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lycos commented on My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020) jeffhuang.com/productivit... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi

miladyincontrol · 8 days ago

Gonna be honest, my productivity app once upon a time was unsaved sublime text documents

lycos · 8 days ago

For me it often still is.. at least when I'm working alone on something / no collaboration needed. Every time I try something else I revert back to this, although sometimes I do save the files, eventually.

lycos commented on Bring true randomness to Spotify with Fisher-Yates shuffle github.com/vuciv/true-ran... · Posted by u/Elliott-Diy

dehrmann · 3 months ago

I can't seem to find the blog post, but you generally don't want true randomness because you don't want artists to cluster. You also almost never hear two songs by the same artist play consecutively on the radio.

lycos · 3 months ago

Always reminds me of the time Apple introduces "Smart Shuffle" in iTunes in 2005 which "which lets the user change the “randomness” of shuffled songs".

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2005/09/07Apple-Introduces-iT...

lycos commented on Whats your max wpm in typing? · Posted by u/KeyboardGamer

lycos · a year ago

If I check on monkeytype it's around 130wpm but as others have said it really depends on what you are typing.

(for what it's worth I learned to touch type on an old typewriter decades ago, however my wpm was much slower then as the typewriter would lock up if I typed too fast)

lycos commented on A MiniGolf game for Palm OS ctrl-c.club/~captain/post... · Posted by u/capitain

nanna · a year ago

Is there an app store for palm is, or somewhere you can browse different apps at least?

lycos · a year ago

Back in the day I think most people got their apps from the PalmGear website (https://web.archive.org/web/20010331040533/http://palmgear.c...) and sync it to their Palm device via HotSync (later Palm Desktop)

lycos commented on Cancer rates are rising in young people scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

el_benhameen · a year ago

Thank you for sharing. What caused you to finally look into it?

lycos · a year ago

I had a very mild pain on and off again that I assumed would go away and waited with going to the GP way too long.

lycos commented on Cancer rates are rising in young people scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

lycos · a year ago

Yeah if possible get screened and when in doubt about something in/on your body please get it checked. I also had to suffer through chemo this year because of metastasis – had I checked sooner I might've gotten away by just having the surgery and no chemo. Last chemo was two months ago, still have side effects, mostly neuropathy. Compared to other patients I shared rooms with I still consider myself lucky but definitely an experience you want to try and avoid (unless you need it, of course). Now hoping my next CT is clean.

I can't comment on causes as I'm not a doctor, in my case all the known causes did not apply to me.

lycos commented on Server Mono: A Typeface Inspired by Typewriters, Apple's SF Mono, and CLIs servermono.com/... · Posted by u/yankcrime

lycos · a year ago

I can't put my finger on it but I don't find this enjoyable to read at all.. so I don't know much about readability claims here. Maybe I'm an outlier.

lycos commented on Dear Europe, please wake up klinger.io/posts/eu-acc... · Posted by u/sideway

marcinzm · 2 years ago

This misses the big one: California bans non-competes, bans anti-moonlighting clauses and lets you quit with no notice. If you’re at an EU company and need to give 3+ months notice to quit that will discourage starting your own company on the side.

lycos · 2 years ago

I have never seen a 3+ month notice to quit in the country I live, curious which country this happens in? Sounds extremely ridiculous if true

lycos commented on Palm OS and the devices that ran it arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

lycos · 2 years ago

I loved Palm since my first, the IIIe SE and have had many of their other later devices too. I was even invited to the launch party of the Zire 71 with it's cool slide out mechanism! Oh and the Tungsten|T when it could finally play MP3s was very neat, and another sliding mechanism making it more compact. Ah memories, well back to my non-distinctive slab of glass.

I was also interested in the Sony CLIÉ's running PalmOS but never tried one. And of course the Psion's also seemed really cool but never landed its way in my hands.

lycos commented on Most dating apps sell and share users' personal data foundation.mozilla.org/en... · Posted by u/skilled

lycos · 2 years ago

I care a lot about my privacy and this was one of the main reasons I didn't want to use dating apps. But I also didn't want to stay alone and meeting people in meat space (maybe I shouldn't have called it that) also didn't work for me, so I did end up using one of these apps. Luckily it worked and I clicked delete as soon as possible.

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