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by kej 9y ago
>one of the gripes of the new WebExtensions version is that it still shows the normal horizontal tabs. In case anyone is in this position, it's relatively easy to hide them with a userChrome.css file: https://superuser.co
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by kej 9y ago
Now I'm curious if it was a company decision or just a lone developer who realized he could toss that in and nobody would catch it.
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by kej 9y ago
Earthsea was a trilogy from '72 to '90, but it's now five novels and a bunch of short stories. They're all good.
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by kej 9y ago
This is basically a Value Added Tax (VAT) combined with a Universal Basic Income (UBI). Both of those are things that have been proposed in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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by kej 9y ago
I'm curious if this was used for the musical communication in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. I recall then having notes synchronized with colors, which could be the same system shown here.
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by kej 9y ago
If you read the article, they're not the same thing. Solfege is a way of teaching the notes in a major scale, while Solresol is an entire language built on top of that.
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by kej 9y ago
I could maybe see Sen Wyden trying to stop it, he's been pretty good on things like this lately, but I bet there are enough pro-surveillance Democrats (Feinstein, etc.) to overcome any potential filibuster.
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by kej 9y ago
Your "Consumer" modifier made me curious: what non-consumer situations make TRNGs not silly?
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by kej 9y ago
The sequel to Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman , titled What Do You Care What Other People Think? is also really good, and includes his account of investigating the Challenger disaster which is worth the read just for that chapter
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by kej 9y ago
The mailing list link is http://chalkdustmagazine.com/sign-up-to-the-newsletter/
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by kej 9y ago
The default new tab in Chrome contains links to all of those things and more.
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by kej 9y ago
The same FCC that got rid of the net neutrality rules has the ability to make a rule that preempts any state level neutrality rules.
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by kej 9y ago
Tangential, but there was actually some interesting work put into the Harry Potter translations. Puns like Diagon Alley need to be turned into something meaningful in the target language, and they have to be careful not to change any of the
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by kej 9y ago
Mothers preserving energy and being able to carry more directly benefit the survival of offspring (since that's who they're carrying and where their surplus energy is going), whereas an improvement in those areas for fathers doesn
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by kej 9y ago
I've been planning a switch to gopass but haven't made the jump yet. I'd love to hear some feedback from people who have been using it, especially any downsides or caveats.
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by kej 9y ago
I have a few artist friends who are pleased with the Microsoft Surface. You get a pressure-sensitive stylus like on the Wacom and can run full versions of Photoshop or whatever. It's not for everyone, but it might be an option for your
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by kej 9y ago
It won't help you this time, but next time print out each QR code and save them in a secure place. Setting up a new device becomes much easier.
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by kej 9y ago
In case either of you aren't aware of it, you're rehashing a 150 year old argument called the great man theory.[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_man_theory
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by kej 9y ago
>just last week someone got sued by Microsoft or EA (dont really remember) for running a game server they reverse engineered for a game they don't even support anymore! They weren't sued, they got a letter from EA telling them
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by kej 9y ago
Not just that, but they timed releases to benefit one side. The Podesta emails dropped an hour after the Access Hollywood video. That's not a coincidence.
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by kej 9y ago
>Vim/emacs/kaoune might be superior My google-fu is failing me; what is kaoune?
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by kej 9y ago
These records are tracked by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, and they put spacecraft into a separate category. The speed record for manned space flight is held by Apollo 10. Here's some good jumping off points: https:&#x2F
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by kej 9y ago
Just want to add that the blog posts[1] detailing how and why ripgrep is able to beat other search tools are pretty interesting reading. [1] http://blog.burntsushi.net/ripgrep/
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by kej 9y ago
>Proper follow hint is very important. Depending on what you mean by this, be sure to check the advanced settings for vimium-ff. It will let you choose which characters to use for the hints, or there's a buried option to use the lin
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by kej 9y ago
Firefox will offer to import those (along with bookmarks) when you start it up, and it offers its own syncing service as well. I switched about a month ago and it's been pretty seamless.
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by kej 9y ago
As a footnote to your comment, the Dragon Box game is available on Android as well, and there are actually a series of games for different age groups and different skills.
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by kej 9y ago
That's part of the plot for Dan Brown's Digital Fortress , although like other Dan Brown books it certainly leaves room for someone else to tell the same story better.
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by kej 9y ago
He wants someone to digitally sign it, like for the notary or the USPS to act as a certificate authority.
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by kej 9y ago
It works really well with the Vimium extension in Firefox, for what that's worth.
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by kej 9y ago
It's not the ads themselves so much as the tracking required to target them. When it was just Google showing ads at the top of the search results that matched whatever I just searched for, that was fine and often even helpful. When Goo

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