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Listen to Wikipedia 11 years ago

It would be good to have a "click to unmute" option as the default for how a browser handles audio. Click to play works well for Flash plugins, it might be good for audio as well.

Thank you, it's not always clear when a reboot is needed after an update. I do it with kernel updates but wouldn't have in this case until I read your comment and ran the command to check.

If would be nice if package managers would let us know when this is necessary, I expect that might be a hard thing to get right though.

a common strategy was to make the nobledwarfs accommodation floodable with lava

I've not played Dwarf Fortress for a while, but were there any consequences to killing the nobledwarfs like that? The game is so comprehensive I'm wondering if the creators considered that strategy.

Found some details[0] on how they're doing this:

Marriott operates a Wi-Fi monitoring system manufactured by a third party that was installed at the Gaylord Opryland. Among other features, the system includes a containment capability that, when activated, will cause the sending of de-authentication packets to Wi-Fi Internet access points that are not part of Marriott’s Wi-Fi system or authorized by Marriott and that Marriott has classified as “rogue.”

[0] https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/DA-14-1444A1.t...

There's a variation on the Pomodoro technique which has been working well for me. It was recommended by a Pomodoro program I use called Tomate[0] which defaults to a minimum 10 minute timer instead of 25 minutes:

The rationale is that the hardest part of working is getting at it. Past the first ten minutes, continuing to work is far easier. So you only have to commit to the first ten minutes, your motivation should do the rest.

[0] https://gitorious.org/tomate/pages/Home

It sometimes convinces me to go ahead with a service if I know I can get data out later down the line. It might be worth building it anyway to encourage more people to sign up, even if most users never end up using it.

At a glance this looks like a good project to learn from, specifically about how to structure non-trivial programs. I write lots of spaghetti code and struggle to keep things separate. This code looks clean and well documented.

What makes this story so great is how determined they were to find the real problem even though it was already "fixed" by changing the routes. Who knows how much anguish this person has spared other people by not giving up until the problem was truly solved. Doing it with such skill and ingenuity was the icing on the cake, I could read these kind of stories all day.

Great story with the added bonus of showing me the GNU Units command. What a fantastic program, no more Googling when I need to convert stuff.

Khan Academy Lite 12 years ago

I'm sure they don't expect a how-to on making a shiv half way through a KA video

If the prison doesn't screen and approve, a computer technician could smuggle banned content in among the regular Khan Academy videos.

This book just achieved the impossible and helped me understand the rebase command properly. I'm ordering the printed version as soon as it's available.

This is timely for me. I'm still new to C++ and have been using vim so far. I'm having trouble figuring out a way to easily refactor C++ code (e.g. renaming things across multiple files). In Python there are vim plugins which do a good job of this, but I haven't found any good plugins for C++ refactoring.

It might be worth learning a new environment if it makes this easier.