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by stblack 6y ago
Plaintext: LAWS OF UX 01. Aesthetic Usability Effect: Users often perceive aesthetically pleasing design as design that’s more usable. 02. Doherty Threshold: Productivity soars when a computer and its users interact at a pace (<400ms) th
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by stblack 6y ago
One of the nicest things about a slide rule is, you can easily see the sensitivity of the result to variations of your last input. With a calculator, you get precision. With a slide rule, you get a value and its sensitivity.
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by stblack 6y ago
Interesting.
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by stblack 6y ago
Schools still have a very large proportion of their fixed costs to cover. Schools and their lecturers need to invest in perfecting onlive delivery. Therefore it's not particularly realistic to expect schools to chop their top-line so
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by stblack 6y ago
Your code calls a library. A framework calls your code. Really great explanation here: https://stackoverflow.com/posts/15600924/revisions Edit: another really nice exposé here: The Difference Between a Framework
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by stblack 6y ago
1Password supports FaceId and, before that, I used FaceId on my iPhone. But I'm using an old version. Has this changed?
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by stblack 6y ago
I've opened the following issue to get input about how woke hosts files should treat Plausible and Fathom. I'm interested to hear good takes, if you have any, on the subject of ethical tracking. What to do about Plausible and Fat
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by stblack 6y ago
'denylist / allowlist' makes normative presumptions about privilege, thereby creating an unsafe space. All our lists should be inclusive.
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by stblack 6y ago
The Rust playground is one of the many great things about Rust. It's really helpful to share code and try concepts. The mere existence of the playground is a catalyst to reduce and refine problems before airing them to get help from t
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by stblack 6y ago
More info on the visitor pattern, which was originally published by the Gang of Four: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visitor_pattern Rarely seen in its pure form in the wild, but it's vastly useful, and surprisingl
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by stblack 6y ago
A major regression in Github is in Notifications, which have a new interface. I follow several hundred repos. Only the 25 most active are listed in the sidebar. There is no way to browse the hundereds not listed there for notification tal
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by stblack 6y ago
The trending pages were increasingly listing repositories from Asia, written in its native languages. On some days, half or more of the top 25 listed repos were Asian language. Today, anectdotally, there are zero repos in Asian languages i
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by stblack 6y ago
I came here to say something like this, except for the last part. I would say, rather, there are no stupid questions. After awhile it will become increasingly clear who fields questions well, and who doesn’t. Cultivate the former, avoid the
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by stblack 6y ago
This is HN, where commenters liberally espouse variants and competitors. Props to you, the author of pgSodium, for being the first to mention pgCrypto. The extra features of PgSodium look handy. Is featureset the main reason you created PG
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by stblack 6y ago
That's brilliant. Thank you! I would have never found that :-) I wonder if software could do it, using two free ports on my laptop, a MacBook Pro.
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by stblack 6y ago
I think the world needs a gizmo with two USB-C terminals, one for each end of a USB-C cable, and LEDs that light for each feature supported by the cable. For data, there could be a range of LED to display the throughput of the cable. Becau
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by stblack 6y ago
I can see how it might seem that way — I'm Steven Black. I can point to thousands of combined... * issues https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%... * ...pull requests... https:/&#x
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by stblack 6y ago
(I'm wasn't implying the EnergizedProtection is sketchy...) The essential problem is, without active curation, source lists can't quickly react to emerging threats. Without active curation, source lists become add-only bucket
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by stblack 6y ago
This repo has a 3-week track record, by one contributor. Disclosure: Some of us have been actively curating such amalgamated lists for a long time. https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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by stblack 6y ago
Also a shameless plug for the extensible, amalgamated hosts file I actively curate: https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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by stblack 6y ago
With ad blocking, some sites present you with an overlay, preventing you from accessing content. A really nice Chrome and FF extension to scrub overlays is named Behind The Overlay: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/de
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by stblack 6y ago
List of cities that are SMALLER IN POPULATION than London, Ontario. Tampa Wichita Cleveland Anaheim Honolulu Saint Paul St. Louis I think the author doesn't grasp the depth of his own pettyness.
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by stblack 6y ago
Pinboard tells me, I "previously saved april 2015". So I bookmarked this more than five years ago. Back then, this site was addressing a big problem and, to some degree, it's still a confounding problem sometimes. So high-fi
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by stblack 6y ago
"Always deliver superlative value, and your customers will take care of you." Changed everything.
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by stblack 6y ago
One seminal work on the subject is No More Heroes: Madness and Psychiatry In War by Richard A. Gabriel. One facet of difference, according to Gabriel, is range. In the Ancient and Medieval world, a mile or two from the enemy was a comfort z
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by stblack 6y ago
Odd there is no `which` command; this limits discovery. `python --version` returns 3.7.1. `curl --version` returns 7.54.0.
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by stblack 6y ago
In this app, it appears we are operationally limited to /private/var/mobile/Containers/Data/Application/49F47295-F9D8-4FD7-8F34-redactedxxxx/ The default folder is /private/var/mobile&#
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by stblack 6y ago
Unless I'm missing something, Prompt can only connect to other servers. This connects, in shell mode, to your iOS device.
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by stblack 7y ago
LOL n-gate trolls referrals from here. That’s brilliant.
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by stblack 7y ago
I suspect http://n-gate.com/ is gonna roast this post’s comments.

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