bryankaplan

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by bryankaplan 4mo ago
I find it interesting that the context of this comments page apparently overrides the normal definition of “PG” on HN.
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by bryankaplan 5mo ago
Ctrl-k focuses the Search bar unless a website hijacks it, which became regrettably common after the Search bar got hidden by default. But Firefox allows one to reënable it, and some of us continue to rely upon it.
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by bryankaplan 5mo ago
The analogy is location. file : directory :: person : geocoordinates. I thought it was a straight-forward analogy, but clearly I was mistaken.
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by bryankaplan 5mo ago
Hardly. That would be analogous to two people having the same name _and_ the same spacetime coordinates; they would indeed be the same person.
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by bryankaplan 5mo ago
If the elevator was invented today, use of it would require an app which demands access to one’s contacts and microphone, and has a rating of 1.4 stars.
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by bryankaplan 5mo ago
Did they also struggle to understand that some people have the same name yet are not the same person?
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by bryankaplan 11mo ago
The underlying problem here is that a click or tap should always refer to whatever _was_ on the screen a few (100?) milliseconds ago. It’s a long-standing bug on all platforms.
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by bryankaplan 1y ago
I've come to rely on a robust method of adblocking YouTube which I believe to be perfectly reliable and impossible for YouTube to circumvent: avoid watching YouTube. Incidentally this method also reliably prevents false buffering.
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by bryankaplan 2y ago
But folders are now stuffed into a small dropdown, leaving All Items as an unorganized mess. That change alone is pushing me to switch password managers.
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by bryankaplan 2y ago
Certainly true. Gold is difficult to transport and expensive to protect, whereas Bitcoin is neither.
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by bryankaplan 2y ago
I've long wished hyperlinks would permit multiple hrefs. Hypertext could be more sophisticated. Multi-link QR codes could be practically useful, provided an interstice appears with the URLs and allows a person to follow any of them or
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by bryankaplan 2y ago
It may well be considered a security flaw for any country to allow foreign nationals to purchase any real estate. Incidentally, the practice also drives up prices for citizens, leading to housing crises. But a policy that allows anyone with
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by bryankaplan 2y ago
Funny how the desire to attract new users seems genuine up until someone mentions the glaring elephant in the room, and then you're downvoted to oblivion. I, like many others, would never use FreeBSD precisely because it promotes the i
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by bryankaplan 2y ago
Why is this comment downvoted? I also saw no ads, using Firefox Mobile with uBlock Origin and NextDNS.
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by bryankaplan 3y ago
How do we solve that?
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by bryankaplan 3y ago
Yes, but there's still so much supporting software waiting to be built.
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
So what you're saying is it makes things up.
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
It's a system that was never introduced in the US, and in fact I've never even heard of it until now. So surely one option is to remove the system altogether. That written, I'm also surprised there's any serious talk of
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
What are its prime directives?
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
I too do this, yet I occasionally receive evidence that my address was sold or stolen. I've confronted one company about the problem, and they outright denied that they had any part in it.
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
I'm not the person you asked, but it's trivial to host your own git repos on a server.
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
Life finds a way.
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by bryankaplan 4y ago
You're conflating the 1st Amendment with free speech. The former is rooted in the latter. Free speech is a natural right, applicable to all situations. This is a free speech issue.
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by bryankaplan 6y ago
Long before the term "AJAX" was coined, we used hidden iframes to do the same thing.
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by bryankaplan 11y ago
> social security (theoretically assigned to every citizen) Participation in the Social Security program is optional.[0] [0] https://www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10023.pdf
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by bryankaplan 11y ago
That used to be true, but Schwab has since removed their character limit. I just updated my password to one having more than sixty characters.