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FARR - Launch Your Apps and Find Your Files QuicklyI had been using launchy as my preferred program launcher for quite some time, until I found FARR... There are plenty of options and functionality offered by FARR to satisfy all. If you are a diligent tweaker, you have loads of options to play with and customize according to your taste. If you are an average user, use the default options and you are good to go. The large plugin list and an involved community provide the icing on the FARR Cake!
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Interesting read: Apple is really bad at designThe “notch” on the new iPhone X is not just strange, interesting, or even odd — it is bad. It is bad design, and as a result, bad for the user experience...Plenty has been written about the mind-numbing, face-palming, irritating stupidity of the notch. And yet, I can’t stop thinking about it. I would love to say that this awful design compromise is an anomaly for Apple. But it would be more accurate to describe it as the norm. https://theoutline.c...really-bad-at-design posted by mouser
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Timestamp Clamper - for hammering file/folder timestamps into a reasonable rangeDC member apankrat writes:
Hi fellas, Long time, no post. I thought I'd show a little weekend hack of mine - This is a tool for when you need to replicate files from A to B, but some files have timestamps so far in the past or in the future that they aren't supported by the B's file system. Think, for example, copying from NTFS to FAT and looking at a file that somehow got created in the early 17th century. No, don't look at me. It turns out to be a common issue with the photographer kind as older cameras did weird things with timestamps. Like leaving them at all zeroes, which translated to whatever the earliest date/time supported by the storage file system was. So there's lots of photos around dating back to Jan 01, 1970 and some such. In any case:
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Long thought-provoking essay on programmingLong thought-provoking essay on programming Victor wanted something more immediate. “If you have a process in time,” he said, referring to Mario’s path through the level, “and you want to see changes immediately, you have to map time to space.” He hit a button that showed not just where Mario was right now, but where he would be at every moment in the future: a curve of shadow Marios stretching off into the far distance. What’s more, this projected path was reactive: When Victor changed the game’s parameters, now controlled by a quick drag of the mouse, the path’s shape changed. It was like having a god’s-eye view of the game. The whole problem had been reduced to playing with different parameters, as if adjusting levels on a stereo receiver, until you got Mario to thread the needle. With the right interface, it was almost as if you weren’t working with code at all; you were manipulating the game’s behavior directly. https://www.theatlan...ld-from-code/540393/ |
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Micro Reviews of Board Games From a Non-Competetive Perspective - Fabled FruitIt's been a while since I posted to this thread -- I'll try to do better. Today's mini-review of a board game is for a card game called "Fabled Fruit": https://boardgamegee.../203427/fabled-fruit I've played this game with my serious board gamer friends, my 12 year old niece, and my mom, and they all loved it. It plays from 2-5 and all player counts are good. The basic rules are quite simple, you lay out 6 piles of cards and on each turn a player choose which card to visit, either performing the unique special action specified on the card, or paying the "cost" on the card in with different kinds of fruit mini-cards and claiming it. First player to claim a certain number of cards wins. What makes the game quite unique and special, is that the game comes with 70+ different cards, and as you play the game over the course of multiple sessions/days/weeks/month, old cards are removed from play and new ones are revealed. So the game is introducing new elements each time you play it, but the rules only change a tiny bit each time. It's wonderfully entertaining to adjust your gameplay to the new changes that come each time you play it. Highly highly recommended for all variety of gaming personalities. |
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SafeBrowse chrome extension hides a cpu draining trojanSafeBrowse, a Chrome extension with more than 140,000 users, contains an embedded JavaScript library in the extension's code that mines for the Monero cryptocurrency using users' computers and without getting their consent. The additional code drives CPU usage through the roof, making users' computers sluggish and hard to use. https://slashdot.org...cryptocurrency-miner https://www.bleeping...hat-drains-your-cpu/ |
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