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New comment by freshyill in "Tales from the far-flung Faroes"

freshyill — Sat, 02 Jun 2018 14:03:00 +0000

There’s an iOS app called Unobstruct that provides an extension that will removed position: fixed elements. It helped here.

New comment by freshyill in "Apple's 7nm A12 chip could be the best feature in the 2018 iPhones"

freshyill — Fri, 25 May 2018 19:39:10 +0000

I'm really impressed by how long apps remain in RAM on my 8 Plus. I'll play a game before bed and find it still where I left off during my commute the next morning, and that's with some browsing/podcasts in between.

New comment by freshyill in "New drug offers hope to those with severe migraines"

freshyill — Fri, 18 May 2018 03:01:21 +0000

I’ve had migraines, both ocular and the “real” kind, so I know how bad they can be. I wouldn’t say they were anywhere near frequent enough to take a preventative drug for it. I’ve also worked with multiple people who’ve had chronic attendance problems, and migraines were one of their many go-to excuses. I know that sounds bad, but at least two of the people I’ve worked with would frequently use migraines as their excuse for coming in late, yet they never once got one while at work. Stolen cars, sick pets, the bus never showed up, etc. It was constantly something, more than once a week. If they were real, and I’m just being judgmental and seeing patterns that aren’t there, then I’m glad they’ll get relief. If not, it’s one less excuse.

New comment by freshyill in "Show HN: I Write In-Depth Wordpress Plugin Reviews"

freshyill — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:52:36 +0000

I think two spaces after a period is more of a typewriter bad habit than American thing. Back when you had a single monospace typeface, I think it just made things more legible. People who learned it then passed it on to generations who never used a typewriter.

New comment by freshyill in "Show HN: I Write In-Depth Wordpress Plugin Reviews"

freshyill — Wed, 18 Apr 2018 08:46:51 +0000

This is great. One piece of feedback, about the reviews themselves: Every time you use parentheses, there’s no space between the preceding word and the opening paren(like this).

I only read through the ACF review, but I saw it a number of times there.

New comment by freshyill in "Blue Apron to Sell Meal Kits in Stores to Buttress Sagging Deliveries"

freshyill — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 15:49:33 +0000

Blue Apron is sooo time consuming. Everything arrives just rolling around in the box. You need to sort it, then find a place to put it in your own cabinets and refrigerator. Their time estimates for cooking are often off by half, and the recipes are hard to follow. I really don't like Blue Apron.

Some of the others I like have the food for each meal all come in a single bag, so I don't have to keep track of it in my fridge. My wife usually handles these and she switches them up frequently, so I can't remember all of them, but my favorite is Terra's Kitchen, because it has the least waste, and short, accurate prep times. All the items are numbered to match the meal they're for.

New comment by freshyill in "Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze"

freshyill — Wed, 21 Feb 2018 02:08:43 +0000

What I like about Waze: All the data other than the route itself, he location of speed traps most importantly.

What I like about Apple Maps: The actual on-screen navigation experience. I find it’s the clearest about which lane I need to be in.

Waze is terrible about weirdly-shaped intersections and ramps, both in the maps themselves and the instructions about where I need to be to turn/exit.

If you think all the alleys and left turns are annoying, that’s nothing. On I-270, outside DC, it often has me bouncing back and forth between the local and express lanes, for no reason. Probably because some other user nearby in each lane is going a slightly different speed.

New comment by freshyill in "Depixelizing Pixel Art (2011)"

freshyill — Tue, 20 Feb 2018 04:15:32 +0000

They compare it to hq4x in their supplementary materials. Theirs is better.

http://johanneskopf.de/publications/pixelart/supplementary/i...

New comment by freshyill in "Traces of Old Egyptian in Eurasian languages?"

freshyill — Sun, 18 Feb 2018 15:30:12 +0000

This started off interesting and very smoothly transitioned to being fully incoherent to me.

Do the random italics and French-style quotes mean something that I just don’t understand, or was the whole thing actually just kind of insane.

New comment by freshyill in "Sometimes, Beetles Make Toads Regret Their Meal Choice"

freshyill — Wed, 07 Feb 2018 14:30:09 +0000

Take a while and watch toads eat if you ever get the chance. They're absolutely voracious. When I lived in the south, they used to hang out on my front porch, eating all kinds of bugs attracted by the light. I once saw a toad try to eat a slightly smaller toad. If it's smaller than them and it moves, they'll try to eat it.

New comment by freshyill in "After Surgery in Germany, I Wanted Vicodin, Not Herbal Tea"

freshyill — Mon, 29 Jan 2018 06:13:41 +0000

I had my gallbladder removed a few years ago. It required a major incision and I was in the hospital for five days after surgery. I had to get up and walk a lap around the hallway a few times a day. I felt it get easier every day, but those first few times were excruciating.

It was good that they made me do it—by the last day, I was starting to develop nerve pain from so much sitting, propped up in the hospital bed. Walking was torture, but so was sitting.

New comment by freshyill in "Guide to JavaScript Frameworks"

freshyill — Sun, 21 Jan 2018 21:02:51 +0000

Check out Wes Bos’s courses. He does a great job of making this stuff accessible. http://wesbos.com

New comment by freshyill in "Regarding the Em Dash"

freshyill — Sun, 07 Jan 2018 03:27:42 +0000

Or hold on the hyphen and you can get an emdash, endash, or bullet.

New comment by freshyill in "Trinitron: Sony's Once Unbeatable Product [video]"

freshyill — Wed, 03 Jan 2018 11:59:25 +0000

A friend of mine has one for this reason. He actually manages equipment and medical devices for a company that runs hospitals and was able to get one that one of their hospitals was going to throw away. It’s a really nice display for gaming on a CRT, but, to my eyes, not that much nicer than the Sony Wega he otherwise uses.

New comment by freshyill in "Welcome to Pleistocene Park"

freshyill — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 14:47:10 +0000

John Hammond used a tiny genetically-engineered elephant to impress investors in "Jurassic Park".

http://jurassicpark.wikia.com/wiki/Pachyderm_Portfolio

New comment by freshyill in "Smarties: How the stocking staple got its name"

freshyill — Tue, 26 Dec 2017 17:51:31 +0000

It was an interesting article. Did the title really bother you that much?

New comment by freshyill in "Google Maps' Moat"

freshyill — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 08:33:11 +0000

I come from a small town with a very large ZIP code that encompasses several other very small towns. Sure, they have the shapes of buildings, but business locations from eight miles away are shown in the wrong town because they’re both on Main Street in the same ZIP code. It’s the same on both Google and Apple Maps. Neither has been responsive to my corrections through the appropriate channels.

Who cares about the shapes of buildings if their directions send you to the wrong town?

New comment by freshyill in "Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG"

freshyill — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 01:06:20 +0000

That’s incorrect. You definitely can reuse them using symbol and defs/use.

New comment by freshyill in "Super Tiny Website Logos in SVG"

freshyill — Sun, 26 Nov 2017 17:03:07 +0000

They aren't all under 1KB, but there a few repos on GitHub hosting all of the Font Awesome icons as SVG.

Also, if you can avoid it, don't use https://github.com/ivanvotti/font-awesome-svg/tree/master/SV...

New comment by freshyill in "All about whiteboard markers"

freshyill — Sat, 11 Nov 2017 05:03:34 +0000

I wish he included Amazon Basics markers, because in my experience they’re garbage and I’d like some validation. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