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I've noticed the same when I tried to replace my ultrawide 34" with a Dell U3225QE for my home office the other day. I really wanted to like the Dell since I love the specs, but my head would hurt from the perceived bulge in the middle of the screen, where the curve used to sit farthest before. Stupid brains, really.

At least in Germany (where I live), it is entirely normal for the pedestrian lights to be synchronized with the road parallel to it, meaning that turning cars will cross the path of walking pedestrians. However, by law pedestrians have the right of way in these situations (since cars are crossing their path), and generally that is being respected. I'd say that's what sets it apart from the US in that regard. We even have right on red in some metro areas, though admittedly that's where things can get quite dangerous at times.

DNS Toys 4 years ago

You can also use iodine (https://github.com/yarrick/iodine/) to tunnel IPv4 data through DNS (useful e.g. when on a captive portal network that doesn't block DNS requests). Performance isn't great obviously, but the concept is fascinating nonetheless.

Inkscape 1.2 4 years ago

I love Inkscape, but I really wish it could work with CMYK colors natively (and not simply transform them into RGB internally).

I recently wanted to give my current RPi4 home server a GitOps makeover, migrating services (Home Assistant, Nextcloud and others) to k3s in the process.

What has been an obstacle is the availability of officially maintained Docker images for some of the components I've been wanting to use - afaict neither Argo CD nor Rook have official armv7/aarch64 images (though it seems Argo will release one soon).

Until then, I'll hold off on that pet project until I get my hands on a reasonably priced x86 SFF PC (the ThinkCentre M700 Tiny from TFA looks interesting!).

Thanks for providing some context! Reading your response makes me realize that my initial assumption was probably way too pessimistic - and that the project serves a nice educational purpose.

On top, sparking interest in tech and ham in kids is always a good thing, a reminder about the possible side effects can always come at a later time :)

Not a ham operator, but I'd assume that a transmitter like this will emit a significant amount of noise across the RF spectrum (also, make sure to check your local laws before transmitting in potentially reserved frequency bands, e.g. with the FCC [0], or the Bundesnetzagentur in Germany [1]).

Other than that, looks like a fun little project!

[0] https://www.fcc.gov/engineering-technology/policy-and-rules-... [1]: https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/DE/Sac...

I have a Vindriktning with the ESP8266 makeover sitting on the desk behind me, feeding its data into my Home Assistant instance. So far it's working great, except for one annoying detail: I'd much prefer the forced airflow fan to be on at all times, since the constant on-off cycling (around every ~10s) is quite audible and distracting in a quiet environment.

There's also RFC 8058 [0] that proposes to refine the `List-Unsubscribe` header for one-click unsubscriptions. It uses the `List-Unsubscribe-Post` header to indicate that an HTTP POST request can be used to unsubscribe with a single click.

It specifically mentions in section 3.2 that mail receivers are not to crawl this URL without user consent:

The mail receiver MUST NOT perform a POST on the HTTPS URI without user consent. When and how the user consent is obtained is not part of this specification.

I haven't seen any statistics on how widespread adoption of this RFC is among the major mail providers, though.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8058

One interesting use case of overwriting `builtins.__import__` I've encountered was the automatic hooking by ClearML [0] (experiment tracking, ...) into all sorts of common libraries like Matplotlib, Tensorflow, Pytorch, and friends.

The implementation is surprisingly straightforward, once you've come to terms with the basic idea, see [1] and the rest of the `clearml.binding` package.

[0] https://clear.ml [1]: https://github.com/allegroai/clearml/blob/master/clearml/bin...

I'm in the same boat as you! Just started working on proper touch-typing a few weeks ago, as I sometimes found myself being ashamed of my self-taught ~7-finger typing system.

Commenting primarily to see what others have to say about your idea, since I can notice that sometimes when I don't pay full attention I tend to use my "old" mental keymap and cheat a little bit.

Sorry, I missed your reply..

Here's my workflow in a nutshell: I use the Zotero browser extension to add items to Zotero, the extension takes care to automatically attach a snapshot of the web page or paper to the newly created entry in Zotero. For academic papers or blog posts, I'll try and extract additional web links (e.g. Github repos) and add those to the entry as well. Within Zotero I have a nested structure of collections/folders to roughly structure the entries by type (papers, blog posts, reports, books, ...).

I make liberal use of tags to classify the content and keep track of my reading status (Reading List and Read), for which I have saved searches in Zotoro, so I can easily find something to read, whenever I have a bit of time.

For academic papers that I've read in-depth, I'll extract the most relevant references and add them to the library as well and cross-reference them using the "Related" feature. This feature is what I was mentioning in my original post - it only allows for a single generic "related" association between entries. If I could customize the type of relation, I could model almost arbitrary knowledge graphs here.

I mostly use QOwnNotes (https://QOwnNotes.org) for Markdown-based note taking, synced to my private Nexzcloud instance. If it ever goes away, I'll still have the plain markdown files plus metadata in a SQLite database.

For bookmarks and long-reads I've mostly made the transition from Pocket to Zotero (https://www.zotero.org), originally intended for literature management. One feature I wish it had is support for more complex semantic relationships between items to be able to create a more comprehensive knowledge graph (e.g., A cites B, X is related work to Y, a URL is the implementation of an abstract algorithm in a research paper). Anybody know of a suitable plugin maybe?

Firefox 72.0 7 years ago

Can't wait to find out if this release fixes a bug (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557160) that was preventing correct rendering of extension popup windows/context menus when the APZ zooming was enabled (which allows pinch-to-zoom gestures, e.g. on the MS Surface).

Update: Just got to try it out, seems like it indeed works now. Yay Firefox 72!