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Zecc··on Multi-Account Containers
- You can have multiples tabs in different containers in a single window. - You can tell your browser you always want to open a given site in a given container, so if you forget and try to open in the wrong one, it will remind you and give you the option to use the right one. - The name of the container you're in is shown at the end of the address bar, in the unlikely case you forget. Every tab has a thin line of a different color per containers as well, so it's easier to tell them apart.

None of these things offers a big advantage over using virtual desktops, for example, but it's good to have choices.

Zecc··on Multi-Account Containers
You can restart your browser without losing what's it your incognito windows.
Zecc··on I learned seven programming languages
I don't know first hand how well it works, but py2exe is a thing.
Zecc··on Show HN: Flappy Bird and Wordle
I got extremely lucky on my first try as the letters were well-positioned, so I got it right after three guesses. And the answer was AWARD.

I did not have such luck on my second attempt, which left me SURLY.

I liked it.

Zecc··on A patch to enable Windows Subsystem for Android to run on Windows 10
I really held back moving to 10. The feature which finally got me to move from 7 was virtual desktops.

I upgraded my Windows 7 to Windows "final version" 10 the week before they announced Windows 11. >_<

Zecc··on Tell HN: Firefox Is an awesome browser right now
You didn't know that one?

You must be one of today's lucky 10000 [1].

  [1] https://xkcd.com/1053/
Zecc··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Regardless of the knot itself, a heel lock also helps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBbc6TackDQ

Zecc··on Ask HN: Something you’ve done your whole life that you realized is wrong?
Since someone is going to point this out, it might as well be me:

Ian's Knot [1] not only is super-fast (once you've learned it properly), it also ensures you are tying a strong knot.

Also, a heel lock [2] is a independent thing which is also good to learn.

  [1] https://www.fieggen.com/shoelace/ianknot.htm

  [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBbc6TackDQ
Zecc··on The Mystery of the Dune Font
See also: Sun Microsystems' logo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg

Zecc··on Ask HN: Has anyone fully attempted Bret Victor's vision?
- Blender

- AfterEffects

Zecc··on Berkeley Lab scientists develop a new method of refrigeration
> I always get a kick out of refrigeration

It's a cooler subject.

(sorry)

Zecc··on Endless Horse
On the other hand, typeof NaN === 'number'
Zecc··on Wordle for Poker
You might also like:

https://duotrigordle.com/# https://colordle.com/ https://dontwordle.com/ https://jonesnxt.github.io/kilordle/

The only one of these I play religiously is duotrigordle.

Zecc··on Ask HN: What are some blog posts that you have enjoyed going through?
https://acko.net/blog/animate-your-way-to-glory/
Zecc··on OpenMPT – Open ModPlug Tracker - Discover the Music Inside
Not a big user of trackers, even more so nowadays. And never on a mobile device. But I liked SunVox when I tried it.

It's free proprietary software from Russia, so take that into consideration.

Zecc··on uWebSockets
To act as the devil's advocate: I've always taken it to be reference to Farmville players.
Zecc··on Our moon has been slowly drifting away from Earth over the past 2.5B yrs
I initially missed the B in the title and thought the moon's been drifting away over the past 2.5 years.

Which I guess is also true.

Zecc··on Launch Attempt Scrubbed
Doesn't seem to me to be any more challenging than putting a "man not-of-color,whatever-that-means" on the moon.

Put a teen, on the moon. Or some other random person without having them go through extensive training, really. I'll be more impressed.

Zecc··on Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read
In some tables it's possible to set whether you want to create a donut C.

(createdonutc)

Zecc··on Inkscape 1.2 released
Inkscape itself comes with decent tutorials in its Help menu. They are themselves Inkscape documents, so you can try the tools they describe in place.
Zecc··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
Since no one seems to have mentioned it yet: D3.js
Zecc··on Ask HN: What are your favorite examples of elegant software?
> I still don't understand what the point is of having a staging area.

Nor do my coworkers who keep committing whitespace changes and machine-specific configuration changes unrelated to the tasks at hand.

For a more serious answer: I find it extremely useful to be able to control what goes exactly into each commit. Sometimes I refactor more than one part of the code at the same time. If one part passes tests and another one doesn't, I can commit just the one that does. If I spot an issue in one part of the codebase and I add a TODO or FIXME in a comment, or if add some logging, or some other inconsequential change, I can leave them in the working copy for later while still adding "atomic" changes to the repo.

But by far the most use I get out of it is as a last chance of reviewing the code I just wrote, or as a way of checking the results of an automatic merge before the actual merged commit gets written.

Zecc··on Review: Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe is a mandatory game for comedy fans
I was recently one of the lucky 10_000 who first heard of the Portal Reloaded, and Portal Stories Mel mods for Portal 2.

I also recommend the Talos Principle (as well as Road to Gehenna) and Outer Wilds (which I'm currently playing. no spoilers!)

Zecc··on Using hamburger menus? Try sausage links (2019)
These are not the sausage links I thought they would be.

The sausage links I remember were older than internet on mobile being a thing, they were laid out vertically, and they were proportional in size to the target sections such that clicking a link or clicking the scrollbar right at their side would essentially scroll you to the same place on the page.

They were, in my opinion, a much better paradigm than this.

Alas I cannot easily find the demo page again. It might have been lost to history.

Zecc··on Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs'
Presumably the fact it needs be done via The Orb which is (pinky promise) tamper-proof.
Zecc··on Mach Engine: The Future of Graphics (With Zig)
Was it supposed to be a black triangle?

https://rampantgames.com/blog/?p=7745

Zecc··on Firefox Wikipedia Page Contains Recursive Screenshot of Itself
It's called the Droste effect, for what it's worth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droste_effect

Zecc··on Why we picture bombs as round black balls with a burning wick (2016)
It's weird to me seeing "Frenchs", as I always thought the plural is also "French". I guess we could say the s is silent ;)

In any case, Portuguese checking in. We also said "diskette", though some people might spell it "disquete" (ew)

Zecc··on Checkboxland
We can go higher:

    <input type="checkbox" />
    <input type="checkbox" checked />
    <input type="checkbox" indeterminate />
    <input type="checkbox" disabled />
    <input type="checkbox" disabled checked />
    <input type="checkbox" disabled indeterminate />
Zecc··on Poka Yoke
When writing and running SQL one-offs interactively, I will surround it with `if 1<>1 begin end` or comments, or add syntax errors at the top so that I won't accidentally run it without first selecting the part I want to run. I should get into the habit of writing `begin; rollback` instead for extra-safety.

And I always write the WHERE clause before the DELETE or UPDATE keywords.

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