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by eCa 4y ago
> the advent of electronic sensors in the mid-1980s We used actual canaries into the 80s? That’s a few decades later than I would have guessed...
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by eCa 4y ago
Cl***ic.
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by eCa 4y ago
While 65 is pushing it, middle age does not mean ”half way to death”[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_age
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by eCa 4y ago
One of the first things I installed recently on my first Win11 computer was StartAllBack[1]. It’s not perfect but the standard taskbar is so bad that I had to fix it somehow. [1] https://www.startallback.com/
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by eCa 4y ago
> That gives me hope for humanity. As long as there are less than nineteen people in the pool...
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by eCa 4y ago
If those two options are the only available choices, then yes.
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by eCa 4y ago
> Like December is the twelfth month because decus is Latin for ten There also was a couple of dudes who wanted a month in their name that messed things up, IIRC..
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by eCa 4y ago
> I have no idea how to <pre> on HN Two or more leading spaces on each line.[1] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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by eCa 4y ago
Would you have preferred if WW2 ended with it’s 1942 borders?
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by eCa 4y ago
Apparently me and Elon agree that it wasn’t ban evasion, since pg’s account now has been re-instated.
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by eCa 4y ago
> misunderstood Unless pg’s account is re-instated within 12 hours I don’t think the moderation staff has misunderstood anything at all.
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by eCa 4y ago
> fell out of QA testing That’s not really a change you miss if you do any QA of that app at all. And if it was missed that’s even worse for Apple than if it was a conscious choice.
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by eCa 4y ago
20 bytes per rule . While not a fan of the syntax[1], there’s the advantage when reading of seeing that rules are explicitly nested versus doing string parsing of rule definitions. [1] In particular the significant space char difference be
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by eCa 4y ago
> have enough time to switch to 128 It appears that the original developer thought that for 32 bits :) I say that as someone who inherited a system that allowed for 2^32 session references stored in the db. Lets just say that sessions we
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by eCa 4y ago
As a non-native English speaker, I’m curious about what the minimum and maximum values of handful would be (and what the items being referred to are)? When the same term is used in my (western European) language, I would probably put the as
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by eCa 4y ago
If adding mouse/keyboard sounds the main challenge is the variability in sounds, for instance how hard keys are pressed. Also, repetetive sounds, or sounds that are mis-timed to the corresponding action, are worse than no sound at all.
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by eCa 4y ago
Personally, I find using f.lux and running all screens at 10-20% brightness more pleasant than dark mode. Depending of course on the individual screen, so occasionally it can be higher. And my phone outdoors on a sunny day may very well be
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by eCa 4y ago
In addition to the other issues (eg. it can only explain the what) I'm low-key disappointed that the repository isn't using itself. It would undoubtedly have lead to an increase in commit message quality here.
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by eCa 4y ago
I’ve been watching his videos since Champlain Towers South, and this was the first video that I found off-putting. I would recommend giving him a chance or two, I especially found the CTS videos interesting.
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by eCa 4y ago
It certainly does. Not a knock on Boeing[1], but my least comfortable flight ever was on a Virgin 747 from London to New York. At 194 cm (6”4) I’m tall, but not insanely so. I got a middle seat in the middle section where it was physically
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by eCa 4y ago
Safety in depth: * Avoiding the crash in the first place * Knowing how to fall if you crash * Helmet, and potentially other protection, when unable to execute crashing properly. (Edit: Changed ’security’ to ’safety’)
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by eCa 4y ago
Win 8.1 -> Win 11 (pro)
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by eCa 4y ago
My daily computer (tower pc) is coming up on 9 years. The OS drive is a 250gb Samsung SSD. I’d estimate that this computer on average has been running about 8 hours per day during its lifetime. But this is very much YMMV. (New computer is o
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by eCa 4y ago
Agreed completely about Venice (and Cinque Terre). Sometimes just a couple of blocks away from the signposted route to San Marco is enough. Also, get out early in the morning, before the heat and the day visitors arrive.
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by eCa 4y ago
For offline maps I use OsmAnd Maps. The only thing I miss is the satellite view.
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by eCa 4y ago
> fostered is an awareness and avoidance of cynicism There’s a fine line between fostering avoidance of cynicism on one side, and fostering koolaiding and yes-manning on the other.
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by eCa 4y ago
Which of course is a war crime.
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by eCa 4y ago
If you want to avoid it, get a german toilet[1]. Depending on your opinion on stool inspection, it’s either the best thing ever or the opposite. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=german+toilet
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by eCa 4y ago
Is tzatziki the only word that both starts and contains, but doesn’t end, with ts sound?
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by eCa 4y ago
The olympic broadcaster here did that here too, in the thumbnails of finished events, where you would go if you missed it live. A friend (and I would guess plenty more people) mailed them about it and they actually stopped pretty much immed

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