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by nnf 2y ago
I would much rather wait a few hundred milliseconds for a video to start during the few times I decide to watch an embedded video than to wait for the full video player to load every single time I visit a page with an embedded video that
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by nnf 2y ago
> Self-Replication In case anyone is looking for their next book to read, I really enjoyed the Bobiverse series by Dennis E Taylor. It's ongoing, and the audiobooks are very well done (Ray Porter is the narrator). The story is thoug
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by nnf 2y ago
I share your philosophy of wanting more of a buffer between my neighbors and me, and I'm also conscious of trying not to disturb them unnecessarily (mowing too early or too late, using a gas leaf blower when I could use an electric one
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by nnf 3y ago
This is very interesting. One thing I wondered about the per-minute pricing is how to keep a phone agent like this from being kept on the phone in order to run up a bill for a company using it. It'd be very inexpensive to make many aut
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by nnf 3y ago
The original numeric ID(s) can only be decoded if you know the original alphabet that was used for encoding.
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by nnf 3y ago
I use PrinceXML for converting long HTML into PDFs and haven’t had trouble with large documents, though I don’t know if we’re in the same ballpark in terms of file size or element count. It’s expensive but is a one-time purchase (and I thin
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by nnf 3y ago
I’ve had copy fail for whatever reason (maybe a bug, maybe I didn’t press C all the way) and then pasted into a terminal window. Nothing bad has happened, but it certainly could have. While I don’t paste in place of my copy, I do use Cmd+Ct
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by nnf 3y ago
One of my favorites: I didn’t say I took the money. I didn’t say I took the money. I didn’t say I took the money. I didn’t say I took the money. I didn’t say I took the money. I didn’t say I took the money .
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by nnf 3y ago
From Apple’s support page on how to revive or restore after a failed upgrade [1]: > A supported USB-C to USB-C charge cable, such as the one sold by Apple (may not be available in all countries or regions) or a supported USB-A to USB-C c
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by nnf 3y ago
The reason creationists push so hard against the teaching of evolution is that it fundamentally discredits their entire theology. It’s not just about the origin story. If there wasn’t a literal Adam and Eve, then Adam and Eve never sinned b
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by nnf 3y ago
> without religion, there is no such thing as morality. Would you agree that non-human animals aren’t religious? Because we see moral behavior in animals. For example [1]: > In another experiment with rats, researchers find that if a
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by nnf 3y ago
> without a higher power, we have no grounding for our morality. This might be more convincing if we had empirical evidence that this “higher power” even exists and could discern (and thus agree on) what it wants and why what it wants is
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by nnf 3y ago
I read this article about once a year, and it terrifies me every time.
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by nnf 3y ago
Another use for the Option key that I didn't see in the article: if you hold it down and click to another application (or on the desktop), all of the current application's windows will be hidden. It's the same effect as the m
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by nnf 3y ago
Thanks for extracting that interesting tidbit. I was in the same boat, but now I can put a check mark next to "learn something new today."
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by nnf 3y ago
Same with the Pexels API. Their Terms & Conditions help page [1] and license page [2] state: > The Pexels License does not include: > > • the right to compile any Pexels Content to replicate a similar or competing Service; and
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by nnf 3y ago
Simple, data-driven graphics like this is one area where SVG really shines, I think. No need to load a JavaScript charting library if you just want some simple line charts like this. I create SVG images fairly often, and maybe half the time
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by nnf 3y ago
This could be solved by the app developers paying Reddit a portion of what they collect from the users. If Reddit wants $5/mo for each third-party app user, then the app developers could charge what they want above that amount. e.g., A
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by nnf 3y ago
It was way more than $20k, but I didn’t do it for the cost savings. If I remember right, the panels are warranted for 20 years and are supposed to last at least 25, and I think the batteries are guaranteed for 10 years. The batteries are so
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by nnf 3y ago
You’re right about needing to do those other things, but if I can buy a Tesla (or whatever other EV) and charge it from my solar panels, then I’m going to do that so that at least I’m helping move things in the right direction.
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by nnf 3y ago
I mostly agree that the app should only be communicating when exceptional things happen (like failing to save the draft), and my solution of an unnoticeable (but discoverable) status message is meant to give confidence to the users who aren
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by nnf 3y ago
I’m not the GP, I was just pitching in to answer the question about how electric bills can be that low.
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by nnf 3y ago
I have similarly low electric bills for much of the year by way of solar panels and Powerwalls. The solar power is enough to power the whole house (with all electric HVAC & appliances, and no natural gas), charge the batteries, charge t
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by nnf 3y ago
I can’t use a website with flashing anything, and especially so when I’m writing. Then I realized the CMS I make was doing this with a “saving draft / draft saved” notice above the content area and couldn’t believe I’d done this very t
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by nnf 3y ago
More likely they’re still in the “fake it” phase.
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by nnf 3y ago
I've read Sphere by Michael Crichton several times and always enjoy it. I particularly like the way things are seen by some characters and then another character brings an alternate perspective that changes the reader's perception
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by nnf 3y ago
> We had a moral belief in the equality of the races, rooted in Christianity, long before we had the scientific evidence to support that belief. Some Christians might have had that belief, but many racist (and, years earlier, slave-ownin
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by nnf 3y ago
I have no desire to disenfranchise religious people, and I have no problem with democracy. People should be able to vote how they want and seek government policies they want, based on their convictions, religious or otherwise. My point is t
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by nnf 3y ago
I suspect we agree and are saying different things. Yes, people are fully justified in voting their conscience, based on whatever informs that conscience, religious (even supernatural or doctrinal or otherwise). What is not ok is for a bill
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by nnf 3y ago
> What does that matter? It matters because we have a secular government, so we don’t make laws based on people’s religious beliefs, no matter how popular those beliefs may be. Religious people are welcome to live by whatever set of rule

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