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by wishfish 4y ago
How many major protests have happened in Iran over the past ten years? That's actually a serious question. I remember big ones in 2019. Smaller ones since in the time before the current uprising. Some before 2019 as well. There's
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by wishfish 4y ago
It's a little surprising Google hasn't done this already. A small (maybe inline, maybe floating) popup that gives you a little grid. Would autosave to Sheets. That would be perfect. Anyways, that's a great idea you have. I ne
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by wishfish 4y ago
That's a brilliant & simple idea. I love it. Makes me wonder if anyone's made a small screen spreadsheet? Seems like that would be the obvious next step. Something like a default of 3x4 or 4x4 cells. Would have most of the bas
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by wishfish 4y ago
Part of their retention playbook. I needed Illustrator for a short term project. Only needed it for less than a month so paid for a 30 day term . Almost forgot about it but went to cancel it on the last day. They gave me a month for free au
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by wishfish 4y ago
Twitter's algorithm isn't front and center as long as you're set to "latest tweets". It's reduced to the sidebar where it guesses (badly) what trends I'll be interested in. On mobile, I don't even see
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by wishfish 4y ago
I agree with you. I’m currently in the process of developing a app aimed partially at an educator / student crowd, and partially at a general audience of people who are obsessed with words & dictionaries. My app is almost the poste
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by wishfish 4y ago
B&H are great. I've had good luck with them. My main supplier these days is Best Buy. No 3rd party sellers. Never heard of any scam or inauthentic products from them. They ship from the local store or warehouse so I get things fast
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by wishfish 4y ago
I don't know that they are exceptions. The wikis for moderately popular but kinda niche games are often in good shape. For example, wikis for The Long Dark and the Kingdom series are two I've used in the recent past. Detailed info
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by wishfish 4y ago
I was responding to your mention of Chromebooks and how expensive you thought they would be to fix. And also because I thought it was interesting that these two very cheap gadgets were easily fixable. I guess since the main customers for th
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by wishfish 4y ago
My niece broke the screen on her dirt cheap Chromebook. A Samsung Chromebook 3. I bought her a new screen for about $30 and was able to replace it myself in about 5 minutes after watching a short Youtube howto. The Lenovo Chromebook 3 seems
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by wishfish 4y ago
Thanks for the lists. I was genuinely curious about the exes. Nice to know where they originate. Interesting that over half of them have titles in Cyrillic. I guess not so many English language textbooks (with included CDs) have been upload
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by wishfish 4y ago
There's probably a list somewhere on the internet but I've never seen one. When I went monitor shopping six months ago, I used the Macrumors forum heavily. There are long threads on the forum for monitors which didn't work we
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by wishfish 4y ago
Why does it bother you? Part of the appeal of the streaming services is the long tail. That shows produced / funded by the service will remain indefinitely. That's become one of the expectations. When expectations are broken, peop
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by wishfish 4y ago
Has anyone ever stumbled across an executable on LibGen? The article mentioned finding them but I've never seen one. I agree with the other comments that LibGen shouldn't purge the larger books. But, in terms of mirrors, it would
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by wishfish 4y ago
Maybe I'm the only one, but I remapped Cmd to Ctrl. After a lifetime of Windows and Linux using Ctrl as the main modifier key, this made things much easier for me. Having it be pinkie based has never been an issue. At least not for me.
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by wishfish 4y ago
Some how-stuff-is-made videos do get wide play despite the algorithmic silos. The ones that do best are the ones that are rather peaceful & mesmerizing. That grabs the people interested in the technical aspects, the people who get ASMR
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by wishfish 4y ago
Nice to see Emporia mentioned on HN. A bit of a surprise but a nice surprise. I've always liked it. I've personally never lived there but do live in the region. Eastern Kansas in general wouldn't be a bad place for a remote w
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by wishfish 4y ago
There's still plenty of professionally produced documentaries. There are a zillion videos on Youtube which talk about how stuff is made. Plenty of videos telling you how to make your own stuff. There's subreddits directly or indir
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by wishfish 4y ago
Good question. I don't know the answer. I think the 2014s supported AZW3 so you might want to try that as your output format from Calibre. I say that because I've never seen any unavailable fonts in an epub > azw3 conversion.
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by wishfish 4y ago
You can. It's slightly more involved than the Kindle DRM stripping, but it's not bad. I was able to do it and I don't even own a Kobo. I found a book I wanted that was for sale on the Kobo store but not offered by Amazon. For
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by wishfish 4y ago
It's been a big feature in the later games. But it's been there since the start. Civ 1 had a simple mechanism where highly industrialized cities would create polluted tiles. You could clean up the polluted tiles with settlers. But
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by wishfish 4y ago
True, but it's funny how all these hijinks seemed so cool in the books. Jacking in while in a grimy Tokyo nightclub as your friend, the assassin with razorblades, watches your back. But in reality, it's just all so pathetic. Somet
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To bring it back to the Atari 800, I remember magazines like Compute and Antic having breathless headlines about how Atari and Commodore played some big part in making the movie. As the new owner of an 800 in 1982, I was quite excited by th
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by wishfish 4y ago
https://gcaptain.com/ I like GCaptain. It’s shipping news in a nice format. Started reading it during the Suez blockage. Almost makes me wish I worked in that industry. Logistics, especially when ship borne, is rather inter
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by wishfish 4y ago
I guess it depends on how you define "few". These days, Chromebooks get 7 years from the day of release. Google seems to be fairly generous with some models and extends support beyond that. This page lists all the models and their
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by wishfish 4y ago
I'm a little tempted by this one. One thing that makes it even more tempting is that the LTE card can be removed and replaced with an SSD. Was curious about Linux on it and found this very useful post on Reddit. https://www.
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by wishfish 4y ago
The c100 / c101 Asus Flip is my favorite laptop form factor. Durable, extremely lightweight, loved the keyboard. Felt great in the hands. And inexpensive enough to make theft a non-worry. I wish Asus (or someone) would still make them.
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Oh definitely they thought they would win early and easily. They were a bit delusional. They thought solely of heroic battles winning everything through sheer courage, cleverness, and grit. And didn't think about what it meant for a la
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by wishfish 4y ago
Sometimes these things come from the bottom up. In some countries, a small number of violent people set the spark and the flames start. The elite do have far more power than the rest of us, but sometimes they're also caught up in a wav

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