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by a_e_k 4y ago
I always like those as a driver. With a green it lets me know how stale the green is. And with a red it lets me know how long I have before I need to be ready for the green (e.g., do I have enough time for a sip of water while waiting?)
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by a_e_k 4y ago
How about when the IRS announced that they were going to require ID.me and facial recognition? (Admittedly, they seem to have backed off on the facial recognition part, but still...) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=301
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by a_e_k 4y ago
> Similarly, there are all sorts of imbalances in the workplace that are not accounted for, and someone might chafe at. [...] On the other hand, if you don't have "life" chipping away at your productivity and causing you t
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Two branches diverged in a Git repo...
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by a_e_k 4y ago
That region based undo is fantastic and has saved my bacon so many times! I really wish more apps had it, though I shudder to think of the implementation complexity.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Like the GP, I also use undo as a faster delete. The key is that undo in Emacs doesn't just go one keystroke at a time. By default it will basically quash a whole chunk of similar operations and undo/redo them together: > ama
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I've also seen this variant: Why did the multi-threaded chicken cross the road? other side. to the To get
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by a_e_k 4y ago
At the grad school that I went to, senior grad students were offered a chance to move out of the lab and into a private "dissertating office" as they became available. With a couch I could nap on, an incredible window view to gaz
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I have four kids. YMMV, but I've found with mine that six years old seems to be the magic threshold. Developmentally, it seems like at that age a switch suddenly turns on and they start really showing distinct interests, talking flue
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by a_e_k 4y ago
If you want whimsical names though, someone set up a De compiler Explorer at dogbolt.org. Discussed 3mo ago on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32079227
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Thanks for the kind words. To be fair, I did start it years ago, I just spent way too long off-and-on polishing it. :-)
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Show HN: canvas_ity - A tiny, single-header canvas-like 2D rasterizer for C++(github.com)
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Looks to my eye like some 8-bit underflow artifacts that I've seen. And the way the line follows the gradient reminds me of when I've broken a gradient-domain Poisson solver to reconstruct an image from gradients. Maybe they&#x2
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by a_e_k 4y ago
"Individual contributor", i.e., not a manager; a leaf on the org-tree.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
An incbin-like facility is coming to the standard: https://thephd.dev/finally-embed-in-c23
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by a_e_k 4y ago
On that note, I always end up using an HP 48g emulator on my phone as my main calculator app. I've been using Droid48 for many years now [0]. I'd initially looked at most of the native mobile calculator apps before realizing tha
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I think mishearing a word causes an effect that feels something like a mental mispredict leading to a pipeline flush. There's definitely a delay to refill that pipeline.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Could just be the usual abbreviation for Monsieur.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
In my case, that often means that I simply won't engage at all. I usually find myself wondering if now is really the best time to start the trial, or whether I'd be better off saving it for another time. I might need it more late
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Yes, house cats are social animals, but solitary hunters. People often get the later confused with the former.
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I have a neighbor who's a professional opera singer and gives voice lessons. From what I hear, most of his opera colleagues do as well. If you live in a city with an opera company, it might be worth checking with them. (Personally, I
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Bitbucket lost me when they dropped Mercurial support. If I've got to move to Git, anyway, why should I stick with them?
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by a_e_k 4y ago
This seems like it would be well explained by Hotelling's Law [0], which has been discussed here on HN before [1][2]. Harold Hotelling called this (rather on the nose, in fact) back in 1929 [3]: > The tremendous standardisation of
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by a_e_k 4y ago
I'd add having pets around, too. For me, that's looking up from the monitor to watch the kitties romping together (20-20-20 eye rule reminders), taking a short movement break to throw them some toys to chase, and occasionally havi
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by a_e_k 4y ago
So that's why no one will buy my tiger-repelling rock! (It's so effective at keeping the tigers away that no one around here is concerned about tigers.)
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by a_e_k 4y ago
That line reads as though more than 350 books might actually be detrimental. A slightly more detailed explanation from clicking through the link in the article: > The study, led by Dr. Joanna Sikora of Australian National University, fo
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Because a rewrite in the original language never sees improvements like that... <g>
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by a_e_k 4y ago
The way it can start with a crude sketch [0] is pretty cool. [0] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion#image-modificati...
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by a_e_k 4y ago
Nah, the closest possible symlink-analogue of `cp x y` is `cp -s x y` :-)
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by a_e_k 4y ago
> We implemented a heat map, and it was often shocking how much a seemingly innocuous aspect of a material could impact ray counts. Definitely. I think that "you don't know until you profile" applies just as much to optim

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