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by idreyn 6y ago
I (presumably along with GP) am using Firefox where the background shows up white and the contrast ratio weighs in at 1.43:1. But it looks fine on Chrome.
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by idreyn 6y ago
No doubt FB is preparing to A/B test dozens of variants for maximum "conversion" :) The dialog I am constantly seeing is this one, which seems to come from the OS: https://i.imgur.com/7JGotq3.png Now that iOS
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by idreyn 6y ago
That's true, I forgot about that. I appreciate that those prompts don't highlight a particular option which tends to force you to read them. I wonder how often Apple will allow apps to re-request this permission when it's bee
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by idreyn 6y ago
I'm a simple man -- if I see a button with a primary intent color standing between me and my content I've been conditioned to press it, often before I realize what I'm doing or reading the accompanying text. Probably tens of
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by idreyn 6y ago
I just finished reading The Name of the Wind, a fantasy novel where the organizational scheme of the library at a magical University is a minor plot point. Every time the school gets a new Master Archivist they come in with bright and ambit
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by idreyn 6y ago
Was just coming back to this thread to say I use the Multi-Account Containers extension to isolate my Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Google Search sessions from the rest of my web browsing, and I highly recommend it. The terminology is a l
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by idreyn 6y ago
Thanks for sharing. I'll share one reaction I had — these sorts of things are normally narrated in professional, glossy, somewhat saccharine voices, and it was a fun and surprising moment of human connection to realize, hey, this is ju
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by idreyn 6y ago
The distribution of outcome in one generation is, rather explicitly, the distribution of opportunity granted to the next one. Policies like progressive taxation and universal welfare programs that can be cast as equal outcome initiatives ar
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by idreyn 6y ago
A year ago I needed a min-heap to build a priority queue at work. So first I grabbed 'heap' from npm (272k weekly downloads) and set it to work. But a few days later I realized my code was executing slower than expected because it
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by idreyn 6y ago
Well, yeah. You have one thread to work with in the browser, and if you tie it up with a synchronous XHR your application freezes until the request finishes.
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by idreyn 6y ago
The "ambient sound" mode on my Sony WH-1000XM2 headphones works very well for this. I find it useful for video calls; without the feedback of hearing my own voice I tend towards shouting.
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by idreyn 6y ago
I think a variation of this comfort-optimized route planning tool would be really useful for cyclists as well. I've found that Google Maps favors streets with bike lanes when planning bike trips, but those are typically main thoroughfa
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by idreyn 6y ago
I maintain a web app that would really benefit from an E2E suite, but we don't have the developer capacity to write one right now, so this looks like it hits a potential sweet spot for me. To use Reflect, I think we would need to under
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by idreyn 6y ago
Presumably as a nod towards scalability, on the assumption that in aggregate it ought not take more than the entire town's property tax revenue to keep the town's roads in good condition.
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by idreyn 6y ago
> They common quality is that the experiences sound disconnected from reality. They try to explain the experience and are fully convinced they learned some fundamental truth but can't explain it in any way that makes sense. $0.02 —
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by idreyn 6y ago
I went on a wiki-binge on this topic a few days ago and so I recognize this as a magsail[0]. It would be an attractive addition to an interstellar craft since it obviates the need to carry propellant for deceleration. [0] https:/&#x2F
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by idreyn 6y ago
I am trying to follow this supposed implication but I don't see the jump from "the valley" to "everyone who disagrees" and also from "dragging feet" and "making vapid appeals" to "idiotic an
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by idreyn 6y ago
Are you open to a couple of feature suggestions from someone who uses Audacity for scientific applications? 1. An port of Audacity's "Noise Reduction" filter. I have done this once [0] (with some difficulty and no doubt with
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by idreyn 7y ago
this is maybe my least favorite bit of transit-related pedantry, but it's officially designated the 'L' (in single quotes) by the CTA.
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by idreyn 7y ago
Clicking to zoom is giving me a React-style white screen of death and the error "bearing is required for transition". FF/Chrome latest, macOS 10.14.6
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by idreyn 7y ago
IMO, the big factor that explains why a minimum-wage worker with a smartphone is impoverished but a 16th century king is not, comes down the psychological burden of poverty. If you're poor in America you live with constant fear of mino
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by idreyn 7y ago
PubPub | Boston/Remote | Full-time The Knowledge Futures Group is hiring a software developer to help us build PubPub[0], a collaborative and open publishing tool for the academic web. We want an internet full of publishing tools that
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by idreyn 7y ago
I have less of a problem with the product itself than the way it's marketed, with completely unsubstantiated claims about improving employee retention. The message I get here is "your employees are like small children that need to
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by idreyn 7y ago
Self-driving cars cannot plan an entire exchange in a dense urban areas because there will always be actors like pedestrians, cyclists, and stray plastic bags that do not participate in planning and act adversarially to their shared model.
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by idreyn 7y ago
I would argue that the automobile is a brilliantly designed tool for making flexible, medium-long distance trips quickly and cheaply. In America, this tool has been stretched far beyond the use cases where it shines. We've tried to mak
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by idreyn 7y ago
Thanks for sharing, I'm glad you found a diet that works for you.
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by idreyn 7y ago
How did your reasoning about the ethics of eating meat evolve over this time?
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by idreyn 7y ago
The armchair planner in me was a little taken aback at first by the description of the flea market as "amazingly good urbanism" -- good urbanism looks like bike lanes and trees and mixed-use development, not parking lots! -- but o
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by idreyn 7y ago
Thanks for taking a look!
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by idreyn 7y ago
oof, that's completely unusable on Firefox for me -- it seems like the loading is blocking my keyboard input or something. Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:67.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/67.0

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