glaberficken

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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   I use pocket. It is installed by default in Firefox (my default browser). From there I save the articles I want to read. And then i read them on my Kobo eReader (which syncs pocket saved articles automatically). The perfect combo to save my
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   Disambiguation is hard?
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   To add my top 3 single player games of the last 5 years: - Stardew Valley - The Witness - Untitled Goose Game
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   Haha! brilliant =)
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   My 9yo daughter just came up behind me and asked: "What are you watching? Is that lady 'driving' an airplane?"
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   Well... strangely enough, this kind of no frills design is open only to some people/businesses. You need at least one of the following: A) to not care how other's will perceive your website B) enough people know who you are so wel
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   >Amusingly, "vertical" is actually mentioned, but how a hero got that in, I don't know. Probably killed or captured. But then the discussion becomes between "left" or "right"...definitely don't wan
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   guilty
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   by glaberficken 6y ago

   yes, Sid Meyer Here is Sid talking about that quote in 2012 (apparently he first said it in 1989) https://www.gdcvault.com/play/1015756/Interesting
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    I think the point was not that food distribution would fail, but that the more disadvantaged slice of the population would not have money to buy food anymore.
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Actually its the other way around! Automation in the controlled environment of a greenhouse is much simpler to implement than out on a field. Ok, there are certain crops that still haven't been cracked in terms of automating the pickin
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    My thoughts exactly. For these particular reasons IMHO: - the nested scrolling (it would be much cooler if you could come up with an algorithm that lays out the page like real print newspapers do. Or truncate and display a read more link&#x
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    While factually true, this does not apply at all to how olive trees are farmed in intensive plantations in the real world. The typical modern plantation in Spain/Portugal uses very young and small trees (they start giving fruit by year
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Microsoft Windows Script Host (WSH) has saved me and my teams over the last 2 decades probably hundreds of hours. It has allowed me to deploy small VBScript and JScript scripts that automate day to day repetitive tasks in the office without
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Also, in the vein of "Stephens Sausage Roll" check out "Pipe Push Paradise" http://pipepushparadise.com
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Actually this is modeled quite well in "Plague Inc" (the game) if you mutate the virus towards being too lethal it will not spread fast enough to annihilate the entire population.
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    https://pad.riseup.net/p/BS4bd3KJQR7-DeHuBI-Q-keep
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Tech-parent here (if you can call me that!) I have a 9 and 4yo. My 9yo watches youtube since she was 2 (on normal restricted mode) I have been teaching my kids (especially the older one) to identify by herself what is quality content that y
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    yup sorry, probably phrased it wrongly by including the word "evidence" too late to edit now. In my view an anecdote is just that. Not supposed to support any broader point or generalization. Its an individual story, you can make
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    I see, thanks for the explanation. I guess vague comments like mine will tend to be buried after a a couple of hours =)
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    I'm not really trying to make any point =) I'm just presenting some anecdotal observations.
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    A lot! Mostly football (not the US sport), any sport that is on TV really, news and hollywood movies. Also she is a chronic late sleeper (as in going to bed late and waking up late) which both me and my mom seem to have inherited.
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Anedoctal evidence. Source: My own grandmother (80yo in 2019) I have observed in my grandmother that she displays markedly lower cognitive decline when compared to her peers (friends and family around the same age). Here are some (maybe bia
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Came here to post exactly the same. You CAN write human readable html!
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    In my experience (very large contact center multinational), what killed IE6 in the enterprise was PCI and other security compliance standards. Large companies do whatever it takes to stay compliant to a lot of these standards because having
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    funny that you give multiplayer to people and they will use any chance they get to display creativity. look at all the pople trying to draw with their tyres!
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Could you give me examples of the best scanline filters you have found? across the different emulators you use if possible =) I'm always looking for some subtle scanline filters, but most emulators seem to have way overdone scanlines f
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    Ask HN: Have you noticed this peculiarity on vending machines?

    14 points by glaberficken 7y ago|8 comments
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    yeah good tip =) i already knew them but thanks anyway!
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    by glaberficken 7y ago

    Thanks for the Adafruit tip. My 9yo daughter is learning scratch, so the block based programming is going to be great to try out with her.