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by hanche 7y ago
That’s still how I do horizontal centering, FWIW. I guess I have some catching up to do.
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by hanche 7y ago
Lots of fun with those sensors. Some years ago, I think while I was migrating from an older laptop to a new one, the new one would randomly to to sleep. It took me a while to figure out why: Being really short on available desk space, I had
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by hanche 7y ago
Here is a similar story from the childhood of computers: One of the first computers installed in a Norwegian university was of course in high demand, and students generally had to stay up at night to be able to use it. One morning, around 3
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by hanche 7y ago
Minor correction: The author’s name appears as Byung-Chul Han in the English translations of his books.
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by hanche 7y ago
in the northern hemisphere.
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by hanche 7y ago
Indeed, on my mac I found such an item in the Desktop folder after upgrading.
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by hanche 7y ago
They are quite popular in Norway ( https://elbilstatistikk.no/ ). But of course, we're only a rather small corner of Europe.
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by hanche 7y ago
In my experience, I only get a rather generic notification for software updates. When I click on it, I wind up in System Preferences, Software Update. And that displays the Catalina update very prominently, then in a much smaller font, “Oth
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by hanche 7y ago
Oh, that's so astoundingly bad, it blows my mind! In effect, they are actively hindering users who don't (yet) want to upgrade to Catalina from discovering security upgrades. Surely, that cannot be their intention?
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by hanche 7y ago
What I do is to click on the alert but not at either of the alternatives at the right end! Then System Preferences will open up, and I just quit it. This way, many days pass before I get a new alert.
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by hanche 7y ago
Older, related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18154667
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The Disaster of Python 3(changelog.complete.org)
3 points by hanche 7y ago|1 comments
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by hanche 7y ago
The Swedish name is “dator”, isn’t it? Its root is certainly “data”, but I like it better than the more cumbersome Norwegian word “datamaskin”.
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by hanche 7y ago
My car (most cars?) just flashes all the turn signals. One long flash on lock, two short ones on unlock.
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by hanche 7y ago
Many years ago, a my landlord’s son had a car alarm that talked. When he locked the car, it would say “System armed”. (The first time I heard that, I nearly freaked out.) And when unlocked, it would say “Alarm deactivated”. Whoever invented
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by hanche 7y ago
One big problem with the fingerprint sensor: It's thrown off by even a minor amount of moisture.
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by hanche 7y ago
Don’t forget the soil. Old prairie has immensely thick soil, with a high carbon content. Think deep plant roots. With the right management, ranchers could mimic the prairie ecosystem, restore and build soil, and sequester carbon into the so
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by hanche 7y ago
A small (?) part of the answer is likely to be found in the massive amount of testing: https://sqlite.org/testing.html
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by hanche 7y ago
One can get RF blocking pouches for the keyfob. It’s a cheap countermeasure; a bit inconvenient, though.
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by hanche 7y ago
A.k.a. shrinkflation. Search for it, right here on HN.
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by hanche 7y ago
Garbage inflation? It was only about 90% in Theodore Sturgeon's day.
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by hanche 7y ago
I was going to recommend Octavia E. Butler, but I see she is already on the list. The whole Xenogenesis trilogy is good, not just Dawn (first in the series). Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents likewise. And Connie Willi
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by hanche 7y ago
If the window is narrow, even on the desktop, the mini pagemap disappears. There is indeed a @media query in the css turning off the aside.right element if the page width is less than 1000 px.
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by hanche 7y ago
Correction: Our forefathers really fucked things up. We are merely continuing what they started.
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by hanche 7y ago
Reading The unnatural history of the sea by Callum Roberts really blew my mind. It is almost impossible to imagine how rich the seas were – in fish and other life – before we started large scale fishing, centuries ago. This is a stunning
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by hanche 7y ago
In all fairness, though, when you read on, the word “approximate” is seen more frequently, and the word “represent” less so.
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by hanche 7y ago
“I wouldn’t touch that with a 3048 millimeter stick.” (A.k.a. a ten foot pole.)
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by hanche 7y ago
There is a good reason for that: It is an ideal location for downlinking data from satellites in polar orbit. https://www.regjeringen.no/en/dokumenter/meld.-st.-32-201520... (Edit: But the article points that out.