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by saint-loup 5y ago
Nextcloud also has a mobile app, with an feature for automatic upload of your pictures and quite a few settings (which folder to upload, etc.)
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by saint-loup 5y ago
I really hope the software will be released as a package called Potty Training.
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Is Night Shift helping you sleep better?(news.byu.edu)
1 points by saint-loup 5y ago|0 comments
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by saint-loup 5y ago
There are various Unicode blocks dedicated to symbols. There are cartography symbols, domino tiles, alchemical symbols... There is even a block for "legacy computing". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_blo
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by saint-loup 6y ago
"When the package is a functional part of the tool it’s carrying" Exactly like the iPouch for the new Apple headphones, right?
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by saint-loup 6y ago
My thoughts exactly when I program Chrome, in headless mode and with no UI, to scroll and click on a button.
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by saint-loup 6y ago
"Arranging Invisible Icons in Quadratic Time" That title is pure poetry. The post could have ended with "Upon hearing this, the programmer was enlightened." :^) (reference to https://simple.wikipedia.org/
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The Art of the Reverse Knit(nytimes.com)
22 points by saint-loup 6y ago|1 comments
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by saint-loup 6y ago
It reminds me of this comment and its parent link from one month ago, wich already were heavily upvoted: Apple seems to do all kinds of weird networking _stuff_ [...] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24838816
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by saint-loup 6y ago
Sketch. At my company we use a mix of PC running Linux and Mac. Being able to run Sketch on Linux would open perspectives for designer types. Although the switch to Linux would meet opposition for other reasons. :) The home page of Darling
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by saint-loup 6y ago
Come on people, what's the name of this site again? Granted, my first reaction was the same as many commenters here: "Responsive PDfs? Oh the irony!" But as a reader of essays and textbooks on a small tablet, let me tell you
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by saint-loup 6y ago
About "responsive PDFs": there's already a "reflow" feature in Acrobat Reader. It's limited but kinda works on clean PDFs. I don't know to what extent it's a explicit possibility of the PDF standard.
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by saint-loup 6y ago
This article is specifically about the specific tactics BLM protest used in the suburbs and small towns. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2020-06-19/protests-...
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by saint-loup 6y ago
Are there any attempts to have it both ways? Like, the source code stays in English but my IDE translates keywords to and from my language.
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by saint-loup 6y ago
Also: “Cousteau was a showman, nothing more – a man prepared to do anything to sell his films and books, even if it meant martyring animals.” https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/117..
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by saint-loup 6y ago
Is this a reference to Jung or to gnostic thinkers? :)
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by saint-loup 6y ago
In Firefox it doesn't. When you click, a modal panel appears reminding you of the shortcuts.
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by saint-loup 6y ago
Quoting from your link: >>> IBM no longer offers general purpose IBM facial recognition or analysis software. IBM firmly opposes and will not condone uses of any technology, including facial recognition technology offered by other
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by saint-loup 6y ago
I learned a lot from this article (discovered on HN I think): What's so hard about PDF text extraction? https://www.filingdb.com/pdf-text-extraction In a nutshell, PDF is fundamentally different than MS Word: it's
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by saint-loup 7y ago
I see people (legitimately) complaining about the longstanding lack of support for Mac OS native widgets but personnally I'm equally annoyed with the new behavior of menus. The standard of basically every OS is that hovering the pointe
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GNU Founder Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT, Free Software Foundation(engadget.com)
10 points by saint-loup 7y ago|5 comments
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by saint-loup 7y ago
For me the question is not "do not-assholes 10x engineers exist", but "are 10x engineers the role model and the narrative this community need to highlight if it wants to move forward?"
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by saint-loup 7y ago
Making a GUI around a CLI is like translating a russian, experimental,supposedly untranslatable novel. Sure, it's hard, but there's still people out there wanting to read the book and who could enjoy the result, no matter how impe
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by saint-loup 7y ago
Oh my, can someone ping Gwern to add Factorio to this list. https://www.gwern.net/Turing-complete
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by saint-loup 8y ago
Ho nice, thank you. The option used to be in the creation dialog.
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by saint-loup 8y ago
For me the reason would be first-class status in the taskbar/dock. I like having some apps only a click away and in its own window, not lost among many open tabs. For some time you could do that with any web page in Chrome, with "
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by saint-loup 8y ago
As as person of average linux savviness, I applaude Elementary OS ambition and really wanted to like it, but the UX is really weird to me. It's really not file-centered (no file on the desktop IIRC, weird file selection in the explorer
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by saint-loup 9y ago
Anecdota, plural of data and all that, I know, but Google is able to find 15 years old posts from rather obscure french blogs. https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=fr&q=%22Dans%20mon%20... https://encrypted
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by saint-loup 9y ago
Post-neo-brutalism.
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Turing Tumble: Gaming on a Mechanical Computer(kickstarter.com)
2 points by saint-loup 9y ago|1 comments

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