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by dansimau 2y ago
Yet another Google account/service-banning horror story. For this reason, I proactively migrated off Gmail earlier this year to Fastmail. Very happy that I did. The only important thing I have left on Google now is 15 years of Location
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by dansimau 2y ago
From the linked paper: > Phrases were designed to mimic the writing style of elementary school students, including typical spelling errors observed at that age (Quinn, 2020).
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by dansimau 2y ago
I've always thought it would be nice if microphones can be merged when on a phone call with AirPods in. The mics in those headphones are really far away from my face and when it's windy talking on them is almost impossible. It wou
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by dansimau 4y ago
Huh? You can literally do those things in 1Password. Every item has a notes section where you can type plain text. Custom fields are supported. List view is there. https://support.1password.com/custom-fields/ https:&#
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by dansimau 4y ago
From TFA: > "To play an instrument means that you can understand music, which is a high cognitive function. It means you can interact with the instrument, you can coordinate both hands, you can exercise memory, you can count — becau
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by dansimau 5y ago
A tool that has been most useful for me when I am scheduling meetings cross-timezone: http://timesched.pocoo.org/ IMHO when scheduling, you need to actually understand local time for all your attendees, so you can factor in
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by dansimau 5y ago
Also a must watch is the making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6Hpal8fUA Incredible that the set ran on hydraulics and actually stretched.
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by dansimau 6y ago
I grew up in the city in Australia. Once when I crossed the road (as a pedestrian) at a red light, a police officer on the other side of the street stopped me and gave me a warning for jaywalking. Before I had walked, I had looked both ways
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by dansimau 7y ago
There is no reason philanthropy cannot be used to tackle multiple issues at once. I'm not sure there is a lot value in deriding one cause over another. We need to address both issues.
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by dansimau 7y ago
For those who disagree with the position taken in the article: Out of curiosity, what would you do to deal with online child pornography instead?
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HTTP redirect vulnerability in apt package manager(lists.debian.org)
10 points by dansimau 8y ago|5 comments
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by dansimau 8y ago
"appje" is the diminuitive form of "app", which is a shortened form of "whatsapp" (referring to a whatsapp message). In English, you would never shorten the phrase "I'll send you a whatsapp" to &
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by dansimau 11y ago
> How do you expect jo to know where the 1 came from to change its interpretation? It was merely an observation. Of course, one can simply negate the value before passing it to jo. jo looked as though it was for use in the shell though,
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by dansimau 11y ago
Awesome looking tool. One thing I noticed, however: $ false; echo success@$? | jo {"success":true} i.e. jo's translation of integers to booleans does not match that of a typical shell.
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by dansimau 12y ago
$ telnet m.trykeep.com 80 Trying 54.87.165.213... telnet: connect to address 54.87.165.213: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host
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by dansimau 13y ago
Shock, horror!
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by dansimau 13y ago
A simpler (and more efficient) equivalent to this script would be this one-liner: while true; do rsync -azP $PWD/ <remote>:$PWD/; sleep 2; done Or even better: https://code.google.com/p/lsyncd&#
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by dansimau 13y ago
Python's PEP8 recommends underscores for functions, method names and instance vars, but the stats are showing a break down of camelCase with and without first capital letter (which shouldn't really be relevant).
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by dansimau 13y ago
One key difference here for me is that the word "hacks" might imply that the addition of hacks to that file are acceptable; where as the word "shame" implies that the hacks are less than acceptable and should be used as a last resort.
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by dansimau 14y ago
It's always been the case with the Facebook app pre-iOS6 that after syncing contacts (which uploads all your local phone numbers to Facebook) any Facebook profile associated with one of those numbers would appear in your address book on the
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by dansimau 14y ago
Your dream is never going to become a reality in the way you're asking. As a feature of the desktop browser, users could turn share buttons off. Embedded in the page, they can't. That is why the site operator put them there in the first pla