There was a Linux desktop version as well that could sync. If someone could port that interface it would be awesome.
I've more or less given up on the self-hosting requirement and have embraced... Google Tasks (somehow buried in the gmail sidebar) with the Gtasks app/widget. It's not ideal, but it's simple enough for long-term stuff, with due dates and alarms.
For short term (daily) stuff, call me old-fashioned, but I still use a pen and small notebook that I carry around. I draw little checkboxes. If a task falls too far behind in the queue, I copy it again on the current page and cross out the old one. If I get tired of doing that, I usually finally get motivated to either complete or drop the task. It works for me:/
Spun alternatively... "China has better privacy protection laws than the US does, because they don't allow data on their citizens to be stored on foreign servers."
Every time you see one of those sensationalized stories about Chinese apps (like Meitu) asking for your IMEI number of your phone and other seemingly irrelevant details, it's because the Chinese devs don't have access to any info stored in your Apple iStore or Google Play account info to uniquely identify you for marketing purposes, because they're not allowed to store stuff there by law. The US devs and authorities already have access to all that personal / demographic info. If your phone supports it, you can simply block those irrelevant permissions from being shared with the Chinese app devs and go on your merry way.
Having all the user data in-country also means that they can serve subpoenas to access data to solve crimes. Sure, that could be abused by a corrupt regime, but transparency works both ways, and good transparency is the best tool to fight corruption.
Also good for economic protectionism and industrial espionage... when I worked for Disney, we essentially had to clone our entire data center to build out the online ticket store for SHDL to comply with these laws. This infrastructure investment keeps the economy in-house, as well as spreads the expertise for e-commerce to Chinese techs.
The Chinese government is run by people with science and engineering degrees, and it shows... they know what they are doing, for better or for worse. Just need to solve that corruption issue, but we're hardly the champions at that at the moment.
Ugh, never fly United... most of their airline staff are old and cranky... also they have the highest unaccompanied minor charges... $150 on top of the ticket up to the age of 16 or something ridiculous like that.
It's difficult to fly to some smaller airports without using United, though:/
Yeah, I heard Japan worked with Boeing to create some really efficient boarding processes since forever.... to get the quickest turnaround times, they'd dock their 747s with 2 gates up front and 2 gates in the back, and start boarding from the front while passengers were still departing from the rear.
Since Japan is so small the 747s they were flying around inside the country were doing many many more landing cycles per day than Boeing had designed them for (intercontinental flight). So they also had to reinforce the landing gear so they could keep up with the way Japan was using them for several short-haul flights per day.
Alaska Airlines and a few others I've flown always arrange boarding groups from the back to the front (well, after letting disabled, families with small children, and first class board).
Logical policymakers are out there... somewhere...
Eh, first class is already next to the fwd toilets. Not sure why they're in such a hurry to board first and leave the relative comfort of the terminal lounge to spend an extra 20 minutes packed in the tin can while everyone else and their dog parades past them coughing and stuff. But hey, who am I to understand first class privilege?
Heat is energy. Heat rises, pulling in cold air, creating weather. Cities create heat islands, measurably changing the microclimate. Can't really say humans are not involved in the ecosystem... just ask India and China how they feel about smog and particulate pollution in recent years. Aren't we glad we don't have their population density yet?
NOAA is tracking the macroclimate, since NASA isn't really allowed to correlate with their independent instruments anymore. "Global temperature anomaly" charts and graphs look interesting, certainly trendy. Ocean acidification and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are even more trendy, increasing to levels beyond those seen since the dinosaur extinctions... and those measurements don't swish around erratically with the winds and weather like the surface temperature measurements.
How much can the Earth take before things break down and we see more signs of mass extinctions? Who knows? But do you remember doing the buffer system titration labs from HS Chemistry? In many ways the ecosystem acts like a giant buffer system that keeps things like pH and temperature and humidity balanced in a stable range right up to the point where it can't.
Politicians, of course, don't understand the science, or don't want to since there's no financial incentive for doing the right thing. NOAA and others are trying to provide some of the financial impact information so politicians might find it in their cold hearts to care. But others are content to go along with this grand titration experiment, because... well, maybe cleaning up after ourselves will make us look like fools with clean necks (Russian proverb).
So on my main server I would set up a streaming proxy, that would also save whatever content from internet radio streams I was listening to, and I'd point all of the other clients in the house to it so they'd all be playing the same thing as I walked from room to room. Usually there wasn't any noticeable lag between them, but different internet radio clients do buffer more than others... just not the ones I was using.
