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by LVB 2y ago
While in Army basic training, my duffel got swapped with another guy's (no idea whose). Back at the barracks, I discovered that they'd snagged some spent shells from the range. Massive no-no. Young, naive me assumed that presentin
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by LVB 2y ago
Bizarre, eh? Same thing above, too. Maybe some glitchy app. idk
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by LVB 2y ago
Good call. It turned out to be React Developer Tools causing the issues.
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by LVB 2y ago
This site works surprisingly poorly in Firefox (Mac). When I click a link, I usually get a blank page along with some CSP errors and have to refresh. No problems in Safari or Chrome.
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by LVB 2y ago
It also was a zip description for a short while, at least among a few large midwest BBS’s, until FILE_ID.DIZ won out.
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by LVB 2y ago
I also recall DESCRIPT.ION files back in the day.
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by LVB 2y ago
I get the huckster vibe he described as that was my impression long ago when I’d see it advertised all over, hear Steve speak, etc. I did in fact buy Spinrite once when my HDD was pretty well screwed. It didn’t improve things, but credit wh
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by LVB 2y ago
Not buy, but I print out a 2-month "calendar" (just the current + next month) every month. I love scribbling on it, drawing arrows, x-ing stuff out, colors, whatever. I do 2 months since near the end of the month, stuff will bleed
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by LVB 2y ago
Similar state, ended up with Netlify CMS (now the weirdly-named https://decapcms.org ). Still just my repo and static page build process, but I get a basic GUI to make and edit pages.
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by LVB 2y ago
Was there some particular event (new release, announcement, etc.) that has prompted the ton of Laravel references I'm seeing on X and elsewhere very recently?
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by LVB 2y ago
Yet when it comes to kids being able to communicate at a distance, I think we’ve lost something. My son (12) is quite fascinated when I explain how the old landline approach used to work. That there wasn’t really an age limit, that you coul
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by LVB 2y ago
I get where you're coming from, though it has me neither excited nor scared. I think interests will just get pushed around a bit, and I feel like we still inherently crave human-created things in one way or another. For example, it use
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by LVB 2y ago
I think we’re slowly getting there, right? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082
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by LVB 2y ago
I learned of this site recently and have become addicted to it. I haven't used much of this math in 25 years, but now I've got kids who are getting into more challenging stuff, asking for my help, and this site is a great way for
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Alcumus – Adaptive Math Problems(artofproblemsolving.com)
3 points by LVB 2y ago|1 comments
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by LVB 2y ago
I'm still trying to interpret the recommendations regarding security and this new v2 option. The blog post makes statements like, "For secrets, we need something different." and then goes into detail about cryptographic rando
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by LVB 2y ago
I'm just browsing the site now. Did you purchase their books, courses, other?
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by LVB 2y ago
Yeah, meant only as a sample. I mainly mean leaving the really introductory stuff behind. My emphasis now is ~middleschool.
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by LVB 2y ago
Quite the variety of problems, really. I'm seeing them work on word problems, graphing, geometry, etc. The best resource I've found is https://www.math-aids.com . It's pretty close to the mark, actually, but some
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Ask HN: Good sources of math exercises for ~10-17 y/o?
47 points by LVB 2y ago|42 comments
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by LVB 2y ago
That’s what I figured, too, and then I joined Truth Social to that a peek behind that curtain. It really is just all pro Trump people posting pro Trump stuff and upvoting everyone else’s stuff. There’s little discussion, debate, or internet
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by LVB 2y ago
There is a gradient only a few years long with the end point being they can do whatever they want, basically. Based on chats with other parents who have older kids, I think the model will transition to ever more access, with more severe con
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by LVB 2y ago
I have a 12 and 10 y/o. Neither has a phone, but both have access to plenty of approved apps (games, etc.) via their iPads, and now also group chats via iMessage where we can choose read everything (we spot check) and know the contacts
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by LVB 2y ago
>and frankly nobody uses them Random stat from my Oregon county (pop. 600k) library collective of 16 local libraries: 2023 saw 10.8M items checked out, up 4% from 2022
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by LVB 2y ago
I suspect that relatively few people, even on this site, could build a background file sync application for iOS very easily.
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by LVB 2y ago
Sprinkle in climate change, and you'll be down to 5! I may be grading them too critically at this point, but in recent years, it feels like that XKCD about Wikipedia and how all roads lead to "Philosophy." Sometimes, I'l
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by LVB 2y ago
A deorbit of 3T of ISS cargo is significant, and there was a decent amount of press in fairly mainstream news sites leading up to the re-entry. It doesn't seem that unlikely that he, or someone he knows, had heard about it and connecte
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by LVB 3y ago
Mega thread that has been discussing this for a year: https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/incremental-compilation-exp...
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by LVB 3y ago
Here is their stance on that: https://docs.shorebird.dev/faq#does-shorebird-comply-with-ap... I'm very interested in this tech but have never used it. From the FAQ it seems like that while they need to deliver a compli
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by LVB 3y ago
>to account for slow network Or a slow anything else, e.g., SQLite queries. This thread has focused on the network aspects, and they do stand out since there can be such a large gap between a network call vs a local SSD read. But we&#x27

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