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by jakub_g 6y ago
One thing I use AHK for: I bought a logitech trackball, which is great for my RSI, but unfortunately it has no scroll wheel/button, and man, life without scroll wheel and middle click is just impossible! Luckily, it has 4 buttons apart
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by jakub_g 6y ago
That's interesting, given that the original idea behind eslint was to create a tool to fix the warts of jshint which was apparently not enough flexible! https://eslint.org/docs/about/ > The primary reason
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by jakub_g 6y ago
In general I agree with you on "has wikipedia article ~= notable". However it's well known that WP editors are biased and for example, articles about women get deleted where a similar article about a man wouldn't be.
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by jakub_g 7y ago
I feel bad about plugging myself into a post to Peter Seibel's work, but if you're interested in this kind of git preservation, I wrote a script to move a subfolder between two repos: https://github.com/jakub-g&#
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by jakub_g 7y ago
A friend of mine is a physics PhD. Most journals require to use their exact LaTeX settings for every little detail in order to have an article published. Which means quite a lot of menial work to redo the article each time you apply, get
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by jakub_g 7y ago
A local newspaper in France (nicematin.com) has been sometimes offering micropayments for paywalled content in last few months: watch a short video ad, or pay 0.39€ for an article with your mobile phone provider. I watched the ads and it wo
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Ha, you got me - I was in non-French thinking mode until the colon - edited :)
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Interesting thing is, living in Europe, AFAIR I never heard about "use two spaces" rule until now (even if in a long monospace plaintext, I might have subconsciously used it sometimes to disambiguate). If I saw that in a Word docu
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by jakub_g 7y ago
There was a report in France 2 and some pictures of papers the "friendly neighbors" put on nurses' appartment doors asking them to move out.
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Note: there are some unofficial IG clients, without paywalls, using the API (however they probably try to kill them when they get too big). Example: https://igdig.com/
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by jakub_g 7y ago
You have different audience mix around the world (and even within each country) at different times of the day. At certain hours it's more mobile, other hours it's more desktop; more US or more Asia etc. (unclear what data is shown
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Same in Poland. Example: https://www.rmf.fm/radio/
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Some studies suggest covid spreads more by droplets than aerosols. https://mobile.twitter.com/zeynep/status/1251556084424347649
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by jakub_g 7y ago
"Use GitHub for lawmaking" is something I've had in mind for a long time. However, not sure how this could work in practice. I've heard from a friend of mine who used to work for Deloitte (or similar kind of company) tha
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Regarding short/long commutes, the real problem is why people are having long commutes - it's because most jobs are concentrated in small districts far away from human settlements. It's a very old school way of thinking, exac
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by jakub_g 7y ago
> I heard a few years back that a US health insurance startup had to provide on the order of 6000 pages of documentation to be approved. No wonder that there hadn't been another provider for twenty years or so. It seems like some th
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Really well captured. It's like we all want to have nice things, without having to make them ourselves. I'm not in US but in Europe, and I feel like many countries are like a 50-year 100M LOC codebase with fragile dependencies on
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Note that it's not only Apple who's been slow to adopt WebP. Mozilla was pretty skeptical for many years and only implemented this ~a year ago (instead they did a lot of improvements to JPEG encoders in the meantime). At this poin
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by jakub_g 7y ago
> Get informed and decide if it’s time to Buy High and Sell Low Love that tongue-in-cheek accent.
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by jakub_g 7y ago
From the article: > ...channel traffic, increasing by 15% > ...one in four media buyers and brands have paused all advertising for the first half of 2020, and a further 46% have adjusted their spending downwards > Digital ad spendi
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by jakub_g 7y ago
It's already happening in US: https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/0... Also in France one big insurer started paying people back, with government asking the other companies to do t
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by jakub_g 7y ago
I used to be somehow in the middle regarding "is X dangerous" discussions because while probably generally not an issue for large majority people, there is probably a small .% of people who are legitimately oversensitive to variou
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by jakub_g 7y ago
When you override a bash built-in like `cd` with an alias, `command` is the only option.
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by jakub_g 7y ago
FYI in bash there's somehow similar `command` built-in. Say you have an alias that overrides `ls`. When you want to run original ls, you run `command ls`.
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Sometimes the flights are allowed to fly one way but not another. Overall the flights are ~88% down year-to-year in European space. https://twitter.com/eurocontrolDG/status/1245620098754207744 > skeleton schedu
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Bookmarks: locally in the browser. Either I use them a lot, or they die forgotten. Not very good on this. For code snippets: Gists and StackOverflow. I treat StackOverflow as public global wiki. The good side of the two is that they are bot
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Never got any of those. Perhaps you're using slow/unreliable network and hitting timeouts? Or some privacy tools interfering? Using Firefox web Twitter. One thing I did use to repro though was text field behaving erratically on Fi
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Dailymotion | Sophia Antipolis, Nice Area, France | ONSITE | Junior / mid-level JavaScript developer | Full-time My team (video player core & performance) is looking for someone with ~1-3 years of JS experience. You need have some
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by jakub_g 7y ago
Living in France since 2012, I get zero French spam calls on my mobile. I'm getting some immediate-disconnect calls from Algerian numbers though (no idea what those are). I used to get silent calls on a landline though, back when I had
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by jakub_g 7y ago
> contact details, loyalty account information and additional personal details such as gender and birthdays I'm always wondering why a random service would need a date of birth (apart from validating "the person is an adult&quo

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