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Yet another Google account/service-banning horror story. For this reason, I proactively migrated off Gmail earlier this year to Fastmail. Very happy that I did. The only important …

From the linked paper: > Phrases were designed to mimic the writing style of elementary school students, including typical spelling errors observed at that age (Quinn, 2020).

I've always thought it would be nice if microphones can be merged when on a phone call with AirPods in. The mics in those headphones are really far away from my face and when it's …

Huh? You can literally do those things in 1Password. Every item has a notes section where you can type plain text. Custom fields are supported. List view is there. https://support.…

From TFA: > "To play an instrument means that you can understand music, which is a high cognitive function. It means you can interact with the instrument, you can coordinate both h…

A tool that has been most useful for me when I am scheduling meetings cross-timezone: http://timesched.pocoo.org/ IMHO when scheduling, you need to actually understand local time f…

Also a must watch is the making of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6Hpal8fUA Incredible that the set ran on hydraulics and actually stretched.

I grew up in the city in Australia. Once when I crossed the road (as a pedestrian) at a red light, a police officer on the other side of the street stopped me and gave me a warning…

There is no reason philanthropy cannot be used to tackle multiple issues at once. I'm not sure there is a lot value in deriding one cause over another. We need to address both issu…

For those who disagree with the position taken in the article: Out of curiosity, what would you do to deal with online child pornography instead?

"appje" is the diminuitive form of "app", which is a shortened form of "whatsapp" (referring to a whatsapp message). In English, you would never shorten the phrase "I'll send you a…

> How do you expect jo to know where the 1 came from to change its interpretation? It was merely an observation. Of course, one can simply negate the value before passing it to jo.…

Awesome looking tool. One thing I noticed, however: $ false; echo success@$? | jo {"success":true} i.e. jo's translation of integers to booleans does not match that of a typical sh…

$ telnet m.trykeep.com 80 Trying 54.87.165.213... telnet: connect to address 54.87.165.213: Connection refused telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Shock, horror!

A simpler (and more efficient) equivalent to this script would be this one-liner: while true; do rsync -azP $PWD/ :$PWD/; sleep 2; done Or even better: https://code.google.com/p/ls…

Python's PEP8 recommends underscores for functions, method names and instance vars, but the stats are showing a break down of camelCase with and without first capital letter (which…

One key difference here for me is that the word "hacks" might imply that the addition of hacks to that file are acceptable; where as the word "shame" implies that the hacks are les…

It's always been the case with the Facebook app pre-iOS6 that after syncing contacts (which uploads all your local phone numbers to Facebook) any Facebook profile associated with o…

Your dream is never going to become a reality in the way you're asking. As a feature of the desktop browser, users could turn share buttons off. Embedded in the page, they can't. T…