Vivtek

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by Vivtek 6y ago
One note on the article, though - if you're camouflaged in the dessert , that's pretty obscure.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
This is analogous to saying it would be impossible to have an effective federal government if what people say is somehow exempt from their oversight. That would be a giant loophole. Which, true, is in fact an argument often made. Software e
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by Vivtek 6y ago
It seems more accurate to use a name for the party that isn't the actual name of the party?
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Depends on how many teachers you still want to have a year from now.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Even Latin, if you use enough languages with enough diacriticals. Or want to code in APL. Or use Greek letters when typing math.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
In A.I. War (book by Daniel Keys Moran), Trent uses a "custom 240-point Unicode board" to code in SuperLISP, which originally put the idea in my head. I asked Moran about this. He made it up whole cloth. No such keyboard exists. O
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Maybe not for 450 keys (!), but I would dearly love to be able to type all the diacritical marks and at least select Unicode ranges (Cyrillic and Greek). It's been a really low-priority desire (I won't dignify it with "need
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by Vivtek 6y ago
I live in Puerto Rico. Moving from here to the mainland is not a step up in quality of life, I can assure you.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Given HUD still hasn't released the relief funds for Maria in 2017, I'm not holding my breath on any other help coming here. There was an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set in San Juan, though. So now there's something els
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Huh. I live about 40 miles south of it and I always wondered about that.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
This feels like "mathematics pseudocode" and I kind of love it. Indexable math Zettelkasten notes.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
You know what Orbán has in common with, say, Kádár? They were both "democratically" elected.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
"Sending federal agents to help localities is not uncommon." Sending them against the express will of the localities, however, is probably illegal.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
As a 53-year-old Perl developer (my CPAN handle is MICHAEL, I'm that old), I freakin love Vue. I haven't done paid work with Perl since the 90's. Now I'm glad I haven't. I use it for my private work because it does
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by Vivtek 6y ago
That's classic subconscious fear of failure. Just do something stupid that goes in the right direction. Do it this weekend. You know you want to.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Yes, that lesson took very firmly.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
It was pretty cool in its broken state, too, with a rhythmic spark occurring inside the handle (which houses the electronics). But I wanted to kill mosquitoes. Our house in Ponce was built for air conditioning - without power it was misera
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by Vivtek 6y ago
If the spark literally jumps across between the leads of the resistor before the capacitor charges fully, it is bad design, and not a standard feature. Once I insulated around it so it could do what it was supposed to do, the zapper worked
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by Vivtek 6y ago
When Hurricane Maria hit us in 2017, we lost power for two weeks (we were extremely lucky in that - we were among the first 4% of the island to regain power due to our proximity to a hospital). During those two weeks, my entire lifestyle
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by Vivtek 6y ago
All my real-life achievements were just shit that happened. Honestly, my most grounding achievement, one that feels more real than anything else I've done, is that I got hit by a hurricane and, lacking resources and available contracto
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by Vivtek 6y ago
I've worked remotely since 1996, living in rural Indiana, Budapest, and Puerto Rico. Now I live on a farm in the mountains of Puerto Rico and all my questionable life decisions have culminated in a very, very tolerable quarantine. So,
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by Vivtek 6y ago
I drew loops and it congratulated me on my boring picture of a paperclip.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Also anything not memorable has been lost. There's a selection bias. Why are so many old houses built so well? It's not just because craftsmanship was better. It's because the ones not built so well didn't get old. (I
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by Vivtek 6y ago
The District of Columbia is not a state, and yet is included.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
I did, before I commented here.
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by Vivtek 6y ago
Another COVID tracker that leaves Puerto Rico out of the United States. I don't even know why I'm still surprised.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Yes, props to @tcrowe for telling the rude people they're a bunch of shit-covered foreigners who should shut up. Real civic-mindedness on display there. Mad props.
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by Vivtek 7y ago
My wife has a school friend who is schizophrenic. She tried - hard - to get her some help, but "getting help" maps onto "suppressing what reality I think I can perceive" really fast. Her friend was already terrified of
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by Vivtek 7y ago
Oh man, you have made my world that much better today. Thank you. Good coffee, and Winamp 2.95 back on my machine at long last. What more could I possibly want?
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by Vivtek 7y ago
That's a pretty neat site (Wikiotics, I mean - wikibabel appears to go to multiple places).

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