As for controlling the primary playlist, back then I just used ssh + screen back to the server since I was using the console streamtuner client, but nowadays you could probably set up VLC or Clementine to be the head node feeding your proxy channel, and both of those projects have good remote control apps.
Pretty neat stuff, kinda like reading Neal Stephenson with smaller words. He's very good with trimming unnecessary prose... actually finished reading the story "Arrival" was based on in less time than it took to watch the movie!
Well, at least that explains how the original is destroyed when teleporting something... so we won't need deconstructor nanites like in https://arstechnica.com/gaming...
Just a big ol' analog clock and my most commonly accessed apps from the ground up. I prefer groups to screens, as much as I like the background scrolling animation. But even then there are just two groups for "Google" and "Nav" apps. There's just one more screen for widgets: the Google New/Weather ticker, the calendar, and a gTasks Todo list. That's pretty much it.
Previously I had additional groups for: * Utils: calculators, periodic tables, and other stuff * Media: youtube, VLC, and other "gallery" type stuff * Net: SSH, VNC, SMB clients, etc.
But now I just look up the rest of that stuff up in the alphabetical list or via search. It does get a little bit annoying when the app icons are too similar in appearance, but \_()_/
Like, I paid the $5 once back in my college days two decades ago, and then I checked the option for "show me ads anyway". So I guess it never wore off?
Oh, thanks... that sounds about right. I don't enjoy animal fats as much as most other people seem to either, so this makes sense to me. Maybe I just need to find a dish where they're marbled in moderation with the rest of the schlopp... which explains why I likes me some guacamole in burritos but not really alone or as a dip or even as a salad topping.
Um, the AC is right... see the film industry... no movie ever makes a profit if they can help it. Don't ever accept payment in terms of % of profits, there aren't any after Hollywood accounting is done dishing out various production fees and expenses to various shell companies linked to the producers.
US companies are about building and growing brand recognition and mindshare... intangible intellectual property that you can just sit at the top and rake in the dough for other people's work.
Amazon itself is famously frugal... developers get very few perks compared to other tech employers in the area... no free lunch, no free devices for dogfooding their own products, no free soda cabinets to keep productivity up, not even prime membership. They consider this part of their corporate "leadership" culture, though... certainly not a way to boost profits at the cost of their employees' productivity and morale.
Bananas seem to be a special case, though... they have a free banana stand on campus where anyone in the public can drop by and get a bite.
Could someone explain avocados to me? Do they have some sort of magical nutritional value? I don't dislike them... though eating them sometimes makes me nauseated. But there's a lot of other stuff I enjoy that other people seem to consider "gross". I always assumed people ate avocados because they were big and cheap and plentiful, and you can't dip everything in just salsa and sour cream ALL the time. Still, never thought guacamole was good enough to warrant charging extra for.
Eh, every grocery store has had "loss leader" products to get people in the door since forever. Milk and eggs aren't anywhere near that cheap, no?
Thanks for the list... we might start dropping by Whore Foods for b-a-n-a-n-a-s, but nothing else looks too compelling yet... I usually draw the line for meats at $3/lb., though that's been since the late 90s so I really ought to update that for inflation.
Yes, Half Life 2 is well worth it, because then you can enjoy the Concerned parody comic that much more. At least watch one of the playthroughs on YouTube if you can't be bothered to work the puzzles yourself.
Haven't played HL1 yet, still waiting for that fan-based remastered remake... is it ready yet?
Eh, that was OK for me. It's when the FB app asked for my address book was when I uninstalled. I'm not authorized to give them all of my family and friends' info that they've trusted me with. Sadly, I don't think most other people take that kind of thing into consideration.
The mobile version of FB works fine. And you can even still use FB messenger in your mobile browser if you select "Request desktop site"
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Still haven't found anything as nice to use as Progect for PalmOS
https://progect-manager.en.sof...
There was a Linux desktop version as well that could sync. If someone could port that interface it would be awesome.
I've more or less given up on the self-hosting requirement and have embraced... Google Tasks (somehow buried in the gmail sidebar) with the Gtasks app/widget. It's not ideal, but it's simple enough for long-term stuff, with due dates and alarms.
For short term (daily) stuff, call me old-fashioned, but I still use a pen and small notebook that I carry around. I draw little checkboxes. If a task falls too far behind in the queue, I copy it again on the current page and cross out the old one. If I get tired of doing that, I usually finally get motivated to either complete or drop the task. It works for me :/
Pretty much.
Spun alternatively... "China has better privacy protection laws than the US does, because they don't allow data on their citizens to be stored on foreign servers."
