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by thewebcount 3y ago
I know what you mean! One of the things I loved about the TV show “Connections” was how it followed one thread to get you from some seemingly random starting point to whatever the final thing was. It would be interesting to see some of thes
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Many web pages have loading progress bars. They're usually only 1-2 pixels thick and take up the entire top 1-2 rows of pixels on the page. Some stuff loads asynchronously, so it can be easy to miss them, but I see them all the time. J
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Christ on a cracker, Axis' website is horrible! I saw one model that looked interesting, but can't find a price. You have to click on "How to Buy" to get redirected to another page where you then have to click on "F
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> Walmart online is sometimes cheaper, but also sometimes more expensive. Makes it really hard to make the switch. I respect that you have to make decisions based on your own financial situation. For me, getting a few things for less mon
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Yeah, I got hit by this. I use Amazon maybe once or twice a year when I absolutely can't find something anywhere else. They are absolutely my last choice of where to shop, but sometimes, it's the only option. In any event, despite
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Yeah, that's fair. I get the frustration with that sort of criticism.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
No, that’s just stupid. If someone sings off key, I have every right to say that person is singing off key and it sounds bad even if I also cannot sing on key. If I see a bad movie or read a bad book, I have every right to criticize it even
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by thewebcount 3y ago
My suggestion would be to not learn git. Go with just about any other version control system if you’re not using it professionally. I’ve used cvs, Subversion (svn), Perforce (p4), and others. Honestly, Subversion and Perforce were both sign
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> It was a very crappy experience to not be able to remark on a single thing to each other. That was caused by your baby, not by the devices. 2 people in a small apartment together with their own devices watching what appears to them to
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I'm reasonably wealthy and live in a single family home on the coast. (Well 1 mile from the coast.) So this is not about me. But the truth is, I probably couldn't live anywhere else (beyond living a couple hours away and having a
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I did that for their World Cup coverage, and it did not block the channel. There was a World Cup banner with scores and stuff for a month. At that point I noped out and haven’t touched it since.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
That chart shows percentage of students getting at least 9 hours of sleep. Holy crap! In high school I used to go to bed around 11PM because my parents made me, and I would stare at the ceiling until I fell asleep at 2 or 3AM. Then my alarm
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Reading through it, I was struck by the contrast of how broken the web page was with what the author was saying about UX. The author seems experienced in the field, but the site felt completely broken. I don’t know if it’s a device or brows
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by thewebcount 3y ago
It was the same thing in the 80s with camcorders. There was a stereotype of the crazy neighbor who followed his kids around with his camcorder recording every second of their lives. Then it was smart phones. Now it's this. People want
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by thewebcount 3y ago
It's not just Linux users. I'm using Orion on macOS and I got stuck at the "Cloudflare needs to check the security of your connection…" prompt this morning. I didn't even get a Captcha. It just hung there. (And by t
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I've not been to Tacoma, so just taking a guess - Gary, Indiana is a dying/dead industrial town in the Midwest. I believe it was known mainly for steel mills when it was at its peak. These days it's mainly the butt of jokes a
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by thewebcount 3y ago
TL;DR - it helps to learn about patterns of thinking, particularly cognitive biases Long version: Plenty of good advice here, but I wanted to add something that helped me in this regard. I grew up in a household where everything was critici
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I have no preference either way to keep or get rid of AM radio, but I have to wonder, do people under 30 even know what AM radio is or how to tune into it? Just like with manual transmissions and cursive writing, it's probably somethin
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I remember being at a small company in the late 90s. We hired a new engineer and he used AIM. The boss was furious that the new guy was spending his time on the clock chatting with friends (and possibly leaking company secrets to people at
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by thewebcount 3y ago
So what's the end goal with all the personal info they seem to collect? Does it lead to other types of scams higher up in the organization? I can see how some of it is useful to the people running the virtuals so they can keep up with
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by thewebcount 3y ago
> I have observed that many of my peers want to be “managed.” What they like about the arrangement is the feeling of isolated from responsibility and liability. Do as told. It’s sort of an “anti self reliance” thing. An attempt to be, a
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by thewebcount 3y ago
A friend told me this story: He works for a large company as a software developer. He made a PR to change a compiler setting. It was rejected because the build team believed it would cause them to have to add more machines to the build flee
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Case in point: My father was an EE at GM in the 70s. He told me one time that the company knew of a problem in some model from that era where when you made a hard left turn with the air conditioning on, the engine would stall. Fixing it wou
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I work in the video world, and video editors have been asking for something like Final Cut Pro on the iPad for ages. They often used iMovie but wanted something more, so they'd start in iMovie on their iPad because they had it on them,
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by thewebcount 3y ago
FWIW, the iPad is velocity sensitive. I haven't tried Logic Pro on it yet, but with Garage Band, it definitely plays louder if you hit it harder (for patches that support it). Some software synths in GB also have a pseudo-aftertouch wh
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Regarding aftertouch, it does support it in a way (and it's shown in the video). For many synths, after you press a key on the on-screen keyboard, if you hold it and move your finger up towards the back end of the key, it gets translat
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by thewebcount 3y ago
Thank you so much for posting this sane response. As the spouse of someone who can't walk due to a disability (and also can't move themselves in a wheelchair), reading these discussions where people assume everyone is young, able-
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by thewebcount 3y ago
For it’s worth, you’ve been very responsive to my feedback, so thank you! It’s not perfect, but I’m really liking it so far.
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by thewebcount 3y ago
I’ve been using Kagi for almost a year now and love it. I’m on the early-adopter plan, but just checked and haven’t been anywhere near my included number of searches in the last 6 months. I probably do some searches with DDG on my work mach
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by thewebcount 3y ago
So much this. Metal is so elegant to use. I've tried reading through Vulkan docs and tutorials, and it's so confusing. Also, this seems like some major revisionist history: >This leads us to the other problem, the one Vulkan de

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