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by jkmcf 5y ago
IIRC Readability used to do this. It was my favorite feature, and I've pinged Pocket and others about this.
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Sounds like it was a team failure. The PR people should have advertised Stockdale's qualities more and let him be himself. I thought Stockdale was a bad choice because of age and he just seemed distant and unengaged. If that's
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Rocky & Bullwinkle characters. When we ran out we moved on to Underdog and Friends.
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It's a demo server? Go try Hey.com. Their email approach doesn't work for me, but the native app uses stimulus and it feels (felt? it's been a year) snappy.
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A behavioral psychologist might be able to help. They have a big bag of tricks and can help provide some accountability.
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by jkmcf 5y ago
Wait until you try the new Safari Tech Preview. It seems significantly faster. So far, I don't hate the new UI, but I need to add more tabs.
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Your comment prompted me to think basic income should supplement the difference between your salary and some acceptable wage for the locale -- specifically addressing housing, medical, and food. This would encourage people to have a job, e
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Since surviving my Physics degree in the 90s, I wanted to be an educator and write books that filled in the gaps between beginner and expert -- the problem was becoming an expert and understanding the essence of things in that gap. I genera
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While I don't despise subscriptions, I do despise subscriptions priced disproportionately (IMO) to the value and my usage frequency. Bear is priced appropriately. Can't wait for the new version (some anticipate 2030, but I'm
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Demand might go up with individuals moving out of shared housing. Many areas suffer from housing shortages, and no one wants to build affordable housing.
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I’d love to be proven wrong, but you need an older version of the kindle desktop app that isn’t reliably available. By available I mean from a reputable source…
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This is great to hear. I think I skimmed a lot of it the first time in my early teens and have skipped it on following rereads. I recently picked up the omnibus collection and hope to read it soon. Since I haven’t read the post trilogy sto
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Having read about Feynman, as well as his books, my superficial takeaway is there was Feynman before his first wife's death, the "wicked" middle, and then his final, successful marriage. A lot of the stories are from the midd
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by jkmcf 6y ago
Hi! Everyone in the USA, outside of a few cities, knows public transit fails to meet our needs. But, I'm more interested in hearing about places that have improved their public transit system or realistic ideas for fixing.
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Why Public Transit Sucks in the United States: Four Videos Tell the Story(openculture.com)
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I was an initial Kickstarter backer and it works very well. Just remember to clean it sooner than later or you have to break out the baking soda to get rid of the smell!
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by jkmcf 6y ago
Markdown is great for simple pages, but you need a Markdown pre-processor to do more advanced work like including another markdown file. E.g., you want to write a book and each file is a chapter. If you are writing something with code samp
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Sort of both: OOH, mankind once again causes mass extinction for a few dozen species. OTOH, the oceans will be teeming with life. The gotcha is mainly that one can support the welfare of animals but also be ok with their systematic extincti
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The HOA stereotype definitely is, but all HOAs are not the same. My HOA is generally hands off but you do need to ask permission for structural or cosmetic changes -- the neighborhood doesn't want to look like an amusement park. But, n
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by jkmcf 6y ago
What do you think happens to all the animals no longer used as a food source in a capitalistic society?
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by jkmcf 6y ago
As a 100% Mac user since 2006, I've been trying to use Linux on the laptop (Ubuntu) for the past month or so. I find it ok. If I wasn't so used to the keyboard mappings/shortcuts it might be easier. Maybe ElementaryOS would h
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by jkmcf 6y ago
The only downside of Ruby, IMO, is it isn't installed everywhere by default, whereas python is. It also isn't hip anymore, and many of the brains from years past have moved onto Go and Rust based on my casual observation.
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I owe most of my career to AltaVista after comp.lang. , comp.unix. , and comp.databases.* -- even more so because AltaVista had indexed Internet newsgroups.
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Java w/o IntelliJ would be miserable. That said, I hate their nonsensical keybindings for (my) most common uses (looking at you function keys). I also wish their plugin API was more stable. A lot of great plugins seem to require a l
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by jkmcf 6y ago
Depending on your area, new taxes are hard to implement and new taxes on old infrastructure would cause a riot. It’s well known that our water infrastructure is woefully underfunded, not to mention the plethora of bridges needing important
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Gnorm: The database schema should generate the code(gnorm.org)
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I'm excited about Tauri: https://github.com/tauri-apps/tauri
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I think the title would be better if it included Facebook because those are the two most prominent and recognizable to the average person. The title for the HN audience is better, but probably equally misleading since 3rd party auth could i
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Overall it is pretty nice. High quality paper. But it does not have a lay flat binding, which might be a deal breaker for me. Love his podcast as well as his books.
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Brewing beer and baking bread are canaries in a coal mine. If you find yourself interested in either of those, quit your job immediately and go to Akihabara for a month. Home-baked bread is amazing and worth the 15-30m of your daily life

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