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by kej 3y ago
Minor addition: you have to create a user chrome file AND you have to go into about:config and set "toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets" to true.
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by kej 3y ago
Depending on your specific needs, you probably want one of imapsync, isync/mbsync, or OfflineIMAP. You could also use mutt or Thunderbird or the client of your choice to connect to both servers and move items through the UI.
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by kej 3y ago
I believe the previous poster meant that the wolves should have the rhino-like protections.
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by kej 3y ago
That's an interesting example to pick since there was a brief period when educated people doubted the existence of the platypus, too.
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by kej 3y ago
A similar issue on Windows will be a license key stored in UEFI that is tied to a company. A clean install will find that key and ask you to login with your company email and password. You can get around it by not being online during setup,
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by kej 3y ago
The closest I know of is a penguin who is also a major general: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Olav
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by kej 3y ago
You make a bunch of great points, but I'd like to add that archeology can (and IMO ought to) be interesting to a tech audience even when it isn't wrapped up in modern geopolitics. The article links to the paper [1] that describes
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by kej 3y ago
Kind of similar, in the early days of COVID, I accidentally discovered that my state's website would have test results available several hours before they sent out the "view your results" email. So I made a script that would
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by kej 3y ago
Mickey Mouse is trademarked as a word and as a picture and all kinds of derivatives like the silhouette of his head or the design of the eared hats. You can't use him as a symbol of your business or to suggest that your product comes f
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by kej 3y ago
I mean, yeah, Howard Zinn "told on himself" several hundred pages before that quote from the afterword. His whole thing is that lots of American history is only told from one side and he wanted to popularize a different view. The
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by kej 3y ago
Reminds me of one of my favorite quotes from the afterword of Howard Zinn's A People's History of the United States : >But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the w
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by kej 3y ago
It's a few links deep, but the order page is here: https://www.ceds.dev/pidp $270 for the kit plus $45 shipping, more if you want them to assemble it for you, and you provide the Pi.
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by kej 3y ago
That reminds me that Zachtronics Solitaire is available on Android. It's the solitaire minigames from all the Zachtronics games, plus a new tarot-based solitaire just for this collection.
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by kej 3y ago
I used the briefcase with my first 32MB flash drive to keep school files synced between home and the computer lab (and with tons of space left over!).
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by kej 3y ago
The variations of "an h-" are one of my favorite things to stumble on, because it's one of the few times that the written word tells you what kind of accent the writer has.
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by kej 3y ago
I get the same feeling reading about Fossil as I do when thinking about how Netscape almost used Scheme in the browser or imagining if Babbage had completed the analytical engine in his lifetime or the Romans had built a steam engine. Like
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by kej 3y ago
If you were worried about someone getting the password from your will before your death, you could use Shamir's secret sharing algorithm to spread a password among friends and relatives with instructions to not use it until after your
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by kej 3y ago
I went snooping in your HN profile to find the link, and that is a really well done site. Clean design, relevant pictures, and interesting material. It's probably going to cost me an hour or two of productivity today. Link for people l
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by kej 3y ago
Idle curiosity: did reading that give you any kind of "connection" to your grandfather? I've been on a genealogy kick lately and I like when I can find artifacts from relatives I never knew, but I'm curious whether somet
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by kej 3y ago
Lewis probably stated it better than anyone else, but the argument predates him (and Russell, for that matter): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma
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by kej 3y ago
One of the most interesting reading experiences I have ever had was my library's copy of this book, in which a previous reader had added extensive commentary in the margins from a Muslim perspective. It was a fascinating mixture of agr
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by kej 3y ago
>this shot needed to be done right or it couldn't have been done again for years to come There were 32 U.S. launches that year. They could have tried again in a matter of weeks. For all we know this was the third or fourth attempt.
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by kej 3y ago
Justwatch.com is great for checking if a movie or show is available on any of your streaming services (also handy for keeping a cross-service watchlist that will notify you when something becomes available). No relation, just a happy user.
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by kej 3y ago
This is great, it reminds me of the feeling of cruising around in FreeSpace.
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Idle curiosity: what was the step between "he got to know the guys there" and "started on his path of programming"? How did he turn knowing some computer guys into becoming one?
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It's not like he was able to do fan fiction without long-winded diatribes, either.
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It's not quite so lopsided when you look at the whole picture, but it doesn't make as good of a talking point: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/fact-check-richest-1...
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by kej 3y ago
It seems like you could combine this extension with some of the OpenAPI -> Python projects to get your desired result. (e.g. https://github.com/wy-z/requests-openapi )
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Anecdotal, but I think my son's math skills owe at least as much to the Numberblocks videos [0] as they do to my math degree and insistence on showing my kids some related interesting thing whenever they have a math question. [0] http
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by kej 3y ago
I like the part about not infringing on BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment's honor. Going to start including that in my licenses. Google translate link for the curious: https://www-pacman-com.translate.goog/jp/policy/

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