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by nicwolff 6y ago
The easy way is to remember that the hour following 12 pm is clearly in the afternoon, so 12 pm must be noon.
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Mnemonic. ツ
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Wow, just looking through that tells me jQuery still adds a lot of value.
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It's vice versa, and this may be a small thing but it's my top example of how little they care about usability or product quality!
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by nicwolff 6y ago
Jira has two different WYSIWYG fields for issue descriptions. The one in the edit-issue form understands Markdown, but the one in the create-issue form doesn't. It's been this way for at least a couple of years. Jira could become
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by nicwolff 6y ago
Last year I ordered a high-priced item from Newegg, received a different model from a reseller, and returned it – then ordered it from Walmart and got the same different model from the same reseller! Finally CDW sent me the correct product.
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I have a 55" commercial LG "Wallpaper" OLED and it is "dumb" and gorgeous – and mounts flat to the wall at only 4mm thick! No 4K, no HDR, don't miss them a bit. No apps, no ads, no features at all really; one H
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by nicwolff 6y ago
Probably because (too) many people use them as OIDC providers for many other sites. "Log in with..." &c.
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by nicwolff 6y ago
Bash has let you indent heredocs with `<<-` since version 4!
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As of the September release of Compose version 1.27.0 https://github.com/docker/compose/releases/tag/1.27.0 the config format versions 2 and 3 are merged and "depends_on" – and "extends&qu
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Denon HEOS
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I keep this "Kill sticky" bookmarklet in Favorites for hotkey activation https://github.com/t-mart/kill-sticky and hit it immediately when a page shows a modal, or to delete a fixed header that is making pagi
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Four days ago: NASA’s SOFIA Discovers Water on Sunlit Surface of Moon https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-wa...
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North Sails' 3Di tech? They make precisely curved sails for racing yachts. https://www.northsails.com/sailing/en/innovation/3di-technol...
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Pricing vs standard SNS topics, from https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/ Standard topics: > First 1 million Amazon SNS requests per month are free, $0.50 per 1 million requests thereafter FIFO topics: > Publ
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by nicwolff 6y ago
In an enterprise production environment, it's much easier to update a JSON schema, which is stored as data, than to alter the DB schema. The point of having a JSON field isn't to let everyone with write access to the API stick wha
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I suggest adding `details_schema JSONB` and validating `details` against it. Now you can still add fields to `details` without deploying code changes, but every dev in the company won't throw random garbage in there – or expose that fi
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It's the rhetorical figure called "litotes" and has been common in many languages now and throughout linguistic history. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litotes
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I bought an LG OLED Wallpaper signage display; it wasn't cheap, or easy to get, but it makes a fantastic TV, with no "apps" or "ads", just one HDMI input for an Apple TV (which I run through a Denon HEOS A/V re
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"Current status: Rolling back the previously described change did not resolve the incident as expected. We're evaluating additional options to remediate the problem."
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No idea what you're talking about. N95s like the 9205+ shown in the article are lightweight and not less comfortable or harder to put on/off than any cloth mask. I do re-staple the bands to make mine go behind the ear instead of a
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by nicwolff 6y ago
"just works" – unless your iPhone is sideways. Or you're wearing polarized sunglasses. Or you're lying on your side in bed. Or your iPhone is flat on the table. Or...
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No contest: Trump harasses journalists at every rally – by now, hundreds or thousands of them. And whistle blowers? He fired Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman and his brother after Vindman testified. His lackeys in the House exposed the IRS w
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And five more who have expressed varying degrees of support or credence: https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/12/politics/qanon-congressional-...
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For more fun, have your screenshots sent to a folder, then have a LaunchAgent run pngcrush on new files in that folder...
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It's the culture – but that starts with the leadership. These videos are messages to the entire fleet from the head of all US Naval operations, three weeks ago and then yesterday. The first is a call to humbly listen, and the follow-up
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This makes the old 4" SE still viable too! Apple was still selling them until late last year – it's a fantastic little phone (with an obsolete camera) – and you can get them refurbished for about $100. Highly recommended if you wa
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Somewhere in a paper file I have the faxes that I exchanged with the office of the Prime Minister of Tuvalu back in about 1995 trying to explain the value of their TLD and how my (little) company could help them monetize it. Embarrassingly,
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> Assuming Hey followed standard email service protocol They didn't. https://hey.com/faqs/#can-i-check-my-hey-email-with-my-exist...
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I think you mean < json jq . | less

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