Every time you see one of those sensationalized stories about Chinese apps (like Meitu) asking for your IMEI number of your phone and other seemingly irrelevant details, it's because the Chinese devs don't have access to any info stored in your Apple iStore or Google Play account info to uniquely identify you for marketing purposes, because they're not allowed to store stuff there by law. The US devs and authorities already have access to all that personal / demographic info. If your phone supports it, you can simply block those irrelevant permissions from being shared with the Chinese app devs and go on your merry way.
Having all the user data in-country also means that they can serve subpoenas to access data to solve crimes. Sure, that could be abused by a corrupt regime, but transparency works both ways, and good transparency is the best tool to fight corruption.
Also good for economic protectionism and industrial espionage... when I worked for Disney, we essentially had to clone our entire data center to build out the online ticket store for SHDL to comply with these laws. This infrastructure investment keeps the economy in-house, as well as spreads the expertise for e-commerce to Chinese techs.
The Chinese government is run by people with science and engineering degrees, and it shows... they know what they are doing, for better or for worse. Just need to solve that corruption issue, but we're hardly the champions at that at the moment.
The sent out some SMS alert earlier this month talking about "an industry-wide phone number port out scam"
https://www.t-mobile.com/custo...
Not really related, sure, but a good smoke screen... "everyone is having security issues", I suppose.
Ugh, never fly United... most of their airline staff are old and cranky... also they have the highest unaccompanied minor charges ... $150 on top of the ticket up to the age of 16 or something ridiculous like that.
It's difficult to fly to some smaller airports without using United, though :/
Yeah, I heard Japan worked with Boeing to create some really efficient boarding processes since forever.... to get the quickest turnaround times, they'd dock their 747s with 2 gates up front and 2 gates in the back, and start boarding from the front while passengers were still departing from the rear.
Since Japan is so small the 747s they were flying around inside the country were doing many many more landing cycles per day than Boeing had designed them for (intercontinental flight). So they also had to reinforce the landing gear so they could keep up with the way Japan was using them for several short-haul flights per day.
Alaska Airlines and a few others I've flown always arrange boarding groups from the back to the front (well, after letting disabled, families with small children, and first class board).
Logical policymakers are out there... somewhere...
Eh, first class is already next to the fwd toilets. Not sure why they're in such a hurry to board first and leave the relative comfort of the terminal lounge to spend an extra 20 minutes packed in the tin can while everyone else and their dog parades past them coughing and stuff. But hey, who am I to understand first class privilege?
Ha ha, I feel like I really need the bad car analogy of this post!
Heat is energy. Heat rises, pulling in cold air, creating weather. Cities create heat islands, measurably changing the microclimate. Can't really say humans are not involved in the ecosystem... just ask India and China how they feel about smog and particulate pollution in recent years. Aren't we glad we don't have their population density yet?
NOAA is tracking the macroclimate, since NASA isn't really allowed to correlate with their independent instruments anymore. "Global temperature anomaly" charts and graphs look interesting, certainly trendy. Ocean acidification and atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are even more trendy, increasing to levels beyond those seen since the dinosaur extinctions... and those measurements don't swish around erratically with the winds and weather like the surface temperature measurements.
How much can the Earth take before things break down and we see more signs of mass extinctions? Who knows? But do you remember doing the buffer system titration labs from HS Chemistry? In many ways the ecosystem acts like a giant buffer system that keeps things like pH and temperature and humidity balanced in a stable range right up to the point where it can't.
Politicians, of course, don't understand the science, or don't want to since there's no financial incentive for doing the right thing. NOAA and others are trying to provide some of the financial impact information so politicians might find it in their cold hearts to care. But others are content to go along with this grand titration experiment, because... well, maybe cleaning up after ourselves will make us look like fools with clean necks (Russian proverb).
Smart money manipulating Bitcoin so it can buy in.
Yep. Google "How to short b..." and several explanations will just pop right up!
"I'd tell you a DNS joke, but it could take up to 24 hours for everyone to get it."
Yeah, I've I've liked all of the Dell keyboards I've ever used, and they're cheap and easy to replace if they get broken or sticky.
We never really agreed upon what was the best keyboard layout, I would think we'd have to determine that in order to rate how far laptops diverge.
I submit:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/...
That's what I look for when shopping for keyboards / laptops.
The Dell keyboards stray somewhat from that to make stuff fit, but not terribly far.
Here's some 10-year old software for your 10-year old hardware:
http://www.nongnu.org/streamtu...
http://streamripper.sourceforg...
