samwyse

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by samwyse 2y ago
That was later. Initially, you could post to Twitter by sending an SMS message. No scripts to load, no tracking of what you were doing.
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by samwyse 3y ago
I clicked on All Collections, searched for an icon and found a few, but then I wanted to view other icons in it's collection. I don't see a way to do that, or even figure out that icon's source. Also, the "Search Icons
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by samwyse 3y ago
Just an reminder: ChatGPT does a great job of rephrasing things to make them unique.
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by samwyse 4y ago
I’ve got to ask, which other Wi-Fi mapping provider requires a SSID suffix to opt out? Is it one of the big boys or is it someone like wigle.net or openwifimap.net?
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by samwyse 5y ago
Re: “we prefer our 33-year-old Kenmore top loaders that can still actually be repaired rather than replaced” http://recraigslist.com/2015/10/they-used-to-last-50-years/
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by samwyse 6y ago
Hey! I own a copy of that, although I’m not sure where it is. A great fun read. I think I’ll download and read it again.
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by samwyse 6y ago
Have you heard of Wik? https://wik.netlify.app/#Home I just discovered it a couple of months ago and have been using it every day since. It stores everything in your web browser’s LocalStorage. The downside is that every we
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by samwyse 6y ago
Needs tags! For example, names of people and TV shows, indoor/outdoor, skyline/landscape, etc.
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by samwyse 7y ago
I just keep my car unlocked 24 seven and don’t leave anything in it that I would resent having to replace.
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by samwyse 7y ago
Do you know about curl/wget? Each one does pretty much the same thing as the other, but you can start a religious war by suggesting that one is preferable. Anyway, either of them will let you mirror a website so you never have to wor
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by samwyse 8y ago
Obligatory HAL 9000 reference: https://youtu.be/1s-PiIbzbhw
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by samwyse 10y ago
Visited the site, dismissed the pop-up, scrolled to the bottom, saw that every book had just one mention. Wound up spending more time reading comments and looking at the list, don't think I'll return as the biggest problems do no
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by samwyse 10y ago
Given the way that people like to pull quotes out of context, writing something as a series of tweets forces you to look at each piece and see if it can stand alone.
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by samwyse 10y ago
The TL;DR was TL;DR. Ho, seriously. About halfway through, the buzzwords and jargon got to be too much for me. Let me know if there's anything interesting Wining.
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by samwyse 11y ago
1) I really like this! 2) How to make it better: Design your own quick-and-dirty logo. 2a) Upload a photo. 2b) Apply a filter. 2c) Overlay a simple icon. 2d) Bonus: combine filter and icon to create a favicon!
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by samwyse 11y ago
Rats! When I read the headline, I thought the article would be about a proposal to encrypt the statistics generated by web servers.
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by samwyse 11y ago
Think that it is fine just the way it is. A "programming language for musicians" could just as easily be BASIC or something, while a "music programming language" could be aimed exclusively at computer scientists.
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by samwyse 11y ago
I have to agree with pavlov and say that while I sympathize with your situation, I can't say I'm surprised. You fell victim to one of the classic blunders - The most famous of which is "never get involved in a land war in Asi
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by samwyse 13y ago
I'm changing the world everyday. I've got a stable job that allows my wife to homeschool our three kids.
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by samwyse 13y ago
Please sign my petition to prosecute James R. Clapper Jr., director of national intelligence, for perjury in his denial of spying on Americans. http://wh.gov/l3gRA
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by samwyse 14y ago
I only played it a bit, but it seems interesting enough that I may return to it this weekend. Even with the "hint" in the other comment about the movement, it was still confusing the first time i saw it.
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What's happened to aptiverse.com?
1 points by samwyse 14y ago|0 comments
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Upgrading Adobe Flash Player installed Google Toolbar without asking
9 points by samwyse 14y ago|3 comments
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by samwyse 14y ago
One more instance of The Law Of The Too Solid Goof: In any collection of data, the figures that are obviously correct beyond all need of checking contain the errors. Corollary 1: No one you ask for help will see the error either. Corollary
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by samwyse 14y ago
I signed, and posted on Facebook the following reason to do so: "Go sign this, if you haven't already. The description fits a lot of prosecutors, but this seems as good a place as any to start cleaning up." The job of a prosecutor is to pr
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Using doctests to verify a module's export list (Python recipe)(code.activestate.com)
1 points by samwyse 14y ago|0 comments
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by samwyse 14y ago
I love this! The only missing is a mini-player theme, like this Chrome app mock-up: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/9196433/news.ycombinator.com/ghostl... Clicking on the album cover would pop-up all of the album specific stuff, clicking on t
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Ask HK: Is there a good SDK for developer keys?
4 points by samwyse 15y ago|2 comments
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by samwyse 15y ago
I love white on black when I'd actually using a product, but I really prefer black on white when I'm taking a screenshot (such as the illustration in the article). I think the issue is the non-linear response of the human eye to illumina
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by samwyse 15y ago
I like Perl's other version: perl -p file.txt

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