grimman

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by grimman 8y ago
Perhaps it's a bit silly, but it amused me that this line: "<a byte that contains an header>" made me ask whether the author was French. A very quick search for his name comes up with predominantly French (language, at
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by grimman 9y ago
I have found the exported data to be extremely spotty in certain areas. Especially the YouTube history.
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by grimman 11y ago
Not to mention that it appears completely broken in Firefox. https://i.imgur.com/1wgZlgv.jpg
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by grimman 11y ago
I found out, in a happy little accident, that dgg.gg also works.
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by grimman 11y ago
Just out of curiosity: how often do you find yourself using !g and then actually finding a better answer?
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by grimman 11y ago
Why would France ever pay for the "privilege" of having US citizens living in France?
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by grimman 11y ago
It's a deep, and scary, rabbit hole. If you're at all curious, it seems Sargon of Akkad and Thunderf00t on YouTube are not just slinging shit. I've watched some, and sources have always been included. Don't get me wrong,
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by grimman 11y ago
I've found NoScript a bigger part of my browsing habits lately. I wait for the moment when a site just goes haywire, maxing CPU cores, at which point I just nix its script privileges. This isn't nearly as disruptive as distrusting
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by grimman 11y ago
Not in the least. I spent a good portion of the past 15 years trying desperately to rekindle the flame that brought me into the business, but I just couldn't seem to do it. As of November last year, I quit, and I'm now back in sch
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by grimman 11y ago
You'll have to wait many years for that. The cow is noticeably thinner, but by no means dry just yet. They'll keep milking it!
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by grimman 11y ago
It's interesting to me, seeing how many people are so deeply dissatisfied with the results. I switched a couple of years ago, and only had a very small (two-three week) period where I'd check back on the mighty GOOG, only to confi
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by grimman 11y ago
Which it seems is precisely what this addon solves.
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by grimman 11y ago
A rather interesting use case, and one that I haven't been forced to deal with just yet. On a rather cursory search, however, I came across Switchy: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/switchy&
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by grimman 11y ago
Ultimately there are very simple explanations for most things. You'll have developer/mapper playgrounds where they model new stuff and try things out before cutting them or implementing them. Sometimes these things happen in produ
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by grimman 11y ago
> They both transform to the most sensible html given the input. I'm going to have to disagree with you. Long before Markdown came along, the convention was to use asterisks for * bold *, slashes for /italics/ and undersco
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by grimman 11y ago
> Not sure what you mean; Windows 10 is exactly like Windows 7 and Windows 8 here. You hit the start button / start key, you start typing, and the things you want start popping up. I can assure you, that is not the way it currently
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by grimman 11y ago
> People bitched about the new start menu because they weren't willing to see that there were better ways to find their programs. What exactly was the better way though? I'm still on Win7 in my primary computer, having Win10 (a
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by grimman 11y ago
There's an addon for Firefox that does the job for you. It's depressing for people like us, but if you still want to get an accurate count, the name is simply "Open Tab Count". Proceed with caution... :|
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by grimman 11y ago
> But I think you underestimate what many people are willing to put up with as their daily protein source. As far as I'm concerned, it's not even about putting up with anything. Real meat is cheaper and tastes better. That&#x
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by grimman 11y ago
Swedish here, I write Z with the line, as well as the number 7. My first teacher was ancient even in the 90s, so that may have something to do with it?
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by grimman 11y ago
Given that, around here anyway, solar powered "night lights" for use outdoors are very prevalent and only set you back about a dollar a piece... $5 certainly seems very possible. Now these lights I'm talking about are really
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by grimman 11y ago
I think the only actual Windows app I still really need is Total Commander. I know there's lots of commander apps available for just about any platform, but I've used Total Commander for... 15 years? I know it inside and out; ev
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by grimman 11y ago
> Don't reward this behavior by buying Windows 10. Or at least delay the purchase as long as possible. There's no buying if you've already got a valid Windows 7/8 license; it's a free upgrade. And as long as it&#
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by grimman 11y ago
Assuming you've clicked the Reserve-button in the little notification application that was rolled out via Windows Update, you'll just have to sit tight and wait. Check out the FAQ: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us&#x
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by grimman 11y ago
Cryptonomicon was my first contact with Stephenson, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. It also opened my eyes to WW2 crypto and a whole lot of other very interesting things!
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by grimman 11y ago
I spent a long time pondering the premise of the subsequent planetary bombardment. Would the moon fragments really bang into one another the way they do in the book? Would it lead to massive fragmentation and ultimately the aforementioned b
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by grimman 11y ago
Yeah, I read Seveneves, then The Martian and many things felt very familiar. I have to say, however, I was very annoyed with the style of The Martian.
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by grimman 11y ago
"Open Tab Count" works nicely for me.
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by grimman 11y ago
I use one called UnloadTab. Works a treat, and does exactly what it says on the box!
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by grimman 11y ago
Once you get used to the tab groups they can be very powerful. I use them for contexts myself; one for casual browsing, one for development for client x, one for client y etc, one for research, and the list goes on. Obviously you can easily

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