vulcan01

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by vulcan01 5y ago
As this has become a thread for "share your Firefox tweaks", here are mine: - uBlock Origin: https://ublockorigin.com/ - Firefox Multi-Account Containers: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/fire
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by vulcan01 5y ago
If you need medication daily, it is generally a good idea to keep that medication in your backpack if possible. Anything can happen; if you're reliant on something, keep it with/close to you.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
This is not exactly the same thing, as it just renders the output, but the following uses markdown and asciimath for quick math notetaking. https://vedthiru.com/tools/notetaker Disclaimer: I wrote it.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Ok, site request (aside from MDN): pkg.go.dev Many of these are linked to GitHub/GitLab repos, so I'm not sure how you'll deduplicate that.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Yes, you can, but only if you are signed into your Apple ID and connected to Wi-Fi. I believe Macs and non-cellular iPads send messages over Wi-Fi to the iMessage servers.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
The biggest issue is that dang won't be there to moderate us...
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Mike Duncan's two podcasts, Revolutions[0] and The History of Rome[1], are both great. I'll second the sibling commenter's recommendation of Dan Carlin's Hardcore History [2]. For video content of a similar feel, Histori
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by vulcan01 5y ago
> Re: "vouching", what is this? Is it to un-dead something? If you have "showdead" on (check your settings) you can vouch a comment that has been flagged to death.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
An article expanding on this comment: https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/06/how-harvard-handled-...
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Don't PowerPoint[0] and Keynote also have collaborative editing? What is better about Google Slides' collaborative features? [0]: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/share-and-collabo... [1]: htt
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by vulcan01 5y ago
The Economist is a British publication, and generally tends to follow stricter grammatical rules than what I assume is your American English. "Datum" is singular and "data" is plural, so The Economist have used "are
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by vulcan01 5y ago
A more accurate title would be "Backup Wordle": if you click on the settings button it says "backup-wordle". Besides, this is essentially someone who downloaded the (static!) Wordle webpage and then put it on a nice doma
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by vulcan01 5y ago
You have enough karma to do that on your own without bothering dang: just click on the timestamp and then "flag".
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by vulcan01 5y ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented#flaggi... Vouching and flagging are both granted at 31 karma.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Brevity is not the only goal in writing. If the author had not provided an analogue in another field, it would not have been engaging.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Linked in OP: https://w3c.github.io/webtransport/ It's a proposal, 2 editors are from Google the other one is from Microsoft.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_slot Essentially, a permit granted by an airport to an airline to schedule a takeoff or landing at a particular time / around that time.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
From your post: > Nevertheless, this experience took a pretty serious emotional toll on me. It's hard to feel like you're letting your students down. I want you to know that especially among younger people such as myself, compl
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by vulcan01 5y ago
I'm not seeing any such issue in Safari (macOS Monterey).
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by vulcan01 5y ago
> The Ugly. > I don't think the situation would have played out this way if I hadn't used Discord. I have to disagree. Your students probably would have connected on Discord or another chat service anyways (even before the p
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by vulcan01 5y ago
As a teen in high school: People don't use iMessages, or for that matter SMS. We use Discord, Instagram DMs, etc. for communication. I don't know any of my friends' phone numbers and have never cared to ask, because we use Di
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by vulcan01 5y ago
The graph is averaged over 365 days by default. If you change it to 14 or 28 days you can see that their growth has stagnated since early 2021.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
You don't need to. Your employer can give this info to whoever they want, and many give this data to Equifax or one of the other credit agencies. Also, you might give your bank employment details, and your bank will most likely send th
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by vulcan01 5y ago
I think runjake was using it as an example of posting your creative work on HN not as an example of art. (I agree that the criticism was justified.)
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Submitted 23 hours ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29770105 (If you scroll to the very bottom of the page, there's a search box.)
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Nitpick: this is technically survivorship bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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by vulcan01 5y ago
https://github.com/minimaxir/hacker-news-undocumented is useful in figuring out these undocumented karma limits.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Does NZ not benefit from this system? I mean, it seems like a good deal to me - attracting large amounts of local investment in return for something fairly small.
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by vulcan01 5y ago
Is there a reason you posted this comment when you have previously posted a similar one[0]? [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29664071
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by vulcan01 5y ago
I'm not a moderator (obviously) but I've noticed that when the article's original title is sufficiently vague (like for this one) the mods allow for a lot of leeway in the title as long as it is representative of the article.

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