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by wastholm 6y ago
Just as a counterpoint, I do use mine. Not as much as I thought I would, but quite a bit. Sure, a laptop keyboard is a lot more comfortable, but a laptop is also so much bulkier and heavier to lug around. And no laptop of mine has mobile da
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by wastholm 6y ago
If I have to pick just one, Hothothot.com! It was the first live e-commerce site I ever saw, the first site that accepted credit card payments, and the first (other than perhaps some technical demo site) that used HTTPS. It also had a very
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by wastholm 6y ago
Related question: what is Pinterest for, exactly? As in, why does it exist? I created an account there long ago when the site was new and tried to figure out what problem it was supposed to solve but failed. I remember trying for a short wh
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by wastholm 6y ago
> On the other hand, Flash runtime only presents some small behavior differences on different OSes or with different CPU architectures. And for different OSes/browser combos with the same-power CPUs+GPUs, there is almost no performa
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by wastholm 6y ago
Thanks. This Google vs. DDG discussion keeps coming up and I'm baffled by the strong opinions because to me, the two seem about the same. But I'm never logged in to Google and I set my browsers to aggressively expire cookies so I&
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by wastholm 6y ago
Do you (or anyone else who finds Google significantly better than DDG) search Google as a logged-in user, and is perhaps this the reason you find their results to be better?
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by wastholm 6y ago
I use the "I don't care about cookies" Firefox add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a...
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by wastholm 6y ago
Absolutely. A couple of years ago when my son was really into Beyblade Burst, I wrote a little script that displayed Beyblade codes in the terminal (they're not QR but a different kind of 2D black-and-white "barcodes"). The A
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by wastholm 6y ago
While I can't say for sure it was that exact extension, I did use something with a very similar name about a year or two ago to completely scrub my Facebook profile. Apparently they had renamed it a couple of times, I assume to purge t
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by wastholm 6y ago
The anthropic principle? https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/KNtKKmcd9DsP7WuZ3/the-anthro...
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by wastholm 7y ago
A few years ago I let my young son examine a keyboard connected to a Linux computer with a locked screen and in a few seconds he showed me my first kernel panic. I never figured out how he did it.
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by wastholm 7y ago
And you can also write bangs "backwards", i.e. `w!` instead of `!w`. This may not seem like a big deal until you've tried to write `foo !w` on Android and had it "corrected" to `foo! w`.
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by wastholm 7y ago
> You can have a Facebook account and only use it when it benefits you and not Facebook. I used to think so too, but then I realized that Facebook would let people add me to group chats or something without my knowledge and that these pe
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by wastholm 7y ago
I use tmux for this. Create multiple panes with ssh sessions in them and do: set-window-option synchronize-panes on I have defined a keyboard shortcut for this, of course.
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by wastholm 7y ago
I have on occasion thought that this kind of spam should be possible, but never witnessed it, and then, while I was reading this very article, up popped a reminder from Google Calendar about some iPhone that I had allegedly won.
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by wastholm 7y ago
For one thing, as mentioned in the article, not exposing hospital patients to a completely unnecessary risk of death due to incorrect dosage of medication? When you're living inside a system, it seems perfectly normal to you, I get tha
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by wastholm 7y ago
What? This sounds backwards to me. I use Firefox almost exclusively and Tree Style Tab is one of the killer features for me. I tried it in Chrome once but it ran in a separate window and was therefore basically unusable. Has this changed re
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by wastholm 7y ago
Especially when addressing multiple recipients, I tend to write emails like: > Hello, > Short version: all-hands meeting to discuss painting of the bike shed, Thu 1 Aug @ 14:30 in the board room. There will be cookies. > Long versi
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by wastholm 7y ago
Perl aims to be an enabler, and is therefore not particularly opinionated ("there is more than one way to do it"). This includes making little to no effort to make it hard to write difficult-to-read code. Personally, I don't
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by wastholm 7y ago
To me, this story is a great illustration of how we humans will always try to become fat cats by clinging to and expanding upon any privilege we may have or comfortable situation we may find ourselves in. Be it something small, like free sn
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by wastholm 7y ago
> Pretty sure this is old tech now? It seems they're claiming higher bitrates than existing techniques.
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by wastholm 8y ago
> Broad generalizations about nations are rarely accurate. Agreed. But I was trying, by giving a counterexample, to respond to an even broader generalization: that "door buttons in elevators don't do anything". And I did s
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by wastholm 8y ago
I keep hearing that, and apparently that's the case in the US [1]. In Japan, the buttons are usually very much operational and they have devised a whole system of etiquette around them. [2] [1] https://www.sciencealert.com&#
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by wastholm 8y ago
> * A positive feedback loop will form due to less cash being accepted => less cash circulating => less reason for businesses to accept cash This is already happening in Sweden: most people find card or mobile payments more conveni
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by wastholm 8y ago
> 1. Immersion is overrated Well... That depends, I'd say. I'm learning Japanese, and my learning rate always spikes when I'm actually there, hearing and speaking the language all day every day. On the other hand, most peo
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by wastholm 8y ago
One of the delightful things about taking the train in Japan is the mail order catalog you will sometimes find in the seat pocket. It's guaranteed to have several amazingly weird innovations for sale, in line with the toilet roll helme
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by wastholm 8y ago
So are you saying everyone should just get with the program and use Gmail? If so, how would this monoculture make the world a better place? To me, having multiple competing providers to choose from sounds preferable.
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by wastholm 8y ago
Yes. Here in Sweden we now have a system called Swish[1] that, after some initial setup, lets people make more or less instantaneous transfers to each other and to businesses. It works quite well, is very popular and, for now, is free to us
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by wastholm 8y ago
48. Started learning music theory, so far by means of parts 1 and 2 of "Music Theory for Electronic Music" on Udemy. I dabbled in music in my 20s but never really knew what I was doing so it's amazing fun.
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by wastholm 8y ago
Honest question: Where do people get this idea that they state so confidently, that it's "impossible" to run one's own mail server? Have they actually tried or are they just repeating what they've heard? Counter-ane

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