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by memco 7y ago
I used one of the popular hosts files on my local machine for a while: the networking didn’t seem to suffer, but the boot time for my machine slowed noticeably. And manual updates were painful because loading the file in an editor is slow s
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by memco 7y ago
I like `50ch` myself, but it's still workable up to about 65ch. (Aside) look into the ch unit if you've not used it since it is width based vs em which is height based it is a great choice for something like line lengths.
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by memco 7y ago
For all those who hate trying to read this as a tweet: please see parents’ link. There’s a whole site built to compile all these into a blog like thing for you.
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by memco 7y ago
To add to this: - check the contrast accessibility: it seems very poor for read-only fields due to the opacity. Even the default seems low for body text. I think there’s great documentation of customization, but I had a few questions relate
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by memco 7y ago
Just rewatched this talk on Monday from last year where Safari was called out for the rAF behavior that was fixed here. Cool to see this change. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cCOL7MC4Pl0
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by memco 7y ago
There’s a very similarly named “Loren Pixel” service which offers categories (but from a different image set): http://lorempixel.com/
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by memco 7y ago
Thanks so much for the link! I think this is a powerful idea and look forward to studying it more.
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by memco 7y ago
This is the only comment I have bookmarked in my years of lurking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18964418 > The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior (in whose honor I had a day off of work today) never once c
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by memco 8y ago
> If there was a native widget that worked better than any of the current javascript-enhanced widget and could be styled to fit the website around it, lots of people would use it. Maybe not the top 50 web pages in world, but lots of deve
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by memco 8y ago
Since we're on the subject: I was just looking into https://standardjs.com and wondering about how others are using these kinds of tools. It seems you've made extensive use of formatters: what made you decide on the on
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by memco 8y ago
Disabled people who are unable to operate a vehicle need to work too. Sometimes jobs are too far for public transportation to be an option. What should they do instead?
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by memco 8y ago
I was very frustrated watching the first of the newest Star Trek movies when Checkov runs to grab control of the teleporter to catch the two falling crew members plummeting towards the planet surface: as though in the age when it’s possible
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by memco 8y ago
CSS animation is a fairly general concept but it is limited in some cases such as this by the fact that the renderer and spec have certain constraints that don’t play nice for the animation system. More specifically an animation might incre
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by memco 8y ago
Meanwhile Apple is charging $1,200 for a 1 TB MacBook upgrade. Hoping this year we see a significant jump in consumer availability of these drives. I’ve been using a 512gb laptop since 2010 at least. Would be nice to start seeing multi-terr
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by memco 8y ago
I accidentally sat on my 2017 iPad and bent it a bit. It was fairly easy to bend it back. Depending on the extent of the bend it might be possible to straighten these out as well. Of course this isn’t ideal, but it should be possible to cre
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by memco 8y ago
One of my most favorite things on MacOS is that cod+? Opens the help search menu which you can use to type the name of a command you want to run but don’t know where to find or what combo it uses. It’s especially useful for menu items that
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by memco 8y ago
> Google Maps can't even do offline navigation and rerouting. The iOS Google maps does offline navigation. I used it just this weekend on a long distance trip. You have to download the data beforehand, but if you have downloaded the
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by memco 8y ago
In my area a lot of gas stations are now using signs with two prices: the cash price and the credit card price with the cash price being lower. It seems some merchants are starting to be able to handle this at scale to rebalance. It seems t
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by memco 8y ago
Eventually I was able to figure things out and more or less the process was simple enough using the config file. However, there are several behaviors that are atypical for OSX applications such as missing conventional system shortcuts and s
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by memco 8y ago
Tried it out and it seems ok. It does seem quite responsive and wasn't too hard to customize. Doesn't have a lot of discoverability out of the box since there's no menus: I had to search through the config file to figure out
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by memco 8y ago
One thing I didn’t know until I had owned my MacBook Pro for awhile is that the haptics for the trackpad can be changed. I always felt the click was too shallow and I had hard time dragging files. When I played with the settings I learned t
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by memco 8y ago
LTO has to rewind in certain circumstances. The file listing can be browsed without having to seek, but the accessing the content, writing or erasing cannot. Still somewhat unlikely it was LTO, but probably not due to the rewinding.
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by memco 8y ago
Plus one for FTFY: recently went through some pains converting shell output with some funky encodings to XML compliant UTF8. FTFY was the simplest and most effective solution I found for getting the desired outcome without mangling anything
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by memco 8y ago
This is a great article with a lot of useful resources. One thing I like in theory, but feel pain doing in practice, is generating color palettes for each new web project. There doesn't seem to be a good tool to just spit out a full bl
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by memco 8y ago
For me it’s the split pane features. I know tmux and screen can do this, but I feel like it’s a better experience in iterm.
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by memco 8y ago
Yeah, I’m wondering about this too. I like transparent windows and font ligatures so as much excitement as I have about this, I won’t be able to use it unless these limitations can be eliminated. I’ll keep using iTerm regardless, but it wou
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by memco 8y ago
Maybe they should just go full hog and make this their mascot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tit_(bird)
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by memco 8y ago
Looks great and helps lay out certain things in a concise manner. Seeing some visual bugs with headings. https://devhints.io/xpath for example, currently has misaligned sub headers for most of the sections.
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by memco 8y ago
Joking or not, Sublime renders emoji just fine as far as I can see. I am not using them for variables, but they are sometimes embedded in strings, and in this case it's nice that they render correctly. How does Atom improve emoji exper
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by memco 8y ago
I am an ~/.ssh/config user. I have all the servers I connect to organized and use a convention like this: Host $company-$project-$location-$server HostName $IP Host *$company* # Gateway Settings You can specify spec

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