TomMasz

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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   Organic chemistry is amazingly complex. A slight difference in temperature or pH and a chemical turns from a pain killer to a brain tissue destroyer. Not a place for amateurs.
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   I live in Rochester (East of Buffalo) and my house is next to the canal. I ride the canal path on my bike regularly and caught sight of the barge on Monday as it was heading West. You don't see much commercial traffic on the canal the
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   I watch a lot of true crime programs and the polygraph is mostly used as justification to harass innocent people. The police consider the refusal to take it as a tacit admittance of guilt, despite the fact it can't be used in court. It
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   I try to make sure my pre-ride meals and in-ride fueling and hydration are adequate after I faded badly on my first 100K ride but this is more than one step beyond. I'm sure I could do better but it wouldn't have the effort vs. re
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   That's unfortunate. I've got a personal project that I'm working on at the moment that mixes Python and R and I'm too far in now to make starting over from scratch viable.
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   There is still room for a bit of whimsy in computing. Anything to combat the flood of doom is welcome.
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   The lead photo doesn't give you a good impression of the size of the thing, he saves that for the end.
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   I love that these sorts of things exist. If I had the room and the time I would buy one without hesitation, but I have neither.
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   by TomMasz 2y ago

   All these have been mentioned but I can't live without them: - Rectangle - Hazel - iStat Menus - Homebrew - iTerm2 Some others: - One Thing, puts a single task/note/etc. in your menu bar - Übersicht, desktop widgets (uses Rea
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I used OS-9 on a 68K system when I worked for a telecom company. It was a great OS. The one thing I remember loving was typing `cd ...` to go up to the parent's parent directory. I still find myself typing it in bash and being disappoi
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    Who designs an elevator (lift) with no floor buttons on the inside? The description of them having to go back to the lobby and start over when they selected the wrong floor seems like something that would happen pretty often.
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I download a lot of FLAC recordings of taper-friendly bands and Mp3tag is indispensable. I wish it could easily read the info.txt files that usually accompany the recording and assign track names but that is about it.
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    My (pardon the pun) goto utility back in my C programming days.
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    This is a potential problem in any country where people can get away with illegally obtaining wild animals as "pets". They're cute and manageable when they're young but the time will come when they're full-grown and
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I've been playing with this on and off for a couple of years. If you remember early HyperCard, this will push all your nostalgia buttons. But it's good for more than that and it's really worth taking a look at for new work.
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I'm not a mechanic by any means but I can change tires and lube the chain, the two most common tasks. But modern derailleurs and disc brakes I'm happy to have a pro work on.
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I use jam bands like Phish as background. No danger of hearing something I might start singing to, just music.
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I started with a Palm V, then a Zire 72, then finally a Treo 700p. Everything just worked and Graffiti was remarkably easy to use (its replacement wasn't). But ultimately, the Treo couldn't keep up with the iPhone and (later) Andr
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    by TomMasz 2y ago

    I totally lack the patience to be able to deal with sending a command and having to wait 2 days to see the result. Everything about this is awe-inspiring for me.
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    Her background in judo always seemed to me like an adequate explanation for her tendency to get the fight on the ground as quickly as possible. I didn't really think of concussions as something that would happen in judo. I wish her the
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    I've tried running OPENSTEP 4.0 in VirtualBox (on MacOS) and the mouse performance really jerky, even on the slowest speed. I ran this version and it was pretty much the same thing, even with 3.3. Is this typical?
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    Whoa, major nostalgia moment. I had, if I recall correctly, the 50-in-1 version. I remember having to replace a transistor and making new connecting wires. I ended up as a software engineer but I know how to read a schematic, solder, and do
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    I respect the enormous power of these springs and leave them to the pros.
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    I recall the brouhaha that erupted around Sun's move from a BSD foundation to System V. I've always felt it was a downgrade.
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    This is the major reason I sold my motorcycle this past summer. It's bad enough that drivers have a hard time seeing motorcycles, multiple in-car distractions just make it worse. It was fun while it lasted. I don't ride my bicycle
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    In related news, Yahoo is slashing Engadget staff: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/22/24080215/engadget-layoffs...
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    My wife works as an aid for elderly people and a fall is frequently the kick-off event for their death. Older folks often have a reduced sense of thirst and hunger, even when they're not experiencing dementia, and that can lead to ligh
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    Rochester, NY (where I live) had a bridge over the Genesee River that had buildings on both sides well into the 20th century. They were finally removed in the 1960s(!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Street_Bridge_(R
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    If you had a relative who fought in the war but never talked about it this article may explain why. Yes, we saved Europe from fascist domination but there was nothing particularly noble about it. And it's beginning to seem like we lear
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    by TomMasz 3y ago

    I was wondering why the photos looked like so poorly compressed.