firmgently

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by firmgently 8y ago
This is subjective and as old/unsettled an argument as vim vs emacs or spaces vs tabs - although what you're saying is true for you there are many people who argue the opposite. I must have spent at least a day's worth of hou
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by firmgently 8y ago
The Daily Express is quite a long way from being a serious newspaper. I don't know US papers but it's probably somewhere around what would happen if Fox News put out a print edition.
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by firmgently 8y ago
I'm still not getting this... did people get in touch and say "I don't want people to know I'm running a business at this address"? Or did they say "Please remove me from your business directory which you added
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by firmgently 8y ago
Not to imply that it can just be done easily to every phone, or without preparation or perhaps previous physical access, but this concept has come up more than once in the mainstream news in recent years. So this level of incredulity seems
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by firmgently 8y ago
Nobody reads T&Cs. Company directors know that. Lawyers know that. They are rarely written in plain language and they obfuscate what the deal really consists of. Facebook/Google could easily write on their landing pages "We pr
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by firmgently 8y ago
I've on rare occasion written a comment along the lines of: // based on stackoverflow.com/questions/201323/how-to-validate-an-email-address-using-a-regular-expression because I'm not going to pretend to ha
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by firmgently 8y ago
The timespan of a generation in humans is about 20 years. So in 5000-10000 years that's 250-500 generations, a tiny amount. For evolution to happen, a genetic mutation has to endow an advantage that makes its carrier more likely to sur
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by firmgently 8y ago
I've seen comments similar to this before. Why would it matter? As an end user, knowing it was Department A rather than Department B that gave you a crappy experience is meaningless. The company is responsible, whether that's down
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by firmgently 8y ago
I like the sound of this but then I visited and my scrolling got jacked. Sideways. Infinitely. And an animated sidebar started appearing and disappearing, hiding and revealing sections, unloading and reloading them. It was like using a micr
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by firmgently 8y ago
The standard modern view on why stress is so bad for our health is that it builds up levels of cortisol and other stress hormones, which prepare us to act explosively in a fight or flight response, the doing of which uses up the stress horm
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by firmgently 8y ago
Some people are jokingly exaggerating and some people are being serious. I've heard people have arguments that became fairly angry about which pizza in town is the best. I've heard rather than participated in those arguments becau
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by firmgently 8y ago
I'm glad RobertRoberts asked those questions here. Some people have answered in useful educational ways and I've learned. Taken to its logical conclusion "just Google it" more or less means comment threads and places lik
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by firmgently 8y ago
Maybe they aren't the same category but there is an indirect link (for me) in that they are both often superfluous and have negative effects on my subjective experience (eg audio: annoyance/data usage, animation: annoyance/sl
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by firmgently 8y ago
For a moment there I almost thought I was reading about a business that was content making some money and employing some people, rather than presuming that mindless, infinite growth is the only possible path. I was probably imagining it or
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by firmgently 8y ago
Phone Captchas. Well that's given me another thing to have nightmares about, thanks very much.
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by firmgently 8y ago
It's funny that you use those examples. In 'The Selfish Gene' where the term 'meme' originated, it's used to describe any 'things' that Darwinian forces act on. So things that persist and spread in th
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by firmgently 8y ago
Some people develop their world-view up until their late teens/early twenties, then they spend the rest of their lives defending that world-view. Others adapt their views as they accumulate more information and experience. This leads t
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by firmgently 8y ago
Wow their side menu (Apps, Branding, Choosing Fonts) has such horribly low contrast (1.5 - 2, depending on where you measure the text colour; it's small type so due to antialiasing there isn't really a single predominant colour wh
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by firmgently 8y ago
I'm an artist and if I want people to be able to access my work I have to do boring stuff to make that happen. I'm thinking of technical stuff like (as a painter) taking good quality photos of my work, fixing colour accuracy of th
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by firmgently 8y ago
and data
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by firmgently 8y ago
In conversations about ad-blocking a common idea that comes up is that "you look at the sites -> so there's value in them -> so you should be paying for them". I don't follow this chain of logic. Firstly, it presum
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by firmgently 8y ago
I don't see that as game over at all, just a change in the game. Maybe ad-blockers will become site-blockers, or when you hover over a link it will go turn [[bad-colour]] to show you it leads to a site which forces advertising. Or on t
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by firmgently 8y ago
We can. I've never made a decision to read a book due to its author having won a Nobel prize, nor watched a film because of it being an Academy Award winner. The opinions of people in those particular insider-groups are not interesting
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Freelancer.com has acquired Freelancers.net
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by firmgently 8y ago
"LineageOS 14.1 without the Google apps" (from the OP) Google apps/Gapps is what MicroG replaces. Gapps is an optional, separate install not included in LineageOS. Location services etc are part of that. MicroG works well, I
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by firmgently 8y ago
bonobos aren't chimps, they're separate species https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/08/18/the-difference-between-... "an endangered great ape and one of the two species making up the genus Pan; the
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by firmgently 8y ago
Considering that laws are 'supposed to be' part of the structure that helps society be pleasant/bearable for its members... On the one hand you have people who inhale smoke from a burning plant despite there being a law again
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by firmgently 8y ago
So many comments pointing out the difference between luck and hard work, or saying it's all about taking opportunities when they arise etc. I can't compute. The entire point of the article was to say if you work harder, your prope
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by firmgently 8y ago
Quite a few (30-40) listed here https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/ - if it runs LineageOS it's probably going to have other ROMS available too
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by firmgently 8y ago
I'm on a Note 3 (great phone, 5 years old) with a Snapdragon 800 vs your Snapdragon 805. Seems we both have 3GB RAM. I do notice that links in FF are harder to hit accurately compared to Chromium - am guessing Chromium increases the hi

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