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dazmax··on All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert
Ah, so I need not to restart Firefox while they're still enabled.
dazmax··on Ask HN: With a single site per comment, which sites do you visit regularly?
reddit.com
dazmax··on You can’t judge housing affordability without knowing transportation costs
One of the easiest ways in which you can live longer, is by simply managing your current time better. For example, try living near everything that you might need, in an area with no pollution. Hard to find for a good price!
dazmax··on Thanks for the Surprise Integration with My Website, Apple
This shortcut could be seen as scraping the website, since it's just pulling out one image
dazmax··on Elementary Knightship found in Conway's Game of Life
It's not about combining, it's about being designed as a construction based on other known patterns. See http://conwaylife.com/wiki/Gemini for an example of a non-elementary ship.
dazmax··on [dead]
If all you celebrate are the 'wins', you disincentive people from taking risks.
dazmax··on Facebook open-sources Detectron
The value they're providing is to the forum owner, who has reduced spam-handling workload.

So the forum is providing you value, you are providing Google value, and Google is providing the forum value.

dazmax··on Fuze for Nintendo Switch: An easy-to-learn text-based programming language
When it's for a touch-based system that doesn't typically have a keyboard, my mind goes to graphical drag-and-drop programming first.
dazmax··on The Bitcoin Whales: 1,000 People Who Own 40 Percent of the Market
But now they could also own put options.
dazmax··on Facebook’s New Captcha Test: 'Upload a Clear Photo of Your Face'
This is a pretty good point. If you're the kind of person who has avoided getting a photo ID on purpose, you probably are staying well away from Facebook. The only targets I can think of would be homeschooled teens with no student ID.

It does however make Facebook even harder to use for anti-government organizing, though Facebook is already pretty clear about not wanting truly anonymous profiles.

dazmax··on Show HN: /usr/bin/htop
Could also do `while date;do sleep 1;done`
dazmax··on Apple’s Struggle to Get the iPhone X to Market on Time
The iPhone 7/8 already turn the screen on when you hold them up, so not sure how it's any worse to unlock.

She could get the black one and use the glass back.

dazmax··on Cassini's “Grand Finale” Will Be a Blaze of Glory
For another take on this, check out this funny twitter thread: https://twitter.com/Alex_Parker/status/907803594463891458
dazmax··on Hackers Are Hijacking Phone Numbers and Breaking into Email, Bank Accounts
There was this recent case showing how not to do this feature. https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-to-lose-8k-worth-of-bitcoi...
dazmax··on Apple Announces macOS High Sierra
Though they didn't discontinue it to drive Mac sales, but because not enough Windows users were using it.
dazmax··on Basic Attention Token
Guessing the goal is to get something working well enough that Google will put it in Chrome.

All of the problems they list hurt Google.

dazmax··on AirPods are now available
http://www.loopinsight.com/2016/09/30/survey-suggests-strong...
dazmax··on Actually using ed (2012)
Is ed where the slash for regex matching originated or does it go back farther?
dazmax··on Soylent halts sales of its powder as customers keep getting sick
When Soylent was first announced but wasn't available yet, it struck me as something I'd like so I tried Slimfast (and Ensure).

Had to drink a lot to get enough energy and it was way too sugary and sweet – it gave me the sick feeling I get when I have only donuts or something for breakfast. The sugar free version tasted too much of aspartame.

I'd be happy to try something else with the same sweetness balance of Soylent if you have a suggestion.

dazmax··on Computer Vision Syndrome
Lots of human activity boils down to finding patterns and labeling them. Don't you think there could be some benefit to having a label on this cluster of issues, such as making it more efficient to find useful remedies?

I do agree though that there's a danger with this kind of thing to think of it as some kind of single agent and oversimplify. I think we need to be careful to keep in mind the underlying nature of the meaning of these terms.

dazmax··on Computer Vision Syndrome
Too snarky. It seemed like you wanted to raise a potential discussion point without actually committing to discussing it. Just to score cynic points.
dazmax··on Computer Vision Syndrome
Thanks, that was helpful. I had the general idea that this was good, but for some reason I'd never seen it spelled out.
dazmax··on Computer Vision Syndrome
Anyone know of a break-taking app that watches your activity and can wait until you've lost focus on your work before reminding you to take a break?

Something like the alarms that wake you up at the right point in your sleep cycle.

It would probably need to have a cut-off eventually, but I'd hate to be interrupted in the middle of tracing some complex logic if there's a perfect stopping point 10 minutes later.

dazmax··on What every coder should know about gamma
I'm on a Retina Macbook Pro, and the white/black checkerboard square (A in Figure 12) matches the (128,128,128) gray (B), not the lighter one (C).

Looking closer, it seems like my computer is, like, anti-aliasing the image itself. In Digital Color Meter, the white and black pixels are both grays. See screenshot below, the magnified area is from square A in the browser. When I downloaded the image and opened it in Preview it is black and white like it's supposed to be.

Screenshot: https://cl.ly/2T2U2J0A3v31 (If you're on a Mac maybe try opening the image in an image viewer)

Anyone know what's going on? I also can't distinguish between the first few black bars in Figure 2.

dazmax··on Why are Adults so busy?
Reading the newspaper and magazines was basically the equivalent before the internet, I think. With the paper you'd eventually run out of stuff to read in a day, but if you had enough magazine subscriptions, you could find something marginally interesting.

I think one difference other than the never-ending aspect of the internet is that when you're reading a newspaper or book you get sleepy when you're supposed to, whereas if you're looking at a screen the blue light keeps you awake longer and all your chores take longer the next day because you have less energy.

dazmax··on The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM
But if a manufacturer wanted to only play audio to their device, they could have already made it a lightning-connected device.

If they do give the ability to distinguish the lightning-to-3.5mm adapter from other lightning headphones, that isn't any greater than the ability to distinguish between the 3.5mm jack and the lightning port is it?

dazmax··on Why isn’t the fundamental theorem of arithmetic obvious? (2011)
It could also be false if there were two different pairs of prime numbers with the same product. See Answer 4 in the article.
dazmax··on Why do old statues have such small penises?
Wow, I can't believe we don't see that angle more often, it adds so much to the statue.
dazmax··on A Basic Income Should Be the Next Big Thing
Yes the rich would probably pay more even with getting their basic income. The point of giving it to everyone is to reduce the administrative cost of figuring out who qualifies, and to get rid of "welfare cliffs" that give poor people a disincentive to earn more for fear of losing assistance programs.
dazmax··on Apple’s loudest activist investor just dumped his stake
They could just do buybacks until no one else has any shares left? http://seekingalpha.com/article/1725412-buyback-apple-could-...
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