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graywh··on Japan plans to create 10B 14-digit phone numbers with 5G era approaching
I haven't learned a new phone number in almost 14 years. And the ones I do know are all in the same area code, so I really only have to know 7 digits each.
graywh··on Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)
some drivers think it's their right to drive the speed limit in the far inside lane and want others to obey the law
graywh··on Almost every speed limit is too low (2017)
this sounds like some traffic calming measures that were recently installed near me just last year

they are islands in the middle of the intersection, but not roundabouts, forcing cars to "swerve" to pass through

they haven't worked as intended and are being re-evaluated

graywh··on The Notre Dame fire and the future of history
The French state actually owns the cathedral
graywh··on US Cities Are Becoming More Dangerous for Cyclists and Pedestrians
> they drive with about a car's length of distance while going 45mph, shifting lanes without using their signals and other crazy shenanigans

this shit happens everywhere

graywh··on List of stories set in a future now past
and one-size-really-does-fit-all clothes
graywh··on Apple tells suppliers to produce 10% fewer new iPhones
visually: https://www.phonearena.com/phones/size#/phones/size/Apple-iP...
graywh··on Sex and STEM: Stubborn Facts and Stubborn Ideologies
Becoming a nurse practitioner requires additional education and certification/licensing in addition to what's required for a registered nurse. It's not just a tenure/promotion thing like moving from junior developer to developer.
graywh··on A minimalist guide to tmux
I use ^_ (0x1F) which can be "typed" with Ctrl + 7 and Ctrl + / in most terminals.
graywh··on Oh shit, git: Getting myself out of bad situations
Use Gitlab and you can at least prevent --force push with permissions.
graywh··on A minimalist guide to tmux
Ctrl-_, which is sent by Ctrl + 7 and/or Ctrl + / in most terminals.
graywh··on A minimalist guide to tmux
C-\ is an interesting choice.

I use C-_, which can be "triggered" with C-7 and often with C-/.

graywh··on Massachusetts is considering leaving the Eastern Time Zone
4 time zones is enough to cover the 48 states unless you want half-hour zones or radically different sunrise times on one coast or the other. Just need to reduce the sizes of Eastern and Central to better match the longitude lines.
graywh··on Never accept a counter-offer
Have a third party generate a set of tokens, one per person, recording only their sum, and randomly distribute them to the group. Then you don't need to pass the cumulative sum from person to person.

Edit: I guess it doesn't even have to be a third party as long as everyone trusts the randomization (e.g., pulling identical pieces of folded paper from a hat).

graywh··on Pokémon Go loses its luster, sheds more than 10M users
But that's only about 12% of the world's population. And even less are below the tropics.
graywh··on Friends are as genetically similar as fourth cousins
He must be referring to one's own first cousin's children. Not the children of two first cousins.
graywh··on What Software Engineers Earn Compared to the General Population
And removing the bottom 60% will most likely remove the median.
graywh··on Taxi, Uber, and Lyft Usage in New York City
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxicabs_of_the_United_Kingdom...
graywh··on How to get gmail.com banned (2011)
In the early days, you had to use the username as it was registered to log in.
graywh··on How to boost your Vim productivity
See also: bufexplorer, MiniBufExplorer, buftabs
graywh··on Gg – Git Shortcuts, Colored Outputs, and More
git add -A && git commit -m "message" is equivalent to git commit -a -m "message"
graywh··on F.C.C. Is Expected to Propose Regulating the Internet as a Utility
The cable company's Internet service may not either.
graywh··on Back to the iPhone 5S
http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/09/the-iphone-5-ad-that-apple-wan...
graywh··on From Vim to Emacs
Syntax based folding can slow it down a lot, especially with Ruby code.
graywh··on Yes, we’re being bought by Microsoft
The same was said about the Nokia deal.
graywh··on The Apple Watch

  Windows didn't have a mobile operating system at the time
I can only assume you're referring to Windows Phone, which was released after iOS. But you've omitted Windows Mobile, which was released in 2000.
graywh··on Hotel fines $500 for every bad review posted online
There's a deleted comment between those two.
graywh··on Emacs and Vim
Where the Tab key is now is where the Escape key was on the system Bill Joy developed Vi.
graywh··on Emacs and Vim
There's like 70 different commands that can move the cursor in Vim. And that's before you add any plugins or mappings.
graywh··on Amazon Fire Phone
Depends on your data package. <10GB is $15/month discount. 10+GB is a $25/month discount. The linked chart shows this.
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