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by oxplot 10y ago
Photographs are pretty much as detailed as a painting could be. Writing and poetry however is like a 5 minute sketch where you can fill in the details based on your current state.
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by oxplot 10y ago
One day mid last year I decided to delete all my 10000 photos spanning a decade. The reason built up gradually and it was the emotions these photos evoked that did nothing but get in my way of enjoying/experiencing the now . Whatever&
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by oxplot 10y ago
> realize that if you are procrastinating it might be because part of your brain disagrees with a decision you have made [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9285481
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by oxplot 10y ago
Am I the only one blown away by Google Nearline? From https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/nearline : > Data is available in seconds, not hours or days. With ~3 second response times and 1 cent per GB/mont
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by oxplot 10y ago
I use 0.9.12.2 and it's been rock solid for past 3 months and prior versions equally stable as well.
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by oxplot 10y ago
I agree. This is not vim, it's a hand dryer. User should be able to master it on the first use. This can be fixed by measuring user's hand proximity to both sides and adjusting the air jet flow to keep their hand in the middle.
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by oxplot 10y ago
Yep, but I found over time that I tense my arm muscles before going in and now can keep them fairly steady in the middle without touching. Call it a learning curve I guess.
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by oxplot 10y ago
I can't use anything but MATE + Compiz and mostly because of Compiz'es fantastic functionality and customizability. I'm talking about color filters, grid plugin, and endless others that have no equivalent elsewhere.
729.
by oxplot 10y ago
Finally a possible explanation [1] as to why Apple chargers (USB and laptop) give you tingles when touching the metal casing of the device they're plugged into. Would love to know if the mentioned capacitor is indeed the reason and whe
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by oxplot 10y ago
When I see teardowns for most computers/gadgets, I'm always puzzled by the size of the battery. Somewhere someone decided that battery life barely long enough to sell the product, is good enough. What I expect to see (and I do in
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by oxplot 10y ago
> even when hosting on a major cloud Hosting on anything/anywhere really. Even if one builds clusters with true 100% reliability running on nuclear power buried 100 feet underground, you still have to talk to the rest of the world t
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by oxplot 10y ago
To extent of my knowledge, Prince only implements web standards set by w3. The reason browsers can't do what Prince does is because they lack support for those standards. Wikipedia lists some of what Prince does that others don't:
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by oxplot 10y ago
Recently I've been playing with Prince [1] and I've found it to be very powerful with excellent support for paged media. Given that HTML, CSS, Javascript, SVG is used to build the document, it's also familiar to most people a
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by oxplot 10y ago
> Not only for Youtube videos, but also for a lot of other video hosters Oh ye, the list's pretty comprehensive actually [1]. [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/tree/master/youtube_dl/ext
735.
by oxplot 11y ago
I see the reason for having beginners in any fields at start of college a failure of the primary and secondary education, not that of the student. An effective education system (don't know if one exists) should expose kids to enough va
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GPS Nav Wishlist(blog.oxplot.com)
2 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
"The free supercharging stations I think is a gimmick." "Free" seems mostly to be a matter of perception. Here is Australia, a lot of merchants, especially small grocery shops, charge you an extra 1.5% on purchases with
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by oxplot 11y ago
Not sure if it counts as disruptive but few years ago THINX underwear was on the news [1]. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8021090
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by oxplot 11y ago
Gave it a try. Definitely not useful for running the daemon and view the UI on the same machine. Chrome at least eats 50% of one of the cores to show the realtime data. On my RPi B, the daemon eats 4% average on all four cores, with almost
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by oxplot 11y ago
I follow the data. If a network/USB/Bluetooth program, I fire up wireshark. Text/binary outputting programs, hexdump. Looking at a single piece of invalid output gives me a lot more insight into the problems a lot faster.
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Launching balloons at scale(youtube.com)
1 points by oxplot 11y ago|0 comments
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by oxplot 11y ago
Hmm, here in Australia we've had this law for a long time.
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by oxplot 11y ago
It was a contract and I didn't want to move so it was agreed that I work one week remotely and one week onsite every fortnight.
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by oxplot 11y ago
Compression clothing, from socks to tops are magic. I can definitely confirm that the compression socks I have, despite being very thin, keep my feet warmer than 100% wool socks with added bonus of preventing swellings after long walks&#x2F
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by oxplot 11y ago
I'd like to emphasize the first point. For about six months, I woke up at 4am Monday of every other week to catch a plane to another city to start work at 9am till 6pm. I would not only get everything ready to pack in the morning, but
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by oxplot 11y ago
The author gives some examples of questions to ask which is great. However I find that stories (real or fake) of a complete experience written in third person (or better as a video) is exponentially more helpful in communicating all the sub
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by oxplot 11y ago
Since I first heard of the pen and saw the technical details of it (e.g. latency, tilt feature, palm detection) and general faith in Apple's ability to leapfrog innovate, I knew it'd be a huge deal. I'm not an artist but when
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by oxplot 11y ago
It's not that unix folks don't appreciate it, but that it's not clear what to appreciate. From solely a personal standpoint, years of both using and programming on Windows taught me nothing about its values. However, I can ta
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by oxplot 11y ago
Bias towards Windows is an interesting one. As someone who programmed on Windows for 9 years, I got away with writing code in IDEs and since most apps had GUI and command line was less than worthless, I was never exposed to simple tools tha
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by oxplot 11y ago
I think it should be as dumb and simple as possible and do nothing deviating from normal unix behavior (ie pipe). So it would cache only one chunk of data sent by A and start streaming to the first download request.

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