saw-lau

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by saw-lau 5mo ago
One of my biggest bugbears is losing the OK/Apply/Cancel concept with dialog boxes or settings windows. If I have a window with lots of settings that I want to experiment with then I've no problem with that setting taking eff
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by saw-lau 6mo ago
Beads?
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by saw-lau 9mo ago
Got through to The Times newspaper!
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by saw-lau 1y ago
Nope - you've got me on that one. I can't.
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by saw-lau 1y ago
How do I switch to the timeline where emojis, crypto, NFTs and generative AI weren't invented?
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by saw-lau 1y ago
Just adding another alternative that I've been using for years for people to consider - 1Blocker. https://1blocker.com/
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by saw-lau 1y ago
Hadn't seen this before - thanks! I'll take a look before it comes round to resubscribing next year. :-)
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by saw-lau 1y ago
I (well, my company) pays for https://onlinetools.com/ (USD 6 per month if you pay for a year upfront), which a found super-handy for (de-)prettifying and (de-)stringifying JSON. (It does a lot of other things too.)
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by saw-lau 2y ago
Thanks!
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by saw-lau 2y ago
Is it possible to reset progress somehow?
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by saw-lau 2y ago
And on top of all that is the terrible (IMHO) UX design pattern of getting rid of Apply/Cancel buttons, particularly in settings panes.
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by saw-lau 2y ago
This might also be of interest to anybody who enjoyed these articles: https://www.scratchapixel.com/ .
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by saw-lau 2y ago
I use an app called 'Alarmed' on my iPhone for this. It's got everything I need, in particular you can repeat items on a fixed period or 'x days from the time you actually manage to tick it off', which is great. I
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by saw-lau 2y ago
54 year old finding this useful here! :-)
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by saw-lau 3y ago
Several years ago the company I work for offered a 'compressed working fortnight' option, where for nine days out of ten you work an extra 45 minutes a day and then get every other Friday off. For me, this was an absolute game-cha
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by saw-lau 3y ago
I love some of the ideas here! Particularly the neat string 'class' and hand-defining Windows API functions instead of dragging in Windows.h. There's clearly life in the old dog yet!
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by saw-lau 3y ago
I thought I'd look up something I knew and spotted 'Thérèse Raquin', which gets butchered into 'Rackwin'... some way to go yet, I think! https://ia804709.us.archive.org/35/items/synapseml_g
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by saw-lau 3y ago
Many thanks!
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by saw-lau 3y ago
I guess the unwritten part of that press release is the fact that Red Hat are taking RHEL in some sort of proprietary direction? Is anybody able to TL;DR me an explanation of what's going on?
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by saw-lau 3y ago
TIL that curl is installed in Windows 10 and 11 - useful article for that alone!
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by saw-lau 4y ago
Thanks, seri4l!
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by saw-lau 4y ago
I've never come across the term 'heavy VF' before - can somebody clue me in?
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by saw-lau 4y ago
The comment came across very positively - thanks!
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by saw-lau 4y ago
It's something that I know I need to do, but - and I know this is pathetic - always gets put off ('I'll start next week; after Christmas; after my birthday...').
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by saw-lau 4y ago
I know! I clearly wasn't thinking straight...
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by saw-lau 4y ago
Sorry for disappointing you! It's weird, but I always use metric for 'small' measurements (a number of metres, for example), but for distances on the road it'll be miles. And I've used miles per hour for so long tha
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by saw-lau 4y ago
Fair enough - I should have thought of that myself. :-(
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by saw-lau 4y ago
I'm around 310 lbs (a smidge over 22 stone for UK people). Like yourself, I always thought when I was younger 'how do people let themselves get that way?'. It just kind of happened for me. I know I eat unhealthy food; I kno
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by saw-lau 4y ago
I've only heard people say it as 'triple-A' in this context.
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by saw-lau 4y ago
'Communication and Concurrency' by Milner? https://dl.acm.org/doi/book/10.5555/534666

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