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by aasasd 5y ago
Yeah, the ‘DreamWorks face’ is strong with this one: https://filmschoolrejects.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/dre... Though exhibited more as some kind of a confused smirk. Which is of course also ubiqui
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by aasasd 5y ago
That's called ‘constrained writing’ in general, and there are lots of different approaches and examples of it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constrained_writing
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by aasasd 5y ago
I see you haven't yet caught the coding version of that. E.g. http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oopscode.c (From http://people.idsia.ch/~juergen/oops.html )
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by aasasd 5y ago
Ah yes, the famed clarity and readability of C, where people are so entrenched in the belief that the compiler limits identifiers to seven characters or whatever, and in the aversion to typing out a single word in full, that they still buil
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by aasasd 5y ago
I keep wondering what it is that makes C programmers especially antisocial and obnoxious. Is it like in that joke: Father calls his small son to him, pours a shot of vodka and tells him to drink it. The son drinks, then makes a face and sa
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by aasasd 5y ago
As I discovered in practice, it seems to be a trend with authors of such small-size software to also forgo any kind of documentation: what options are supported by specific commands, what behaviours they exhibit (which sometimes differs bet
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by aasasd 5y ago
A bit different, but IIRC some seeds spread by passing through birds' digestive tract—which sidesteps the bird's decisions on the luggage. However, I'd guess the distance travelled is much shorter in this case.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Thanks! Didn't expect this much info, but then I looked into your profile, which explained things. BTW, perhaps this could be of interest in regard to this topic: I previously was able to use Tasker to remap headphones' control bu
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by aasasd 5y ago
Annoyingly and kinda undermining this use of Archive.is, it doesn't allow me to put its pages into Wallabag, the self-hosted read-later app.
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by aasasd 5y ago
I guess you mean holding the gamepad with both hands and staring at the screen, in the usual gaming manner. But, you see, as a keyboard worker I (partly) go for walks precisely to give the shoulders and the neck some workout and stretching—
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by aasasd 5y ago
Magic stuff indeed, I didn't see that vid before—gotta rectify this with her other videos. Personally I only used recognition with photos a couple times, to identify some things. Now, that right there is a power user of the feature. Ho
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by aasasd 5y ago
By the way, besides the wacky keyboard blind people also have another, erhm, ‘perk’ in their use of phones: they, pretty obviously, keep the brightness at zero. Gonna last a long time on a charge. I keep thinking occasionally that some thin
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by aasasd 5y ago
Yep—I'm a bit of an interface junkie myself, and I get an unscratchable itch whenever I hear how Iphones have some magic haptics where I could grope the screen in search of the buttons and actually feel them, or something like that. Es
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by aasasd 5y ago
Possibly this demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wueLXCbm_KY
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by aasasd 5y ago
A demonstration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wueLXCbm_KY
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by aasasd 5y ago
Well, I for one can't read the article other than in the private mode, because the site says it's time to register.
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by aasasd 5y ago
There's already the ‘past’ link.
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by aasasd 5y ago
It seems that this upload gets the pages wrong, but there's a rescan that is right. Compare: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1982-08/page/n303/... and https://archive.org/d
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by aasasd 5y ago
It's said elsewhere in the thread that Kandel wrote his own poems. Likewise, for example, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ is best in those translations that don't try to be literal but are done by witty translators.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Two Lems for the price of one! What could be better? One serious and the other basically telling SF folk stories, mocking other SF and inventing possible worlds, like Vonnegut did with his Kilgore Trout. Also ‘The Cyberiad’ with Trurl and K
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by aasasd 5y ago
> deadly force encounters can be catastrophic for police officers Oy vey.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Thanks!
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by aasasd 5y ago
Is there a name for this technique, or a thorough description of it somewhere? So that I could put it in my bookmarks & notes.
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by aasasd 5y ago
> and block you You mean like Roskomnadzor has already tried to do to Telegram, and failed?
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by aasasd 5y ago
> a bunch of little hobby websites that probably don't earn any money but provide extremely valuable services. They'll probably just disappear one day when the owner gets bored or dies. I mean, that's exactly The Small W
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by aasasd 5y ago
Well, I can't even see the website from my browser.
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by aasasd 5y ago
Le Corbusier had the solutions long ago.
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by aasasd 5y ago
https://archive.is/qBBF3 The original article is deleted for some reason, though.
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by aasasd 5y ago
How and why is that different from a client being in the room? I'm pretty sure that neither desktop, nor especially phone clients are supposed to take gigabytes of mem to listen to chats.
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by aasasd 5y ago
My problem with informational videos on YouTube is that the majority of what I see in search results is ten minutes or less, often like two-three minutes. So if I want somewhat more information than ‘I wonder what is that thing anyway’, I

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