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by shpx 5y ago
This can matter when timezone definitions change, such as when a country decides to start/stop following daylight saving time. If I schedule something for 1 pm 6 months from now, and a transition to/from DST is supposed to happen
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by shpx 5y ago
I just look for an Apple logo. The newer one that's not backlit.
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by shpx 5y ago
Recently on HN someone thought that reddit.com/imgur directing to a post on /r/Drugs meant something when it's just a randomly generated ID. All 5 letter word that I tried worked because there's been so many posts.
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by shpx 5y ago
Android does OCR natively as well. Drag up from the bottom part way (the gesture that opens the view that lets you scroll left and right through all your open apps) and then press and hold on some text and you'll be able to select and
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by shpx 5y ago
Time traveling and seeing what Earth looks like 1000 years from now by spending 30 years in a metal can (and expending an astronomical amount of energy) is a trade I would consider.
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by shpx 5y ago
This is how chat apps should work or have the option of working. Why make you look at an animated “…” until I’m satisfied with my message when you could be watching me write it instead? It’s closer to how conversation works and we have th
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by shpx 5y ago
On desktop there's the SponsorBlock extension, which skips them using a crowdsourced list of timestamps. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
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by shpx 5y ago
Autoformatting the code with Black before and after unparsing is how I avoided this problem.
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by shpx 5y ago
I'm not responding to your criticism of Google Search. I'm suggesting to anyone who shares your sentiment something that improved my dev experience. I also use the uBlacklist extension to hide W3Schools et al. https://c
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by shpx 5y ago
On Chrome, go to chrome://settings/ Search for "search engines" Open "Manage search engines" Under "Other search engines" click on "Add" (on the right) Add this custom search engine: -
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by shpx 5y ago
No, because realistically I work 1-2 days for 100% salary.
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by shpx 6y ago
Stack Overflow answers are licensed under a CC BY-SA license.[0] If you copy and paste a function without (at least) linking to the question, isn't that copyright infringement? [0] https://meta.stackexchange.com/questio
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by shpx 6y ago
Naming something that only works on one planet " Universal Coordinated Time" was a mistake.
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by shpx 6y ago
Lying is not a new phenomenon. Whether or not it's useful or good is a philosophical question with many answers which don't matter because if it becomes possible we will (have to) adjust and there will always be some upside if you
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by shpx 6y ago
It can be a problem/nuisance if you're working with nuclear waste or orbits. It's also ironic how programmers are surprised by the passage of time when it's one of the only things that's truly guaranteed.
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by shpx 6y ago
or until you get into 5 digit years
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by shpx 6y ago
You run the asset statement through pytest, which patches the generated bytecode to print a good error message https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/
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by shpx 6y ago
For what it's worth, the VR meetup in my city is hosted on Zoom and not VR.
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by shpx 6y ago
You actually still don't need an email address to create a Reddit account. Reddit has stayed true to their word of maintaining the old design, and it's free of the dark patterns in the redesign. Go to https://old.reddit
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by shpx 6y ago
I was thinking the opposite, that I'm glad to be living in the good old days where no one is able to have direct control over that.
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by shpx 6y ago
> it’s definitely shady to put this in your extension without users knowing I don't think it would be an exaggeration to say that the number of "users" of extensions running these service that know that their computer is b
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by shpx 6y ago
Always being able to see fast moving dots when looking at a dark sky is a significant change compared to the experience of all our ancestors. StarLink might be the first time someone has done something that affects every single society - ev
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by shpx 6y ago
That's a 12 inch medium pizza, without the box. An antenna of that size can't be carried by normal people going about their daily lives. More people are willing to buy a phone and a phone plan (Facebook was even willing to subsidi
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by shpx 6y ago
You connect to Loon balloons with your regular cellphone whereas StarLink requires a "pizza-box-sized" antenna. They solve slightly different problems.
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by shpx 6y ago
If you have $4000 to spend, you can get the new Varjo VR-3. It has a 27° by 27° display with 71 pixels-per-degree resolution embedded in a 115° wide display at 30 PPD. 20/20 vision is ~60 PPD for ~210°. https://www.roadtovr.
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by shpx 6y ago
I used i3 for a 4+ years, then a few months ago I got tired of the screen tearing when I scrolled in Chrome and the screen showing a frame or two of checkerboard patterns (actually it's more complicated, like black pixel fuzz around te
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by shpx 6y ago
https://xkcd.com/806/
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by shpx 6y ago
What about shooting out a gas that’s dark in infrared between yourself and the laser?
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by shpx 6y ago
The big printer thread from last week (actually 2 days ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24977699
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by shpx 6y ago
but you would still understand them if they did or take 5 seconds to ask a clarifying question.

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