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I'm hoping someone with technical knowledge of how Privacy Badger works will read this / be able to answer: With local learning disabled, is there any need for using the Privacy Ba…

The pattern you want here is branding .

Someone I know went to a college where the final exam was 100% of the grade, in most courses. You could retake it as many times as you want, but only if you scored below 70% (presu…

How cold is coldish?

How can one find, or measure, the SSI of a given light bulb?

I used freetaxusa last year after using turbotax previously. I found that the experience of using turbotax was more like giving my information to an accountant and having them prep…

I had a discussion about the git cli UX around branching/stashing/checkout a while back. Perhaps you'll find it useful: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23807410 (I post this s…

Similar story here. The worst part is that the locked bootloader means that I can't upgrade it myself, either.

Psst. Try PaperWM. It allows quick resizing and tiling.

Perhaps find an open source project they depend on and donate to it.

Can you elaborate on how GPLv3 is enterprise-hostile? My impression was that the main change was fixing the tivo loophole.

Or to anyone who uses an old-fashioned audio receiver ("amp") with wired speakers. Turn the dial, both speakers change volume. Obviously what I want. I have not read anything besid…

(I'm a different person) Vertical alignment. When you press the down arrow, you don't know what position your cursor will land on because it's not visually aligned with the charact…

Haskell is, however, fond of custom `operators' (infix functions made of symbols). For example, take . It's barely even shorter than fmap! And Haskell even has a special syntax if …

In my experience, Linux, Windows, and MacOS all have their own separate warts. When switching between desktops, you will be supremely frustrated dealing with issues you Just Didn't…

Allow me to be the first. Okay, not a plunger, but a very similar product: After using a litter-lifter scoop (for cleaning a cat's litterbox), I placed a bulk order so I'll have a …

I feel like this and most of its sibling comments are missing the context of the thread: I agree with the viewpoint that "not always online" is a feature. The problem is the lack o…

I've done that, too. It misses the context bit. As I said in the post you replied to, > In other words, I want "@smichel17 ^" to be a thing.

Here's the catch. I'm someone who likes the idea of IRC being impermanent, available only if I was online at the time. However, I also want people to be able to @mention me so that…

Update: I played around with font settings, and if I disable antialiasing then I think am able to see individual pixels around the curves of letters. I say "think" because I can de…

I am not sure how to parse your sentence, because I don't know whether your "reasonable" means low or high. It could be 1. Other major vendors use subpixel rendering strategies to …

What counts as hidpi? I have 20/20 vision, and normally sit with my eyes approximately 3 feet away from my monitor (based on a rough measurement just now). My 27" 4K monitor has ~1…

The solution to this is simple, but not easy: block everything by default and do not prompt to enable it (but do show an indicator of what has been blocked). This is how Firefox tr…

This is my biggest gripe with ebikes. On a regular bike, there's a nice curve where you can always push yourself a little more to get a little extra speed, tapering off a little as…

When I WFH, I still get dressed into "work clothes". When I check out for the day, I'll change into something more comfortable (not that slacks and a collared shirt are particularl…