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by firexcy 3y ago
> My first thought upon reading this was that it seems rare for me to spend even 47 seconds looking at one screen on my computer without at least glancing at another. If you waste ~3k words to argue such an evident point as "note-ta
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by firexcy 3y ago
I think old CLI tools are hard to use because they were designed to be machine- and human-readable at the same time. They are effectively APIs in some scenarios (e.g., scripting and as linked libraries) and in others handholds. As a result
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by firexcy 3y ago
The git plugin allows you to disable it on certain devices. I enable it only on my main computer and sync the vault among devices with syncthing, which I find much more reliable than wholly relying on git.
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by firexcy 3y ago
they are apparently delivering emails in tarballs by default from now on
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by firexcy 3y ago
My hypothesis is that they use a set of generic methods (e.g., robot UA, transient cache, and JS filtering) and rely on user reports (they have a tumblr page for that) to identify and manually fix access to specific sites. Having a look at
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by firexcy 3y ago
> a lot of the tutorials available on Digital Ocean are actually good examples of this Second this (although the qualities of DO’s tutorials can vary greatly). Indeed, their “Technical Writing Guidelines” [1] agree with the author: >
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by firexcy 4y ago
Didn't find any reference in the readme, but was almost sure it's crypto-related the moment I saw the header image; the silly design style is so endemic that it simply shouts crypto on the visitor's face.
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by firexcy 4y ago
There're some other editors that have similar behaviors. AFAIK, CKEditor [1], an online rich text editing framework, is optimized for cascaded formatting tags. A <pre> or <a> element will be highlighted if the cursor is &q
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by firexcy 4y ago
I reduced my twitter consumption to nearly zero by simply subscribing to accounts I followed via RSS. I was immediately stunned by how noisy some pundits are and how their posts are laughably low-quality vis-a-vis posts from decent feeds li
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by firexcy 4y ago
Exactly my experience. I run in laps so I'm pretty sure of the distance simply by counting and multiplying, which gives a mostly constant speed of ~5min/km. Apple Watch says my speed is sometimes 3.5min and sometimes 6.5min, and c
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by firexcy 4y ago
On Mac, you can do this with the renowned automation software Keyboard Maestro. The relevant feature is called "Found Image" Actions and documented here https://wiki.keyboardmaestro.com/Found_Image?s[]=image You c
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by firexcy 4y ago
Try this: https://github.com/FilipePS/Traduzir-paginas-web IMO It's even better than the built-in translation of Chrome
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by firexcy 4y ago
Have been following this site for years. I also like checking the repo's commit history page [0] which is essentially a "what's new" for programming fonts. [0]: https://github.com/braver/programmingf
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by firexcy 4y ago
Some newspaper provide subscribers with the PDF version of the printed edition. I subscribe to the WSJ and find reading the PDF instead of the website a more focused, tranquil way of consuming news. Awkward as PDF is on mobile devices, it a
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by firexcy 4y ago
Tangentially related -- I just want bloggers to think twice before choosing (mis|ab)used Google Fonts just because they look "fancier" at first sight. Lato and Merriweather have become Arial and Times New Roman of our time.
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by firexcy 4y ago
I understand the benefits of font masking but the side effect is too bitter to swallow. Especially, the "chosen set of fonts," which mostly comprises outdated web safe fonts designed for the pixelated era, doesn't seem "
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by firexcy 4y ago
I usually test my preferences with Stylus, and once I found a combination I'm comfortable with, it gets perpetuated in the userContent.css for the technical reason you mentioned.
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by firexcy 4y ago
Is the name an (un)intentional pun on the catch-22 [0]? [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catch-22_(logic)
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MagStone – A MagSafe Wireless Charger with Palm Touchstone Design(sspai.com)
1 points by firexcy 5y ago|0 comments
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by firexcy 5y ago
Am I the only one clicked the linked post expecting a technical discussion on the security implications of using Wordpress, its plugins, and php…
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Toward a Free Metaverse (2008)(lwn.net)
5 points by firexcy 5y ago|1 comments
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by firexcy 5y ago
> [I]t would be a real shame if these clients simply facilitated a world where we use free clients to access locked-down, proprietary virtual worlds on somebody else's server.
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by firexcy 5y ago
I think a wrinkle often got lost in the discussion is that the outcome of the learning is less affected by the playback speed but the effort and attention you devote to the learning process. Speedify for the purpose of speedifying may resul
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by firexcy 5y ago
I think Parent was referring to the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica data scandal [1], where personal data belonging to fb users was collected without consent by a third party through API and then used for political advertising for the 2016 US
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by firexcy 5y ago
Not arguing with your point, but it’s not uncommon that western media take a paragraph from Chinese gov docs out of context and call it clandestine despite it being merely formality
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by firexcy 5y ago
There is also a lovely utility called Paletro which extracts menu items for arbitrary apps and thus provides a universal command palette interface.
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by firexcy 5y ago
I'd like to add a third, pro-terminal point, that cli tools are inherently ready to be scripted, piped, executed in batch and in parallel, none of which are common in gui apps with or without command palattes.
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by firexcy 5y ago
I respectfully don't consider the creators you described as "power users" in Parent's sense. What they do are mostly "productivity porn", i.e., fiddling with tools in a vacuum, without real professional context
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by firexcy 5y ago
Thank you for the no-nonsense writeup. Simply reading through it helped me solved many ambiguities and puzzles. Could you please provide some further readings, esp. high quality materials that have had helped you in the compilation of these
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by firexcy 5y ago
> set the default format to .XLS and .DOC (not the X versions which are bogus MS bastardizations of XML anyway) I don't like the proprietary nature of OOXML formats either, but why are the older formats like .xls and .doc better tha

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