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by russellbeattie 4y ago
I assumed this link would have been one of the top comments! All the other links in this thread combined don't shed light on the topic nearly as well as CGP Grey's video.
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
This definitely works. I've been listening to brown noise and binaural beats for years now. The problem of course (and I swear this isn't a joke), I inevitably forget how well it works and stop. I'll have it in the background
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Don't delete your account - it'll only get reused by someone else and cause confusion. In January 2016 - for the same reasons as Phil: Twitter's blind eye towards Trump - I stopped using Twitter. But I didn't delete my a
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Whatever OpenAudible.org's default options are obviously aren't as efficient.
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Hmm... well, I do tend to try to maximize the amount of listening I get per credit, so I have lots of 20+ hour books. Stephen Fry's reading of the complete works of Sherlock Holmes is nearly 63 hours [1] and that's just a "si
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
I'll chime in with my random bit of knowledge about a similar topic. Chrome has a bug where if you dynamically create an iframe (document.write(), .createElement(), .innerHTML, etc.), the parent page's Service Worker isn't in
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
A few months ago I decided on a whim that I should download and de-drm my Audible audiobooks. I have a lot of them from a decade+ of monthly credits being used. I hadn't really considered how much space it would take up so I just set o
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Alcohol, or some other sort of addictive vice, seems key to adult friendships. Alcoholics have lots of friends, as do gamblers, obsessive exercisers, inveterate golfers, sex addicts, drug addicts, sports fanatics, gamers, etc. American soci
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
When I was a teen, my next door neighbor raised sheep and I helped with various tasks for pocket money and sheep are indeed sheep. The large gate could be wide open, but they wouldn't go through until you got one past the line, then th
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Ooh, I like the idea of using "Web Pi" for next gen web standards as a way of one-upping the idiots who hijacked "Web3". Very geeky, as is expected of the web. webπ, or webPi? wπ looks too small. And wwwπ looks like some
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
It would be great if the browser makers adopted something similar to SingleFile as a standard to replace MIME HTML. Though I think SingleFile should be updated a bit to take advantage of new APIs to make the output page cleaner. With a smal
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
.webarchive is just a binary plist, only works on Apple OSes and has security issues. I posted about the various ways to encapsulate HTML last week, including SingleFile, for those who are interested. https://www.russellbeattie.c
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
It's basically an HTML word processor. It can create, save and edit .html files as documents. (Plus it has a bunch of other little features listed on the site, but that's the gist of it.) There are lots of WYSIWYG HTML editor lib
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
I'm working on exactly that right now! My next blog post will be a "proposal" for a standard, which I'm going to also post to the W3C working group forums to see if I can get traction from standards committees/brows
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
> Still, bundling is kind of essential Heh. I agree, actually. And even though I wrote all that, it was partly to convince myself to stop thinking about it. It didn't work. Here's a prototype I finished last night for a secure,
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
(Self promotion, sorry, but relevant.) I believe that the time has finally come to fulfill TBL's "Phase 2" so I created a prototype a few weeks ago. It's just an HTML editor made to create HTML Documents. Not web sites,
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
The "OS Recent Files Integration" blew up my dock icon so now instead just showing open windows, it's filled with random files I happened to touch. How is this useful? I'll edit 20 files in a sitting regularly. Also, it
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
OMG, no. We need to bring text editing into the 21st century where rich text is standardized across all platforms and devices. We can send multicolored emoji to just about any device on the planet, but we still can't bold, italicize, u
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Ugh. The "OS Recent Files Integration" blew up my dock icon so now instead just showing open windows, it's filled with random files I happened to touch. How is this useful? I'll edit 20 files in a sitting regularly. Also
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
This is the best way to hard boil eggs as well.
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
It's my personal blog, with no ads, and I didn't submit this post to HN. I just used H2G2 as that's what came to mind as I was typing the title. Not everyone is out for eyeballs.
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Interesting... It never made sense to me that a spaceship captain just would happen to have chestnuts on board his ship, so I guessed it might be something like candies. A generic term for things that amuse children works too. I still feel
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
If the ads produce results, then the advertisers will be back as soon as the dust settles. This isn't even a question. Businesses follow the money. If Coke doesn't advertise, Pepsi will happily pick up the slack, etc. It's on
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
But that's OK - not using additional sensors is cheaper, easier to calibrate and causes less noise in the data so the engineering cost is lower as well. Every complex technology project needs to have priorities, after all.
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Heh, you're not wrong. I've thought for a while there should be some sort of valid, but easily hand-written version of HTML5 where any text between two newlines is considered a paragraph. That alone would go a long way to making H
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Just treat HTML like any other markup text. Markdown doesn't concern itself with images, CSS or syntax highlighting either, why does HTML have to? Since Markdown requires a build step, there's no reason to dismiss the idea for H
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
I still cannot believe MDN decided to abandon web standards for the garbage that is Markdown. Worse yet, they seem proud of themselves for doing it. Rather than actually solve the problem of filtering WYSIWYG input/output, providing
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Wikipedia has a nice summary of the various "lightweight markup languages", including a comparison of syntax, and how each one converts into HTML. [1] As I wrote last week in a post that got flamed to pure carbon here on HN, the a
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
≥ I have a lot of funny memories about phrase books and things going wildly wrong Exactly this! Phrase books give you just enough of the language to get into trouble, but never enough to get you out of it. Like third-year Spanish students
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by russellbeattie 4y ago
Thinking about this later, I realized that this script isn't even recursive. I think we've been Tom Sawyered, but I couldn't resist. I grabbed a Takeout zip I had hanging around and wrote this: import fs from 'fs&#

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