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by ryantgtg 5y ago
I’m just a casual user, but three features I really like in Dolphin that I haven’t seen elsewhere: - Split window, so you can have two explorers right next to each other. - Tabs - If you drag a file/folder into another folder, you get
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I’ve used staticman on a few sites and I think it’s great. My sites don’t get a lot of comment action, so merging PRs isn’t an annoyance.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I have no expectation of ever seeing useful recommendations from the sites I frequent. This might be heresy on HN, but by and large recommendation engines are pure trash. Have you ever been recommended a useful product on Amazon? One woul
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
It crashed for me. The images weren’t loading on a blog post, so I chose “turn off content blockers” on my mobile Safari browser, and the page reloaded showing only raw source code. Turning content blockers back on didn’t fix it. Revisiting
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
My tastes are not necessarily similar to my friends. That's actually what makes the email feed cool. I am open to branching out and reading books that I normally wouldn't expect to read. In terms of recommending what I am already
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
In my experience, Goodreads loads slower on a phone than on a desktop browser (and it's only the initial load that I notice being slow). I've long suspected (without evidence) that this is intentional because they nerf the mobile
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Counterpoint: Goodreads isn't broken. It's not at all broken for me, nor for my friends. As the article up top says, there are two ways to discover books: incidental discovery and intentional discovery. On Goodreads, incidental di
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Take my dollar! Seems like linktr.ee does a good job of aggregating links. So, the "donate" link could link to that, which then displays a bunch of options. However, I believe that a familiar icon - like the patreon icon - helps p
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I replaced a 12V battery on my car this morning, thanks to a youtube vid. I didn't try any alternative sources, because the 2 minute video was perfect! And I didn't get sucked into any other vids or see any ads or anything. My rec
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Have you tried Patreon? I had the same experience with a donation button. But a Patreon button magically gave us steady money to support infrastructure.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Anecdote: My dad was in the music industry in the 80s, and he knew song writers. He joked about how funny it was to hear, for example, a (male) friend singing a demo of “Like A Virgin.”
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Growing up in Santa Barbara, I would see something like this everyday. Freighters going through the channel, the oil derricks, and the Channels Islands all exhibited it.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I feel a fair amount of guilt about this. I live with my spouse and toddler, and not having a commute and spending lots of time with my daughter everyday has been great. Also, it’s now easy for me to fit in exercise every day, so I’m in the
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Thanks. Yes, I definitely agree that my daughter will likewise not notice what I didn’t notice. And I continue to read it a lot because we both love it. In the Anniversary collection, Watterson notes things like “this is basically an exact
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Good guess. But I’m afraid you’re wrong. She loves the strip. And she doesn’t notice this behavior by the parents. I was only expressing how my own perception of the comic has changed now that I’m an adult.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
My daughter loves pretending she has a transmogrifier. She ZAPS us into different creatures. We read a ton of Get Fuzzy right now. And she’s turning into Bucky. Yesterday while doing yard work she said to me, “hey Pinky, put me in the hammo
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I get the sense that Watterson is sharing his own childhood relationships with adults and author figures. And by and large they aren’t happy, healthy relationships. His parents regularly debate whose choice it was to have a kid, and despite
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Sure, but we started reading them to my daughter when she was about 20 months old. I don’t think it’s being over-protective to gloss over the dozens and dozens of times (to every one happy moment like the one you chose) when the parents exp
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
My wife and I aren’t having the greatest time reading them to our toddler (she’s probably too young for them, but she says she really likes them). Calvin’s parents don’t like him! I don’t like exposing her to parents who are resentful towar
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Plus, wasn’t the default Android sms/mms client once called Messenger? So, not only not memorable, but also confusingly generic.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
This tracks with Matt Taibbi’s Griftop (why they let Lehman die).
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
> Where does it end from there? That escalated quickly! Given that being “censored” by sites like Twitter is also a big complaint of the far left (because it has happened a lot), my hope is that splintering to alternative sites won’t be
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
But at least you can host the world wide tileset for $11/mo on linode! It’s not the data, but it’s still valuable and easy.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I can’t read it because I have the New Yorker app installed, and they use universal links to launch the app whenever you click a link to their domain, and this article isn’t on their app. Edit: nevermind. Long click gave me more options!
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
I just changed from a job that used GSuite to one that uses Office 365. I think Outlook is total garbage. The desktop client especially, and the website is barely an improvement. I've gotten used to it in the last month, but I still th
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
My NYTimes sub goes to my gmail, and then it forwards to my fastmail (I rarely need to check my gmail). I was unable to sign up for an Etsy account with Fastmail. They only acknowledge the majors. But I was able to sign up with gmail and th
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Sure. But I’m a busy guy and I’m trying to stick to a proportional amount of rage for each mode, based on how much damage they inflict on others. How many of the 30k roadway deaths per year (in the US) do you think we can attribute to scoff
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Let’s say the ratio of violations per mode is the same. In the city I live in, bicyclists make up <1% of road users. So the drivers operating their vehicles dangerously out number bicyclists doing so 100:1. And vehicles are what are kill
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
Because people on the internet are pointing out two things that are commonly compared, and then adding further details to argue why they should not be compared.
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by ryantgtg 6y ago
There is a design treatment called protected intersections that slows vehicles turning, increases visibility of bicyclists, and gives them some physically protected buffers. https://altago.com/wp-content/uploads/Ev

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