LordGrey

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by LordGrey 10mo ago
Hilarious: I looked at first two examples on the page, showing a menu and contextual menu, and I saw no problem. Icons? What icons? That's when I realized that, much like advertisements on a web page, my brain had utterly filtered them
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by LordGrey 10mo ago
Original report: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-04/meta-s-zu... > Executives are considering potential budget cuts as high as 30% for the metaverse group next year, which includes the virt
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by LordGrey 10mo ago
This is awesome . I love the format. I will be throwing money at these people. This magazine needs to live and spread its wings.
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by LordGrey 10mo ago
Buckaroo Banzai: You can check your anatomy all you want, and even though there may be normal variation, when it comes right down to it, this far inside the head it all looks the same. No, no, no, don’t tug on that. You never know what it m
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by LordGrey 11mo ago
I had an acquaintance who was a county constable. He once told me, "Let me watch you drive down the road, any road, for 30 seconds and I will be able to find a valid reason to pull you over." He implied that some part of their tra
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Border Patrol is monitoring drivers and detaining those with suspicious patterns(apnews.com)
14 points by LordGrey 11mo ago|0 comments
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by LordGrey 1y ago
Step #5 is very much a "draw the rest of the fucking owl" step.
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Study: Probability of extraterrestrials in the Milky Way low(heise.de)
6 points by LordGrey 1y ago|4 comments
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by LordGrey 1y ago
My wife and I just completed a jigsaw puzzle. Last night, I caught her trying to use her forefinger and thumb to zoom in to the picture on the box.
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by LordGrey 2y ago
I have two border collies at the moment. The older one is definitely food motivated but also ball-motivated. If presented with both, she goes back and forth, undecided as to what she wants first. The younger one is "meh" on food
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by LordGrey 2y ago
I'm in a large org where Copilot is pushed. What I've heard from upper management is that even a very small average productivity gain, multiplied by the number of developers we have, means that we have "saved" x number o
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by LordGrey 2y ago
I really enjoyed his Daemon novel, and I think it would appeal to the HN crowd. Interesting intersection of code and the real world, and it is set more-or-less in the current time. Daemon is the first of a trilogy. The remaining two books a
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by LordGrey 2y ago
INPUT: Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. OUTPUT: Nonsensical gibberish masquerading as profound. +1 Insightful
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by LordGrey 2y ago
My ex-wife was constantly losing nail clippers. My solution was to buy a box of 50 of them and put them everywhere .
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by LordGrey 2y ago
I've been in a couple of meetings like that. Fortunately, the person running the meeting shut down the loquacious people and redirected to the people who followed the rules. That of course was a public reward, so everyone else follow
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by LordGrey 2y ago
Every time I get back to writing something in Common Lisp. It's my favorite language, but it's not what I use in my day job and I rarely have the free time for side projects. But when I do have the time and can craft an elegant d
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by LordGrey 2y ago
> And I've been in meetings and zoom calls where you can't get a word in edgewise until the meeting is over. This often triggers the same reaction in me as when I start to write a reply here on HN, only to delete it without pos
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by LordGrey 2y ago
If I try to concentrate on my breathing I always feel like I'm not getting enough air. If I persist, I honestly start panicking a little bit. Related: I can't snorkel for the same reason, except I panic A LOT.
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by LordGrey 2y ago
My trigger word for semantic satiation is "what" for some reason.
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by LordGrey 2y ago
My understanding is that 25-30% of all credit card customers are deadbeats. I've worked with some fintech companies and that number came up in some discussions. I cannot, however, find a corroborating source.
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by LordGrey 2y ago
> Credit card companies make a decent amount of their money from the interchange fees, but the majority of their income comes from interest, cash advance fees, and penalty fees, all of which the well-off credit card user paying off their
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by LordGrey 2y ago
Both my wife and I did. She went first, and had bifocal lenses inserted. I waited a couple of years and got trifocals instead. I think I've had mine for five years or more by now; I don't remember. My wife went from "can&#
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by LordGrey 2y ago
> Do you think there are relies you should have posted that you did not? I think there are probably times where a reply I deleted would have added value to the conversation. Not always, but perhaps enough. > Would it be a good thing?
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by LordGrey 2y ago
I'm not sure about others here, but I occasionally spend time typing out a long reply to someone and then simply deleting the reply without posting. Most of the time I conclude -- a little too late -- that the effort was not worth it.
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by LordGrey 3y ago
> The ball is just an imaginary object, like an uninitialized variable. As someone who has been coding for 45 years, this is absolutely the best analogy describing aphantasia I've ever read. Obviously, it works only when talking to
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I found homes via Mastadon! I posted what I had, including pictures, and added tags like #vintageapple, #retroapple, and #retrocomputing. YMMV depending on where you live, but I'm sure you will get some positive responses.
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I'm moving in a few weeks and just found new homes for my stash of 30+ year old Macs, CRTs, and LaserWriters. Now I want it all back so I can go play....
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by LordGrey 3y ago
I started using digital payments once I got an Apple Watch. Double-click a button on the side, tap the watch on the reader, I'm done. Very little friction and good security; it is really a no-brainer. Provided the reader accepts App
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by LordGrey 3y ago
If the corporation does not explicitly state that Signal is an acceptable chat tool, but Signal can be successfully used, is the corporation responsible for messages passed by an employee over Signal?
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by LordGrey 3y ago
That page indicates that "Teams (Consumer)" is having an issue, but my enterprise version is also fubar'd. Messages are coming through, but with a 30 minute delay. A person's status is not realtime. Weirdly, I am unabl

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