cglong

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   Interactive map for how much sparsely populated land is equivalent to NYC (2014)(slate.com)

   1 points by cglong 3y ago|0 comments
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   by cglong 3y ago

   The most interesting thing to me is the timing: this opened just one month after 9/11, the event that ushered in a new era of state-sanctioned surveillance.
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   Single-letter second-level domain(en.wikipedia.org)

   3 points by cglong 3y ago|0 comments
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   by cglong 3y ago

   I just tried that; ChatGPT agrees with this thread :D > The message you submitted was too long, please reload the conversation and submit something shorter.
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   by cglong 3y ago

   I went to a theater to watch Mission: Impossible last night. It has a really long runtime (2h 48m) and, toward the end of the film, I started seeing multiple people pull out their phones for a time check; I had to stop myself from doing t
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   Kroger, Albertsons merger could be affected by new FTC, DOJ guidelines(supermarketnews.com)

   2 points by cglong 3y ago|0 comments
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   by cglong 3y ago

   It looks like it's still behind a waitlist (I applied when it first became available), but here's the signup link: https://labs.withgoogle.com/
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   by cglong 3y ago

   Generative AI is now built into every Google search result I do, including via the search bar permanently available on my home screen.
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   by cglong 3y ago

   I too would've preferred a PWA, but in its absence, at least now I'll have easy access from my apps list.
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    by cglong 3y ago

    It's still available, at least internally; it did move fairly recently though. Try looking under View > More options :) Edit: confirmed location
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I don't mean to say it's about cost savings; I meant that they're choosing the most expedient approach to this problem at the expense of employee happiness.
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I remember, during my internship at Microsoft, one of the "perks" everyone loved was being given a beefy machine that we were admins on and an absurdly fast internet connection to go with it. While I do get the security argument,
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I ended up at this site [1]. The TLD makes it obvious this is a new site, and this person is choosing to keep the aesthetic alive today :) [1]: https://upallnight.wtf/screens/screens
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    by cglong 3y ago

    What a good demo! Yeah, I think I has to do with "updated" MIDI synthesis logic. The issue involves some of the harmonies; on modern devices, they start but never stop, then begin to layer on top of themselves, making it a total c
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    by cglong 3y ago

    Ah thank you! I tried different combinations of Synth Engine and Soundfont but wasn't able to replicate the issue :/
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    How does Sonic and Knuckles' “Lock-On Technology” work? (2016)(retrocomputing.stackexchange.com)

    204 points by cglong 3y ago|47 comments
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    by cglong 3y ago

    Man, VGMusic.com was my Spotify in the 90's :) I don't know much about the MIDI format, but there was one song [1] that I used to love listening to on Windows 9x. I guess the file took advantage of some 9x quirk, because the orche
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    Potential Retirement of the macOS CI Builder for GLib and GTK(discourse.gnome.org)

    2 points by cglong 3y ago|0 comments
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    by cglong 3y ago

    Interestingly, I can see this going either direction. In my case, this feature caused me to refollow Alice, enabling me to see most of her posts and thus in creasing my engagement. OTOH, I bet not many people use the "stay friends but
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I was briefly in a Facebook A/B test that automatically categorized every post by everyone. I then had the option to "Unfollow Alice for posts about Politics". It was glorious , and I always wonder why they never released th
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    by cglong 3y ago

    This is great! I wish there was a way to punch in my GitHub username and find out how I'm ranked :)
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    Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share(linuxiac.com)

    630 points by cglong 3y ago|545 comments
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    by cglong 3y ago

    This is an awesome library, thank you for sharing! :) Just for future reference, Show HNs are for things you've made yourself, so while your website could be a Show HN, this would be a regular submission. More details here: https:&#x2
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    Farmer loses contract dispute over use of a “thumbs-up” emoji, judge says(cnn.com)

    2 points by cglong 3y ago|3 comments
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I'm fully empathetic to this argument, but IMO this wasn't clearly called out in GP's original post. It also doesn't meet my personal definition of "usable". "Ethical" might've been a better choi
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    by cglong 3y ago

    Not sure if this helps, but according to Wikipedia: > Despite being a component of GNOME, Web has no dependency on GNOME components, so it can be potentially installed on any system supporting GTK and WebKitGTK.
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    by cglong 3y ago

    Got it, thank you for explaining! :) I've never used Linux full-time, but from my understanding, neither GNOME Web nor Konqueror are Blink-based. Are they missing critical power user features?
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I'm wary of Manifest v3, but like you say, it isn't a mandate yet. Is there any reason today why Chrome isn't usable? There's also Brave, which I love on Android.
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    Meta is planning to let people in the EU download apps through Facebook(theverge.com)

    7 points by cglong 3y ago|1 comments
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    by cglong 3y ago

    I always got a kick out of lolcat's versioning "scheme": https://github.com/busyloop/lolcat/tags