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by coremoff 5y ago
there are lots of people who are not visual thinkers - see "Aphantasia"
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by coremoff 5y ago
removable handlebars? (and have a sling or belt or something to sling it over your back temporarily)
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by coremoff 5y ago
the 1987 King's Cross fire was also escalator related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire Smoking on the escalators, wooden steps, and build-up of trash in the inaccessible area underneath them all
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by coremoff 5y ago
FYI my understanding is that, in London at least, cabs aren't allowed to operated with a broken card reader; if that happens to you, tell them that you have no cash and either it will suddenly magically work or you'll get a free r
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by coremoff 5y ago
it sat on top of gmail, yes, but felt like a different product. Much cleaner interface, and it integrated things like reminders and "upcoming trips" and things like that in the email feed. I much preferred it to gmail, and I was n
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by coremoff 5y ago
This was Leah Betts, I expect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Leah_Betts One of the many sources of hysteria around drugs in that period of time, and from the wikipedia it looks like it wasn't just anti-dru
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by coremoff 5y ago
if you can't find anything about Pokemon Go, might be worth looking for Ingress instead - I believe that Pokemon Go was sort of based on that mobile game
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by coremoff 6y ago
in oracle, this can be done using heirarchical queries: select dbms_random.value from dual connect by level < 1000001; edit: 1,000,001 as level starts with 1
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by coremoff 6y ago
you can blame email spam from the past for this; it used to be that clicking "unsubscribe" indicated to the spammer that they had reached a valid email, and that they should sell it on to everyone else to use. Personally, I end up
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by coremoff 6y ago
it's this that makes me wonder why vertical tabs are not more popular
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by coremoff 6y ago
> How much do hospitals cost where you live? I'm not saying that this person wasn't an asshole, but for many people, they see no point going to the hospital if it's going to leave them in the red. This happens even in coun
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by coremoff 6y ago
> It is possible to synthesize audio that breaks this part of our brain by synthesizing a set of cues that violate the laws of nature -- it is pretty uncomfortable Do you need special equipment to do it, or can it be done on a PC with sp
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by coremoff 6y ago
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by coremoff 6y ago
It's the same in Europe too (or at least the parts of Europe that I'm familiar with); you can buy shelf-stable milk, but I don't know anyone that does.
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by coremoff 7y ago
the wysiwyg editor is optional now: Preferences > Advanced > Format messages with markup Drafts seems to also be universally despised, but they haven't yet done anything about it
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by coremoff 7y ago
I came across a similar thing in the 90s; one department had an expensive piece of equipment with a three year lifespan. They weren't allowed to amortise that, and any budget increase every three years would have been denied, so they h
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by coremoff 7y ago
https://theuxblog.com/blog/redesigning-user-experience
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by coremoff 7y ago
not exactly what you're asking for, but you could look at DUO. That can do a push notification to your phone, which would require you to unlock your phone to authorise, but doesn't require typing anything.
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by coremoff 7y ago
The Neo, at least, supports NFC
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by coremoff 7y ago
If you're using Firefox, one possibility is https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox
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by coremoff 7y ago
note for firefox users, that this will break copy/paste in google docs