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Yet another Google account/service-banning horror story. For this reason, I proactively migrated off Gmail earlier this year to Fastmail. Very happy that I did.

The only important thing I have left on Google now is 15 years of Location History. I'm still figuring out where to move that to.

From the linked paper:

Phrases were designed to mimic the writing style of elementary school students, including typical spelling errors observed at that age (Quinn, 2020).

I've always thought it would be nice if microphones can be merged when on a phone call with AirPods in. The mics in those headphones are really far away from my face and when it's windy talking on them is almost impossible. It would be nice to be able to just talk into the mic on my phone. Then the phone could boost my voice from multiple mics and filter out background noise.

Huh? You can literally do those things in 1Password. Every item has a notes section where you can type plain text. Custom fields are supported. List view is there.

https://support.1password.com/custom-fields/

https://support.1password.com/1password-com-items/

From TFA:

"To play an instrument means that you can understand music, which is a high cognitive function. It means you can interact with the instrument, you can coordinate both hands, you can exercise memory, you can count — because music is mathematics — you can test vision because the patient has to see the instrument, and you can test the way the patient interacts with the rest of the team," he said.

I take that to mean that playing the instrument uses many brain functions and so they're able to monitor many things at once.

A tool that has been most useful for me when I am scheduling meetings cross-timezone: http://timesched.pocoo.org/

IMHO when scheduling, you need to actually understand local time for all your attendees, so you can factor in things like when they are awake/asleep, when they might be driving to work, picking up their kids, etc.

But when simply reading/grokking times — i.e. in internal documents or web pages shared across timezones — I usually just want to see the timestamp expressed as my local time.

(Browser extension idea: automatically convert all dates/times to my local time, and be able to set rules for common timezone conversions for certain URLs/domains.)

Also a must watch is the making of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go6Hpal8fUA

Incredible that the set ran on hydraulics and actually stretched.

I grew up in the city in Australia. Once when I crossed the road (as a pedestrian) at a red light, a police officer on the other side of the street stopped me and gave me a warning for jaywalking. Before I had walked, I had looked both ways and deemed it safe; there was no traffic and no other pedestrians waiting.

(In my mind: I am just a person on planet Earth, trying to get from position A to position B, less than 5 metres away).

Having now lived in the UK and Netherlands for over 10 years, I feel this would never happen here. I would expect this in the US though (so I rarely jaywalk on the few times I have been there).

I tell this anecdote as an example to my friends when I try to describe how Australia has a mix of influences from both Europe and the US.

There is no reason philanthropy cannot be used to tackle multiple issues at once. I'm not sure there is a lot value in deriding one cause over another. We need to address both issues.

For those who disagree with the position taken in the article: Out of curiosity, what would you do to deal with online child pornography instead?

"appje" is the diminuitive form of "app", which is a shortened form of "whatsapp" (referring to a whatsapp message).

In English, you would never shorten the phrase "I'll send you a whatsapp" to "I'll send you an app" because the word "app" would be confused with a mobile app.

The Dutch still use the word "app" to mean a mobile app; "appje" means a whatsapp. So the diminuitive form allows them to disambiguate.

How do you expect jo to know where the 1 came from to change its interpretation?

It was merely an observation. Of course, one can simply negate the value before passing it to jo.

jo looked as though it was for use in the shell though, so I was curious as to the design decision here.

Awesome looking tool. One thing I noticed, however:

    $ false; echo success@$? | jo
    {"success":true}

    $ telnet m.trykeep.com 80
    Trying 54.87.165.213...
    telnet: connect to address 54.87.165.213: Connection refused
    telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Shock, horror!

A simpler (and more efficient) equivalent to this script would be this one-liner:

    while true; do rsync -azP $PWD/ <remote>:$PWD/; sleep 2; done

lsyncd uses inotify/fsevents, meaning you don't have to traverse the filesystem to poll for changes.

Python's PEP8 recommends underscores for functions, method names and instance vars, but the stats are showing a break down of camelCase with and without first capital letter (which shouldn't really be relevant).

One key difference here for me is that the word "hacks" might imply that the addition of hacks to that file are acceptable; where as the word "shame" implies that the hacks are less than acceptable and should be used as a last resort.

It's always been the case with the Facebook app pre-iOS6 that after syncing contacts (which uploads all your local phone numbers to Facebook) any Facebook profile associated with one of those numbers would appear in your address book on the Facebook site.

Your dream is never going to become a reality in the way you're asking.

As a feature of the desktop browser, users could turn share buttons off. Embedded in the page, they can't. That is why the site operator put them there in the first place: to maximise exposure.