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Apps that share the most (and least) amount of personal data(blog.pcloud.com)
1 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
Apple should tone down the way they promote their products. They can't keep pretending to be aligned with the environment and then put on a big show every year for products that provide tiny incremental benefits. I'm thinking most
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
I want to believe that the work started by Ivan Sutherland, Douglas Englebart, Alan Kay, etc still has a long way to go. On the other hand, 1. It feels like they addressed most of the low-hanging fruit 2. A lot of what was done by these peo
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
This may be old, but I remember often looking for a function and having to paginate through the results to get to the definition. So having the function/method/var/etc definition(s) at the top of the results.
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
Just saw this—the contract has been posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25960469
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
A redacted version of the EU-AstraZeneca contract has been made public since the article was written: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-health-coronavirus-europe... It's not clear to me but it seems that the EU w
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Brandolini's Law(en.wikipedia.org)
132 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|59 comments
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
I stayed at Jim Haynes’s place in Paris a few years ago—it was listed on Airbnb and seemed like an obvious choice. He was welcoming and friendly but I didn’t spend enough time with him to properly connect. Our world needs more people like t
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Smartwatches can help detect Covid-19 days before symptoms appear(cbsnews.com)
1 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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Programming language index 2020 (TIOBE)(tiobe.com)
4 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|4 comments
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
I think context switching is difficult to quantify, and difficult to talk about in a general sense. * I'm sure some people are better at it than others * Some work is easier to switch to and from * Some work demands it—e.g., people in
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Xbox’s “instant on” feature could consume 4B kWh by 2025(arstechnica.com)
2 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
On the subject of system performance on macOS… does anyone know of a decent app/tool for limiting CPU on different processes or programs? This might be less relevant on newer hardware, but I'm interested in limiting certain apps (
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TreeCard: The wooden debit card that plants trees(treecard.org)
88 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|101 comments
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
Using my phone I go through these thoughts almost daily—I've read all the news, caught up on email/messages, then: why can't I do more with this thing? To add to some of the already good comments: * Writing and thinking. Th
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Wealth of 651 people increases by $1.1T during pandemic(theguardian.com)
2 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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Vindicated scientist demonstrated surgery alternatives for stroke victims(theguardian.com)
33 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|11 comments
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Metronome usability issue possible cause for Beethoven’s accelerated markings(journals.plos.org)
1 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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A novel new EV its manufacturer says doesn't need charging(theverge.com)
2 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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'Dirty methods' in Brexit vote cited in push for new laws on Europe's elections(theguardian.com)
4 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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It's Time: A Festival of Climate Action(itstime.earth)
2 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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Waymo starts to open driverless ride-hailing service to the public(techcrunch.com)
1 points by ivanmaeder 6y ago|0 comments
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
OPTION + CMD + V to cut and paste files (found this today here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24080378 ) Hold down OPTION to vertically select text (works in the terminal at least) CMD + SHIFT + . in Finder to show&#x
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by ivanmaeder 6y ago
Thanks for posting this. I had no idea files could be moved without the mouse! Option-Command-V: Move: Move the files in the Clipboard from their original location to the current location.
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Strict new curbs on life in UK announced by PM(bbc.co.uk)
87 points by ivanmaeder 7y ago|136 comments
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Social Credit System(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by ivanmaeder 7y ago|0 comments
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The light is off. War is over(twitter.com)
225 points by ivanmaeder 7y ago|77 comments
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by ivanmaeder 7y ago
Actually I just found this: https://superuser.com/a/1260944/83295
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by ivanmaeder 7y ago
Every device I've come across has it set up so that the plastic part should be inserted closest to the floor (horizontal plugs), or closest to the centre of gravity of the device (vertical plugs). I don't know if this is specced—o
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by ivanmaeder 7y ago
This is cool! Thanks for this, I had no idea it existed. It looks like the functionality is almost identical. Even the command names are similar…

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