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by b5 1y ago
Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and can be configured to forget them upon restart.) I am totally stumped – how do you enable this on the Mac? I can’t find the option at all, and Google i
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by b5 2y ago
I’ve used .ME in the past, but then I settled on just using a .COM. The cost difference was negligible and nobody ever queries a .COM – I had people thinking my .ME was a mistake. Unless you desperately want COMMONNAME.TLD, I’d go with the
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by b5 2y ago
That’s an interesting minor but significant difference. I’m from the UK, and both of my house keys (Yale, Abloy) have a distinct ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ orientation. Every house key I’ve ever had has been like this. The keys for my desk draw
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by b5 2y ago
Great choice. There’s so much to love in that book.
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by b5 2y ago
Is Pinboard actually closing? There’s nothing to indicate that on the site’s blog or its Twitter[2] (which had a post four days ago). [1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ [2]: https://x.com/Pinboard
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by b5 2y ago
It’s an interesting question. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of wolf domestication by Neanderthals. If they didn’t domesticate them, it would be interesting to try to work out why – maybe there’s a subtle difference in psychology
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by b5 3y ago
Yes and no. Mostly no, I think. In a lot of cases (most?) even plain-text email is rendered in proportional fonts which don’t work for ASCII art. The default for all mobile email clients, Gmail, Outlook, and Apple Mail is now to render pla
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by b5 3y ago
I still dabble in ASCII art a bit, mostly in HTML comments and email headers. It’s kind of a difficult art-form to practice now, given that monospaced text is relatively rare. Here’s are my pets in ASCII, who go out in the headers of my em
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by b5 4y ago
For anyone thinking that this is an insignificant saving of "only" 32kb, it's really important to remember that many of the site's users will be amongst the poorest in society. Many of them will be accessing it using th
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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML(shkspr.mobi)
4 points by b5 4y ago|0 comments
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A prominent composer lost his Wikipedia page(tedgioia.substack.com)
148 points by b5 4y ago|176 comments
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by b5 5y ago
That does say… something. I’m just not sure what.
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iPhone 13 and 13 Pro review: If you could have three wishes(arstechnica.com)
2 points by b5 5y ago|0 comments
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by b5 5y ago
That was my experience too, the few times I tried it. I haven't been back for just that reason. There's nothing that I can do on there that I can't do on the real internet and even the tiniest risk of CSAM material reaching
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The Base45 Data Encoding(datatracker.ietf.org)
93 points by b5 5y ago|47 comments
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Monica: Personal CRM Done Right(monicahq.com)
2 points by b5 5y ago|0 comments
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4chan founder Chris Poole has left Google(cnbc.com)
209 points by b5 5y ago|371 comments
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by b5 6y ago
Interesting to see how stable the design of Hacker News has been. Here’s the earliest I c Ould find in the Wayback Machine – from 21st February, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/20070221033032/http://ne
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Semantic Linefeeds(rhodesmill.org)
1 points by b5 6y ago|0 comments
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by b5 6y ago
In high school, my physics teacher told us about his time at Glasgow University where he’d worked on Scotland’s first laser. This would have been in the ’60s. He said it was fascinating, but they had no idea what to do with it then. He c
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by b5 6y ago
You're not most people: most people will work in environments that use Windows PCs. I've worked a bunch of office jobs, and every one has used Windows.
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Is Dixon’s Ticonderoga Truly ‘The World’s Best Pencil’? We Don’t Think So(nytimes.com)
3 points by b5 6y ago|0 comments
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by b5 6y ago
cointrauma.com : Crowdsourced counselling for cryptocurrency-related upsets. wettiness.com : Using machine learning to accurately rate the dampness of objects in photos.
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by b5 6y ago
I got chokeshottie.com immediately followed by fleshwrap.com ... And several reloads later hardpapercock.com .
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by b5 7y ago
Lots of them all over Scotland, too.
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by b5 7y ago
That's hyperbolic nonsense. There's a huge number of people, myself included, that continue to use an iPhone SE with a 4" screen without the issues you describe. A 4.7" screen is nearly 20% larger than that; it doesn
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by b5 7y ago
And best of all: if you don't mind a blank keycap, you can get a non-stepped keycap for the Ctrl key.[1] [1]: https://deskthority.net/viewtopic.php?t=16693
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by b5 7y ago
While you're strictly and literally correct, I think you're missing the point. The vertical position of the Backspace/Delete key is still the same on US-ANSI and EU-ISO. The advantage of the Unix layout is that it brings the
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Richard Stallman Resigns from MIT over Epstein Comments(theverge.com)
6 points by b5 7y ago|1 comments
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Boxed in at the Docks: How a Lifeline from China Changed Greece(fortune.com)
1 points by b5 7y ago|0 comments

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