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Give FlowLauncher[0] or Windows Powertoys Run[1] a shot.

There are some amazing tools like that (and Everything[2], which replaces Windows' inferior search) that really change how one interacts with Windows.

There are other tricks like putting scripts or shortcuts or executables in a directory referenced by your PATH variable, which can make the Win+R trick better too.

[0] https://www.flowlauncher.com/ [1] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/run [2] https://www.voidtools.com/

Ah, that's a bummer. I found it invaluable in conjunction ordering from a warehouse type store like Costco, followed by batch cooking and refrigerating or freezing things so I have low effort meals throughout the week.

Also, sheet pan meals are an incredibly low effort way to eat pretty healthy.

That's where instacart comes in.
Re:The Most Important Coding Habits on Saturday July 22, 2023 @03:25PM (#36829013)
Stuart McGill recommends periodically standing and stretching your arms over your head a couple times. You can see the motion demonstrated here: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bcbuhePZZj0&t=459s

He also recommended doing the cat-cow from yoga, and there's a set of exercises referred to as the McGill big 3.

I've seen some positive references to the McKenzie method book, Treat Your Own Back. I haven't tried it specifically, but had good luck with their equivalent book for neck treatment.

Re:Now Is the Perfect Time for an RSS Renaissance on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @01:41AM (#16910137)
There're various freemium RSS services that cropped up after Google Reader shut down.

https://zapier.com/blog/best-rss-feed-reader-apps/ lists a few.

> In a gaming environment where no two matches are ever the same, you can't go off of rehearsed actions because they won't work in all scenarios.

Even with routine muscle-memory tasks like combos in fighting games, "tournament nerves" are blamed for errors.

Re:Extra Technical Obstacles for Facebook Quitters on Thursday April 05, 2018 @08:04PM (#16769912)
Time Warner didn't respect the choice to not disclose a reason. They went in circles a few times, instead of dropping the question and advancing the script.
Re:Airbnb is putting AMP at the core of its digital strategy on Wednesday February 21, 2018 @12:45AM (#16427166)
There's enough animosity out there to spread around between AMP and other centralizing forces. Calling one out doesn't implicitly give the others a pass.

Facebook (especially Instant Articles and video rehosting[0]) is awful for very similar reasons.

What's pernicious about AMP & co. is seizure of control and immense abuse potential that comes with preventing visitors from hitting content creators' domains.

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[0] http://splitsider.com/2018/02/how-facebook-is-killing-comedy...

> The major one is that instead of manually checking pages one at a time, Checkbot lets you easily test 1,000s of pages in a few minutes to root out issues you'd normally miss.

ScreamingFrog does this too, but it's still nice that your work is out there to add to the suite.

- A regex blacklist for URL structure would be very helpful.

- Acceptable title length seems a bit short. 70 characters seems closer to what we're allowed today than the old 60 (per http://www.bigleap.com/blog/5-tips-take-advantage-googles-ne...).

Might also be worth segmenting URLs with query parameters in them into a low priority batch to check later (or skip).

(E.g., when spidering a WordPress site, the crawler wastes time on .../article/?replytocom=* URLs. URL filtering solves this, somewhat, but it might require multiple passes to identify all of the problematic query strings.)

Re:Jakarta Is Sinking So Fast, It Could End Up Underwater on Saturday December 23, 2017 @07:05PM (#15997084)
Kind of a violation of the burden of proof.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)

Re:The Problem of Colour on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @05:16AM (#15913312)
The choice of colors in some medieval rainbow depictions was interesting, too.

> For it is of four colours, and takes its appearance from all of the elements into itself. From the sky it draws the fiery colour, from the waters purple, from the air white, and from the earth it gathers black.

Source: https://forthewynnblog.wordpress.com/2017/11/20/how-many-col...

The implication is that the Koch brothers gain power or favors by undermining Time's selection process, making Trump PotY. Whether it's because Trump wants to be PotY or because it boosts the right wing are open to interpretation.

