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by kej 4y ago
Tangentially related, but if you haven't read 17776: What Football Will Look Like in the Future, it's an excellent example of using hypermedia to tell a story (and isn't really about football): https://www.sbnation
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by kej 4y ago
You can just do this anyway, you know. Firefox is pretty great these days.
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by kej 4y ago
In the past you could use the images from here [0] to get installs with wifi firmware, but future versions will have it included in the official images. They've worked out of the box on almost all recent (last 5-10 years) systems I&#x2
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by kej 4y ago
I wish more services would use the prepay model that NFSN uses. For personal projects and even some minor business uses, I'd much rather have a site go down than be hit with a surprise bill because I misconfigured something.
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by kej 4y ago
Any plans to make a Firefox version? There are dozens of us still using it.
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Between the passengers and the people who monitor aviation radio data, I'm surprised this story didn't come out sooner.
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by kej 4y ago
I'd happily pay twice that if they would let me.
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by kej 4y ago
If the results for "murder mystery train ride" are anything to go by, it seems like every local scenic railroad offers this.
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by kej 4y ago
Reminds me of Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey from Saturday Night Live: To me, clowns aren’t funny. In fact, they’re kind of scary. I’ve wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed
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by kej 4y ago
How does one go about tracking a robocall back to the OCN? I have time and a strong dislike of scammers.
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by kej 4y ago
Why stop at base-20 when base-1000 is available? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercian_numerals
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by kej 4y ago
Solvitur ambulando, as St. Augustine and/or Lewis Carroll would say.
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by kej 4y ago
It's long abandoned, but there was a Python-based Delphi clone called Boa Constructor based on wxPython. I wonder if that could serve as a starting point for a modern remake. https://sourceforge.net/projects/boa-co
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by kej 4y ago
I spent a lot of time in C# and ASP.Net, and I was struck by how closely this resembled Razor syntax, but with ^ instead of @. Switching to @ would make it slightly more familiar to that cohort, and it might even be possible to build on som
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by kej 4y ago
The tutorial links to an addon that enables this.
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This argument assumes that non-union jobs are all magically perfect meritocracies and that unions provide no benefits other than protecting lazy people. Neither of those things have been true in my experience.
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>Whenever a reading list gets to the front page of HN, I always find the most interesting books to add from the comments! Do you maintain this list publicly anywhere? "Books that have been recommended in HN comments" would be a
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by kej 4y ago
I would have expected the Library of Congress to have thousands or even millions of unidentified photographs, so I'm curious what the reasoning is behind these 17 receiving such special attention.
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by kej 4y ago
That's a thing, too: https://hackaday.com/2020/02/09/c-the-language-for-all-platf...
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Just following up to say that KDE Connect works surprisingly well on Windows, too.
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The change they made last year, which remains in effect, is that repos have to opt in. It probably should have been that way all along.
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Is this publicly available at all? I totally understand if it's just something fun for you and your writer pals, but it sounds amazing and I'd love to see it if possible.
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by kej 4y ago
I loved the CYOA series as a kid, and every trip to the library involved a stop at that shelf. More recently I enjoyed "To Be Or Not To Be", which is Hamlet redone in that style by Ryan North (of Dinosaur Comics/Adventure Tim
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by kej 4y ago
This is one of my favorite Wikipedia articles: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place_nam...
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I knew it wasn't likely, but part of me was hoping the headline meant they were doing something with Keybase.
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As a long time (but very light) Nearly Free Speech user who is also more used to Linux, I'm curious if you ran into specific problems because of them using FreeBSD, or if it was just the general feeling of things being slightly differe
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I was going to bring up Carr Software's Capture the Flag as soon as I saw the headline, and was pleasantly surprised to see it made the cut for the article. A few years ago I finally got around to ordering the full version for my dad,
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From the parent link you can find the pilocator Twitter account, and your can set that to notify your phone whenever there is new inventory. In the U.S., Adafruit has been doing big drops the last few Wednesdays and Thursdays, but you need
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Even better, if you're a AAA member they will do the quote hunting for you. The last two times we bought cars, we test drove a few models, found the one we liked, and then relayed our preferences to the AAA guy. Picked up the car from
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by kej 4y ago
Which is itself a name collision with an earlier Neil Sedaka song.

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