I heavily use android's focus mode to keep myself from being too distracted. Originally I tried using app timers, but I found myself just constantly bumping them to the point where I wasn't getting a benefit. Whenever I notice an app being noisy with notifications (even if I appreciate them when I'm not busy), I add it into the list of distracting apps. I have a daily focus timer that enabled when I get to work and ends when I (generally) leave work. This keeps me focused during the day, but I also occasionally enable this when I want to focus on other things, or if I find myself spending too much time on random apps. Because of the way that the breaks work, I have to keep asking for 5/15/30min and I'm very aware of how much time I'm wasting. I also enable flip-to-shh mode, which disables all notifications when my phone is face down on a surface. I realize that focus mode and flip-to-shh can seem extreme, but I noticed this works well worked for me.
I got a lifetime subscription for 2600 from my parents when I was in high school, and I subscribed to Eighty only a few years ago. My biggest gripe with larger magazines is all the ads, and uninteresting content throughout them; typically I only end up reading one or two articles and then the whole magazine feels like a bit of a waste. both 2600 and Eighty have very little/no ads, and feel more niche and content focused. Eighty is actually printed like a very nice paperback book.
> He said Adaptive Driving Beam (ADB) or glare-free high beams — a system that automatically dims a person's headlights when other vehicles are nearby — is common in Europe and other parts of the world, and has been for 15 years or so. That's not so in the U.S. or Canada.
Not sure if it's the same thing, but automatic high beams are a big problem in the US. In locations where there are lots of hills and curves, you are almost always briefly blinded by high beams for a second before your vehicle falls into detection rage. I'm not entirely sure why they exist either; rarely do I find roads are dark enough to require them.
I've also noticed when taking an Uber or Lyft that many drivers just turn their high beams on all the time. I once asked why my driver had them turned on, and the driver responded that he can't see without them. I feel like this is something that should be caught by a regular driving test and eye exam, but that's wishful thinking.
I feel like I'm overly sensitive because I have an astigmatism, but the bright headlights have become dangerous and unbearable.
There were quite a few I'll never remember the name of, but there were a lot of different renditions of A Christmas Carol with unknown characters on Cartoon Network or some other kids channel. I definitely remember Christmas Comes to Pac-Land[1], 'Twas the Night Before Christmas[2], A Jetson Christmas Carol[3], and one of the Flitstone Christmas episodes where they were acting in a play.
Some of my favorite memories are the times I got video game systems. Most notibly the Sega Genesis and z scale trains I got in '94/'95/'96 (not sure the exact year, I was very young) and GameBoy Color in '99. I got a Xbox in '01, Xbox 360 in '05; but they didn't quite have the same "magic" that they had when I was young. Also as a young kid, watching the Rankin Bass stop motion movies on the days leading up to Christmas. Then talking with my brother and sister while we tried (failed) to sleep on Christmas Eve, watching more and more obscure Christmas cartoons and whatever else would come on TV late on Christmas Eve night/Christmas morning.
The best non-Christmas morning memories were just random times I was at family Christmas parties or gatherings. Seeing aunts, uncles, and cousins dancing talking having fun. As a kid, we used to have the parties at family homes, which was always fun and super memorable. Later we moved to a hall as the family got bigger and cousins started to bring their children, in laws, and friends. I can't really point out any particular memory as good; just all the time spent with family, not necessarily caring about what else was going on in the world at the time.
Its not clear to me how much this will help; but based on how tags work, it seems like it should help at least somewhat. I use Privacy Badger on both Firefox on PC and Android and haven't run into any sites that break, other than maybe something like Ticketmaster? I'm sure it makes less of a difference on an Android device, where Google has other hooks to track me, but any little bit helps.
I imagine its mostly just familiarity if you want to tweak it in the future. There are also a lot of static site generators, and they can be an easy tool to create or modify yourself. Just as an example, I build my own because I didn't like the ones other people had: https://gross.sh/static-site-generator
Agreed - the edge-to-edge text can seem daunting and be a bit of a pain to read, depending on your display. I used reader mode to make it a bit more managable. Also worth noting the last ~30% of the page is two appendixes.
I think the article is worth a read, but doesn't necessarily introduce a new concept. Its basically stating that there are many broken products that you can buy, and they simply do not work. Typical wisdom says you should buy something you're not specifically good at building, or something that you're not "supposed to" build yourself because you specialize in something else. This article basically says that wisdom can be wrong and that there is value in building yourself. There are some good examples, but its definitely a position that you'd have to push to management at some companies because its a very bottom up position that many managers would not agree with.
Common command line tools are often the best for analyzing and understanding HPC clusters and issues. People have often asked me for tools and web pages to figure out how to understand and figure out issues in our cluster, or asked if we could use some tool like Hadoop, Spark, or some Azure/GCP/AWS tool to do it faster. I've said that if they want to spend the effort to use those tools, it could be valuable; but if it takes me 10min to use those tools and <1min using command line tools, I'll always fall back to the command line.
That's not to say that fancy tools don't have their use; but people often forget how much you can do with a few simple commands if you understand a pipeline and how the commands work.
I've used Firefox on desktop for years, even through some of the bad times. Today, FireFox is a really great experience and works well everywhere for me, except for some very specific use cases like internal company websites where some employees have deemed it "not suitable" for their web app (even when proven it works), and to use web apps that utilize APIs that I don't entirely like (namely, WebUSB - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/USB). But I keep a spare chromium around if I really need/want to use those apps. 99.9% of my browser use is Firefox.
I think the bigger push should be to get people using FireFox mobile. In my experience, it is a much better, more customizable browser than Chrome. It works well with my browsing habits and general use of my phone (screen UI positioning, gestures, etc.). The most obvious benefit is the extension support, which makes browsing some mobile websites tolerable. Showing people the difference between browsing genius.com (lyrics website) with and without ads usually shocks them. At times on Chrome, the web page is completely unusable due to ads and pop ups.
Yeah - not the OP but I investigated containers and they didn't do what you're asking for. I ultimately ended up installing Simple Tab Groups to get similar behavior to chrome. It would be nice if this functionality was actually built into the browser.
To me, if you compare an interaction with friends as feeling like bribery, I question the friendship a bit. Maybe its just me, but spending money/time/whatever in any way with/for friends shouldn't feel that way..
I think this is especially great for controversial topics/problems too, if it doesn't end with some long term bad result. Coffee is good, and as long as you aren't getting hooked on needing the caffeine, its a bit of a luxury. Its good to enjoy some things in life.
We racreset our iDracs monthly. Seemed stupid when I started, but I'm grateful after working with them enough. Newer versions seem to be a bit better than 11th and 12th gen iDracs; but I would never rule out a racreset, even on the newest gen.
I love Rotring pens and pencils - I used a Rapid Pro mechanical pencil throughout college. Nowadays I use a Rotring 600 or 800 with Ohto ballpoint refills. The knurled grip is great, the the overall weight of the pencil is much better than your average plastic pen.
This whole situation makes me really angry; but I suppose I should be happy that enough of the ops left and formed libera ~a month ago. I think it is something about the snark in root/rasengan's messages, portraying this as "saving FOSS," and "doing it for the users." It's upsetting to see (what seems like) one person with a lot of money and control destroy something that has existed and helped so many for decades. RIP Freenode, and thanks for the memories.