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by sfRattan 3y ago
My experience is that self-checkout works extremely well until it... Doesn't. And then you need a human anyway. The "doesn't" only happens to me rarely. But when something goes wrong it becomes immediately clear that---w
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by sfRattan 3y ago
From their website: >Borders are a great way to distinguish two elements from one another, but using too many of them can make your design feel busy and cluttered. >Instead, try adding a box shadow, using contrasting background colors
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by sfRattan 3y ago
I've been looking into Apple TV 4K boxes as an alternative to Roku --- I'm sick of their ads baked into the UI --- and I've read in a couple places online that if you put the Photos app in first position of the top bar you&#x
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by sfRattan 3y ago
XBMC and all the wacky homebrew software extended the life of my original Xbox by more than a decade. I still think the linksbox browser did alphabet input better than any other controller software I've seen. And it was always fun in c
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by sfRattan 3y ago
> ...instead you decide that you’re somehow entitled to more of his lifetime dedicated to the features important to you personally. Please don't put words in my mouth. It's insulting, rude, and also arrogant . Nowhere have I s
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by sfRattan 3y ago
Any software that re-arranges my files and folders without asking is a non-starter. So is any software that copies my files into its own set of folders and obscures any attempt to understand those folders. Calibre isn't as bad as iTune
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by sfRattan 3y ago
> Why are people in the US so against public schools? > Don't worry, we share similar views. No, we clearly do not. If you held similar views to mine, you would not have posed the question , nor followed it with a false dilemma
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by sfRattan 3y ago
> The objective of public school is to break down the regional identities of old and assimilate the youth into the “new” national identity. Having read a bit of history about how many modern national identities were constructed over the
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by sfRattan 4y ago
Seems like mods should just change the title to match the published headline? E-Scooter rental companies and their effect on urban spaces is absolutely a topic germane to HN discussion, and a simple change to match the actual WSJ article as
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by sfRattan 4y ago
I've been searching for an alternative to Android Auto itself. After an update some months ago, launching the app takes me to a settings panel declaring that Android Auto is no longer supported for phone screens (i.e. it is now only de
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by sfRattan 5y ago
The author is very clearly making histrionic statements about the state of the entire hobby, so my use of broader terms is entirely appropriate. I'm using the term "D&D" in the same way every RPG gamer I know has ever use
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by sfRattan 5y ago
Others in the thread have already mentioned how truly ridiculous and histrionic this Jacobin article is, so I'll skip to the plainly false part of their conclusion: that capitalism has killed the artistic and creative part of D&D
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by sfRattan 5y ago
Availability can absolutely be highly contextual. Frank Herbert's Dune, for example, has been difficult to find in second-hand bookshops (even the old mass market paperback) because there is (and has been for some time... thanks COVID)
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by sfRattan 5y ago
I've found that second-hand bookstores are good for figuring out which books people treasure the most. Pick an author, scan that author's bibliography, and visit second-hand bookstores. The works you can't find? Those are the
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by sfRattan 5y ago
This is an apples to oranges comparison. Roman civilization lasted a good deal longer than the Roman Empire: ~2,200 years of civilization (753 B.C. to A.D. 1453) versus ~500 years of Empire (27 B.C. to A.D. 476). And that's if you d
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by sfRattan 5y ago
I remember reading about the end of "compact" mode some weeks/months ago. With this update, it seems that change is finally here... Almost. Downloading the nightly build, some investigation reveals the ability to reduce the s
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by sfRattan 5y ago
"Yes, he talks about John Deere, or medical devices, but he never talks about HP, Lenovo, Dell, Surface, Acer, or any PC manufacturer flaws, many of which have flaws worse than Apple's. This is what makes him look dishonest becaus
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by sfRattan 6y ago
The CMS interface is only a small part of the value. If you cut loose and try to run a high profile blog/newsletter on your own, suddenly you're paying for IT professionals to do security because you are a high profile target and
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by sfRattan 6y ago
Perhaps, but I don't think it was much of a realistic concern for any who held it in the UK government. Whereas Germans, East and West alike, had largely thought of themselves as Germans in varying senses since Bismark (and both the DD
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by sfRattan 6y ago
The complaints I remember about ocaml the last time I checked it out were related to multithreading. No idea if that's changed. But I do see ocaml very often in use to write a compiler, especially for languages that aren't yet sel
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by sfRattan 6y ago
I'll take one servicing in that period over replacing my watch every 3-5 (2-4?) years as the software becomes obsolete and all support vanishes into the myopically short tech upgrade cycle. It's why I say 'essentially' u
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by sfRattan 6y ago
I adjust the time maybe once every three months, which has naturally fallen into a pattern that lines up with daylight savings time. My watch gains at most few minutes over that interval. There's a single complication for date (1-31) t
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by sfRattan 6y ago
Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but I have subzero interest in smartwatches, even hackable or open source models. I want my watch to tell me the time, and I want it to do so 10, 20, and 30 years from now without having to fiddle with software.
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by sfRattan 6y ago
I want this feature as badly as you do. In my case, to filter out any smart TVs when shopping for a replacement television. I recognize though, from working in retail and from looking at the front and back ends of the human process (and t
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by sfRattan 6y ago
Important to note: the option on their site labeled "computer" rather than "kit" has (AFAIK): no power adapter, no mouse, and no micro-to-regular HDMI cable. Also no included book. Plenty of HN users probably have some o
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by sfRattan 6y ago
Soft- or hard-modded original (2001) Xbox consoles had a community developed web browser called 'linksboks' with a similar analog stick and button pad keyboard concept. There were groups of four characters in screen's corners
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by sfRattan 6y ago
There were people who said the same thing about going to the Moon. Ultimately, solving the myriad problems implied by the goal of, "get some men to the moon and then get them back again (alive)," resulted in myriad new technologie
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by sfRattan 6y ago
And 'without farmers' is precisely how I introduce Carcassonne to new people. You have to be pretty good at spatial reasoning to understand farmers and their fields in the game just from someone describing it to you. But most peop
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by sfRattan 6y ago
The article is a reasonable summary of Epic's accelerating ascent, but little factual inaccuracies littered throughout smell like investor hype and some bits of tortured prose stink of advertising copy. The whole thing feels like it wa
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by sfRattan 7y ago
This comment brought back some lovely memories of my grandfather, who got into computers late in his life and had all sorts of games on his Windows 95 (I think it was originally Windows 3.1) machine. One of them was Chip's Challenge, a

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