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by peterjmag 5mo ago
Looks like the site's struggling to keep up with the traffic. A couple mirror links: https://web.archive.org/web/20260505052217/https://www.thatp... https://archive.ph/sM7O5 (missin
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by peterjmag 6mo ago
It’s my first time playing any Civ game ever. I’m currently at the top of the scoreboard for reasons entirely unbeknownst to me. My advice for anyone else considering playing their own game: form an alliance with the server admin.
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by peterjmag 1y ago
Not sure if the link was changed by the mods or something, but just a heads up that your quote's from the iFixit article [1], not the EFF one [2] [1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/110039/double-trouble-for-repai
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by peterjmag 2y ago
Somebody pushed it up here: https://github.com/amix/photoshop But that might be violating the Computer History Museum's license: https://github.com/amix/photoshop/blob/2baca147594d01
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Tell HN: How to make macOS restore windows to their respective desktops
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by peterjmag 2y ago
This post prompted me to fix a problem I’ve had for literal years. Forgive the tangent, but I’m so happy that I needed to share. I imagine I’m not the only one who’s run into this particular issue, so hopefully it’s helpful for others too.
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by peterjmag 4y ago
https://archive.ph/ld0KF
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by peterjmag 4y ago
The original document being commented isn't available anymore. Luckily, the Internet Archive has a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20000517232106/http://webreferen... Digging around a bit more, th
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by peterjmag 5y ago
Double clicking selects a word, and triple-clicking selects the whole line. If I double- or triple-click-and-hold, I can drag the mouse to expand the selection word-wise or line-wise, not just character-wise. This works with the paragraphs
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by peterjmag 5y ago
Were your kids pronouncing island like "iz-land" or "eye-land"? Just asking because other people in the thread seem to be focusing on the "H" sound rather than the fact that "Island" is the German wor
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by peterjmag 5y ago
For anyone who's curious, here's a video of the Easter egg in action, along with a some more interesting backstory on Jacques Servin, the programmer in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mh7Pc5MSI&t=49
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by peterjmag 5y ago
The parent commenter is talking about the "currently online" indicator, which can't be disabled. From a (strangely worded) WhatsApp doc: > Please note you can't hide your online. https://faq.whatsapp.com&
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by peterjmag 5y ago
Totally agreed that it's invasive. Same for the "typing" indicator, which also can't be disabled. If I'm writing something longer than a sentence or two, I usually just compose it somewhere else and then copy/p
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by peterjmag 7y ago
I disagree — those issues are totally for the company to solve. Or at least, the company should be prepared to meet employees halfway. If a North American company is going to insist that I work North American hours whilst living in Europe,
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by peterjmag 8y ago
I like function components too, but I've seen some interesting arguments against using them: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/7-reasons-to-outlaw-reacts-f... And I wish I had a reference for this, but I seem to remember
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by peterjmag 8y ago
I think GitHub's great, and I'm mostly okay with having to rely on it heavily at my day job, but I dislike how code reviews + PRs are necessarily tied to branches. What are the chances of GitHub introducing stacked diffs (or a sim
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by peterjmag 8y ago
This is awesome! I particularly like being able to spin up a local instance of GraphiQL against any endpoint (with auth headers and everything). I tried it with GitHub's GraphQL API, and it took me less than a minute to get going.
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by peterjmag 8y ago
Agreed, that's obnoxious. I bypassed it with Google's cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Ahttp%...
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by peterjmag 8y ago
Strange, I'm getting a 404. If anyone else is having the same problem, here's Google's cached version: https://goo.gl/BmbnJ2
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by peterjmag 9y ago
Ah, and they just published some of the resulting drawings: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/mauerzeichnen-auswertung/
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by peterjmag 9y ago
Berliner Morgenpost published a cool little interactive thing last week where you draw where you think the wall used to be and it tells you how close you were: https://interaktiv.morgenpost.de/berliner-mauer/ (German o
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by peterjmag 9y ago
This is one of my all-time favorite things on the internet. I was so inspired by it that I did a sort of half-formed "installation art" piece using it for a college class back in 2011. I projected the site onto a wall, hooked up s
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by peterjmag 9y ago
Yep, fair point — I should have probably called them "restrictions" instead of using "ban" and "outlawed".
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by peterjmag 9y ago
In addition to the other suggestions, it might be worth contacting your representative to voice your support of legislation to repeal the existing statewide ban. For instance, this bill was recently introduced in the state senate: https:&#
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by peterjmag 9y ago
They did in Chattanooga, but not before trying to sue the city four times: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ezpk77/chattanoog... A couple shorter articles on the same topic: https://www.t
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by peterjmag 9y ago
Good find! I was curious too, and that does seem pretty small. I wonder how many people NextLight employs and contracts out in Longmont?
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by peterjmag 9y ago
Theoretically, yes. In fact, Senate Bill 152, passed in 2005, already outlaws municipal broadband. From the article: Colorado has a state law requiring municipalities to hold referendums before they can provide cable, telecom, or broadband
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by peterjmag 9y ago
I'm pretty proud of my hometown for passing this measure! Longmont, a town 30 miles south of Fort Collins, passed something similar a couple years ago, and it sounds like it's been pretty successful so far[1], so I'm excited
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Voters say “yes” to city-run broadband in Colorado(arstechnica.com)
789 points by peterjmag 9y ago|218 comments
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by peterjmag 9y ago
For those who haven't seen it, here's a great illustration of what that data looked like for one person back in 2009: http://www.zeit.de/datenschutz/malte-spitz-data-retention I can imagine that it's onl

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