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by rogual 5y ago
It's a very weird and worrying look into the way people think. There was a company who ran a marketing stunt where they gave you a discount if you were called Karen, and IIRC a social media mob formed, called them racist, and they ende
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by rogual 5y ago
Why are tech people always "embracing" things? We embrace a lot of things but we particularly enjoy embracing evolutionary shifts, sea changes and modern workflows. The call to embrace a new thing often comes from the people who m
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I'd always have this one where I'd be half-asleep in the morning, thinking about a person, event or place, and I'd be confused about whether it was a class or an object. My brain knew that everything has to be one or the othe
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(of America)
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by rogual 5y ago
FYI, WhoIsMyISP.org tells me the name of my city is my ISP, "also known as" the actual ISP name.
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by rogual 5y ago
Not sure, but it might get you banned. HN rules say it's okay to post your own stuff "occasionally". Don't know how they interpret it, though.
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IIRC they thought it would be intuitive to have left-click "place the cursor", just like a word processor. That meant "select object" had to go somewhere else, and ended up on RMB.
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I'm gobsmacked that Senior Wrangler is an actual thing. I thought Terry Pratchett made it up!
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by rogual 5y ago
Comfortable office workers and computer users are more aware now than ever of the billions of people in the world less fortunate than them. It just feels gauche, these days, to get too upset if the loading spinner on your diet tracking app
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by rogual 5y ago
If you want to hear what Joe said in his own words and you don't really care about the WSJ's paywalled opinion on it, his statement is here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/2uxCSxYfyXvERU7cQcoxJb?si=N...
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by rogual 5y ago
Annoyance 8: When I'm using the (good) noise cancelling of the AirPods to eliminate distracting background noise so I can focus, after a few hours the battery will run down to 15% and trigger the EXTREMELY LOUD "PING-pong-pong-pon
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by rogual 5y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible to have some sort of trademarked "Pro-User" badge, and an organization which vets apps and licenses the trademark to them? I know such things exist for "cruelty-free" (i.e. no animal test
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by rogual 5y ago
One big org-mode file, with a hotkey to open it. I don't even use any of the fancy features of org-mode, just collapsible headings and the odd link, TODO or table. It's about 8,000 lines at the moment and gets pruned when I feel l
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The Official Emoji Brand(emoji.com)
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I can only speak for myself, but I'm running Mojave because there are 32-bit apps I need to use for my current project, which any newer version of MacOS will refuse to run.
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by rogual 5y ago
Flash's vector drawing tools were the best in the business, and I think would be very difficult to clone. It was all based on doing boolean operations between bezier splines ("planar maps" I think is a good search term), whic
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by rogual 5y ago
If nothing is truly black, the black paint isn't black either, so I can use it. Checkmate!
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by rogual 5y ago
Yep, if you've signed an agreement to remain a paying customer for a set duration and you pull this, they can send collections after you. In this case, I hadn't.
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I just expect these tactics from periodicals these days. Last time I signed up to one (The Economist) I used a pre-paid debit card for this very reason. Sure enough, they eventually gave me a reason to cancel (popup modals over their online
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by rogual 5y ago
Really? I think it's pretty clear that colorways are just a feature intended to address the whole body experience of what it means to be a person.
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by rogual 5y ago
Do we really have to give this guy the #1 Hacker News story? He was fading into the background so nicely.
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by rogual 5y ago
I love Blender, but have been stuck on version 2.7 due to what I can only describe as some sort of icon dyslexia. For 2.8, all the Blender icons were replaced with monochromatic ones. This is a very popular trend and a lot of programs are r
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by rogual 5y ago
Enlightening, thanks! I had thought maybe a site could in theory use your IP or even just your ability to connect to figure out who it thinks you are, but didn't know this was so common.
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by rogual 5y ago
If CORS is supposed to solve the problem of credentials being sent to third-party sites without the user's knowledge, I don't understand why the solution wasn't just to not send the credentials.
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by rogual 5y ago
Nice. New process definitely sounds cleaner if it supports what your program does, but I think if you have open GUI windows or GPU contexts you want to keep around, the dylib route might be your only option.
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It's a mass noun in some dialects and a count noun in others.
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I've always got the impression it was territorial; "I hereby claim this space"
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"No telemetry / We don't need to know what you do within your browser." OK, good. "Limited Data Collection / We try and take the bare minimum amount of information to keep things running smoothly. " Wait,
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I would think it's probably possible for there to be effective organism designs that nature has never come up with, just because there's no continuous path of gradual improvements that leads there from single-celled life.
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A lot of bloggers love linters, and they will look for any reason to promote them. They will say things like “programmers don’t like to have their code criticized” and “chicken-little reaction” and other excuses. But fundamentally the probl

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