louky
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Comment · 22 days ago
Annoyingly Google voice doesn't support it at all, either.
I've installed a firefox extension[0] that saves any image as .JPG,.PNG, or .WEBP
Comment · 1 month ago
Same! Although I still have muscle-memory replacing spaces with _ or - when creating/saving files on any OS.
Hasn't done me wrong lo these past 40 years.
As for the others tailing the ASCII, no thanks.
Comment · 2 months ago
I got a Big Trak in ~1983 and came back to
programming and using it and hacking it over years until it got lost in a fire in my mid-twenties.
I'm sure most of those weren't used much.
Comment · 3 months ago
The major proponent was also known as
Thomas Midgley Jr.: Accidentally The Most Dangerous Man Who Ever Lived[0]
Leaded gas, CFCs, and accidentally created a machine that ended his own existence.[1]
[0]https://allthatsinteresting.com/thomas-midgley-jr [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.
Comment · 6 months ago
Old trade beads can sometimes be found, old stashes and caches. Pony beads, seed beads, and others.
They were traded/used as "money". The Hudson's Bay Company brought millions of them to this continent.
Comment · 8 months ago
My Grandfather was around in the early days, had a ham call sign from the early 1930s and was involved in the Manhattan Project as a senior non-scientific engineer.
He was also involved in the development of radar/microwave comms after the war.
He and colleagues did the same - warming their hands in front of microwave antennae.
He developed and later died of some unknown neurological issues related to nerve transmission in the early 1990s. He had been exposed to so many different possible dangers that it's impossible to tell.
After he died I helped clean out and save/donate the double-garage full of ham equipment and home-built telescopes - one was ~.75metre diameter and ~3 metres long, just huge - I was just a teen and let most of it go as my grandmother didn't care by then.
There were also many containers of classified documents, related to WWII and after. Those were appropriately dealt with.
I've always HAD microwaves but have been aware of the issues. I'm a ham as well and still occasionally use the morse key he gave me when I was 7. Still miss him, he taught me so much.
72s
Comment · 10 months ago
I don't mind music-on-hold as much except when they break with a human voice at intervals saying inane things such as "your call is important to us. Thank you for holding" Which makes me think the call has been answered.
If there's not actual call queue information, just play music so I can ignore it and continue working without that NOP interrupt.
Comment · 1 year ago
An interesting alternative "reverse" take on the Pomodoro technique.
Comment · 1 year ago
the buttons jumping up and down when correct or incorrect is jarring on my smaller screen, forcing a constant space there or moving the message would be a smoother UX, in my opinion.
Comment · 1 year ago
So does Time Team, and they're back making new episodes.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtpbubYLW2fdf9ySyCS0f...
Comment · 1 year ago
>> As of 2025, he also teaches mathematics at Rudgers University.
In the second sentence.
Not even run through an AI grammar-checker?
Comment · 1 year ago
I personally have been using "Auto Tab Discard" for years. It works perfectly for me, and you can set a group of tabs to not unload. It has a ton of options.
I have ~320 tabs open right now, for multiple projects and only ~5 are loaded.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-disc...
Comment · 1 year ago
Dendrochronology (dating cut trees via counting rings/size/ratios) has its own subjective interpretations, and different databases that don't always line up.