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by chippy 8y ago
All the themes, except "high contrast" just change the background image.
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by chippy 8y ago
Evacuation in winter is possible, the Americans do it if there is a real emergency - it's just that it's very very expensive (even for the US). Because it's possible but expensive, all the non-US bases treat it as prohibitive
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by chippy 8y ago
They want to be the next AOL browser internet appliance. It's called Chrome OS
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iPhone XS applies skin smoothing/beauty filter by default with no way to disable(reddit.com)
32 points by chippy 8y ago|11 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
Agreed, reading that comment has made me re-think how I scan and react before taking everything in.
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by chippy 8y ago
>So you start skimming the article until you give up. I scrolled to see how long the article was, gave up and thought "the HN comments will have what it is about". Then thought bad about not reading the Featured Article, mental
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by chippy 8y ago
Frontpage came with the all the usual Office software in the bundle which meant that it was often found on most internet cafes PCs. I spent a year backpacking in 2000 and used Frontpage in those cafes to edit and update my travel website. I
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A company wanted to buy the homeautomation subreddit(np.reddit.com)
3 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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OSM condemns recent anti-semitic vandalism(blog.openstreetmap.org)
6 points by chippy 8y ago|6 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
Slack desktop app is Electron, right? This might be a stupid question (it's been downvoted before), but can a user run chrome extensions within Electron apps? Or a debugger? If not, could a simple website wrapper electron app therefore
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by chippy 8y ago
I wonder, the article says it's been visible for decades by photographers. We could correlate the time the photos are taken with rocket launches. Also, there is no wikipedia page about this phenomena yet.
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by chippy 8y ago
The naming of this is wrong and should be changed quickly and I'll explain why. Commons Clause (abbreviated to CC) conflicts with Creative Commons (also CC). Creative Commons also has the word Commons which refers to a more established
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by chippy 8y ago
13 is the standard amount of steps in stairs in houses (in the UK at least). So statistically, you should just go with 13 instead of counting them and you will get it right almost all of the time.
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by chippy 8y ago
Well, in a way he is already breaking one social convention, so one can be hope that he could be okay breaking any of them.
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by chippy 8y ago
>quite normal for many people Worth clarifying that it's not normal for the majority of people, and only a few people do it in specific occasions. But it does only take one bad apple to spoil things.
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by chippy 8y ago
I run my own VPN server with a hosts file on it that blocks ads and tracking domains. I then use it for my mobile phone as an ad blocker. I'd wager that quite a few people would like to pay for a managed VPN service that did the same t
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by chippy 8y ago
I like the idea of it being non-linear. In terms of features, being able to paste an image (e.g. like pasting into a github comment, or into a gdoc) would be great. I find I use screenshots into the clipboard more than saving to a file, how
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by chippy 8y ago
"Researchers Mount Successful Attack on Navigational Wires Buried Under Roads Using Commonly Found Garden Implements"
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Artists in Paris: Mapping the 18th century art world(artistsinparis.org)
2 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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Shortwave high frequency radio trading, chicago, east coast (part 3)(sniperinmahwah.wordpress.com)
1 points by chippy 8y ago|0 comments
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by chippy 8y ago
Many of them do break copyright - which is one of the arguments in favour of the "critique of capitalism". You cannot sell stuff and make a profit in this music genre if you cannot sell stuff.
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by chippy 8y ago
Vaporwave is a huge genre which covers a wide range of styles. Here are two favourites which show different styles. From down tempo electro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GW6sLrK40k to new reworking of 80s pop songs: ht
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by chippy 8y ago
It is a music genre thats disguised as a joke or a joke thats disguised as a music genre.
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by chippy 8y ago
This will be flag killed, and most people flagging wont read the article.
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by chippy 8y ago
Could you re-write it so that the bot (or HN readers in the current year) wouldn't detect it as racism?
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by chippy 8y ago
all about the context
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by chippy 8y ago
The British banned slavery on the British Empire at the start of the 19th century. But the slave trade was banned on English soil way before that, in 1102. However, there were imported slaves in England, which got their freedom in the mid 1
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by chippy 8y ago
Hows it compare (pricing / performance) to using Cloud Storage, for non web accessible files. Example use case, screenshots of websites where instances both request and write / overwrite them.
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by chippy 8y ago
I think the majority of therapists would be able to empathize, but they might not sympathize :)
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by chippy 8y ago
They do not avoid OpenStreetMap entirely. They use OSM (and about 300 other sources). On a map, click on the "legal" link, then click through the "more" link to see the list. Generally speaking, though, they use TomTom w

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