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I love that Newsblur correctly removed the SCRIPT tag and everything following it. The Company's name is "> in my feed. Respect!

1080P resolution (per eye) for a virtual 100" display? I can't work on a 1080P laptop now without swapping and resizing windows constantly. It would be frustrating to have all that screen real estate and not be able to use it. I also wonder what "per eye" means. Are there wholly different pictures in each (yikes) or just enough to simulate 3D?

Finding and eliminating duplicates is a very common software problem that is rarely solved in a reusable, user-friendly way that preserves history while eliminating redundant data. In fact, in 40 years of working with computers I can't think of a single UI that I'd want to emulate.

I'm meticulous about tagging and backing up MP3s for different mixes in car stereos and other devices. One problem is that I have so many MP3s and different copies I don't know which are tagged and when they were ripped. I prefer to retain the file's modified date when I just update tags so I'll know how old the rip is - bit rates have increased a bit since last century.

I wrote a Powershell script that sets the date a minute newer when it updates ID3 V1 tags so I can compare files and know that one came from 2005 and has had metadata updated since then. I haven't found a bulk tagger that does this.

I personally will use Bookmarklets rather than Userscripts to fulfill the same purpose. Bookmarklets work even in locked-down browsers including Edge (bookmarks bar, not favorites sidebar).

The one I use most often is modelled after a similar one - after you fill out a web form you can capture your entries and restore them with a single click:

https://github.com/mossrich/Bookmarklets/blob/master/Bookmar...

From Tim Ferris' 'The 4-hour Body', an even more important tool for toning and weight loss is to stay cold. Olympic swimmers consume more calories than the average athlete even though their exertion is less. A pool is kept well below body temperature and your body uses those calories to keep itself warm. His advice was to sleep with a sheet instead of a blanket, unless you're swimming 5 hours a day.

Clicked because I thought at first this was a retro computing post about a Commodore cassette tape drive. Thanks for the intro to this useful tool.

John Oliver had an expose of all the things I already knew about how corrupt Ticketmaster is. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_Y7uqqEFnY

I've got mixed feedback on this. I had a house fire a few years back where all my paper literature was soaked, and stayed in water for days to weeks. Books, and especially my comic book collection consisting of Sandman and other very collectible treasures, were transmuted to a soupy, unreadable mess. It was a very emotional time salvaging what little I could of these gifts from friends and family. Interestingly the 5.25" and 3.5" floppies from 1990 and prior were in water tight containers, but I knew from previous attempts to recover data from them that I'd be wasting my time trying to get ancient BBS text files from them. Digital media will expire, but I've got IDE hard drives from 30 years ago that have fared pretty well, and thankfully I had the foresight to duplicate the magnetic media that has a known shelf life to media that might survive a bit longer. And data grows in size and scale, so a 20MB hard drive from the 80s is pretty easy to preserve as long as you're organized, and plan, and don't procrastinate too long. But thinking about it - like life, isn't data meant to expire? Maybe your descendants will appreciate a few pictures of you, and some journal entries or your great novel draft. But I have no interest even in my mom's or Hemingway's kindergarten buddies. And especially if there are published books on a shelf, they're almost always replaceable. Think of who will be cleaning out your house when you die while you curate your data, and try to preserve what's of greatest worth to you and that audience.

And finally, last time I visited my father he showed me a 6" thick bible that had been in the family since the early 1800s, with beautiful fonts, colored illustrations, and the first few blank pages filled with marriage and birth records. There are some books that can't be replaced or duplicated, and should be cherished like a child.

That used to be called a 'seagull manager' - one who flies in, sh*ts on everything and flies away.

