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freshyill

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About freshyill

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Recent public activity

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    Comment #17214617

    There’s an iOS app called Unobstruct that provides an extension that will removed position: fixed elements. It helped here.

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    Comment #17157165

    I'm really impressed by how long apps remain in RAM on my 8 Plus. I'll play a game before bed and find it still where I left off during my commute the next morning, and that's with…

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    Comment #17098353

    I’ve had migraines, both ocular and the “real” kind, so I know how bad they can be. I wouldn’t say they were anywhere near frequent enough to take a preventative drug for it. I’ve …

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    Comment #16866534

    I think two spaces after a period is more of a typewriter bad habit than American thing. Back when you had a single monospace typeface, I think it just made things more legible. Pe…

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    Comment #16865764

    This is great. One piece of feedback, about the reviews themselves: Every time you use parentheses, there’s no space between the preceding word and the opening paren(like this). I …

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    Comment #16593851

    Blue Apron is sooo time consuming. Everything arrives just rolling around in the box. You need to sort it, then find a place to put it in your own cabinets and refrigerator. Their …

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    Comment #16426274

    What I like about Waze: All the data other than the route itself, he location of speed traps most importantly. What I like about Apple Maps: The actual on-screen navigation experie…

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    Comment #16417811

    They compare it to hq4x in their supplementary materials. Theirs is better. http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/supplementary/i...

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    Comment #16406456

    This started off interesting and very smoothly transitioned to being fully incoherent to me. Do the random italics and French-style quotes mean something that I just don’t understa…

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    Comment #16324583

    Take a while and watch toads eat if you ever get the chance. They're absolutely voracious. When I lived in the south, they used to hang out on my front porch, eating all kinds of b…

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    Comment #16255656

    I had my gallbladder removed a few years ago. It required a major incision and I was in the hospital for five days after surgery. I had to get up and walk a lap around the hallway …

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    Comment #16200012

    Check out Wes Bos’s courses. He does a great job of making this stuff accessible. http://wesbos.com

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    Comment #16088957

    Or hold on the hyphen and you can get an emdash, endash, or bullet.

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    Comment #16060258

    A friend of mine has one for this reason. He actually manages equipment and medical devices for a company that runs hospitals and was able to get one that one of their hospitals wa…

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    Comment #16052080

    John Hammond used a tiny genetically-engineered elephant to impress investors in "Jurassic Park". http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Pachyderm_Portfolio

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    Comment #16009731

    It was an interesting article. Did the title really bother you that much?

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    Comment #15967975

    I come from a small town with a very large ZIP code that encompasses several other very small towns. Sure, they have the shapes of buildings, but business locations from eight mile…

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    Comment #15784066

    That’s incorrect. You definitely can reuse them using symbol and defs/use.

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    Comment #15781769

    They aren't all under 1KB, but there a few repos on GitHub hosting all of the Font Awesome icons as SVG. Also, if you can avoid it, don't use https://github.com/ivanvotti/font-awes…

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    Comment #15675072

    I wish he included Amazon Basics markers, because in my experience they’re garbage and I’d like some validation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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    Comment #15675069

    I find that Expo whiteboard spray works even better than wipes on most surfaces.

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    Comment #15675064

    Expo has at least three greens that I know of. I suspect this is not their greenest green.

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    Comment #15675058

    Not sure about on this particular surface, but Expo whiteboard cleaner spray works like magic for old writing. I have several different surfaces at the office, including a whiteboa…

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    Comment #15600978

    This has been around for many, many years.

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    Comment #15429183

    Science also has succinct writeup and video on the research http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/10/pesticides-found-hone...