ago
You're only required to distribute sources if you modify them _and_ distribute the resulting binaries right? Is there any evidence that the busybox and/or dnsmasq binaries are anything besides the normal stock installation? The
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by arantius 10y ago
How are there so many "Must be about GMO labeling? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯" top comments without any references to e.g. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/201... "Last year, I wrot

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