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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
Same question for Android. My guess is that this only affects people who have granted FB the permission already.
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
> My absolute favorite mouse is the MX Ergo from Logitech. I switched to using Logitech's MX Vertical mouse and I love it. There was a learning curve period, especially when it came to finer grained movements, but I'm totally u
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
To be fair, he was referring to a post on Alex Schroeder's blog titled with the same name as the term from the Dune books. And that post correctly credits Dune/Herbert. But the post is not about Dune, it's about Spam bots so
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
iOS app store would reject an app like this, according to their guidelines. At least Google allows you to put PWA as apps in the Play store https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/#min... 4.2
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
so many things First, there's a world coding championship?! Of course there is. There's a competition for anything these days. Why is he exhausted? > The 10-hour marathon left him "completely exhausted." > ... noti
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
This reminds me of many a challenge on Advent of Code
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
This is implemented with just the right amount of delay/speed to be cute and not annoying. If it was flying around faster and closer to my mouse cursor, I would hate it.
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
I'm moving away from Pixel Phones for my next Android. Going to switch back to Samsung. I currently have a Pixel 8 and my screen went completely green and glitchy yesterday (Google "android green screen", it's a hardware
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
related: https://syntax.fm/show/855/fast-websites-the-new-speculation...
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
I agree. It was my favorite. Used to do it a lot in my 20s. I'm in my late 40s now. Haven't done it in years but I would love to do it once a year and just dance my ass off at an event or festival. I personally don't like wee
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
Did you stop at that? He addresses that immediately after
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
ah yes, I was going to mention that if it's private then it's not an issue.
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
Something seems to be broken in the Imba website for me in both FF and Chrome for MacOS. When I go to the main website: https://imba.io/ Then click on the "Demo" button I get taken to the "Playground":
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
So a personal website with a personal blog is ok then. Curious though how it handles a surge in requests, like from being on the front-page of HN. But many open source projects host their doc pages with Github pages and some of those get a
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by flanbiscuit 1y ago
I have a sort of similar setup but I haven't started using Obsidian yet, it's on my todo list. I use Eleventy instead of Hugo, with its simple Eleventy-Base-Blog starter template. I use Github action to publish to Github pages ins
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
I'm more of a visual person when it comes to puzzles like these so here's my take: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Mary B B A B A B B A B B 7 Dan B A A A B A B A A A 5 Lisa B A A A B B B A B A 3 Colin B B A A A B
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
I was living in Australia in 2000 and texting was more common than calling because it was cheaper to text than call. But in the US it was the opposite. You had unlimited calling, but plans around that time had a different pricing scheme for
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
Not exactly the same but this reminds me of an idea I had for shareable shopping carts. You add things to a shopping cart and then you share it via a link (text, dm, chat, email, etc) and the receiver of that link clicks on it and the conte
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
Curious why when they mention Instanbul (Not Constantinople) it's quiet when all of the other songs have little audio snippets. Is that a rights issue? https://youtu.be/C-tQSFQ-ESY?si=9Ujs3-1nVjjeoncO&t=71 They tou
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
Most games allow you to adjust brightness. I assume the brightness can be turned down to get closer to the original lighting and mood... I hope.
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
There's more discussion on reddit with other people chiming in with similar experiences: https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1jdbnq2/llm_cr... as I write this, there are only 2 other comme
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
My partner and I have both an Alexa and a Google Home Assistant and we leave the mic off on both devices. The Alexa we got because we have a Blink doorbell and it connects to the Alexa in order to make a sound when someone rings the doorbel
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
> and the drag-pull mechanism doesnt really work Doesn't work for me at all on both Firefox and Chrome (latest versions for both) on MacOS using the touch pad. I can't get past that screen on my laptop. Had to open it up on my
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
Love this. Thank you. I'm eating lunch at the moment, by myself, in a local casual establishment, so of course I pulled out my phone and the first thing I looked at was HN and this was the top post. I started playing and couldn't
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
I'm in my late 40s and I've found that my desire for working on side projects after work is affected by how engaged I am mentally at work. When I'm building new features/products from scratch and I'm having to figur
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
"But I'm not one of those fancy 10x developers. Instead of a master of craftsmanship, I'm more a master of close-enough-manship" I definitely relate to this comment. and he also says "It was a brutal year long journ
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
I haven't heard of that one, will look into it. I used to use https://asoftmurmur.com/ for a long while. I prefer the separate device I have now instead of an app.
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
I also need white noise to sleep. At home I have a simple one that plugs in and generates noise with fan. Looks almost exactly like this: https://res.cloudinary.com/guest-supply/image/upload/f_auto,... When I
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
This reminds of a Radiolab episode about how we perceive the passage of time. The episode starts off talking about someone having a poster showing all of the (average) weeks in a person's life. The episode is about how to make our live
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by flanbiscuit 2y ago
These Viture One Pro glasses seem good, I might interested in one of these. I wear glasses, don't like wearing contacts, so I wonder how they would work for me. The video (at 1:18) shows that the Pro version has 2 dials to set focus. B

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