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The beauty of this idea is that it solves the usual to-do list problem of adding a task and then ignoring it forever.

3! You could make grey using the checkboard box character thing.

I was super impressed how they got high resolution graphics out of the ZX81 which only has characters not a user programmable bitmapped display https://retrocomputing.stackexchange…

Found a short video of the hardware Mark 1 Perceptron machine in action classifying photos. Fascinating https://youtu.be/cNxadbrN_aI

I can highly recommend Task Ratchet https://taskratchet.com/ by the makers of Beeminder. You add a task and a due date and how much they will fine if you if you don’t do it in time…

It used to be spelled Tokio in English speaking countries before the 1950s https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/207014/why-was-t...

How about a small portable radio tuned between stations? It might have to be an old analogue tuning one to actually not mute when there’s no signal. https://youtu.be/t1thDa4zeog

This isn’t correct. I’ve lived in UK, Australia, and Japan and all those places use 12 hour time.

They’ve tried a couple of social networks around iTunes but they failed.

A nice little walkthrough/tutorial of Remind: http://www.43folders.com/2005/02/24/guest-mike-harris-looks-... for example... Semi-Complex Tip: Date-Based Math You can do date-based…

I love Beeminder too (the sister app to GTBee). I’ve been trying to reorganise my habits into ones that aren’t “proxy’s” for what I want to really achieve (Eg “invoiced dollars”, r…

The calendar blocking is a really important point I’ve found too, so you make time to do the items in the list.

Interestingly I’ve found I haven’t done that. I try to make the tasks small enough that when it’s time to do them it’s not overwhelming and the potential fine is enough just sting …

Yeah. Not wanting to pay them motivates me to not fail.

I’ve found the trouble with Todo lists is that you fill them up and then start ignoring them as they are overwhelming. I’ve recently found Beeminder’s GTBee todo list app a good he…

Those colour preferences might be innate though https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn12512-women-may-be-ha...

Good point. Not a lot of people remembered that Microsoft acquired FrontPage from Vermeer in 1996 for millions. There's a pretty good old book about it "High St@kes, No Prisoners"

Not sure that's true. Out of the box ASP.NET has request validation enabled by default that screens out lots of opportunities for XSS https://www.owasp.org/index.php/ASP.NET_Reques…

How does Libre Taxi uniquely identify a driver for ratings and kicking them off the system if they are too bad?

This was interesting: "Based on his review of the scientific literature, between 10 to 30% of regular users will develop dependency. Only about 9% will have a serious addiction" ht…

Thankfully Chrome has fixed this issue. I just tried this and Chrome actually warns you about downloading DLLs and requires further user interaction to actually download DLL to the…

It's handy on the new Apple TV to speak a search phrase rather than select each letter one at a time using the remote. At least on the Apple one though you press to speak into a mi…