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by gknoy 6y ago
I found Spectacle (since replaced by Rectangle [0], I hear?) to be a treasure in this regard. Key bindings to maximize and resize, and even change what desktop a window is on. I picked it because it was closest to the window-snapping /
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by gknoy 6y ago
For anyone else wondering why we get a syntax error, this seems to be new in 3.8. :)
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by gknoy 6y ago
I get the idea that the device can only know about one account at a time, but it's absurd that you can't do a factory reset on the hardware and then revoke the credentials from your FB account. ("I no longer own this hardware
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by gknoy 6y ago
Tests, linting, and code review are all tools that we use to find mistakes before they get into production code. A "dumbed-down" language is a tool that prevents one from being able to write certain classes of errors (e.g. some of
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by gknoy 6y ago
At scale, it might be hard to do that, however this doesn't address the key problem. One of the hallmarks of good engineering is to add technical safeguards, rather than relying solely on Smart People. It would be comical to hear, &quo
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by gknoy 6y ago
Even better, this is a problem that is nearly 100% solved by watching with subtitles (esp at home). I mean, it may sound bad but at least you can understand it by reading.
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by gknoy 6y ago
Based on the prices at a local theater, $20/viewing is about par for one ticket + snacks, and $30 is generally better than two people + snacks: n=1: $13+food n=2: $26+food n=4 (2 kids): $46 + food When you factor in being ab
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by gknoy 6y ago
Granted, I was a teen in the 90s, but I never found Doom to be scary. However, Wolfenstein 3D left me an anxious wreck -- likely because the AI always (seemed to?) know where you were. (I also didn't get to play Wolf3d until DOOM had
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by gknoy 6y ago
"""There are lots of things going on right now (masks, social distancing, etc.) to prevent people from getting COVID""" I hope this doesn't come across as snarky, but this seems like it could have a larger
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by gknoy 6y ago
the police can not legally "kick the shit out of you" I realize that we don't feel such behavior is legal, but recent history has shown that when police misbehave at this level (cf. Breonna Taylor), there are no mean
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by gknoy 6y ago
I almost never use `git pull`. I have a helper script (written by an ex-coworker's father ...) that fetches + updates my master branch head to the proper place, without changing away from my current branch. If I want to have things-fr
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by gknoy 6y ago
> I put blunders and mistakes from my games here When talking about drilling with Anki, the author notes that they show the position where they made a mistake. When learning a game (Chess, Go, computer games) how do you identify where t
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by gknoy 6y ago
I only use it for brightness and volume controls (and TIL about the Emoji picker thanks to a sibling comment). I LOVE the analog-feeling controls on brightness and volume. Even though I know it's the same under the hood as an increme
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by gknoy 6y ago
Using iterm2, you can set a "badge" (large text overlay) on a terminal tab. I have a short shell function (`ib foo`) that sets the badge to arbitrary text. It's NOT as good as setting the terminal theme, but it's still
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by gknoy 6y ago
> Would people like it if it didn't have the star wars backdrop? Does the star wars backdrop even make that much sense? The bulk of the plot would work fine if it were space-bounty-hunter-with-angry-people-after-him, plus friends an
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by gknoy 6y ago
>for angular resolution lost to the human eye anyway? Personal experience tells me that the resolution difference between 4k and lower resolutions (for the same size screens) are Very Noticeable on my 27 monitors. (I have one 4k and one
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by gknoy 6y ago
Strange, in hardware land I thought that a clean-room reimplementation of something (where you make something with the same interface -- the API of the hardware) was legal.
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by gknoy 6y ago
Our solution: Put away the dry porcelain/glass/stoneware pieces, and let the plastic cups and containers dry in a drying rack.
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by gknoy 6y ago
I haven't used very many laptops, but I am one of the people that will say the mac trackpad is better. I can only give anecdotes, but I have thought about what feels different. 2012: Sony Vaio, running linux: Trackpad was infuriating,
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by gknoy 6y ago
> reject most comments: they're an additional maintenance cost that can't be automated. I have a really hard time reconciling this with my experiences. Sure, often times comments that explain _what_ is happening can go stale, b
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by gknoy 6y ago
I do the same thing with a shell alias called `SUCCESS`: alias SUCCESS='echo -e '\''\n\nSUCCESS'\'' && bash -c '\''mpv ~/bin/kazoo-fanfare.mp3 &'\'&#
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by gknoy 6y ago
It's not guaranteed to be unique.You can have multiple things that hash to the same value.
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by gknoy 6y ago
I think we disagree on whether a solution is needed, though. No one's going to be able to use an airplane as a missile again, since cockpits are locked. No passengers will sit idly by while someone with a knife tries to do something,
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by gknoy 6y ago
Many newer games are designed to show off raytracing effects. Cyberpunk 2077 has lots of neon lights, shiny things, rain puddles, etc for light to bounce around, and raytracing makes it look a lot nicer than when the shadows are approximate
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by gknoy 6y ago
A huge part of most doctors' jobs is balancing the risk of bad things with the benefits of procedures, medications, etc. One of the main reasons we have doctors is so that we can trust their educated judgment. For example, mine noted
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by gknoy 6y ago
Humble Bundle has an android app that lets you download APKs, and then prompts you to install them. I've used that to install several android games in the past, even for things that are available in different versions on the Play store
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by gknoy 6y ago
> equal parts fascinating and sickening That's how I felt when I watched the documentary about Robert MacNamara [0], when they started talking about how we are pretty sure that what we did to Japan _before_ the atomic bombs counted
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by gknoy 6y ago
Oh, it really would be. :D I meant more that if one did have it, I would not be afraid to get spammed with notifications, any more than i already am (and turn them off...) for any other game or app I install.
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by gknoy 6y ago
> Same for me, I don’t want 5 blasted stores on my iPhone. I want one store and run by someone I trust To be honest, I wouldn't mind having the option to specify multiple stores that I trust the same way I do the Google Play store.
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by gknoy 6y ago
That feels like the Honnor Harrington series to me. :-( I thoroughly enjoyed the first N books I read (5? 6?), but the next one or two seemed like watching a series TV show that never resolves tension points, because if they did there'

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