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by s1mon 4y ago
Well clearly I was wrong about offline editing of Google Docs. I'm trying to search for when this functionality was added but I suspect it was during a dark time when I was forced to use O365.
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Conceptually, yes. However "taking any app and adding Google Docs..." is less about adding, and more about rethinking the base app from scratch so that the fundamental actions are atomic enough and determinant enough to easily syn
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I've spent 30+ years designing and engineering consumer and medical products, mostly for high volume production. While I detest working on projects I consider "instant landfill", the reality is that so much of our built socie
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I hate how Teams really can’t handle full-duplex conversations, at least with transpacific calls. You pretty much need to speak, pause, and then hope that only one person speaks next, or there’s a series of “sorry, you go ahead…” until some
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I didn't say that the emulating China is what should be done in this case. I much prefer the UX of Apple Pay with my watch - it still feels magical. It is interesting how much cheaper the QR based payment schemes are in China. Payment
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Yes, this is very true, _in the US_. In other parts of the world, QR Codes have been ubiquitous for many years. In China, Alipay, WechatPay, UnionPay, etc have made QR codes for payment expected and common, to the point that many places don
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by s1mon 4y ago
Unfortunately there is no support for COLRv1 fonts on Safari (desktop or mobile).[0] There is support for COLRv0, so hopefully this will come to Safari/Webkit at some point.[1] [0] https://www.lambdatest.com/web-technol
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The byline says July 2022, but the errata says “This article was updated with corrections on August 13, 2019”… hmmm Also possibly NSFW (illustrations of the porn sites).
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I live in San Francisco. We don't exactly have the tallest buildings, but I can assure you from years of tracking runs in the downtown area here and nearby forested areas, GPS gets very screwed up unless it has a clear view of the sky.
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20 minutes from San Francisco there are dead spots. I go hiking all around the Bay Area, and while it’s gotten much better in the last 10 years, there are so many national, regional, and local parks with huge dead zones. Most rural areas in
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While this may be somewhat tongue in cheek, I often think of this post from Anil Dash: "I talk to a lot of consultants, freelancers, and small businesses who do web work, and I used to be a freelancer myself, so sometimes I get asked f
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Well, our regular ICE rental car (2020 Hyundai Elantra) got stolen, likely using a low tech viral method [0]. We went back to the rental company and they wouldn't replace the stolen car until we had a police report. We needed a car, an
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That's crazy then. Is the hardware different, or just the software? I was under the impression that FSD was just basically paying for the software feature. It definitely looks much more dialed in, but still there's a lot of weird
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I recently rented a 2022 Model 3 from Hertz for 9 days. It didn't have the FSD option available, but it did have the preview of what the system would see. Based on that alone, I was alternately impressed and terrified of what the FSD e
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I came here to ask if anyone could remember this weird handlettered book on BASIC which illustrated all kinds of concepts including linked lists using arrays of boxes and arrows. I believe this must have been it unless there’s another book
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Plenty of people see an ad for something and will then discount it in an instant as a possible option based on bad messaging, or design. Do you have something to back up the idea that the ad industry doesn't affect purchasing behavior?
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Many decisions are made in seconds based on an impression from an ad, or walking by a product in a store. Sure some purchasing decisions may linger for days, months or years, but even with such long times to ponder a final decision, there a
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by s1mon 4y ago
TikTok is manipulative, addictive and I do wonder about privacy, but there are a number of factual errors in this post which make me question what axe the writer has to grind. There are plenty of videos over a minute long. Yes, many are qui
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https://99designs.co.uk/blog/tips/history-of-ampersands-typo...
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This was definitely not on my Bingo card. I've been a customer of One Medical for a while. I really like the convenience and simplicity of booking in person appointments using an app on relatively short notice, and their video visits a
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The reason you wouldn't do it with a normal cassette is that there's a side A and a side B. You could reorder one side with enough time and skill, but the other side would now be screwed up. Maybe you could develop a taste for son
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Even without Covid etc., the synth business is very challenging from a supply chain standpoint. The quantities and margins are not great. The highest selling synth of all time was the DX7. It sold ~200k units. Most stuff sells much fewer un
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I read this title as "Piano man..." several times until my brain finally parsed it correctly. It made for very curious thoughts on an alternate future involving Billy Joel.
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https://twitter.com/HNStatus
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MacOS does OCR on this just fine. Screenshot, open in Preview, and select, copy, paste: Name: Satoshi Nakamoto DOB: 1982-06-05 SSN: 958-20-3141 Cell Phone: 514-867-5309
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If you really want to read more than you ever wanted to know about the history of powerpoint, Robert Gaskins - one of the creators - wrote a whole book of the history [0] and has a detailed web site with tons more details [1]. [0] https:&#
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I would love to see these stats for sfgate.com and sfchronicle.com. Both of them are infested with so much added fluff. It's frustrating because I pay for a subscription to SFChronicle (and NYTimes), but unless I want to install adbloc
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Not exactly. They restricted online gaming. "China Limits Online Videogames to Three Hours a Week for Young People - New regulation will ban minors from playing videogames entirely between Monday and Thursday" https://w
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Hands-On with Meta's New VR Headset Prototypes(youtube.com)
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Adam Savage's Tested channel's Norman Chan visits with the Reality Lab and interviews Mark Zuckerberg. Despite VR/AR still seeming like a big tech push and Zuckerberg seeming like a weird robot, it's fascinating to see t

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