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reddirecpthoo  ·  3583 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Science Quiz #1 - updated with answer!

Upon second inspection, I also took the flame into consideration. If the flame's length is any indication of how fast its burning, then this is how tall the longer candle will be when the smaller one goes out

reddirecpthoo  ·  3584 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski Science Quiz #1 - updated with answer!

I'm gonna say the smaller one. It has less wax..

reddirecpthoo  ·  3588 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Hubski has been taken over by aliens

Day 3: Hubskians are a clever race. They have started to be suspicious.

reddirecpthoo  ·  3589 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Casual Sex Is Actually Excellent for You.

probably for capitalization's sake

reddirecpthoo  ·  3590 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Some of the music I discovered in the past weeks

thanks. didn't know that existed.

reddirecpthoo  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Ignore users newer than X days: The Problem

Ah, so that's why I can't comment here. I kept thinking whatever did I do to deserve not being able to comment now!?

The whole concept of muting seems a bit flawed, in that a muted user can't comment on the post posted by you. A muted user should only not be able to reply to you in a comment, but not being able to post a comment seems a bit too much power given to the submitter of the post. If anything, restricting someone from commenting on a post should be a collective decision. Like by setting a threshold number of mutes he has received from other users.

I've no strong opinion on time based muting but I think it's more arbitrary than vote based muting.

yeah it works perfect for me, like @Meriadoc above said, slight darkening of the unshared is precisely what was needed. A color-blind option would be super!

reddirecpthoo  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is there a way to make the top bar non-floating?

Adding to the list of style tweaks, if you're colorblind, having trouble distinguishing the hubski share/non-share wheel, you might be benefited by this

        img[class*='point'] {
            background-image: url('http://i.imgur.com/CG7Shda.png');
        }
Another tweak I'm using is a personal preference of font as Arial

        * {
            font-family:'arial' !important;
        }

Couldn't find anything like that for my setup.

But I managed to figure out an alternative. Downloaded the sprite hubski uses, photoshopped it to more my liking, and now I'm using it with Stylus/Stylebot

        img[class*='point'] {
        background-image: url('http://i.imgur.com/CG7Shda.png');
        }
reddirecpthoo  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stephen Hawking: Into A Black Hole

This will probably interest you guys a lot too. It's an hour long lecture so it's technical enough to give great insight yet easy to follow.

reddirecpthoo  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Stephen Hawking: Into A Black Hole

>Things ~can get out of a black hole, both to the outside, and possibly, to another universe. So, if you feel you are in a black hole, don't give up. There's a way out.

Reading that last line I couldn't help but wonder if all his fascination and interest in black holes is deeply rooted in the fact that that's how he actually feels :(

reddirecpthoo  ·  3591 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Test post

It's a .gif, a waving hand smiley.

I was just testing out whether gifs will embed. Not directly it seems, but I uploaded to imgur and linked it with a pseudo ,jpg extension which did the trick. Can you see it?