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by gibspaulding 7y ago
Ublock origin, Netflix, Spotify, and ditching mobile apps for social media will cut out a huge percentage of adds for most people. Admittedly I haven't found a way around billboards, adds playing on gas pumps (though I try to avoid tho
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by gibspaulding 7y ago
Something like "The Cradle" from Niel Stephenson's Seven Eves maybe. (It basically just dangles several hundred feet above the ground)
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
I've never used Apple maps, so I can't compare the two, but I can say that Google also really likes routing me through random twisty neighborhoods for no good reason.
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
This immediately made me wonder what the odds are of getting a bag of all the same skittles. My stats are rusty so feel free to correct me, but here's what I got: (1/5)^59 = 1/1.73*10^41 Apparently ~200 million skittles are
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
Mine was completely add free for the first few years that I had it, then suddenly changed one day. Since then I've mostly stopped using it and only scroll through it via their web interface where UBO makes it tolerable.
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
I'm rather fond of Randall Munroe's theory: https://www.xkcd.com/593/
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
I assume they are referring to Chrome on mobile.
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
Pi can be proven to be an irrational number: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proof_that_%CF%80_is_irrationa...
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
An old android phone that supports Lineage OS with no G-Apps. You've still got a closed baseband and random hardware blobs, but I'd say it is the best option at the moment.
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
I've wondered about this too. It's rare now, but sometimes I just want to drive to work in silence and it's always surprising to me how nice it can be. I'd be curious to see a study about the affects of time spent &quo
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
This is very cool. I've never used this site before!
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
If you enjoyed Snow Crash, I would definitely encourage you to look into Stephenson's other books if you haven't already. REAMDE is very good and is also partially set in VR. Anathem is an interesting exploration of the distant
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by gibspaulding 8y ago
My list has a lot more fiction than others here, but I enjoyed myself! Just For Fun - Linus Torvalds (Highly recommended, Tells of Linus's early life and how Linux came to be. I'm surprised I haven't seen this recommended mo
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by gibspaulding 11y ago
Hopefully I'm just being paranoid, but as a full time Linux user Microsoft's friendliness makes me nervous. I think I liked it better when we were bitter enemies. Remember embrace, extend, extinguish...