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by j-conn 7y ago
Couldn’t agree more with that checklist. I’ve used Hemingwayapp.com to help simplify my prose in the past, which seems to enforce similar rules. I’d imagine grammarly is similar but don’t have personal experience with it
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by j-conn 7y ago
Love this idea. My first thought is that calibrating mics could be difficult. I wonder how good existing decibel meter apps are
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Private Surveillance Is a Lethal Weapon Anybody Can Buy(nytimes.com)
4 points by j-conn 7y ago|0 comments
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by j-conn 7y ago
I’m planning to give this a try once notes aren’t stored on dynalist servers, or are at least end to end encrypted
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by j-conn 7y ago
Would love to hear more about your mods! Have any photos? Just curious as a layman who rides one nearly every day.
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by j-conn 7y ago
Tried replacing “.co.jp” with “.com” and it worked, to my surprise. Price changes to $25.56 though (with “free shipping”) https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NATJ7R0/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b...
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by j-conn 7y ago
Personal use aside, I've been meaning to try out firefox for development after seeing some of their release announcements here. Any tips for people like me who are accustomed to chrome devtools? Are there some things you can do in fire
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by j-conn 9y ago
Check out the "bug-a-salt" salt gun. With good aim it's more effective and fun than a flyswatter. Absurdly, amazon wouldn't ship to California but you can buy from https://bugasalt.com When swatting, I'v
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by j-conn 10y ago
Please consider subscribing to high quality newspapers, donating to NPR, or otherwise supporting journalists. IMHO the last few months have driven home the vital public service they provide. I recently read that Tom Hanks sends an espresso
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by j-conn 10y ago
I was surprised this wasn't being discussed here. Mods, could you revisit this?
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by j-conn 10y ago
When sending to a non-protonmail account, you have the option to encrypt the message contents-- recipient has to open a link and enter the password. I think decryption is done in the browser in that case too (not 100% sure tho)
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by j-conn 11y ago
For per-service email and occasional single use credit cards, I've been pretty happy with blur from abine: https://www.abine.com/index.html
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by j-conn 11y ago
Would love to hear from the people down-voting. Is this data flawed / limited / not consistent with personal experience? I've heard people like Bill Maher cite this survey before. I'm sure there are different and interes
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by j-conn 11y ago
Very cool. Can they somehow detect / prevent malicious actors impersonating legitimate phone numbers to get them blacklisted?
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by j-conn 11y ago
does distributed computing correctly Go, Node.js, ever "actors" library you can think of, they are single-threaded-thinker's attempts to scale, and they are not correct Could you elaborate, or point to a resource comparin
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by j-conn 12y ago
Thanks for this. get it from investors with as long a time horizon as possible Can you elaborate on how to evaluate this? I'd imagine you could just ask them if you already have a relationship, otherwise by looking at the age of thei
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by j-conn 12y ago
What I want are plugs that quiet sounds from within the body / ear canal...