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Install Projectivy Launcher. No more ads and you can customize everything.

In the early 2000s after 9/11 there was a guy doing public surveillance tours around New York City using "photocopies of hand-drawn maps". NY Times archive.org https://web.archive.…

Thank you! Was really missing hndigest!

I haven't written Java since college CS, over 20 years ago, and I still remember that one line. It's burned in my memory.

The first text I thought to search was "as old as hills". https://www.alltext.nyc/search?q=as+old+as+hills As seen on the sign of a liquor store near where I used to live. More inf…

Congratulations! As a non-gamer I have absolutely zero idea what this game is about or how to play it, but you've got a big audience!

PSE&G which covers parts of NJ https://outagecenter.pseg.com/external/default.html

Was it the jawn? That article was by Jonah Weiner who grew up in NYC.

Honestly thought from the title that this was some kind of food recipe cookbook using LLMs.

Yes for a bidet! My wife wanted one, I thought I'd hate it but it really is fantastic. We have a Toto Washlet C5. Heated seat, heated spray, warm air dryer. Had to cancel the Amazo…

My doctor did. My blood pressure was slightly elevated in his office and I said it happens at every doctor. He said to get a home monitor, test 3 times in the morning, 3 times in t…

Do people use this only in the hot months? It's beginning to get cooler where I live and from now until around April we do the opposite and use a heated mattress pad. For me there'…

I'd say the AirGradient products are a better choice since they includes VOC, PM and NOx sensors (Aranet4 doesn't), are open source, and Achim Haug who did this study is really ded…

It saved me a lot more. I was parked on my street and a garbage truck sideswiped the front driver side corner. The truck driver said it wasn't his fault and the car was parked too …

Minoxidil also comes in tablet form if you don't want to mess with the liquid or foam.

What could be better than this? "Shellac agreed to play in my parents' living room in 1993 because I sent them a fax." - Jon Solomon https://www.instagram.com/p/C6t2pvCvhpx/ Jon So…

Not the author but I'd often seen him at the local coffee shop in Princeton reading or working. He was incredibly kind and generous with his time (I also made sure to not ask about…

I was looking for something like this when redoing my bathroom tiles but surprisingly couldn't find anything. I ended up using draw.io which worked but not that easily. A few sugge…

I'm not so sure about this. Wikipedia says "The earliest known publications of the words to The Twelve Days of Christmas were an illustrated children's book, Mirth Without Mischief…

I bought a Canon (model LBP612C/613C) color laser printer 3 years ago and have been using 3rd party toner. The prints are great and I've never had a problem. Prior to that I used a…

We also installed a Mr Cool DIY system in our house about 3 years ago. We also did it ourselves. It works well, no complaints, and has an app that you can control it anywhere with.…

There's a huge community of people actively doing this. Type 1 diabetics were tired of waiting for a "closed loop" (aka artificial pancreas) insulin delivery system so they develop…

> If a person can't breath through their nose, I suggest trying Afrin. Be careful of the "rebound" effect with nasal sprays. Years ago I was "hooked" on Afrin. Not in a getting hig…

I use Azure DevOps daily and honestly have no issues, it works well. What didn't work for you?

100% about the digest. https://www.hndigest.com I set it to arrive at 9PM daily (nice feature!) and spend 30 minutes to an hour browsing the top 20 (another customizable feature). …