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dundercoder··on Firefox 89.0 Beta brings a new look
Work on fixing compatibility for safari on windows
dundercoder··on Watch “I am a New York City landlord and I'm Homeless.” on YouTube
A moratorium with no accountability was asking for this to happen.
dundercoder··on Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
Couple that with outages being so expensive. Each day offline is millions in lost revenue.
dundercoder··on Nuclear should be considered part of clean energy standard, White House says
The NRC and DOE levy so much regulation, I really can’t imagine how anyone can make a profit with any changes.
dundercoder··on Hit songwriters ask pop stars to stop taking credit for songs they didn't write
I have two music albums out, and I don't ever hesitate to tell people when I wrote, co-wrote, or re-arranged a song.

It never made me feel less accomplished to admit when I didn't write something.

That said, most of the time people just assume I wrote them all, unless they recognize the cover's original.

dundercoder··on In the deepest despair, electroconvulsive therapy offers hope
I was casually considering ECT until I discovered a ketamine clinic near me. Ketamine is really a wonder drug, at least for me.
dundercoder··on Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis restores high-resolution responses
Well done.
dundercoder··on Photovoltaic retinal prosthesis restores high-resolution responses
Sufferer of RP here. The brain really is amazing and capable of a lot of inference on sparse data. Unfortunately it’s inference is not always correct, or intuitive. See Charles Bonnet Syndrome.

I am curious how they could train to combat it.

dundercoder··on Magic Mushrooms Are Decriminalized in DC as of Today
I would argue that functionally the US behaves more like a plutocracy, in which money matters an order of magnitude more than race or any other factor.
dundercoder··on WordStar: A Writer's Word Processor (1996)
Easy was my first word processor. The tag line was “Easy, from the makers of wordstar”
dundercoder··on Great. Now Even Your Headphones Can Spy on You
> Their malware uses a little-known feature of RealTek audio codec chips to silently "retask" the computer's output channel as an input channel, allowing the malware to record audio even when the headphones remain connected into an output-only jack and don't even have a microphone channel on their plug.

This is a pretty big deal.

dundercoder··on How to be more productive without forcing yourself
ennui ennui /ɒnˈwiː / ▸ noun [mass noun] a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement: he succumbed to ennui and despair. – ORIGIN mid 18th century: French , from Latin in odio(n-), from mihi in odio est ‘it is hateful to me’. Compare with annoy.
dundercoder··on The Physics of baking good Pizza [pdf]
This is fantastic. Is there a paper on the construction or dimensions of a brick oven that is this thorough?
dundercoder··on Czech gunmaker CZG buys Colt in cash and stock deal
Vegetable artillery.
dundercoder··on Woman turned down by dating site as clients 'don't date people in wheelchairs'
Agreed. I was just thinking that generally people are more reluctant to present a choice like this when protected classes are involved, lest it appear that they are discriminating in any way.
dundercoder··on Woman turned down by dating site as clients 'don't date people in wheelchairs'
>"We have found that achieving good outcomes for full-time wheelchair user clients can be quite challenging."

Dating in general is hard, dating as one with a disability is a whole new level of hard. I think the service's response is well-intentioned even if woefully ignorant. Surely the UK has laws similar to ADA and protected classes?

dundercoder··on What do I do when they simply refuse to do what I am asking them to do? (2015)
Children really do thrive on boundaries, and sometimes the only way to establish those is with force (take their hand and make them clean it up) or other punishments.
dundercoder··on What do I do when they simply refuse to do what I am asking them to do? (2015)
I think this might work when trying to teach your child a new/correct behavior vs getting them to stop/cease a bad behavior (biting, purposely getting milk from the fridge to explicitly dump on the floor). In my experience for kids under 4, the latter often does require repeatedly forcing them through the motions of cleaning it up. Pick your battles of course and consider underlying factors like if they're hungry or tired.
dundercoder··on Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App
I was just looking yesterday for a unified chat client, specifically for slack and discord. Looks interesting.
dundercoder··on Be My Eyes
Lots of false positives still, but I think it will get better.
dundercoder··on Be My Eyes
I've never used Be My Eyes, but I have it installed, just in case I guess. I feel the opposite about ride share apps. I feel like I have some freedom again finally.
dundercoder··on Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'
Do you think they play on purpose? Or do they not think through the longer ramifications of their actions?
dundercoder··on Facebook Says It Is Removing All Content Mentioning 'Stop the Steal'
Something like this. https://github.com/tessalt/echo-chamber-js
dundercoder··on FBI, NYPD told Capitol Police about possibility of violence before riot
I don’t think America has an extreme half, and to say so is a gross over generalization. Those expressing violence are limited to a very small but _extreme_ minority. Not all republicans support trump, very few who support trump support violence.
dundercoder··on Algorithms for Decision Making
I love this book. Listened to it 4-5 times. Lots of really practical application
dundercoder··on I logged my activities at 15-minute intervals for the whole year
akrasia akrasia /əˈkreɪzɪə , əˈkrasɪə / (also acrasia) ▸ noun [mass noun] mainly Philosophy the state of mind in which someone acts against their better judgement through weakness of will. – ORIGIN early 19th century : from Greek, from a- ‘without’ + kratos ‘power, strength’. The term is used especially with reference to Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics.
dundercoder··on Nuclear weapons agency breached amid massive cyber onslaught
Hopefully the networks that have launch and scheduling are fully airgapped.
dundercoder··on U.S. Used Patriot Act to Gather Logs of Website Visitors
Not if it were part of the secret court proceedings happening under the same pretenses.
dundercoder··on World's first no-kill eggs go on sale in Berlin (2018)
We found that the dual purpose breeds were pretty mediocre at both purposes. Not great at laying eggs, and scrawny birds when prepared. When we switched to egg layer breeds our egg harvest was substantially larger. I never did try to raise meat birds.
dundercoder··on I Took a Break from Ham Radio and Why I Came Back
I would like to really get into it, but I get hung up with the monotony of weekly check ins and no one really else around except for the same 5 people on the repeaters.
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