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Interesting, I have the exact opposite experience with flipping vs linking when it comes to books like _Pale Fire_. It's a lot more difficult for me to read the end notes on kindle…

Maybe the developer was using Headspace as part of the test data and it bled into production? It's hard to imagine what Headspace would like to achieve if this were an exploit exec…

Whenever split keyboards come up, ulnar deviation is mentioned, and non-split keyboard users are depicted to be using the keyboard like this (image from the post): https://www.just…

I was just on a short trip to Japan, and I find the replica food very intriguing. Take the experience with a large grain of salt of course, since it's just a few days worth of sigh…

Just curious, what algorithm is good for laying out images of arbitrary orientations, sizes, and aspect ratios? That seems like a pretty difficult problem. Some sort of variation o…

I could see a case where the core logic needs to be performant, but the UI does not. The front end could be some menus, displaying (not a giant amount of) data, and a progress bar,…

> in traditional rich desktop applications, I can't say I have ever missed the ability to select and copy text from the UI chrome I forgot what desktop application it was, but ther…

I sincerely hope that apple will consider making a phone with a worse camera that is flatter. As someone who rarely takes photos, and never photos of importance, the bump is just a…

That's a very surprising angle of questioning. Are you writing some sort of compile-time-only programs?

Talking on the phone is the most painful form of conversation for me. The sound quality is often awful, due to the ambient noises picked up by phone, which occurs particularly ofte…

To clarify: in that anecdote, I'm talking about washing hair in shower, with hot water, with no shampoo.

> No; you would need to touch people hair after a shampoo shower and after a non shampoo shower to see the difference. Yes, that's exactly what I mean. My girl friend has long hair…

> shampoo did nothing to your hair I don't know the scope of "nothing" in your statement, but shampoo does help remove dirt and oil, in a way that washing with water only cannot ac…

I can think of so many pieces of software that does that: having a local state, having a remote state, and keeping them synchronized whenever internet is available. It's how email …

I want to know whether this actually deters thieves. Anecdotally, from what I heard, it seems that phone stealing is very much still a thing in areas with active pickpocketing.

That matches my experience as well. Google something, find the documentation, go to the documentation, and "We have moved our documentation to a brand new experience", and the link…

> It's scorched earth and is not limited to new buyers. This whole thing is about destroying already bought vehicles to intimidate potential new buyers, and thus lowering future sa…

It seems like what is happening is not Firefox now making a pivot to the privacy unfriendly side, but Firefox has already been selling data, but in a manner that---for whatever str…

I also don't experience any noticeable torsion at the elbow. Putting my hands in front of my chest is a perfectly relaxed posture for me. Typing is not that different from writing …

Ergonomics is really personal. I’ve tried a few ergonomic chairs, and they are all too big for my body. At the end of the day, the trusty old ikea wooden chair works the best for m…

The "attach the entire file" part is very critical. I've had the experience of seeing some junior dev posting error messages into ChatGPT, applying the suggestions of ChatGPT, and …

Different industries have different standard procedures. A huge portion of the world's internet relies on FOSS software, and none of those are insured. Community reputation is the …

It struck me today that a lot of public web pages have analytics, and these pages do not require a login. Hence, the analytics API must accept collected data without authentication…

The worst offender I've seen in this regard was some GUI program on Windows, and it had this checkbox in its installation process with some wording like this: "Please do not unchec…