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by 4ad 4y ago
Please don't just post a bunch of links! Try to give a short introduction or explanation on why that person is interesting or otherwise worthy of following. @breakingtaps@universeodon.com: electron microscopy images and hobbyist nano-s
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by 4ad 4y ago
Cars have never been more reliable and safer, however "better" is a woefully underspecified and subjective thing. Things I don't like about modern cars: they all look the same, crappy capacitive controls and touchscreens insi
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by 4ad 4y ago
> that you're writing swathes of people off I have no interest in socializing with religious people, Javascript programmers, gym people, vegans, gamers, modern artists, car enthusiasts, cowboys, cryptocurrency enthusiasts, etc. That
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by 4ad 4y ago
Yes, it works, that is why I don't want it, I am very happy with who I am.
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by 4ad 4y ago
You can build things in life, or you can consume them. You can build a business, a family, a career in sports or arts, whatever it is that interests you and you work towards that goal. Everybody does a little bit of both, some people do one
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by 4ad 4y ago
> Conversations you have in ecstasy often are very profound. Often repeated for all kinds of drugs, MDMA, psychedelics, even marijuana users claim this. But in my experience conversations are universally banal and only seem profound. &gt
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by 4ad 4y ago
Good for her, but now I am even more convinced of my assessment here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34379009
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by 4ad 4y ago
I'm very pro legalization, I think the government should have no say in what people do with their bodies, and I seek new experiences. That being said, by reading what the author said in this article I am so happy I have never done MDMA
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by 4ad 4y ago
I disagree profusely, IKEA cutlery is horrible. The fork tips are dull, the spoons are too shallow and too big, the spoon soup is completely the wrong shape, the handles are extremely unergonomic, the weight is not solid at all, they look
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by 4ad 4y ago
Which one?
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by 4ad 4y ago
> Feather AS D2 double edge razor ($200-$400) Why is this so expensive? My MAG-MR1-V3 was $16.15 and it seems pretty much identical.
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by 4ad 4y ago
> I don't understand why these tools introduce their own syntax and type system rather than being a superset of YML or JSON CUE is a superset of JSON.
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by 4ad 4y ago
> translators to other config languages And from!
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by 4ad 4y ago
One big advantage of CUE being a total language is that you can always evaluate it in very different contexts. Yes, it doesn't matter whether your config is TC or not if all you do with it is configure one single program. If you have a
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by 4ad 4y ago
We are painfully aware of this, we are rewriting and improving the documentation as we speak and we are also working on a new web site.
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by 4ad 4y ago
The CUE command line tool is written in Go, and works on pretty much any operating system and architecture supported by Go, which now includes almost everything[0], so I am not sure how you came to that conclusion. If you want to use CUE as
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by 4ad 4y ago
My main criteria for choosing a place to rent is choosing a place that has a gas stove.
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by 4ad 4y ago
LD_PRELOAD is an ELF thing, macOS has DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES, but it doesn't matter because this security feature is implemented in the dynamic loader itself, which also precludes using DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES anyway.
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by 4ad 4y ago
> Do you think it’s possible for people to learn and change? Yes, if they get actionable advice, which they can understand and follow, which "just be yourself" is not an example of. It's not just useless advice, it's
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by 4ad 4y ago
Those people are just being themselves. What are you are suggesting them to do is precisely doing something else than what they naturally do. There are people naturally good at social interactions and people who are bad at it. People who ar
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by 4ad 4y ago
> just be yourself Unless you suffer from schizofrenia, you can't not be yourself. I am sure you mean well but this often repeated piece of advice is meaningless.
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by 4ad 4y ago
Many christian denominations have issues with depiction of saints. Just because one of them doesn't shows how farcical the whole thing is and how haughty one's church acts over another. Plus the whole catholicism being "the c
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by 4ad 4y ago
I explained down in this thread.
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by 4ad 4y ago
It's not about searching for specific values either. Sometimes you find some unknown value that's not reflected in the out of date or simply wrong datasheet. What does it do? Well, it's quite likely it does something related
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by 4ad 4y ago
Yes, exactly, now you need special tools (you mentioned IDEs) when previously you could have used grep.
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by 4ad 4y ago
When I was doing bare metal programming I was doing this all then time, depending on what I was doing maybe even tens of times an hour. And it's not just source code either, these days even debugging tools print values in this way maki
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by 4ad 4y ago
The problem is not finding where the constants are defined, it's about finding what the code does based on a hardware datasheet, the constants could be in a file, or could be scattered throughout, it doesn't matter at all. You c
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by 4ad 4y ago
You haven't understood the problem at all. No wonder, few people do any sort of bare metal programming. It's not about defining constants, or even writing code at all, it's about figuring out what this arbitrary piece of cod
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by 4ad 4y ago
> Instead of writing 10000500, you can write 10_000_500, or 1_00_00_500 if you’re Indian. I hate this so much. It means I can't grep for a constant.
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by 4ad 4y ago
Don't worry, Capture One will screw you over too! https://www.dpreview.com/news/3164356226/capture-one-perpetu...

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