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by firmgently 5y ago
I use an app I made for myself: https://dontdillydally.app The main downside is probably that it doesn't automatically share data between devices, but it's fine for me as I just use it on my main work PC. It can save&#
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by firmgently 7y ago
This is my favourite https://www.bobrosslipsum.com/
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by firmgently 7y ago
A fork of gedit 2 (for anyone interested in such trivia)
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by firmgently 7y ago
I often search for the etymology of words. I used to overthink it when trying to find the right search terms but eventually realised that "[word] etymology" gives pretty much perfect results every time ('vaccine etymology&#x2
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by firmgently 7y ago
This isn't the right comparison to make. As you mentioned, Linux runs on hardware made by hundreds/thousands of different uncoordinated manufacturers. Mac OS runs on a very narrow range of hardware built by the same manufacturer t
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by firmgently 7y ago
It's complementary , which is a different word and has a very specific meaning when it comes to colour theory (a colour's complement is the colour directly opposite it on a colour wheel) https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by firmgently 8y ago
This probably refers to TTL, which can be easily changed to disguise the 'hop' from your device to your phone... but Deep Packet Inspection is apparently commonly used nowadays too. To get around that you need to be encrypting wit
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by firmgently 8y ago
I don't know much about figma but you can save .fig files from the browser app to your hard drive (I just did it to check). I'm not sure if any other apps can make use of .fig files so you may well still be tied to the app in that
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by firmgently 8y ago
I moved to a 10.1" display as a winter (low power) necessity. There's more sun now so I have enough power for my larger laptop but am not using it, I prefer the ergonomics of my current setup. My tablet is on an arm suspended at e
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by firmgently 8y ago
Banks do it under fractional reserve banking. "Lord Adair Turner, formerly the UK's chief financial regulator, said "Banks do not, as too many textbooks still suggest, take deposits of existing money from savers and lend it o
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by firmgently 8y ago
Reading these comments I feel obliged to mention the Android app 'DriveDroid' which lets you store multiple disk images on your phone and then acts as a bootable USB disk. I've got GParted, CloneZilla, Alpine, Debian etc live
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by firmgently 8y ago
"disproving commonly accepted things is a way to become a superstar in the scientific field" It doesn't necessarily follow that people will gamble grant money on the off-chance that you might turn out to be that superstar.
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by firmgently 8y ago
I use mbasic and can reply to comments on posts. I just checked the details and (for example) I click under the post: "2 scratches 'pon wood" (sorry I have language set to Pirate but it's the equivalent of "2 commen
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by firmgently 8y ago
There is no dark side of the moon, it's a misnomer - there's a far side from earth's point of view, but it isn't dark or blocked from the sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_side_of_the_Moon
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by firmgently 8y ago
On my phone in Brave/Chrome I use desktop mode and old.reddit.com which is fine in terms of usability (completely agree that default Reddit mobile is a user-hostile embarrassment).
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by firmgently 8y ago
If I do something bad to a person I say sorry and it means "I'm sorry I did something bad to you". If something that's out of my control happens to someone I might say sorry and mean "I'm sorry a bad thing happ
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by firmgently 8y ago
pioneered I believe by ThinkPads in 2003 http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Active_Protection_System
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by firmgently 8y ago
Also check out the brilliant Black Mirror episode 'Nosedive' on a similar theme
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by firmgently 8y ago
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/too-smart-to-be-a-cop/ https://abcnews.go.com/US/court-oks-barring-high-iqs-cops/st...
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by firmgently 8y ago
I feel like this makes it sound worse than it is. I run El Capitan in a VM on a 6 year old ThinkPad with a 3rd-gen i5 and it's fine. I use Safari with developer tools to debug web stuff and I've not noticed any unpleasantness. I d
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by firmgently 8y ago
I think the problem with it (as with a lot of science) is that control is very difficult. The more you want a controlled experiment, the more abstract and unrealistic you have to be. Eg. (completely made-up illustration) eggs might be good
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by firmgently 8y ago
It seems weird to suggest that tofu is less processed than butter. I suppose if you're buying the most high-end expensive tofu it might be a bit better but from what I know of how it's made I don't find it very appealing. I&#
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by firmgently 8y ago
Something I heard about recently was businesses offering to buy accounts from legit users, priced based on how old the account is and % rating. Obviously that's something that could be abused by a scammer (buy trustworthy account and s
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by firmgently 8y ago
"a long aisle with all the bread London had to offer." - to be fair it sounds like that's what a single shop had to offer. But it is true that the majority of bread sold in the UK is terrible (made cheaply following the Chorl
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by firmgently 8y ago
Two suggestions were made: 1. Run GeekBench back to back (realistic: a prolonged workload... which would show the Mac as being worse) 2. Working in a freezer (completely unrealistic situation... which would make the Mac seem better). Only o
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by firmgently 8y ago
I read it as "of the moon in the article"
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by firmgently 8y ago
Voyager 1 is already going about 17km/s. With no atmosphere or gravity to fight against you can keep accelerating as long as you have power.
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by firmgently 8y ago
On my Android tablet I run Debian in chroot. Full LAMP, i3wm, choice of terminal emulators, Vim, git, real Firefox, real Chromium. I use a Bluetooth keyboard with a trackpoint built in (alternatives with trackpads are available for people w
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by firmgently 8y ago
I see that as a kind of figure-of-8 movement... when my friend and I visited India we decided that it was a cross between a nod and a shake ie. ambiguous yes/no, non-committal
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by firmgently 8y ago
I don't know how to calculate amounts of caffeine but regarding the differing psychoactive effects, Googling 'tea stimulants' will get you lots of info... seems the main other stimulants in tea besides caffeine are theobromin

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