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nephrite··on Google bans niche browsers from Gmail?
Better just use a mail client instead of browser. It uses standard protocols, has no ads and you decide what interface it has.
nephrite··on Text QR
Just replace black boxes with '#' and voila you have real ASCII.
nephrite··on The Siege of Gondor, Part I: Professionals Talk Logistics
Flying wraiths lack firepower, so they provide no real air support. Just fast transportation/communication.
nephrite··on Pocket Popcorn Computer: Linux in Your Pocket
When I see such a device, I always wonder if it can work w/o battery using AC adapter.
nephrite··on TP-82 Cosmonaut survival pistol
It's not a Russian trait, it's a common bureaucratic trait, and Soviet Union was bureaucratized over any sane limits.
nephrite··on What's a Gallon?
Much better would be selling fuel in kilograms because summer liter and winter liter are two quite different quantity of fuel.
nephrite··on The Restaurant of Mistaken Orders
It's all fun and games until someone eats something he/she allergic to due to a (featured) mistake.
nephrite··on The Kekulé Problem (2017)
> That is, why is the unconscious so loathe to speak to us?

Well, if it spoke to us it would not be UNconscious.

nephrite··on A small French privacy ruling could remake adtech
Switch off JS or use uBlock - it can block arbitrary elements in any page, and works in two clicks.
nephrite··on Firefox removes core product support for RSS/Atom feeds
I like RSS very much and use it everywhere I can, but for me the live bookmark feature in Firefox kinda sucked. I use other readers like e.g. Thunderbird.
nephrite··on The software engineer’s guide to asserting dominance in the workplace
I don't know about fraternity shirts, but in my experience, all and I really mean ALL candidates who came in a suit proved to be very poor qualified. Almost none could pass technical interview (think "fizzbuzz") and those who managed to get hired were fired in first few months.
nephrite··on Russia Bans 1.8M Amazon and Google IPs in Attempt to Block Telegram
The FSB wants encryption keys. Telegram won't share, so is blocked. Therefore, Whatsapp and Viber gave up their keys, I suppose. Or provided backdoors.
nephrite··on Britain expels Russian diplomats over poisoning of ex-spy
1. Russia doesn't have a motive. Skripal was convicted as a foreign spy and served a prison time in Russia. Then he was pardoned and exchanged for Russian agents. Russian state doesn't have anything to do with him. 2. If Russia has means to do it in London, we should ask what the British are doing? Why Russians do as they please in London? Looks like British special services suck. BTW, Novichok is not some secret, it was thouroughly studied by US military while dismantling Soviet checmical weapons facility in Uzbekistan.
nephrite··on Disney loses bid to stop Redbox from selling its digital download codes
5. Government mandates that company must repair any equipment it ever produced free of charge or provide replacement free of charge. No timeouts. Basically extend guarantee to infinity.
nephrite··on Swype pioneered a new way to type on smartphones–now it’s dead
The idea of swiping seems cool at first but when you actually use it, appears that to type a word you should know in advance the gesture needed, which kinda kills the purpose. Idk maybe it works for language with shorter words like English, but with longer words it's just awful.
nephrite··on The Consumerist Church of Fitness Classes
This reminds me how muslim preachers condemned coffee houses because they would draw people away from mosques.
nephrite··on Apple Says It Slows Older iPhones to Save Their Battery Life
Yes. Also make the batteries standard, like they did with the chargers.
nephrite··on Batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
At least aluminum hydroxide is solid, so it's easy to collect. Hydrogen is gas though.
nephrite··on Batteries that “drink” seawater could power long-range underwater vehicles
I really don't like that the hydrogen made in process is considered waste and is escaping. We sure have a lot of water on planet but if the technology will become mainstream and we will just throw the hydrogen away it will become a huge problem.
nephrite··on The Zimbu programming language
This guy makes a great text editor, but vimscript is awful. He must refrain from making programming languages.
nephrite··on Bye Bye Emojis: Emacs Hates MacOS
I wish all emojis just disappeared. They're stupid, don't add any value, waste unicode space and developers' time.
nephrite··on The P programming language
I hate languages with single letter names. They're impossible to google.
nephrite··on Bookmark is dead
If I find something genuinely interesting (i.e. not another cat pic) I just save the page to my disk. The costs are minimal and I don't ever lose it.
nephrite··on [dead]
> Agile as a noun > How to Agile?

Lol

nephrite··on Show HN: Buku – Command-line bookmark manager
Yeah, it's in the manual. But -u option requires supplying full URL which is very inconvinient.
nephrite··on Show HN: Buku – Command-line bookmark manager
Needs a way to edit tags and comments. Otherwise fine app.
nephrite··on Correlation between religion and programming language preference?
No Orthodox Christianity represented.
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