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by lelandfe 1y ago
And pray they never wake
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by lelandfe 1y ago
A recent mobile web A/B test on Reddit will tell you when opening a link that the subreddit has not “been reviewed” and blocks access unless you open on the app or login. They’re this close to just 100% shutting down the mobile web ver
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Please don’t inline a whole font to avoid a momentary flash. You’re worsening every page’s load to avoid a stutter on one. Here’s what is still the authority on this https://www.industrialempathy.com/posts/high-performa
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Energy expenditure and obesity across the economic spectrum(pnas.org)
4 points by lelandfe 1y ago|0 comments
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Thanks for the heads up, added to the list
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Also talked about in Michael Lewis’s book Fifth Risk .
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Nice one, never seen this
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by lelandfe 1y ago
It’s literally the sliding doors technique from, uh, two decades ago https://alistapart.com/article/slidingdoors/
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by lelandfe 1y ago
(you probably meant should not replace your scent)
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Without reading the paper… There seems to be fog everywhere - but it’s the beautiful and natural fog of London intermingling with the stinking haze of pollution. The use of “great” is interesting because it seems like the city was about to
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Rex's Dino Store(rexs.nyc)
2 points by lelandfe 1y ago|0 comments
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Yes, it’s your bubble. There are American states still charging people over marijuana. Having grown up Christian I personally know people in their 30s who view psychedelic and heroin users similarly. Those people would have the opposite v
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by lelandfe 1y ago
– Jimi Heselden
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by lelandfe 1y ago
I’m not sure I see the upside. Do you have an example you like?
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Yes, an incredibly rare use of double apostrophes in English! More uncommonly you'll see bo's'n as well, for boatswain.
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by lelandfe 1y ago
If you think castle is bad, wait till you hear forecastle (“fok-sul”)
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Aerosmith (e: Van Halen) banned brown M&Ms from their dressing room for shows and wouldn’t play if they were present. It was a sign that the venue hadn’t read the rider thoroughly and thus possibly an unsafe one (what else had they miss
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by lelandfe 1y ago
How to make git an elephant: https://donatstudios.com/yagni-git-gc
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A Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni(eldalamberon.com)
59 points by lelandfe 1y ago|20 comments
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by lelandfe 1y ago
I still remember a decade on the little pop of joy of realizing that not only do all the graphics on that blog post change when moving from flat to pointy, the code animates too. The interactive graphics evoke all the fun of being a child
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by lelandfe 1y ago
> a hidden column in the Chrome task manager that shows how many goats a browser process has teleported Was very dissatisfied to find this no longer works. Here's an old post with a screenshot: https://www.100-geek.net&
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Stephenson enjoys the word. He also used it in Cryptonomicon . I keep a running list of new words I encounter and share them online occasionally. Someone once recognized I was reading Cryptonomicon just from a string of those new words,
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by lelandfe 1y ago
In contrast to Pirates IIRC, which is me trying to remember the name of that one Sid Meier's game
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by lelandfe 1y ago
12 years on you can get the original creator back to storyboard everything, hire back the old VO team, and still have people complaining the show is too different :P
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by lelandfe 1y ago
For a lot of great behind the scenes artwork: https://characterdesignreferences.com/art-of-animation-8/art... I used to have an artist roommate obsessed with the art style of the show. If anyone hasn't yet watched
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by lelandfe 1y ago
> Consider a scenario like "convincing a third party that you got a high score on the pinball machine" I'm imagining some barfly drinking next to me trying to assure me that they're DDOM, the high score on the pinba
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by lelandfe 1y ago
I'm one of those weirdos who really likes handwriting CSS. I frequently find ChatGPT getting my requests wrong.
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by lelandfe 1y ago
> the "drag delay" of popping up "pull right" submenus Funny enough, this was actually removed in the early versions of OS X: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/1999/12/macos-x-dp2/#:~
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Identifying Unmarked Iron(castironcollector.com)
16 points by lelandfe 1y ago|1 comments
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by lelandfe 1y ago
Similar problems on my MBP, actually – just sans crashed tab. Zooming in and scrolling around on Chrome and Safari cause the divs to rerender (repaint?) and often not all of them even do! E.g. Chrome: https://imgur.com/a&#x2

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