So on my main server I would set up a streaming proxy, that would also save whatever content from internet radio streams I was listening to, and I'd point all of the other clients in the house to it so they'd all be playing the same thing as I walked from room to room. Usually there wasn't any noticeable lag between them, but different internet radio clients do buffer more than others... just not the ones I was using.
As for controlling the primary playlist, back then I just used ssh + screen back to the server since I was using the console streamtuner client, but nowadays you could probably set up VLC or Clementine to be the head node feeding your proxy channel, and both of those projects have good remote control apps.
These books from the 80s were indeed some of my favorites growing up:
https://www.amazon.com/Transpo...
I'm pretty excited that people are finally working on this kind of thing. The rest of y'all sound old :P
After watching "Arrival" on an airplane, started reading the other short stories at:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Pretty neat stuff, kinda like reading Neal Stephenson with smaller words. He's very good with trimming unnecessary prose... actually finished reading the story "Arrival" was based on in less time than it took to watch the movie!
Well, at least that explains how the original is destroyed when teleporting something... so we won't need deconstructor nanites like in https://arstechnica.com/gaming...
Yeah, I'm something of a minimalist. Here's my homescreen on Android 7:
https://i.imgur.com/xswIxHi.pn...
Just a big ol' analog clock and my most commonly accessed apps from the ground up.
I prefer groups to screens, as much as I like the background scrolling animation. But even then there are just two groups for "Google" and "Nav" apps.
There's just one more screen for widgets: the Google New/Weather ticker, the calendar, and a gTasks Todo list. That's pretty much it.
Previously I had additional groups for:
* Utils: calculators, periodic tables, and other stuff
* Media: youtube, VLC, and other "gallery" type stuff
* Net: SSH, VNC, SMB clients, etc.
But now I just look up the rest of that stuff up in the alphabetical list or via search. It does get a little bit annoying when the app icons are too similar in appearance, but \_()_/
and thanks for telling me what the friggin asterisk was for... I always assumed it meant something else :P
Oh, er, mad hax, dude.
Like, I paid the $5 once back in my college days two decades ago, and then I checked the option for "show me ads anyway". So I guess it never wore off?
Oh, thanks... that sounds about right. I don't enjoy animal fats as much as most other people seem to either, so this makes sense to me. Maybe I just need to find a dish where they're marbled in moderation with the rest of the schlopp... which explains why I likes me some guacamole in burritos but not really alone or as a dip or even as a salad topping.
Um, the AC is right... see the film industry... no movie ever makes a profit if they can help it. Don't ever accept payment in terms of % of profits, there aren't any after Hollywood accounting is done dishing out various production fees and expenses to various shell companies linked to the producers.
US companies are about building and growing brand recognition and mindshare... intangible intellectual property that you can just sit at the top and rake in the dough for other people's work.
Amazon itself is famously frugal... developers get very few perks compared to other tech employers in the area... no free lunch, no free devices for dogfooding their own products, no free soda cabinets to keep productivity up, not even prime membership. They consider this part of their corporate "leadership" culture, though... certainly not a way to boost profits at the cost of their employees' productivity and morale.
Bananas seem to be a special case, though... they have a free banana stand on campus where anyone in the public can drop by and get a bite.
Could someone explain avocados to me? Do they have some sort of magical nutritional value? I don't dislike them... though eating them sometimes makes me nauseated. But there's a lot of other stuff I enjoy that other people seem to consider "gross". I always assumed people ate avocados because they were big and cheap and plentiful, and you can't dip everything in just salsa and sour cream ALL the time. Still, never thought guacamole was good enough to warrant charging extra for.
Eh, every grocery store has had "loss leader" products to get people in the door since forever. Milk and eggs aren't anywhere near that cheap, no?
Thanks for the list... we might start dropping by Whore Foods for b-a-n-a-n-a-s, but nothing else looks too compelling yet... I usually draw the line for meats at $3/lb., though that's been since the late 90s so I really ought to update that for inflation.
Yes, Half Life 2 is well worth it, because then you can enjoy the Concerned parody comic that much more. At least watch one of the playthroughs on YouTube if you can't be bothered to work the puzzles yourself.
Haven't played HL1 yet, still waiting for that fan-based remastered remake... is it ready yet?
Eh, that was OK for me. It's when the FB app asked for my address book was when I uninstalled. I'm not authorized to give them all of my family and friends' info that they've trusted me with. Sadly, I don't think most other people take that kind of thing into consideration.
The mobile version of FB works fine. And you can even still use FB messenger in your mobile browser if you select "Request desktop site"