limograf

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by limograf 3y ago
GDS is really brilliant, it's true.
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by limograf 3y ago
You can charge up mushrooms with vitamin D (D2) by placing them in direct sunlight for 30 minutes. Any ordinary mushrooms. So salmon (D3) and charged mushrooms would do just as well.
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by limograf 4y ago
Yeah. England&Wales legislation is fairly comprehensible. Of course it could be better. I just ran a random tax law through Hemingway and it scores between Grade 9 and 11, occasionally hitting Grade 13. So that's sort of fine, I th
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by limograf 4y ago
I do love it. I really do. I run a free code school for refugees, with an internal division where we also build products. All our teachers are volunteers, professionals from the local tech scene, so I work with hundreds of developers with a
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by limograf 4y ago
Here's what we do with beginner developers who have never coded before: - build pages in Codepen so they can see everything build as they go, fork from templates, and share/riff off each other - export from Codepen to a folder so
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by limograf 5y ago
Hard same. Adobe cheated me out of around six hundred pounds by making it freaking impossible to cancel. I finally escaped in 2021, after being devoted to Adobe for 16 years. I will never buy anything from them again. It's over now. I
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by limograf 5y ago
You are completely welcome. It's an absolute joy, that place!
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by limograf 5y ago
I love this comment!
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by limograf 5y ago
Aye - I wrote the front end, a loooong time ago now.
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by limograf 5y ago
In different ways, most things I've done have been meaningful. I learnt to code through cofounding a massive non-profit fanfic website with my friends and that build helped... me! I was living in poverty on welfare and had no way to go
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by limograf 5y ago
I notice this difference with my US friends. They do seem to think hunger is a genuine problem that must be resolved immediately. A sort of health risk. I've occasionally tried to press in on what the unspecified danger is meant to be
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by limograf 5y ago
Cookie bite hearing loss is more or less fixable, not CAPD. If you have both (which OP sounded like they did, or at least sounded like it was worth investigating) then you can fix it up a lot with targeted open dome hearing aids.
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by limograf 5y ago
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/auditory-processing-disorder/ Get a full audiogram and also ask them to look for cookie bite hearing loss. It's fixable.
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by limograf 5y ago
Sure, they can raise prices but the customers who paid £350,000 for their charming holiday cottage won't pay £35 for a cup of coffee. The house prices are so out of touch with the rest of the economy, there's no way to catch up fo
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by limograf 5y ago
Yes, of the six letters lost from the English alphabet, thorn and yogh are probably the most consequential for the spelling mess. In this, though, we can safely blame the French. ;) https://historyofenglishpodcast.com/2016&#
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by limograf 5y ago
Yep. It meant croquet lawn, basically. It's from Pall Mall (ultimately, ball hit / palla malleus) - the place Charles II played lawn games and around which fashionable people would promenade.
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by limograf 5y ago
The Forth Bridge is a very long bridge that is permanently being painted. "Like painting the Forth Bridge" is a job that (feels like it) will never end. https://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/be+like+painting+the+Fo.
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by limograf 6y ago
I work 24h/w (TWT) for my employer. I did this by... saying that's what I could do when they offered me the job. (There are some specific personal circumstances that prevent me from taking full time work.) And sure, it does limit
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by limograf 6y ago
It's ITS derived but the nearer referent is Material via Penguin Book covers from around 1960 to 1975, like the classic Hare Sitting Up: https://www.flickr.com/photos/joekral/231480092/in/album-721.
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by limograf 6y ago
For my one-woman-band projects I use: Github for repos and static hosting Gandhi for domains S3 & Cloudfront for assets Fortrabbit or Digital Ocean also for hosting Runway for ML and hosted models Algolia for search Snipcart and Stripe
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by limograf 6y ago
@media (prefers-color-scheme: dark) { { html {filter: invert(1)} }
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by limograf 6y ago
Ah, downvoted. ;) Sorry HN! Of course I meant that it's actually just a complete coincidence that so many women leave tech after having children. We all just choose this completely on our own and childcare is not a factor in the least.
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by limograf 6y ago
Years ago on a large project with many trainee and junior contributors, I had a sandbox.css as the last css file. Juniors could try out new things and add in naive fixes for bugs. Then in code review we brought the change up into the cascad
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by limograf 6y ago
I work three days a week (UK). It's totally possible but you're right that it does constrain where you work. Smaller companies where you can talk directly to the boss is the thing. I have a family caring role so for me it's p
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by limograf 6y ago
I still can't get over the part where multiple keys just fell right off the keyboard. And you can't put them back on - the whole top case has to be replaced. Sometimes you get a lemon - that's one thing, but this is a whole g
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by limograf 6y ago
Yeah - I've a MPB 15" 2017 and it is also the worst laptop I've ever owned. And it was to replace the MBP that was recalled (long after Apple had denied to me there was any problem and I'd sold it for parts on eBay). Not
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by limograf 6y ago
I think it's to fit on the podium because actually everyone is saying "Stay at home".
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by limograf 6y ago
Yeah, I think most normal people would just never apply and that's perfectly reasonable. I don't think working at Google is FOR normal people. I am a normal person and I'm pretty sure Google is not suffering from the lack of
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by limograf 6y ago
Wow this is absolutely fantastic. I'd really love to read a walk through of how you built this.
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by limograf 6y ago
Oooh. I might actually buy an iPhone from Apple this year instead of from the used stock of random phone companies. I think giffgaff is only down to third class condition SEs so this is good news! My hands are just too little for the new ph

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