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by paozac 6y ago
There is absolutely no reason for requiring an internet connection for basic features such as setting an alarm or the 12/24h time format. I contacted Garmin customer support and they replied with corporate PR stuff, not answering my qu
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by paozac 6y ago
Do they? Last Garmin product I had was a Vivosmart HR: an internet connection and a Garmin connect account was required to change basic settings such as the display orientation. And there was no way to disable syncing.
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by paozac 6y ago
I remember setting up a Rails 2.x app on Dreamhost in 2009. At that time it was indeed more complicated than PHP (although mod_passenger made it manageable), but Rails was so productive and fun that it was well worth the extra setup effort.
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by paozac 6y ago
Useful article. Getting started with CSS must be harder these days than it was 15-20 years ago. Not only for mobile-friendliness, but also because of the coexistence of flexbox/grid/traditional layouts. I'm wondering if the s
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by paozac 6y ago
I'm afraid that will happen soon
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by paozac 7y ago
Rome has probably the worst record: 111 traffic deaths from January to November 2019.
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by paozac 7y ago
It's very difficult to tell which is the smartest animal - or whether an animal is intelligent or not - because intelligence is a broad concept and there are many kinds of intelligence. If you're interested in this topic a good bo
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by paozac 7y ago
Short, but nice article. If you’re interested in restoration you might enjoy Baumgartner’s YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvZe6ZCbF9xgbbbdkiodPKQ
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by paozac 7y ago
That's what happened so far, but they won't give up. They must have an army of lawyers with nothing better to do.
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by paozac 7y ago
Ten years ago I developed a local rock climbing database called Climbook. Small website (~1000 users), no ads, no money involved. Facebook has spent the last 3 years suing the owner, saying it's a trademark violation. The first two rou
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by paozac 9y ago
Most websites get little benefit from using a SPA architecture, and the negative aspects are significant: - deploy headaches - the infamous JS fatigue - debugging (minified code and nested anonymous functions make it painful) - troubles wit
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by paozac 9y ago
I remember receiving an email I had written to myself a few years before via this website. It's a simple but nice idea; I hope it won't be discontinued or monetized.
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by paozac 9y ago
I've read _The Black Swan_ and was disappointed. He repeats the same concept (that could have been easily expressed in a short article) again and again, while bragging about how clever, cool and refined he is. One of the most obnoxious
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by paozac 9y ago
Definitely. I wonder if there will ever be an attempt to simplify (and make more consistent) the english orthography, similar to the 1996 german orthography reform.
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by paozac 10y ago
I hate the new Apple keyboard, too. The full-height left and right arrow keys (they used to be half-height) have broken a 15-year old muscle memory. I'm tempted to carve them out.
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by paozac 11y ago
You might also enjoy his Robots/Foundation timeline: http://www.sikander.org/foundation.php http://kaedrin.com/fun/asimov/aguide.html
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by paozac 11y ago
True! A few months ago I wanted to install Aperture on a new laptop; since it's been pulled from the App store I couldn't find it anymore, and this is what customer support told me: I've reviewed your request, but as much
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by paozac 11y ago
True. I've been wondering why mainstream films are getting longer, too. 2-2.5 hours has become the norm.
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by paozac 11y ago
Fifteen years ago there were some country-wide ACLs. I wouldn't be surprised if they're still in place.
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by paozac 11y ago
The tree visualization is nice, but if you'd rather use a (Mac only) GPL tool then Gitx-dev, a fork of Gitx, is still pretty good ( http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/ ).
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by paozac 12y ago
car and cdr emojis are very nice
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by paozac 12y ago
Does anybody really like scrolling animations? They make page navigation a nightmare. I hope it's a trend that will die soon.
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by paozac 12y ago
I find this gitx fork pretty good, and it's GPL: http://rowanj.github.io/gitx/
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by paozac 13y ago
In the last 15 years I remember having used as my main editor: TextPad, Vim, KEdit, Textmate, Vim (again), Sublime Text. I consider myself a decent vim user, but went back to non-modal editors, they feel more comfortable to me. My muscle me
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by paozac 13y ago
I would like the geospatial features to be immediately available, and not having to enable them in each individual database. PostGIS setup is well described but I've had a situation where it turned out to be painful. Anyway now I see t
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by paozac 13y ago
I wish the geospatial features were included in the main postgres distribution, rather than being an extension.
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by paozac 14y ago
The Chrome extension apparently adds a user tracking script