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Private browsing tabs and windows are preserved across restarts. (This is optional and can be configured to forget them upon restart.) I am totally stumped – how do you enable this…

I’ve used .ME in the past, but then I settled on just using a .COM. The cost difference was negligible and nobody ever queries a .COM – I had people thinking my .ME was a mistake. …

That’s an interesting minor but significant difference. I’m from the UK, and both of my house keys (Yale, Abloy) have a distinct ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ orientation. Every house key I’…

Great choice. There’s so much to love in that book.

Is Pinboard actually closing? There’s nothing to indicate that on the site’s blog or its Twitter[2] (which had a post four days ago). [1]: https://blog.pinboard.in/blog/ [2]: https…

It’s an interesting question. I don’t know if there’s any evidence of wolf domestication by Neanderthals. If they didn’t domesticate them, it would be interesting to try to work ou…

Yes and no. Mostly no, I think. In a lot of cases (most?) even plain-text email is rendered in proportional fonts which don’t work for ASCII art. The default for all mobile email c…

I still dabble in ASCII art a bit, mostly in HTML comments and email headers. It’s kind of a difficult art-form to practice now, given that monospaced text is relatively rare. Here…

For anyone thinking that this is an insignificant saving of "only" 32kb, it's really important to remember that many of the site's users will be amongst the poorest in society. Man…

That does say… something. I’m just not sure what.

That was my experience too, the few times I tried it. I haven't been back for just that reason. There's nothing that I can do on there that I can't do on the real internet and even…

Interesting to see how stable the design of Hacker News has been. Here’s the earliest I c Ould find in the Wayback Machine – from 21st February, 2007: https://web.archive.org/web/2…

In high school, my physics teacher told us about his time at Glasgow University where he’d worked on Scotland’s first laser. This would have been in the ’60s. He said it was fascin…

You're not most people: most people will work in environments that use Windows PCs. I've worked a bunch of office jobs, and every one has used Windows.

cointrauma.com : Crowdsourced counselling for cryptocurrency-related upsets. wettiness.com : Using machine learning to accurately rate the dampness of objects in photos.

I got chokeshottie.com immediately followed by fleshwrap.com ... And several reloads later hardpapercock.com .

Lots of them all over Scotland, too.