philposting

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by philposting 4mo ago
Agreed, especially as with images it does the opposite. It waits until the image is finalised, then tests it for suitability, and decides whether or not to show it. It would be interesting to see the intermediate steps, but they're not
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by philposting 5mo ago
An excellent game, with a great UI. Thank-you.
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by philposting 5mo ago
Never heard of that usage (I'm also British).
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by philposting 7mo ago
> Lokuhitige says he works seven days a week, 12 hours a day The app he's making[1] is an AI-driven notebook for fiction writers. Not changing the world. I don't understand the dedication. [1] https://www.mythril.io&
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'It's absolutely f–-ed': Why Google's new £1B London office is in crisis(telegraph.co.uk)
7 points by philposting 1y ago|1 comments
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by philposting 2y ago
Anyone know why it was called the HP-35 if it was the first?
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Fragile GPS is a vulnerability for the West – and Putin knows it(telegraph.co.uk)
6 points by philposting 2y ago|2 comments
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by philposting 2y ago
But a new optical quantum clock may be the solution.
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by philposting 3y ago
I'm not so sure that the internet has improved productivity — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
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by philposting 3y ago
A lovely app -- downloaded!
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by philposting 3y ago
It's nice to use software, or anything really, where effort has been made to make it beautiful as well as functional. Also it's good to support and highlight good photography.
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by philposting 3y ago
I met him on this bridge once, he was polishing an old work. He told us that he had the blessing of the owners of the bridge. Other places where he worked, he didn’t have permission.
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by philposting 3y ago
Yes! English isn't always a great language... I do like the meaning behind it though. You are a brother, even if not in biology, we'll embrace you. It just doesn't work well for genealogists.
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by philposting 3y ago
Agreed. If things look good then I enjoy looking at them more, and life is to be enjoyed. But more importantly, it's wrong that plain text is always the best way to communicate. A picture is worth a thousand words (often), and a good l
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by philposting 3y ago
Speaking from a user point of view, I find arguments like this are often disingenuous (I'm not saying that yours is). "Tailoring for the user" normally actually means "tracking the user". Specifically, the passing o
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by philposting 3y ago
I've recently used Axate (www.axate.com) on a news website. You top up credit, and then pay per article.
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by philposting 3y ago
I'm in the UK and have used Krystal for years. Great service, great support. I have no affiliation with them.
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by philposting 3y ago
The back button also breaks for me on macOS Safari.
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by philposting 3y ago
A good song about the word, by Ronny Cox who played the police chief in Robocop: https://ronnycox.bandcamp.com/track/mamihlapinatapei
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by philposting 4y ago
It looks like it's getting currency exchange rates from the IMF, not phoning home.
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by philposting 4y ago
I clicked to look at the highres version... and I really don't understand why websites feel the need to put PDFs behind an interface. Every common browser has a perfectly good PDF viewer built-in, in fact it's normally better than
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by philposting 4y ago
Try: defaults write com.apple.finder NSWindowSupportsAutomaticInlineTitle -bool false, then killall Finder
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by philposting 5y ago
I explained it as Facebook the city still existing, but they'd taken down the signposts.
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by philposting 5y ago
That's not true, for many people. If you increase choices then people often feel less happy. Having more varieties of mayonnaise at the supermarket doesn't necessarily make us happier--it just forces us to expend energy choosing,
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by philposting 6y ago
I used https://www.raidrive.com/ which lets you mount Google Photos as a (read-only) drive in Windows.
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by philposting 6y ago
There’s this nice app: https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/exporter/id1099120373?mt=12
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by philposting 6y ago
Probably not from their online service, but unless you switch on “optimise local storage”, all of the files are already on your local disk in JPEG or HEIC.
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by philposting 6y ago
You can install WhatsApp and WhatsApp Business, with a number on each. WhatsApp business has some extra functions for businesses, but is otherwise the same.