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by wgx 4y ago
Always a favourite of mine: we still don’t know how Paracetamol works. https://wikenigma.org.uk/content/medicine/drugs/paracetamol
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CloudMensis macOS spyware uses cloud services for C&C(welivesecurity.com)
1 points by wgx 4y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 4y ago
The UK’s NHS can top that, with the infamous Capita contract that cost billions and delivered nothing.
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How to make the perfect Search UI Control(blog.willgrant.org)
1 points by wgx 4y ago|0 comments
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Twitter Complaint Demonstrates That Every Lawyer Is Smarter Than Musk(abovethelaw.com)
30 points by wgx 4y ago|48 comments
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On Entering Programming in 2022(sicpers.info)
3 points by wgx 4y ago|3 comments
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by wgx 4y ago
It's gravitational lensing from the cluster of galaxies around the center of the image. Source: https://twitter.com/ProfBrianCox/status/1546722072499462147
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by wgx 4y ago
Over my decades of visiting Glastonbury I can report that cellphone coverage has gone from “it works for some calls but no data” to “perfect 3G data everywhere on site”. The cell phone infrastructure companies ship in lots of portable masts
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by wgx 4y ago
Canonical | London / Global fully-distributed | Full-time, remote | UX Designer | https://grnh.se/db3e16fe1us With Ubuntu, Canonical created the first Linux for human beings. Our design team is on a mission to turn com
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UX tip: classify interactions into Obvious/Easy/Possible(blog.willgrant.org)
2 points by wgx 4y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 4y ago
The biggest disappointment is that the “unchecked” state to trigger the checkbox is a low-contrast circle with tiny “READ” text inside it. Poor discoverability, poor accessibility, very un-satisfying. This person is clearly a talented desig
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Slow Software Development(robinwinslow.uk)
2 points by wgx 4y ago|0 comments
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The Deceptive UX of Cookie Consent (and how to fix it)(blog.willgrant.org)
5 points by wgx 4y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 4y ago
Totally agree. Despite the move to touchscreens in cars over the years - they're acually terrible for usability and safety. The lack of tactile feedback and the fact that buttons can move position and appearance from app-to-app means t
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by wgx 4y ago
Reminds me of one of my favourite hack projects, storing the whole content in the URL: https://wgx.github.io/anypage/?eyJoMSI6IiBTdG9yaW5nIHN0YXRlI...
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by wgx 4y ago
Anecdata: I’ve noticed that the voices in an organisation who are more keen for a return to the office tend to be the managers, directors, leadership sort of roles. I wonder if being in the office is just simply more enjoyable for those
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by wgx 5y ago
Site is unresponsive, Archive: https://archive.ph/hlxMr
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by wgx 5y ago
Mine is a skull with a top hat, so naturally I demand that this is made permanent. ;)
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SQLizer has removed services for customers in Russia(blog.sqlizer.io)
4 points by wgx 5y ago|0 comments
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Apple's market cap briefly tops $3T(reuters.com)
2 points by wgx 5y ago|0 comments
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by wgx 5y ago
You may enjoy this for a nostalgia hit: https://webamp.org/
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by wgx 5y ago
I was able to squeeze some more optimisation out of it: For example: 600px-A20-OLinuXino-LIME2.png is 34,689 bytes as served by the site. Running it through PNGOUT, OxiPNG, AdvPNG and PNGCrush (all set to lossless) reduces the filesize by 6
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by wgx 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by wgx 5y ago
A polite reminder that the (quite extraordinary) Photopea[0] is available which replicates most of Photoshop's features in the browser, and is free - with a paid ad-free option. 0. https://www.photopea.com/
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by wgx 5y ago
Here's a time point where the CGI CEO makes his appearance with a 3D transition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAn_oiZwUXA&t=3742s
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How the “photo dump” took over Instagram(inputmag.com)
1 points by wgx 5y ago|0 comments
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Python library for file-to-database conversion with SQLizer(blog.sqlizer.io)
2 points by wgx 5y ago|0 comments
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Computle is a desktop PC streamed over the internet(computle.com)
1 points by wgx 6y ago|0 comments
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Could Facebook Host on Amazon Web Services? (2017)(blog.sqlizer.io)
1 points by wgx 6y ago|1 comments
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by wgx 6y ago
Yes - you can block domains at the network-level with a pihole.

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