I am not endorsing the OP's statement, just trying to clarify.

Re:Ciao, Chrome: Firefox Quantum Is the Browser Built for 2017 on Saturday November 25, 2017 @02:09PM (#15777375)
> and user_pref("taskbar.grouping.useprofile", true) so that I get separate icons in my taskbar for each profile

Thanks for bringing this up. It was bothering me.

Here are specific instructions on how to do this, for the curious: https://superuser.com/a/1050664

And in case anyone's curious about changing the icons of the different profiles in the taskbar, there's this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/24398229

Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Sunday November 19, 2017 @05:58PM (#15736433)
In case anyone comes back and sees this thread, instructions for launching different profiles simultaneously can be found here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_...
Re:How Firefox Got Fast Again on Monday November 13, 2017 @05:05PM (#15690704)
> 3. Firefox also has completely separate profiles, in addition to container tabs. The UI isn't as polished as in Chrome, but it works: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...

Chrome allows users to simultaneously run multiple profile instances, each with it own profile. Firefox didn't seem to support that.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account... (or a similar addon) might bring me back to using Firefox.

With Chrome, one set up a profile shortcut to a given profile, and then all tabs/windows within the instance corresponded to the same profile. This meant hitting Ctrl+T to open new tabs, rather than having to click and dig through a menu to pick the right profile.

I'd like the containers addon to support easy shortcuts. Maybe on hitting ctrl+t, one can then press 1-5 (or some other selector) to determine which profile the new tab opens in. Alternatively, more safely and less confusingly, just having windows sticky to a specific profile, so all new tabs predictably open into the same profile.

Re:New Zealand to ban foreigners from buying existing houses on Thursday October 26, 2017 @10:20PM (#15565156)
Lower property values and potential influx of people from a different social class.

The parent post may've meant to imply race.

Re:Questions to ask in interviews on Saturday October 14, 2017 @12:34AM (#15470785)
Which problems arise due to homogeneity?
Re:Make Mark Zuckerberg Testify on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:47PM (#15221060)
I'd prefer someone less complicit in establishing the surveillance state.
Re:Why CSP matters I: Keeping things in sync (2016) on Sunday August 27, 2017 @09:12PM (#15113800)
Saw "CSP" and immediately thought of constraint satisfaction problems [0].

Unfortunate acronym.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_satisfaction_proble...

Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments on Saturday August 12, 2017 @11:31PM (#15001337)
You can achieve something similar to bang shortcuts by adding different search engines to your browser of choice and setting short keywords for them.

E.g., in Chrome: Settings > manage search engines > find Wikipedia > change the shortcut to "w."

Re:Perspective: Google API that detects toxic comments on Saturday August 12, 2017 @05:44PM (#15000169)
There are alternatives, service-by-service.

Try startpage or duckduckgo for search. (The prior is essentially a proxy for Google).

Fastmail or protonmail to get away from GMail. One of the hard things about avoiding Google in email is that even if you switch, others you communicate are likely still there, so Google's still getting that information.

Re:Companies play around with their origin stories on Friday August 11, 2017 @06:16PM (#14994799)
Pass the URL to outline.com for the full article without ads. Result: https://outline.com/BS9jX2
Mind linking to some of the compelling evidence against CBT?
Re:Uber Founder Travis Kalanick Resigns as C.E.O. on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:52AM (#14602062)
> Uber's only differentiator in well-organised urban markets is its app.

Lower cost is also a factor, relative to local taxis.

Re:Tanzania bans newspaper for 2 years on Saturday June 17, 2017 @04:59PM (#14577728)
"Song" can also refer to the act of singing, so the second one still read ambiguously to me.
etherael doesn't appear to be supporting the logical clout of that type of argument, but rather commenting on its ubiquity in modern public discourse and success in driving policy.

E.g., "think of the children," "if we don't X, the terrorists win," or "we must censor the Internet or undermine crypto, because it enables Y."

Find anything better than Gnome-Do for it on Linux?

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