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by ashmud 12y ago
For tiny text, my preference is ProFont. http://tobiasjung.name/profont/
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by ashmud 12y ago
When I read "without your eyes", I was thinking more of code analysis tools (of the "style" variant).
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by ashmud 12y ago
"why is lua so" why is lua so fast why is lua so popular in games Several other popular languages had nothing or only (subset of) fast/slow/hard/popular/powerful.
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by ashmud 12y ago
Back in the day, I would use httrack for offline web browsing, and these were a constant irritation.
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by ashmud 12y ago
Bit of an "edit war" on their wikipedia page over declaring them defunct already. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Aereo&action=hist...
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by ashmud 12y ago
There is a blog post about defeating NuCaptcha here: http://www.elie.im/blog/security/how-we-broke-the-nucaptcha-...
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by ashmud 12y ago
It looks like WinArchiver can mount 7z and other archive formats. There's not much documentation about it. It does not say if it supports mounting encrypted archives. It does not say if it supports write-access either. The 7z format is
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by ashmud 12y ago
I worked on a small software package for a financial firm that used AxCrypt for encryption. It wasn't bad from a program integration perspective. I can't personally verify the cryptographic security of it. Like codeulike said, it&
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by ashmud 12y ago
"[...] in Firefox, Privacy Badger will be automatically deactivated when you enter Private Browsing Mode [...]". This is kind of a deal breaker for me. I frequently use Private Browsing to quickly open a single browser window with
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by ashmud 12y ago
A number of text mode programs had smooth mouse cursors. They modified extended ascii characters to produce the effect. Some intros did some limited animations (e.g., scrolling starry backgrounds) using the same approach. This and cycling c
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by ashmud 12y ago
Physics was not a requirement for me (accredited US uni). Calc 1-3 was. Math was almost an automatic minor.
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by ashmud 12y ago
Would this be anything like Atom/RSS? I like as much separation as possible for letting the UI do the formatting and the backend just be an API. I'm not sure how this (not rendering in JS) would handle more complex scenarios such
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by ashmud 12y ago
> [...] "drug deaths" implies "illegal drugs" [...]. This probably depends on your community/social circle. Some groups heavily advocate that pharmaceuticals be limited to life saving emergencies and not ongoing
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by ashmud 12y ago
Do people ever intentionally type in nonsense for the non-captcha part, out of spite, for instance? If you could persuade enough people to provide non-answers for the non-captcha part, would Google stop using it (the non-captcha part)? My g
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by ashmud 12y ago
On Windows, you can hide accounts from the logon screen using the SpecialAccounts registry key. I use it to hide admin accounts on relatives' computers that I setup. You can still run programs as them using the "Run as different u
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by ashmud 13y ago
Which country abbreviations are these? (Pseudo-)Edit: Looks like ISO 3166-1 alpha-3. I wonder why I don't see it more.
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by ashmud 13y ago
Empirically, this got me much further than the corner (stair-stepped) approach.
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by ashmud 13y ago
I used to run Screen Thief when playing two player DOS games. It seemed to help certain key combinations work better. I credited this (whether accurate or not) to ST relocating IRQs.
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by ashmud 13y ago
Re: Monster. I haven't bought any of their stuff in years, but IME their interconnects were fine, but speaker cables not so much. I ended up terminating the speaker cables myself after the connectors on the originals and on the replace
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by ashmud 13y ago
OTOH, I've had decent luck improving the sound of a cheap ($15-20) pair of headphones with a mid-range USB DAC.
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by ashmud 13y ago
There's a U+200E character between "www.cs.virginia.edu/~mc2zk/cs451/mco_P4.ppt" and "."
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How Your Biased Brain Makes You a Jerk Online (and How to Stop It)(lifehacker.com)
2 points by ashmud 13y ago|0 comments
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by ashmud 13y ago
Sarcasm? I turned off images to read it.
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by ashmud 13y ago
I grew up with white on blue. The non-bright intensities, that is. Very good during daytime light levels on a CRT. http://mindprod.com/utility/sa!.txt
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by ashmud 13y ago
Combine that with discontinuing PWM controlled brightness. Some monitors can flicker badly, especially while warming up. http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/articles/pulse_width_modulation....
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by ashmud 13y ago
About ten years ago, in Tokyo, at least the business districts, it was somewhat difficult to find public trash receptacles rather than recycling receptacles. The recycling setups I saw were typically three-ish receptacle configurations.
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by ashmud 13y ago
This. I don't think people are necessarily expecting the literal Blu-Ray to be streamed, but even casual cinephiles (over a certain age anyway) probably expect to be notified if a film has been "formatted to fit [your] screen&quot
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by ashmud 13y ago
From comments: damoncloudflare: "We would not disclose that."
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by ashmud 13y ago
Perhaps with nano-tech we can eliminate this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_withdrawn_drugs
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by ashmud 13y ago
As a long time Opera+FF user, I'm surprised I never came across the Custom Tab Width add-on, or even bothered to look for such an add-on. Made my day. :)

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