This works on HN and most other sites:

javascript:(function() { var tag = document.createElement('style'); tag.type = 'text/css'; document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(tag); tag[ (typeof document.body.style.WebkitAppearance=='string') ? 'innerText' : 'innerHTML'] = '* { background-color: white !important; color: #444 !important; } html { filter: invert(100%) grayscale(100%); }'; })();

Maybe it's the fact that we all realize our mortality, and the benefit that it has on a species. Nature has built into us a few limiters to over-flourishing, like it has for many other species: a short life-span with expendable body components - we've overcome that with medicine and other life-extending tech. A disinterest in procreation - we're trending in that direction but the procreators are probably gonna win that battle. Limited resources - science is finding ways to exploit new resources while diminishing the quality of life for all.

I'm a drinker and proud of the contributions I still make to society, but also that I won't hang on for too long past my invitation to stay on this rock. There are people better than me who should occupy it.

I used to work at a company that had dozens of SQL tables for similar data - if there was a selection box in their app there was a table to represent it. I had a very productive meeting with the young (CSLA-trained) programmers on my way out, saying that we could have a single table for all lookup values. The schema went from a giant, whiteboard-covering diagram to a neat 8.5x11 single sheet diagram, resulting in a lot of reused code and data. Maybe there's more than Things and Data in real life, but there is a pretty good medium between "new table for each thing" and "each thing is just another thing row"

Edward Tufte was an inspiration for me.

A modern version of Vern Buerg's List.com. I used that tool in DOS days and almost always had it running.

When I'm complimented by a client verbally, I politely give them my manager's email address and ask them to forward that information on. I find that I've gotten a number of compliments that I compile for my yearly performance review. I like my client and my manager, and while it may not affect my compensation (I get regular, small increases), it seems to keep negative micro-management from affecting my day-to-day work, and feeds the cycle of positive feedback that allows me to do interesting work, instead of defending how my hours are spent.

I'd encourage positive communication between clients and managers. My dad had a lot of good things to say about his military service. One of them was cultural: tell the guy what he could do better. Tell his superior what he's done well.

Asked before, years ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14604454

Also Lolo for NES was similar.

I also use OneNote at work for capturing anything worth remembering in a meeting, and screen grabs from a webex. It captures the text in images and indexes it for searching later, which I do frequently. I don't mix personal notes and tasks into this notebook.

For several years I've used Google Tasks for organizing my personal notes because it's cross platform and works like my brain. I have a small list of things to do today, that rotates frequently, a well-organized larger "Backlog" that I pull from after I've emptied the "Today" list. There are other topical lists like "Music" for notes and tasks that don't usually get flagged as done. Some bookmarks get into Tasks, if I'm pretty sure I'll use them again. But mainly I save stories in Newsblur if I think they're worth revisiting.

I have T-Mobile and auto-pay with a credit card that has had 6 fraudulent transactions in the past week. Might not be related.

My only interface to Twitter is through Newsblur and https://twitrss.me

Voraciously eliminating unnecessary whitespace, especially vertical whitespace, was a trick I learned early. Most monitors are wide, not tall. When you can see a whole function without scrolling it's much easier to understand. I'll collapse 'if' statements to a single line in most cases to make it readable left-right instead of up-down. 1TB bracketing is my default unless style guidelines prohibit it. End-of-line comments make it easier to associate functionality with comments and keep code tidy.

Named after an In Flames song? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCvq8VN9owY

On topic: losing weight has a positive effect for sleep apnea. This is interesting, but something I had intuited from the small sampling of those I know with sleep apnea and weight problems. There are other factors that seem causal, like smoking, that would be interesting to hear about. Off topic: losing weight is hard to do for many people.

http://sciral.com/free/year.html has worked for me for several years.

I'd like to see antiperspirant usage as a variable, but it seems like it would be hard to find a control. Having tried several times to buy deodorant without antiperspirant for my wife, I can say how hard it is to find an armpit product without aluminum oxide. It's not so hard to find masculine scented deodorants.

Yahoo Pipes -> Google Reader is now Feedrinse -> Newsblur

Reminds me of the work of Edward Tufte, a pioneer of graphical data representation: https://www.edwardtufte.com

When asked my age I say 'I identify as a 15 year old.' But it's a joke.