qwertyboy

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by qwertyboy 14y ago
TL;DR The Mercator projection is a solution to a problem that does not exist in Google Earth. Projections, Mercator included, are ways to map a 3D shape (the globe) onto a static 2D surface (a map). Google Earth uses a dynamic 2D surface (a
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
You can use pretty much any webcam or phone cam to see well into the infra-red. If you turn off the lights and look at the device - and especially at your hand using it - through such a camera, you are likely to see the IR and gain some ext
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
Ack is sweet. Ag is sweeter: http://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
If you like vimium, pentadactyl and vimperator, but wished you could have them without chrome or firefox, check out uzbl, luakit and dwb - three examples of webkit based browsers that adhere to the UNIX philosophy of doing one thing well.
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
> Flash is only available in Chrome and not Chromium Flash is available in Chromium. It plugs right in.
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
No, in this case it's actually not. Mathematically. See your parent for proof. And please do not bring the "a billion flies can't be wrong" argument into this.
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by qwertyboy 14y ago
Forget about the speed. Using the right tool for the right job makes you feel better while you work. This not only increases productivity and quality of the product, it also keeps your workers sane. The obsession with finding the right edit
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
Autojump rocks! Currently I am using [fasd]( https://github.com/clvv/fasd ), which is inspired by Autojump but works for stuff other than cd.
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
Oh my, this site failed so miserably on my browser (luakit)... All the animations just went wrong, bits of the page were missing or cut beyond the screen, stuff got jumbled and hid the text... Maybe I'm just too textually oriented, but that
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
My experience was that it started out great. I found great recommendations for books, bands, foods - even drugs. But then they tweaked it. They changed something in the settings, or maybe their index changed as they grew, and it simply stop
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
Actually, Ctrl-c is the fastest way to get back to normal mode. Unlike Ctrl-[ and <Esc>, it does not check for abbreviations and does not trigger InsertLeave. And on most keyboards it's even easier to type.
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
dtach is very tempting. Is there a nice way to keep all the scrollback history?
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
It's called IRC.
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by qwertyboy 15y ago
Visible light penetrates the skin rather well. That's why you can see blood vessels and bruises and strong lights through closed eyelids. UV penetrates the skin even better, and is by far the more dangerous of the three spectra you mentione