NelsonMinar

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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Well, some breaking news at least. The kind that's flattering to a certain political mindset.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I'm sorry you didn't understand my perfectly clear colloquial description of the spread of a language family.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
That was the part that leapt out to me in the article. A touch-and-go caused the plane software to become uncontrollable? I know fly by wire is a necessity for this kind of aircraft but the damn thing better work right.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I can recommend the new book Proto: How One Ancient Language Went Global, by Laura Spinney. It's an overview of what we know about Proto Indo-European and its spread across the world. Much of the book is evidence from linguistics but i
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Android's ability to run binaries outside of the Google Play Store is a key differentiator of their product vs. Apple's. Or at least it used to be.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I've made good use of unusual C0 characters like U+001E (Record Separator). I think it makes sense to exclude them from documents but they can be useful in text data streams.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
¡Nyah!
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I paid $475 for an AxiDraw V3 (A4 size) in 2021. I'm not saying the new machines are bad value, they seem very nicely built. But it's definitely less of an impulse purchase at $1000.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
JetPens has been an invaluable resource for learning about and buying pens. Their blog is great: https://www.jetpens.com/blog
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
AxiDraw from Evil Mad Scientist was what a lot of us were buying a few years ago. He's now part of Bantam Tools and is making a thing called the NextDraw. Same design but better built and a lot more expensive. https://bantam
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I love plotter art and have dabbled a bit myself. The really fun part is how pen-on-paper is not completely reliable or a perfect line. You get a little texture if the pen skips. You can use watercolor pens that bleed. You can get crazy wit
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I've always wondered if the acrobatic exams require repeating the same wrong answer. Obviously planes can't fly upside down.
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IIRC I was required to regurgitate this wrong answer to pass my FAA pilot exam.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
This is ignoring the natural fact that we have 8 bit bytes because programmers have 8 fingers.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Still in active development, or at least maintenance. https://github.com/andreas-kupries/critcl/commits/master/
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
This article notes that "nobody actually enforces these expiry dates". So this is another way that secure boot is proven to be nowhere as secure as it claims to be. Coupled with LogoFAIL and most hardware shipping with insecure de
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
"Maru is built on the latest Android Oreo." That's Android 8.0, from 2017.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
I use this all the time and it does work very well. You do have to update it (manually) on occasion though, sometimes it can break things if you don't.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Offline Wikipedia is so powerful! I've been carrying a copy of Kiwix on my phone when travelling for years (and before that, earlier systems). Has anyone done an experiment of using RAG to make it easy to query Wikipedia with an LLM?
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Every time someone posts this article someone smugly says "it's a tool for knitting" and then everyone speculates and points to folks saying it's not a tool for knitting.
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Well, start here with the article being discussed. They made a product decision to allow fake reviewers to trash books before they are even released.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Is this a new thing in iOS? In Android we've had the ability to choose which kinds of notifications an app can send us for years now. It doesn't work very well though. The list of notification types is per-app, many apps just have
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Goodreads is a case study in the natural monopoly of social networks. The product has been terrible for years now, with Amazon investing the bare minimum to keep it online and one slight design change every few years. But competitors like T
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Starship was the first time I meaningfully changed my shell prompt in nearly 30 years.
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
This reminds me of the time I ran an NTP pool server, then withdrew it. The IP address kept getting NTP requests for months . It was no big deal, NTP is a lightweight protocol, but it was a reminder that IP addresses keep reputations for a
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
It's the anamorphic lenses. It's become something of a look recently so I think of it partly as a deliberate stylistic choice. But also an accident of a particular lens geometry. They just don't mind it. Shogun did this too,
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by NelsonMinar 1y ago
Yeah Fry's was pretty awful.
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Arguably our tastes evolved or adapted to enjoy the flavors of fermentation. And it's not universal: a lot of people don't like the smell of cheese, or natto, or even cucumber pickles. I love them all!
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Fermentation is such wonderful technology. It both preserves and makes things more delicious.
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That works pretty well except for gaming. A lot of games detect if they are running in a VM and refuse to let you play, as an anti-cheat measure.

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