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superchinkon 2021 will demand new kinds of video conferencing

Interesting! I have noticed this is a thing for me as well. I have found that by disabling the display of my own video, I feel much more relaxed. I highly recommend you give this a try.

superchinkon Why are toys such a bad business?

Subscriber here. I had the same impression as you. It’s the only newsletter I try to read every day.

superchinkon Micro: Modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor

Is it possible that it was a matter of changing the line endings? Some applications can be quite sensitive to different line endings… sounds suspiciously like that?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline

superchinkon Every bookmark manager ever made

It's there somewhere… the organization of the page is a little confusing

superchinkon In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

Do you think that’s a little? Or a lot?

superchinkon Special report: Profiting from prison

Isn't this a false dichotomy? By putting people in prison, are we meaningfully reducing the frequency of drug use that may lead to overdose?

Serious question.

superchinkon Launch HN: Cosmic JS (YC W19) - API-first drop-in replacement for WordPress

It looks like he's talking about developers, in the sense of individuals or teams that build content sites (read: deploy and configure Wordpress or other CMSes) for customers as a business.

superchinkon San Francisco Denies Scooter Permits for Bird, Lime, Uber and Lyft

Dumb question: are you arguing that renting a scooter is harder than buying a car? Or easier?

superchinkon User banned from Das Keyboard forums for telling people of open-source drivers

While I won't take away from your opinion, I want to warn others to be aware that this is a hotly debated topic, and YMMV.

There's no accounting for preference when it comes to switches or keyboards. Some people quite like Cherry switches.

superchinkon A rundown of the new Gmail

I had the same experience, until I disabled uBlock Origin. Setting showed up instantly, and I turned it right back on.

superchinkon 6.4 Earthquake hits Taiwan

Thank you. This is exactly what most people need, I feel. Much appreciated and very useful.

superchinkon Cherry’s new switches may help bring mechanical keyboards to more laptops

http://www.wasdkeyboards.com/index.php/products/keyboard-acc...

FWIW, first result after searching for “keyboard spacer”

superchinkon Facebook Still Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race

See, I didn't read it that way.

"…that indicates any preference, limitation, or discrimination…"

If the ad itself does not mention the preference, then it does not seem to be covered by this clause.

Would it not be analogous to advertising the property to a particular racial or religious group, such as a church bulletin board?

The distribution of the ad is being targeted, but the ad itself does not indicate any preference. It seems as if the latter is the only thing that is deemed illegal by the law.

Am I reading it correctly?

superchinkon Face ID beaten by mask

This only happens if the face is deemed similar enough to the original face data, which is unlikely if it's a completely different person.

Here's the entire quote:

"…if Face ID fails to recognize you, but the match quality is higher than a certain threshold and you immediately follow the failure by entering your passcode, Face ID takes another capture and augments its enrolled Face ID data with the newly calculated mathematical representation"

superchinkon Casper went to war with popular mattress review site, then financed its takeover

I had a completely opposite experience with Nest.

Bought a mattress from them two years ago. Liked it. Last month there was an odd bump that seemed to be a defect. Called them, emailed some pictures, and within a few days a new one was delivered to my home, and they took the old one to donate for me. Painless.

I have no affiliation. Just a happy customer.

superchinkon Lab-Grown Diamonds Come into Their Own

Not sure if anyone will appreciate this, but if you haven't seen it, it's oddly relevant to your comment:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/acaxis/key-and-peele-the-heist

It's a skit by Key & Peele describing a genius plan for a bank heist. I won't ruin the punchline by going any further.

superchinkon Htop explained

This is no longer the case, as of Homebrew 1.0.

See this change: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/896

superchinkon Feds Walk into a Building and Demand Everyone's Fingerprints to Open Phones

Would that hold up? Isn't sharing of a password protected?

superchinkon Google HTML/CSS Style Guide – Omit Optional Tags

I think you're right.

http://www.paulirish.com/2010/the-protocol-relative-url/

This page outlines the original argument, as well as the updated reasoning that you suggest: always use HTTPS if it is available, even if requesting from a page served over HTTP.

superchinkon Falcon – a Chrome extension for full text browsing history search

If you haven't looked at it already, Pinboard (https://pinboard.in/) might be worth checking out.

The premium service caches the content of everything you bookmark using the service, with full-text search (in addition to the usual tagging).

superchinkon PageAccelerator – A very light solution to load web pages faster

It looks like the author specifically mentions pjax as a similar project.

  pageAccelerator is a very light version of turbolinks and pjax (our minify file has 2.2KB!).

It seems as though it's meant to be a lighter weight version.

superchinkon How to price anything: The psychology of why we’ll pay what we pay

This is a pretty serious accusation, so I did have a quick look.

I don't see any grounds for your statement that they scraped the content.

In fact, both the OP and your linked article clearly cite the exact same paper that they both took your referenced content from.

superchinkon Fast Document Rectification and Enhancement

CamScanner seems to be a smartphone application for scanning documents; this seems to be an article that explains how Dropbox has implemented their document scanning functionality.

superchinkon Docker for Mac and Windows Is Now Generally Available and Ready for Production

Can you actually live without NTP though? Isn't that a pretty critical service?

superchinkon Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping “To Be”

I wonder if people consider that product offensive as well…

superchinkon Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping “To Be”

I'm sorry you found it offensive.

It's sort of a relic from my childhood. I don't get a whole lot of negative reactions to it; most appreciate the humor.

But you're certainly entitled to be offended and I am sorry to hear about it. It was not my intent.

superchinkon Pittsburghese Expertise: Dropping “To Be”

Yeah. Actually, I didn't write that definition, as amusing as it may be. I don't consider my username to be suited for Urban Dictionary, since it doesn't qualify as slang.

superchinkon Email Apps Suck

Not to pile on, but Mail.app has seemed the most predictable and consistently performing (with search and basic usage) of all of the clients I have used, including most of those mentioned in the article.

I realize this is just one data point, but as unpopular as your perspective is, stephenr, I share it.