mkidd

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by mkidd 1y ago
I looked at several alternatives before settling on GrapheneOS. Many made claims that sounded good but only GrapheneOS had deep technical documentation. I'm not an Android developer so some of it goes over my head but I've written
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by mkidd 3y ago
I've used Calibre for years and I like it a lot. It quite good for creating or editing e-books (oh the ghastly things you see if you look inside an e-book...) The Calibre UX is fine. The real UX divide isn't desktops / laptop
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by mkidd 3y ago
I don't have the latest statistics, but from 2009–2015 the average ACBL member age increased 0.44 years / year and was never less than 0.33 years / year. So the reality is nearly halfway to the joke.
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by mkidd 3y ago
An interesting pair is Saloons of the Old West (Richard Erdoes) and Jacob Hamblin Peacemaker (Pearson H. Corbett), not for contrasting views but rather contrasting visions of the U.S. West. Saloons details the all purpose role of the
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by mkidd 3y ago
Go is a fabulous game (and AlphaGo is a wondrous software—I read the first technical paper immediately). But it's another thing I'd have to do online. Seattle had a go center in the 1990s that still seems to be around. San Diego h
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by mkidd 3y ago
I'm the author. What a weird surprise to see it at 4 am on Hacker News. If you play bridge on BBO you might be interested in my BBO Helper browser extension. It's popular with strong players and streamers (yes, there are bridge st
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by mkidd 3y ago
This is a huge pet peeve for me. Shouldn't this be a “solved” style problem in 2023! I'd gladly fire every tenth web designer responsible for this problem regardless of their other merits. Small fonts are one thing. There are brow
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by mkidd 4y ago
I second frutiger's recommendation of Elliptic Tales: Curves, Counting, and Number Theory . There should be more science and math books at this level but it's rare—either you're assumed to be starting from scratch or to be a
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by mkidd 5y ago
This article is paywalled but here are the articles from Bridge Winners that it references: https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/confession-of-a-self-... https://bridgewinners.com/article/vi