jbaber

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by jbaber 6y ago
This 1000 times. About half the time we consciously choose to let our 8-year-old just open a car door or walk across a parking lot independently, some adult scurries over and "Hey! Your kid just carefully walked behind this parked car!
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by jbaber 6y ago
Hmm... Amazon should buy Firefox and keep it going for the good of humanity at a loss. Like its owner did for The Post.
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by jbaber 6y ago
I don't see as pitiful that these non-technical* people can only use Excel. I see as glorious that I'm able to get something close to real database tables out of non-technical people as long as they're in Excel. I once popula
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by jbaber 6y ago
Maybe you passed right by it without knowing. My wife once told me to meet her "in front of Lord and Taylor's". I had no idea these scribbles were words and got lost: https://www.ladyandtheblog.com/wp-content
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by jbaber 6y ago
python3. Seriously.
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by jbaber 6y ago
For some mathematicians and some mathematical problems, clear presentation, standardized notation, etc. accelerates discovery.
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by jbaber 6y ago
Lithographer's tape switches the light to very dim, but visible red.
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by jbaber 6y ago
I thought "text-only" meant it was somehow riding over SMS which was blowing my mind. Still a nice idea.
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by jbaber 6y ago
This is why I still use [bouncer] despite the fact that it's roughly been replaced by Android's new only-while-app-is-running style permission. I have great* confidence the camera is off when, after hitting the home key, I actuall
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by jbaber 6y ago
Still alpha, but I've been enjoying [git-bug]( https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug ).
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by jbaber 6y ago
I, too, am shocked by how much data I seem to think is in a blurb and an image. My usual HN headline triage time is reduced by a factor of 5 with this view.
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by jbaber 6y ago
Dub waltz "Nymph", for quick jigs vex.
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by jbaber 6y ago
I'm exactly the audience for this stuff. I've been using ratpoison as my WM for 15 years. But even it reads a simple config file.
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by jbaber 6y ago
I don't share your opinion, but thanks for listing it (please do so wherever you can). The left need to remember people like you exist.
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by jbaber 6y ago
Are you avoiding Atkinson dithering?
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by jbaber 6y ago
I pay google the $10/mo. for no ads on youtubeso the kids don't get exposed. The extra benefits are - play video with the screen off to listen to lectures - youtube music - specifically good for letting the toddler hear the wigg
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by jbaber 6y ago
This attracted me. Every community with any gatekeeping is always wonderful. Like metafilter ($5) or sdf.org and github.com (you have to understand some technical thing)
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by jbaber 7y ago
I speak/read toki pona and am still trying to figure out this keyboard.
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by jbaber 7y ago
Messagease is really good for coding and typing at a shell prompt, etc.