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slowhands··on Show HN: Phoenix 2.6 – a macOS window and app manager scriptable with JavaScript
Just a quick question for current Phoenix users — how is the multiple monitor performance? By that I mean a situation where I'm going from just the MacBook screen to three monitors on one desk to four monitors on another desk. Will it automatically detect how many monitors are present, without having to resort to hardware-specific configurations? This is a killer feature for me on Hammerspoon, but I much rather script with JS than Lua, out of familiarity.
slowhands··on It Was Bad UX, not a “Wrong Button” in Hawaii
The Wireless Emergency Alerts system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Emergency_Alerts) dates back to 2006, but it is quite plausible that the backend this interface controls predates that if it was originally a desktop interface for the Emergency Broadcast/Emergency Alert System.
slowhands··on Luna 1.0 Beta is out
Then why make opting-out of telemetry consent so obtuse?
slowhands··on The first corned beef sandwich in space (1965)
This sandwich is memorialized in a resin display at the Gus Grissom Memorial Museum in Mitchell, Indiana.

http://cdn.wonderfulengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/...

slowhands··on Kill Google AMP before it kills the web
A full set boolean queries, while useful for specifying a query, are likely far too computationally expensive at scale. The reason you don't see most major search engines abandon them is because the resources are better spent investing into heuristic algorithms that benefit a majority of the userbase.
slowhands··on JDK 9 modules voted down by EC
Us foreign English-speakers, on occasion, do watch good movies. It's okay.
slowhands··on Hard Drive Reliability Review for 2015
Good data, but I wish they would have rendered these tables using HTML. Not fun typing these out myself to search.
slowhands··on El Capitan and Homebrew
I just installed brew on a brand-new El Capitan install with 0 problems.
slowhands··on Why I ditched Microsoft Word for LibreOffice and couldn't be happier
The answer is a resounding 'no'. Typesetting is something that is nearly completely done by InDesign at large shops — the advantages of LaTeX just aren't appreciable when laying out photo-heavy books that use layouts custom to each book. 99% of the things InDesign can do are definitely replicable in LaTeX, but it'd be a ton of work and would require one hell of a knowledge of LaTeX libraries. Contrast this with the fact that a competent high schooler with some knowledge of design can pump out great looking layouts with InDesign. LaTeX is great for personal documents and publications where layout has been wholly standardized, but those situations are quite rare for publishing firms.