cocoadog

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by cocoadog 3y ago
I love the palette feature, which allows me to create shortcuts exactly two keystrokes long: https://www.notesfromandy.com/2014/08/01/double-hotkeys-with... This feature is just a sliver of all the power of K
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by cocoadog 7y ago
Related: on Macs, holding the Shift key makes the scroll wheel (and two-finger touchpad scrolling) scroll horizontally instead of vertically.
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by cocoadog 9y ago
I haven't seen a specific study but I have read assertions along the same lines: either low-fat or low-carb can work. I believe the insulin-centric explanation (I'm a low carb eater and this is the perspective I tend to see) w
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by cocoadog 9y ago
One of the preinstalled apps on macOS is /Applications/Chess.app. Turns out it uses an open-source chess engine called sjeng, the binary for which is inside the app bundle. Chess.app is itself open source, so I tweaked Apple&#x2
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by cocoadog 9y ago
I'm not quite that bad at chess, but bad enough that I wrote a chess game that plays random moves so I could always beat it: http://www.notesfromandy.com/2016/09/27/chessfidget/ That got boring, so
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by cocoadog 13y ago
Of all the engineers you've worked with, if you can think of eleven such that you'd rather hire one rather than the other ten, then that person is a 10x engineer.
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by cocoadog 13y ago
> So far I have seen no data whatsoever to back up this idea that Asian people prefer gold more than other people in the world. I too would like to see data that supports the theory that a gold iPhone should be expected to do especially
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by cocoadog 13y ago
Is "Asians love gold" a common racial stereotype? Serious question. Is it common for racist non-Asians to think, "Them Asians, they sure do love cat chow mein, blonde women, and gold"? [EDIT: If you like, substitute &