chanz's comments

Thank you for your reply. Is there a roadmap of what you work on?

Thanks, I was not aware of this.

Thanks for sharing this really looks cool. But there are some things that make me hesitate using it:

1. Maxmind: Since I don't know the company and it seems its only providing the geoip-database, my question is: Can it be disabled or left out at all?

2. Java: Its my personal preference to avoid using oracle products at all cost. Is openjdk an alternative?

3. Is the geo-graphical visualization all Pfelk can do? Is there a feature list or demo?

Right now there is 'only' a chrome extension that I know of that just scans for zero-length-characters: https://github.com/chpmrc/zero-width-chrome-extension

For Firefox there is this extension that does search and replace based on regex (so you need to create the rule by yourself). https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/foxreplace/?src=...

Apply an autoload rule with these settings:

  Name: zero length replacement
  HTML: Output only
  URL: <entering no url matches all sites>
  Replace: (\uFEFF|\u200B|\u200C)
  Type: Regular expression
  With: <span style="background-color:#F00 !important">&#x1f633;</span>

Yes I saw that too and we posted in the same minute! :-)

Why does the recipe contain zero length characters? Like described here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16754987

Screenshot taken with addon: https://i.imgur.com/rgG0tMb.png Screenshot taken without addon: https://i.imgur.com/BV3sxqP.png

The zero length character is also at the end of the title in this hacker news entry.

You can use this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/foxreplace/?src=...

Apply an autoload rule with these settings:

  Name: zero length replacement
  HTML: Output only
  URL: <entering no url matches all sites>
  Replace: (\uFEFF|\u200B|\u200C)
  Type: Regular expression
  With: <span style="background-color:#F00 !important">&#x1f633;</span>

You can use this addon: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/foxreplace/?src=...

Apply an autoload rule with these settings:

  Name: zero length replacement
  HTML: Output only
  URL: <entering no url matches all sites>
  Replace: (\uFEFF|\u200B|\u200C)
  Type: Regular expression
  With: <span style="background-color:#F00 !important">&#x1f633;</span>

In my case, it helps to stick to habits. Habits that are device, cloths and location specific.

The biggest one is probably my computer at home. It only exists for gaming. When I'm inside my gaming room to enjoy a gaming session, nothing else gets close to me and I forget about everything as soon I step into this room.

Another thing is, that I have cloths to relax, to go out and to go to work. As soon I change into my plain white shirt with collar, my brain probably switches to work mode.

The third is similar to the first habit. Going to work and being there is also a 'swtich' and I can concentrate.

I was a freelancer too and I had a hard time to work at home. My computer was always just a room away and just going in there for a 'short' gaming session was too easy.

So basically this is my advice: Go and buy a different computer than the one for gaming, shower in the morning and change into your business attire. Leave the house and go somewhere boring and quiet. The last part is the hardest since everything gets interesting depending on how much you have to overcome your habit. Your brain tries to fill your enjoyable habits with new enjoyable habits, instead of the 'boring' work. This is probably why so many smoke - it creates a enjoyable habit of doing 'nothing', which is better than working.

I hope this helps a bit. :-)

If there is just one toilet, then yes those scenarios are the worst case to the idea.

So if a toilet needs a queue, then the first in-first out method should be used to prevent someone from bumping the queue and prevent over excessive wait times for someone who can't pay.

Also if they want to pay for the toilet, they can always pay for who is in front of them.

To enforce such rules is always a problem, but so are all rules in our society.

Maybe a good solution for those who can't pay is to make them pay by time. As example I don't want to wait so I pay as example one euro/dollar. Someone who can't pay, just waits 3-5 minutes or pushes a button 50 times. Sounds stupid, but this could work in my opinion. Anyone who has enough money can afford to pay, but is less likely to mess with a button or wait 5 mins. A homeless on the other hand, could at least wait instead of being denied the access at all.