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by kpozin 6y ago
A feature I've long wanted to see in a photo management tool is ranking based on pairwise comparisons. Say you went on a trip and had 200 "keeper" photos, but that's still too many to publish in an online album, and many
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by kpozin 6y ago
> Make a web framework that renders the UI entirely as mapped images. This is in fact what Microsoft Publisher (late 90s WYSIWYG web development tool) used to do if you dared to make any page elements overlap.
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by kpozin 7y ago
Bay Area counties, as of 2020-03-15: Alameda County: 15 cases Contra Costa County: 29 cases Marin County: 5 cases Napa County: 0 reported cases San Francisco County: 37 cases San Mateo County: 32 cases, 1 death Santa
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by kpozin 7y ago
This is a problem that the city already faces during every school vacation and for 2.5 months every summer. Surely there must already be some functioning solutions. (For example, many NYC schools serve breakfast and lunch to children under
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by kpozin 7y ago
Are we researching other potential global cataclysms to look forward to?
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by kpozin 7y ago
I would guess that Italy's severe Covid-19 cases and available hospital beds have very different geographic distributions.
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by kpozin 7y ago
I really wish some Linux-based terminal emulator would copy this feature.
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by kpozin 7y ago
Interesting, I haven't been able to find any acknowledged connections between the two. Do you have any references you could share? The two works were linked in my mind back when I was watching Lost , and my impressions of them were ve
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by kpozin 7y ago
In my profile, they managed to obtain a `PURCHASE` event from Macy's -- for an in-person purchase at a physical store . Macy's has my email address and certainly linked it to my credit card number, but this is nonetheless serious
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by kpozin 7y ago
I think you meant "Auxiliary Power Unit," not "Axillary Power Unit." Most planes lack armpits :)
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by kpozin 7y ago
The "25% Jewish" figure is based on decades-old data from Hillel (an umbrella organization of Jewish campus organizations). In a 2016 survey, 14% of Harvard students identified as Jewish. [1] More recent surveys indicated <10%.
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by kpozin 7y ago
Keigo Higashino's novels, or something else?
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by kpozin 7y ago
Does anyone know of good articles about parallelism in modern game engines? All I've been able to find is a couple of slides in a deck about Doom 2016.
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by kpozin 7y ago
Ever try to click on a LinkedIn profile from a search result? Most of them just show a LinkedIn login screen, and none of the text from the search result's snippet.
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by kpozin 7y ago
This brings back memories. I was the editor of this publication many, many years later, in 2005, but I've never seen the really old back issues. We had significantly more content than in 1957, but there was a lot more fluff. (All of th
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by kpozin 7y ago
They strongly imply that the difference is the shipping being included in the online price. In-store displays often say "May be available on costco.com at a shipped price."
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by kpozin 7y ago
On the other hand, when the jack is on the bottom, if you plug in headphones and want to put the phone in your pocket, you have to place it upside down.
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by kpozin 7y ago
It would be great to crowd-source data on whether Netflix's audio track matches the subtitles for a particular film. Even when the original audio language and subtitle language match, the subtitles often paraphrase the spoken dialogue,
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by kpozin 8y ago
> "[...] Who are you?" > "A friend!" Shouted back the man. He ran toward Zaphod. > "Oh yeah?" said Zaphod. "Anyone's friend in particular, or just generally well-disposed to people?" Ada
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by kpozin 8y ago
My low-end Canon DSLR from 2011 powers on and is ready to shoot in ~2 seconds. I can keep the camera turned on for hours at a time (with the screen off except while taking pictures) without any noticeable effect on the battery charge level.
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by kpozin 8y ago
I'm in the same boat. Have you found any decent replacement for WebFaction?
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by kpozin 8y ago
Was this IBM School Vista by any chance? The login screen was a school entrance with yellow buses, the main screen was a student desk in a classroom, and the application launcher was a bookshelf in the classroom. One of my friends and I als
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by kpozin 8y ago
One important fact that many "baby-naming" materials gloss over is that you're choosing not a baby name, but a person name. The child will carry that name for their entire life, including adolescence and adulthood, unless
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by kpozin 8y ago
Be aware that not having a reaction the first time(s) you take fluoroquinolones is no guarantee that it won't happen later. I had had several exposures to levofloxacin (a very bad ear infection) and ciprofloxacin (post-surgery prophyla
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A $3B Plan to Turn Hoover Dam into a Giant Battery(nytimes.com)
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by kpozin 8y ago
What if you're using Bluetooth headphones for 8-10 hours per day for music / blocking out noise?
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by kpozin 9y ago
> Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., offered a bill last year that would have actually allowed the government to start offering prefill tax returns. Ironically, just last year, Massachusetts got rid of its own simple, free online tool for f
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by kpozin 9y ago
Counter-anecdote: for the past ~5 years, I've been taking Amtrak (usually Northeast Regional) between NYC and Boston every couple of months. Trains leaving Boston South Station almost always leave exactly on time. On the other hand, th
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by kpozin 9y ago
There are numerous things to do while visiting NYC that are much more interesting, and unique to the NYC experience, than physically shopping.
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by kpozin 9y ago
In the U.S., it seems absurd to even consider Bitcoin (or any other cryptocurrency) for small day-to-day transactions like Steam purchases. Under the current IRS guidance, every sale or exchange of cryptocurrency is a taxable event. That me

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