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by leephillips 3d ago
This article is the first time I’ve heard of the reverse tab. What is it?
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by leephillips 3d ago
My keyboards have always had an INS key but they’ve never done anything and I’ve never bothered to map them to anything. I do sometimes want to overwrite, but that’s always in Vim where I can enter replace mode.
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Key symbols we lost to time, pt. 1: The PC side(unsung.aresluna.org)
110 points by leephillips 3d ago|33 comments
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by leephillips 5d ago
Today the great photographer Jay Maisel died: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/arts/jay-maisel-dead.html . The sad event reminded me of the time that John Gruber took part in inciting an internet mob wh
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Who's the Dick?(lee-phillips.org)
4 points by leephillips 5d ago|1 comments
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Typst Makes Big Strides(lwn.net)
3 points by leephillips 7d ago|0 comments
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Researcher uses machine learning to hide vehicles from Flock cameras(bitdefender.com)
5 points by leephillips 7d ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 10d ago
What kind of guitar players are these? Are you talking about pop music?
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NYC law could force Uber and Lyft to keep dangerous drivers on the road(reason.com)
4 points by leephillips 11d ago|2 comments
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by leephillips 15d ago
It’s an expression of frustration at being expected to supply evidence after accusing someone of racism.
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by leephillips 15d ago
That fun example does not provide evidence of what you accused the developer of. Not even close. I think if you’re going to accuse someone of what amounts to racist paranoia, you’d better have clear evidence of it. The fragment you linked t
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Placemark is now open source(macwright.com)
2 points by leephillips 20d ago|0 comments
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Florida Catholics slap down state AG by rejecting religious vaccine exemptions(arstechnica.com)
10 points by leephillips 20d ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 22d ago
...and some of us Fortran.
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As-Album – A Web Component Because Sometimes You Just Want to Post Pictures(sheep.horse)
5 points by leephillips 22d ago|0 comments
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Curvature Beziers: Improving on a timeless recipe(acko.net)
162 points by leephillips 23d ago|31 comments
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by leephillips 23d ago
“Webb said Home Office staff promised her over the phone the problem would be fixed, though a confirmation email was then sent to her sister instead of to her.” Comedy gold.
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by leephillips 25d ago
That might make sense. But in the video he (not “they”) never mentions that the room was part of a conference block. But it very well might have been.
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by leephillips 25d ago
I guess avoid Hilton hotels. They cancelled a reservation without verifying that they were talking to their client or someone authorized by their client.
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by leephillips 25d ago
Some terminal emulators, for example Kitty, can render text at various sizes (within the same window).
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Bhartrhari's Paradox(futilitycloset.com)
1 points by leephillips 25d ago|1 comments
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by leephillips 25d ago
I’ve been enjoying making TUI programs for my own use. It turns out that the Kitty terminal emulator, with its saveable sessions of arrangements of panels that can communicate with each other, is an interesting framework for TUIs: https:&#
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by leephillips 29d ago
This is a real loss, unlike the manufactured despair in the article.
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Hackers hijack hotel Wi-Fi DNS to steal Microsoft 365 accounts(bleepingcomputer.com)
7 points by leephillips 1mo ago|2 comments
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by leephillips 1mo ago
I had one! One of my favorite possessions in elementary school. It came with a nice booklet introducing the theory. Because I studied that booklet, I was probably the only brat in my 2nd grade who knew about number bases. I entertained myse
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JAMA journal won't retract oxycodone paper despite author request(retractionwatch.com)
4 points by leephillips 1mo ago|0 comments
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by leephillips 1mo ago
You’re right, I need to do that. It would create a glitch in the historical graph, but still, there’s too much slop getting through.
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by leephillips 1mo ago
I’ve implemented something like that at https://hn-ai.org/ . It at least filters out some of the slop articles, making it easier to find the potentially interesting stories.
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by leephillips 1mo ago
These will also be useful when I’m traveling away from my screen at very high speeds. Thanks!
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by leephillips 1mo ago
The article and many comments here suggest that a “sardine” is a specific species of fish. In fact, about a dozen species are canned and sold as “sardines”.

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