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by firmgently 8y ago
Yes! I'd been baking all my own bread for years but had repeatedly failed to cultivate a sourdough starter despite following lots of guides to the letter. I finally got mine living nicely when I completely let go, stopped measuring and
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by firmgently 8y ago
true of course but the Venn circles of that 90% and "pages I immediately back out of in horror" are becoming increasingly overlappy [ reply posted from links2 -g ]
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by firmgently 8y ago
It read fine to me. I didn't read any implication that young people don't do anything more complicated than social media posts - only that when do they could use a larger device. (sorry I know posts like this don't make inter
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by firmgently 8y ago
Although consumerism was already in full effect in the 80s people hadn't been conditioned into anything like the crazy update cycle we're in nowadays. I suppose the business world may have been different (seems unlikely?) but at l
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by firmgently 8y ago
In English there's a difference between a raw, rough person and raw, rough concrete, but there's a clear etymological link in using brute/brutal to describe them both. It's similar to the way 'crude' can be use
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by firmgently 8y ago
a drone carrying spray-paint
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by firmgently 8y ago
Another one which got a bit of press was Download (music festival) in 2015: "A police force has defended scanning the faces of 90,000 festival-goers this weekend and checking them against a list of wanted criminals across Europe."
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by firmgently 8y ago
This is by far the biggest problem, web design with a print mindset. A designer needs to understand and work with their medium and as long as they keep trying to represent the web (where their designs will be shrunk, enlarged, reflowed, inc
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by firmgently 8y ago
Isn't well-being subjective? It's for me to decide if I'm happy (although some people like to tell others how they should feel). I've heard from friends with mental health problems that one of the hardest things to dea
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by firmgently 9y ago
Facebook's popularity is driven by that tic of just wanting to have a quick look to see what friends/family are up to, then getting stuck there because of addiction/manipulative techniques. I can't see people feeling the
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by firmgently 9y ago
well there was that time that they intentionally tried to see if they could make people more depressed (amongst other attempts at emotional influence) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/fa
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by firmgently 9y ago
I'm also wondering what basic OS functionality is missing? I've been running LineageOS 14.1 on a Sony Xperia tablet for several months without Google Play Services or MicroG and am not noticing any missing basic functionality. I d
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by firmgently 9y ago
'text-display' should be triggered on 'animation end', surely multi-threading wouldnt mess with that as it's an async/event-driven thing (I know nothing about multi-threading)? ...or the text could have an anim
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by firmgently 9y ago
I'd guess it's the other way around. 'Autonomous' is an unusual enough word that you remember what it means (especially once you understand the 'auto' prefix), or look it up because it's strange. 'Age
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by firmgently 9y ago
I don't see why it would have to correlate with age. When I was younger I used to get annoyed at late people more easily. As the years have passed I've developed my philosophy. I still think it's often a sign of selfishness b
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by firmgently 9y ago
Is that right? The way I understood it, GPS works like a kind of triangulation, with your distance from the satellites being calculated based on how long the time-stamped signal takes to travel to you. Meaning your device has to keep its ow
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by firmgently 9y ago
The thing about these ideas is they seem to presuppose starting from a blank canvas as opposed to starting from the current system of corrupt governments and corporate influence. Any implementations of Basic Jobs/Basic Income would be
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by firmgently 9y ago
"It provides a framework for solving hard problems by encouraging you to break them down into a series of smaller ones. "It helps you focus on the task at hand by providing immediate context on what you’re doing. If you forget or
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by firmgently 9y ago
It's crude but for when I want it to be dark and the app doesn't support it I have 'xcalib -invert -alter' mapped to a keyboard shortcut so I can toggle display inversion on/off
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Google Is Threatening to Remove Apps with Accessibility Services from Play Store(xda-developers.com)
1 points by firmgently 9y ago|0 comments
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Why Glass Is Replacing Aluminium/Plastic in Flagship Smartphones but Shouldn’t(xda-developers.com)
4 points by firmgently 9y ago|0 comments
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by firmgently 9y ago
This doesn't tick all of those boxes but in case you don't realise - in the last few versions of Android I've had installed I've been able to set a long press of the volume up/down hardware buttons to act as next&#x
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by firmgently 9y ago
I wish I could get my head around this, I'm an artist and people tell me my work is good and I do sell some, but I can't bring myself to go on to Patreon because I feel like it's begging (although weirdly I only apply this to
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by firmgently 9y ago
Modern mainstream science does not allow for the existence of free will. Materialism (everything is physical) and Determinism (everything that ever happens is an inevitable and ultimately predictable consequence of The Big Bang) reign in co
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by firmgently 9y ago
That may be part of it but (at least here in the UK) the bigger factor is votes. The increasingly-shrinking (the most recent general election being an exception) voter demographic has a large overlap with the hysterical "lock 'em
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by firmgently 9y ago
Swapping out the panel is fairly easy in most (all?) Thinkpads and they're pretty cheap to source especially if you don't mind buying used. A bit of Googling on the Thinkpad model number will reveal which manufacturer's panel
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by firmgently 9y ago
Yeah my T41p had the same problem with the GPU (specifically ATI I seem to remember) popping out of its BGA socket slightly, sometimes (and in my case) caused by picking up the laptop by the corner of the palmrest (naughty but common habit
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How it feels to learn JavaScript in 2016(hackernoon.com)
2 points by firmgently 9y ago|0 comments
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by firmgently 9y ago
"appropriate force". I'd contend that an electric shock across the heart is too much force for stopping someone accused of spraying graffiti. It seems to me that this is the grey area where the officer's humane discretio
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New AI can guess whether you're gay or straight from a photograph(theguardian.com)
2 points by firmgently 9y ago|0 comments

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