slobotron

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by slobotron 8mo ago
IMO, in person it's much nicer on the ears than the old single-tone beep that they used to have. It's less jarring and easier to locate where the noise is coming from, ye olde beep seemed to come from everywhere at once.
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Fresh Cloudflare Issues(cloudflarestatus.com)
5 points by slobotron 9mo ago|3 comments
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by slobotron 9mo ago
anyone else experiencing the slowdown?
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by slobotron 3y ago
Amazfit watch gives a "score" that can be seen on device screen, in addition to the total hours and and breakdown per awake / REM / deep / light time.
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by slobotron 3y ago
TFA says the task could be procrastination too > And don't forget that it could be "take a nap"!
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by slobotron 3y ago
And JS can detect that and send it back to the server.
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by slobotron 3y ago
I thought that it's hard to radiate-away heat in vacuum?
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by slobotron 4y ago
Seems that the World Map is "fixed" and does not rotate to keep it aligned with the hands (expectation is that New York hand should roughly point to New York on the map)?
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by slobotron 4y ago
Submitted lino includes hardcoded location, maybe that's what's tripping people up?
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by slobotron 5y ago
Presumably when inhaled, since the lawsuit talks about talc containing asbestos.
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by slobotron 5y ago
Better translated as "Professor Fortran's Encyclopedia"?
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by slobotron 5y ago
Highly recommend you look into keyboards that have "Enter" and "Backspace" reachable by thumb/index fingers. I've been dailying a TECK for nearly a decade, and it's helped immensely with RSI. Their new Cle
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Toyota owners have to pay $8/month to keep using their key fob for remote start(arstechnica.com)
876 points by slobotron 5y ago|716 comments
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by slobotron 5y ago
I don't know how reliable that Canadian towers site is, it shows seemingly ridiculous number of towers in some suburban blocks?
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by slobotron 5y ago
Screenkey https://www.thregr.org/~wavexx/software/screenkey/
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by slobotron 5y ago
Spinalis looks to be similar idea, available in Canada. I had a lot of lower back pain that went away shortly after I started using it. https://spinalis-chairs.ca/
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by slobotron 5y ago
Last time I used Qt, it had classes to abstract hardware. Stuff like QSerialPort worked fine across platforms for my usage. YMMV
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by slobotron 5y ago
Kind of funny that we trust Google's index of the whole www to take us to manufacturer's legitimate website, but don't trust Apple's own search of their curated store.
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by slobotron 6y ago
From Wikipedia you linked: > There are recurring tales of sailors being pressed after a shilling was slipped into their drink, leading to glass-bottomed tankards. However, this is likely to be a myth, for the Navy could press by force, r
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by slobotron 6y ago
Article comments on this nearly immediately: > even if “animals” is a bit of a loose term that encompasses “Catholic Priests” (Ethics of Big Data) or “Soldiers or rangers, with rifles” (SELinux).
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by slobotron 6y ago
Certainly evokes a lot of nostalgia. The tactile feel of 3D buttons can be mesmerizing at times, a lot of experience has been lost in the race to flat, in addition to lowered affordability of modern UIs. One bug: Firefox on Linux introduces
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by slobotron 6y ago
We are using Continix[0] to package up regular NixOS modules in docker [0] https://github.com/notgne2/continix
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by slobotron 8y ago
One could argue that if you are about to majorly break back compat, that you should just rename your project. Even calling it `foo2` is better than pretending it's `foo 2.0`. It may slow adoption of your new work, but at least it'
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by slobotron 8y ago
Perl6 allows it, and it's the preferred convention to boot. Small Intro: https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/day-5-identifie...
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by slobotron 8y ago
Too bad it's not package.yaml or package.js so that we can include comments and document our dependencies....
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by slobotron 8y ago
Definitely at the very least ICQ had it - remember freaking out friends by replying to their questions before they even clicked send. This was late 90s...
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by slobotron 8y ago
Another option is Sqitch. It's database and framework agnostic. https://sqitch.org/ Postgres Tutorial: https://metacpan.org/pod/sqitchtutorial
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by slobotron 8y ago
Chances are you will end up downloading a lot of dependencies anyways, why not have git deliver it all?
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by slobotron 8y ago
Instead of "ad hoc", think of it as a multi-paradigm language. From that viewpoint, I think there is a fair bit of beauty in being able to pick and choose your approach based on the problem at hand without worrying if that is an i
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by slobotron 8y ago
Navigation of the select box would be improved if "/r/" prefix was stripped from every item. Ex, I clicked on select box and start typing "cable" expecting for it to navigate to one of those entries, but it jus

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