mrehler

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Comment · 12 days ago
In much of the US, some types of highways do have a minimum speed. It varies by state (and can even vary within a state). I believe most places have a minimum on Interstates of 40 MPH.
Comment · 1 year ago
I personally keep it all (on iMessage) as a bit of personal history. Trying to see conversations I had with friends and family around fun/important events, searching to see if I ever went on a similar tirade about a product I’m about to send a friend…
Comment · 1 year ago
Even when I was a new user right as Reader was getting started, I didn't think it was clunky to be honest. I thought it was clear when I was using one vs. the other. The only problem I've ever had is that typing/saying "Readwise Reader" is a bit clunky when discussing the product, but "Readwise" refers to the other one, and "Reader" isn't a sufficient name itself.
Comment · 1 year ago
Discord is really awful about this, and that's one of the many reasons I dislike it. Its defaults are bad. I should be able to set, at the account level, the default that servers don't send me notifications. I believe by default, I only get @everyone and @role notifications, which is only a few taps per server. But every time I join a new server, I have to remember to do it. If I didn't actively care about notifications from one particular server, I'd just block Discord notifications entirely and stop managing them in their app at all.
Comment · 2 years ago
I use Apple Maps for all of my transit needs, but I still keep Google for business data and lists like this. I don't find the Apple Maps list set-up to be what I want from this kind of feature. I do find it reasonable to keep two maps apps on my home screen, though.
Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 2 years ago
We got a new video system at a work that is a bit beyond my knowledge, but the files it puts out are very big (read the Apple ProRes whitepaper to figure out which option on this system would give us the smallest video files). I've owned Apple's Compressor on my own Mac for years now and never used it, and even it's a bit less intuitive than I'd like.
Comment · 2 years ago
I think the phrase used here quite often is "security through obscurity" when it comes to links. The question is whether people feel comfortable with family photos falling under that principle. They're obviously not meant for public consumption, but the feeling of privacy invasion if a random person stumbled on them is going to vary from person to person. If one was totally comfortable with them being public and has zero reservations about random folks peeking on them, then I'd be surprised if there weren't an even sturdier way to do this publicly (through Flickr or just an open FTP link – but that loses some of the convenience of just an iCloud album for some people).
Comment · 2 years ago
I was unaware there was copypasta on HN. I know this might be generally the sort of post that the site wants to avoid, but the phenomenon of copypasta within a given community still makes my heart smile a little bit.
Comment · 3 years ago
For what it's worth, you can move Markdown -> Typst by way of Pandoc.
Comment · 3 years ago
> 4. It seems very unlikely that the keys would literally be chosen out of a hat. IME of these kinds of exams there's no need for randomness. Students tend to be asked for the less familiar keys because they're less likely to know them well. If someone gets C major and someone else gets Gb major for random reasons it's really not much of a fair test.

Music teacher – the scale portion of our state's band All-State auditions are one by choice, two by random draw (for a total of 3).

Comment · 3 years ago
For the curious:

There’s an API built into Mastodon to save timeline location on your account.

Ivory is planning to support it, doesn’t currently, however it does save timeline location to iCloud, readable by Ivory on your other devices.

No idea if Ice Cubes is planning to implement the native API, or if it’s currently trying to and running into issues.

Comment · 3 years ago
Out of every tool I’ve ever used to make a .docx file from Markdown, Pandoc is the only one that has consistent results with converting Markdown headers to Word styles rather than just a bigger font size. Lots of Markdown tools in my tool belt, and would love to know of any more that can do this, because it’s really useful on the (unfortunate) occasions something needs to live as a Word doc.

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