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by kps 3y ago
Or change your monitor's colour temperature setting. It probably defaults to 6500K, and you want something in the 5000K–6000K range.
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by kps 3y ago
All the recent ones sound like noise, of course, but this one is musical: https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Inmarsat-D(D%2B)_Downlink
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by kps 3y ago
Whenever I hear ‘stakeholder’ I assume someone is about to be stabbed through the heart. I've never been wrong.
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by kps 3y ago
Then you get programs having splits or panels or whatever they're called for multiple documents, which is just an internal window manager that's not as good as my regular window manager.
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by kps 3y ago
I recall a particular phone app controlling thermostat settings with a beautifully styled row of buttons: Ⓢ Ⓜ Ⓣ Ⓦ Ⓣ Ⓕ Wednesday Thursday Friday, indeed.
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by kps 3y ago
Breaks searching, too.
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by kps 3y ago
Old MacOS was good, until they started gradually making it phonelike. The original Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines¹ was solid work. (The big flaw, as usual, forced on the professionals from above: the form-over-function one-button mo
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by kps 3y ago
Whatever the monitor, you will want to adjust it after buying. Default ‘showroom’ settings are much too bright unless you're working outdoors. Start with something like https://www.photofriday.com/info/calibrate o
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by kps 3y ago
> Also, we wouldn't need "dark mode" or the such … People with cataracts may benefit from dark mode. People with glaucoma or higher order aberrations (e.g. me) may benefit from light mode. Web sites should use `prefers-col
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by kps 3y ago
LSP is still (last I checked) missing one nice feature that cscope had 30 years ago: distinguishing between read and write references to a variable. Unfortunately it (as mlcscope) didn't keep up with C++ and ultimately vanished.
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by kps 3y ago
Once again, it's up to the vendor . You submit your test reports showing compliance with the standards, and you get your certification. The only ‘pick and choose’ here would be by Xiaomi who apparently don't think the Canadian ma
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by kps 3y ago
No one is saying they cause harmful interference. It's up to the vendor to get certified that they don't. You can't sell an uncertified radio transmitter. It's not a conspiracy.
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by kps 3y ago
I don't think “harmful to public health” is a consideration. Pretty much every country with a functioning government requires RF certification for electronics, but especially radio transmitters. It's never going to be worth hunt
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by kps 3y ago
Maybe they're under a different name, but I don't see any Xiaomi phones on the REL, so I'd guess the ‘secret spat’ is lack of RF certification.
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by kps 3y ago
A mistake, IMO; I want to be able to see right away whether a call target is static or dynamic.
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by kps 3y ago
1963 ASCII was upper-case only, and many early terminals (notably for Unix, including the Teletype 33) were upper case only. `stty lcase`, which maps upper-case input to lower case, existed early — https://www.tuhs.org/cgi-b
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by kps 3y ago
That (also) came from BCPL. (BCPL had a separate `endcase` statement; `break` applied only to loops. It also had `docase ‹expr›`, which is the equivalent of a loop `continue`, re-entering the `switchon`.)
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by kps 3y ago
Altavista started turning to shit as soon as it was no longer an Alpha demo. That was a major reason Google took off so quickly.
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by kps 3y ago
I miss boolean search operators.
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by kps 3y ago
Not that commenter, but I also use mlterm and have for years, even though I don't normally use BIDI or other ‘exotic’ language capabilities. It is just a terminal, in the do-one-thing-well sense. Its downside is its somewhat idiosync
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by kps 3y ago
Most of the ones in common use now are an actual terminal standard, ANSI X3.64 aka ISO 6429 aka ECMA-48¹. Most of the others in common use come from xterm extensions. ¹ https://www.ecma-international.org/wp-content/up
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by kps 3y ago
> … resources browsing the web, running radios That's the whole point of webp, though.
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by kps 3y ago
> I don't think I would watch 90 minutes in a foreign language. In the past I watched quite a lot of non-English film (mostly in European languages) and always prefer subtitles. For me, there is a mental synthesis so that it's
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by kps 3y ago
When this comes up, I like to quote Dennis Ritchie on `noalias`: “the committee is planting timebombs that are sure to explode in people's faces”; “a license for the compiler to undertake aggressive optimizations that are completely le
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by kps 3y ago
‘Mechanical’ has practically nothing to do with keyboard acoustics. Take a typical mechanical keyswitch, like a Cherry MX brown, loose on it own, and press it: it's practically silent.
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by kps 3y ago
Yes, 360 is a superior highly composite number, and we would move through the sky exactly 1° per day.
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by kps 3y ago
We should draw tidal power until there are exactly 360 days in a year, to make the arithmetic nice, and incidentally give us 24 minutes extra sleep.
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by kps 3y ago
“Unless your workflow (and hardware) comes from 20+ years ago, you have almost no reason to stick with Xorg” Well, I open a bunch of windows, and switch between them, raise, lower, and sometimes move or resize them with a window manager. So
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by kps 3y ago
As Mitch Hedberg once said, :2s/wa/i/g
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by kps 3y ago
This is how TECO worked explicitly. The general operation syntax is [count] command [argument ESC] I have never seen direct confirmation that vi commands were modelled on TECO, but they seem too similar for it be entirely coinciden

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