RattlesnakeJake

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by RattlesnakeJake 9mo ago
Are there any other kind?
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by RattlesnakeJake 9mo ago
Was that a manual truncation? The capitalization of the "gui" part seems automated, though it could be an autocorrect thing
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by RattlesnakeJake 10mo ago
Yeah, that's the one that came to mind. I was surprised at how much negativity surrounded the topic, despite what feels like a general dissatisfaction with the public schools at this time.
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by RattlesnakeJake 10mo ago
Yet when we do this by, say, homeschooling, the HN commentariat piles up hundreds of comments accusing us of child neglect and a lack of concern for society.
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After four years, Postman adds color-coding to environments(github.com)
2 points by RattlesnakeJake 11mo ago|1 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 11mo ago
Four years after the feature was first requested, Postman v11.72.8 has finally introduced the ability to set colors for your environments. For anyone who's accidentally hit the Prod environment when they meant to hit Dev, this is a gam
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by RattlesnakeJake 11mo ago
SpaceX's landing footage has only been decent for the past few years. If I recall, they were able to fix it once Starlink reached a reasonable level of performance. Before that, their sea landings looked about the same as this BO one.
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Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters(devblogs.microsoft.com)
4 points by RattlesnakeJake 11mo ago|0 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 11mo ago
Looks like we hugged it to death
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by RattlesnakeJake 11mo ago
> ...use one of the million speakers in the car to focus on navigation directions while allowing audio content to continue playing on all the other speakers. My previous-gen Kia Sedona does this as well (at least when using the built-in
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Elon Musk on data centers in orbit: "SpaceX will be doing this"(arstechnica.com)
10 points by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago|4 comments
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Google makes first Play Store changes after losing Epic Games antitrust case(arstechnica.com)
7 points by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago|1 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
I just started using Tubular. The built-in SponsorBlock integration is really nice
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
I saw "Bockscar" (the B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki) yesterday in Dayton. It's an interesting feeling to stand by a beautiful, poised, marvelously-engineered mass death machine. It doesn't look scary at a
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
SpaceX only streams on Twitter, for obvious reasons. Because of this, there are always a few channels that rebroadcast their stream to YouTube, with some scammy crypto pitches added in.
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
Entirely unrelated, but the sections, toolbars, and controls in that RenderDoc app are so cleanly separated compared to modern dev tools. I wish more apps still looked like this.
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
> Apple's design has been top-notch But only from the iPhone X to 14, after which the Dynamic Island took over. (I'll see myself out)
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
Loveland Castle outside of Cincinnati has a story like that: https://lovelandcastle.com/
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Apple Watch gets reformulated, non-patent-infringing blood oxygen monitoring(arstechnica.com)
2 points by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago|0 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
Ars does A/B testing on its headlines: Authors submit two versions, and for the first few hours visitors will randomly see either one. Whichever one draws more clicks becomes the permanent headline. Interestingly, the URL remains const
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Perplexity low-balls Google with $34.5B offer for Chrome(arstechnica.com)
21 points by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago|6 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
I cut my Apple-repairing teeth on an iBook G3 that would lose its BGA-soldered GPU if it overheated. The "fix" was to use a heat gun, propane torch (my choice), or even burning alcohol to gently reflow the solder: https:/&#x
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
Is there much about VLC that does change?
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
This is horrendous. I love it.
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
See also: JavaScript frameworks
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
Things like this are why the internet sucks now. No one ever wanted this kind of content for its own sake. The only reason websites even needed to maintain a high output was for SEO purposes. If AI-based engines have rendered that need obso
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
> Does it support GUI apps? Almost! This took us a lot of time and effort, but we finally have basic experimental support for running simple graphical applications. Every stinkin' time.
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by RattlesnakeJake 1y ago
Are all three men wearing individual top hats, or does one cover all of them?
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We won't hire a junior with five years of experience(world.hey.com)
7 points by RattlesnakeJake 2y ago|5 comments
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by RattlesnakeJake 2y ago
I use DuckDuckGo, with the occasional reddit !g appended if I'm looking for something experience-based. For me, searches fall into one of three categories, none of which are a good fit for LLMs: 1. A single business, location, object

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