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by acomjean 1y ago
Ill agree, for me the value add of a local bookstore is they curate the books to some extent. I’ve gotten a fair number of “recommended books” and they’ve generally been good (I tend not to trust Amazon reviews, and they own goodreads now
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by acomjean 2y ago
I use Emacs when I’m code editing (especially when sshing). I love it but. The problem with emacs and vim to my mind is they are hard to configure. Like I’ve edited a .eMacs file but it’s in some lisp and adding plug ins isn’t intuitive.
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by acomjean 2y ago
I’d argue “Good enough” is different when you’re selling to someone a life critical system.
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by acomjean 2y ago
What were these contracts for? Networking or day to day software/application maintenance? I get they were probably bloated (I did work for a defense contractor at one point) but presumably they were doing something. I mean isn’t Deloi
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by acomjean 2y ago
It doesn’t really surprise me, but I’m not sure it changes how I feel about it. My family were huge Garfield fans growing up and had a bunch of the books (one in German). The side characters were fun Odie, Lyman, the overly adorable kitte
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by acomjean 2y ago
P values are common in science for those that don’t know. It measures what the odds are something you observe would happen in just a random sample. Or something like that. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-value http
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by acomjean 2y ago
I mean its a bad example, but not the only example of obtuse puzzles in games preventing forward progress in game. Dead ends and not being able to finish if messed up a previous steps were real problems. This was a bigger issue when the i
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by acomjean 2y ago
I think you are right. Multicast is typically udp and only available on your local net if the router is configured for it. I haven't used multicast in along so I might be wrong. I remember network updates breaking it. https:/&
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by acomjean 2y ago
They were more beige terminals. For us it was just reviewing material, tests were fill in the dot..(scantron)
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by acomjean 2y ago
They did show Mitchell delivering a frogger(?) arcade machine so a senior could practice for a tournament, which was nice. I think it was an extra in the dvd. Billy to my mind is a bit annoying but he’s a mild “villain” in the documentary.
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by acomjean 2y ago
In the 90s we had the "Plato" system for chemistry. It was a question/answer terminal in the library. Our Chemistry TA advised us to use it to study for exams as it had a lot of sample questions. It was really good becaus
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by acomjean 2y ago
They seem to get away with it. The fact the did it to a lawyer preciously. If they had to pay millions in damages for this nonsense, this would stop. The fact that the “security” team is going through online images to feed into there faci
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by acomjean 2y ago
I think the main issue is that authors published books with the intention of human not machine consumption. Nobody though to put a contract in a book saying "human consumption only, not to be used to Train AI". Meta pirated the
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by acomjean 2y ago
They made a video of it moving parts around. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8UaiRgqvlc Its not particularly fun watch though, so there youtube revenue takes a hit.
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by acomjean 2y ago
It might be related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406393 I too had the impression people here love asahi Linux. But as the comment said those negative posts tend to disappear. I’m not fully onboard (I don’t ha
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by acomjean 2y ago
Gun violence is very very rare. I’m in the northeast and there is very little gun culture here. A post doc college who came from Germany said his coworkers thought he was crazy coming to such a dangerous country, but after being here he r
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by acomjean 2y ago
I saw them last year live for the first time in over 20 years. I was surprised tickets were available and weren’t totally ridiculous. We used to go see them a lot in the 90s. A friend was in the fan club and would always get a bunch of new
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by acomjean 2y ago
It’s still there and still very good. Our non profits web host has an install and it’s pretty good at browsing/ searching / dumping the tables. Dbeaver is my stand alone app of choice. It’s Java based but has some nice features
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by acomjean 2y ago
That was a scam used for betting. Call this phone number for your free “lock”. Half got team a, half team b. They did it twice then asked those who were winning and kept calling to pay for the next prediction.
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by acomjean 2y ago
I used it to create some art. I created image layers using p5.js and combined those 5 images using the previous version. I found the layering system pretty obvious, with the opacity and merging very straight forward. I used to be pretty
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by acomjean 2y ago
The 90s were a bit crazy. Primus, faith no more, Dee lite all in heavy rotation on mtv. Umass spring concerts included phish, beastie boys, bostones one year, Dylan and the Wailers (without Bob Marley) the previous. I worked security for P
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by acomjean 2y ago
Flowers By Irene. https://frinkiac.com/caption/S03E04/719740
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by acomjean 2y ago
Canon being late to the AF party (last century). They ended up with all electronic contacts when they switched lens mounts for the “eos” series cameras though at the expense of not having backward compatable lenses. (I had a bunch of manua
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by acomjean 2y ago
Open the "see more" link to get a pretty robust list and links .
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by acomjean 2y ago
My brother had some beavers move back into the stream near his house. I’m sure he’d happily ship them over to the UK. Knowing they’ll be more next year means he’d probably give you an annual subscription. He doesn’t really hate the beaver
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by acomjean 2y ago
I don’t think there are any fanless x86 but I had a system76 pangolin for work. It was quite well built (I bought the next gen one for myself). They OEM the notebooks though, so the quality is decent (I’m coming from a 2015 Mac book, pret
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by acomjean 2y ago
When we’re both plugged in and my process finishes 10 minutes faster, it says something. Also the gp post specifically was about performance and specifically not efficiency. I could get 7+ hours from my work Linux laptops battery and I don
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by acomjean 2y ago
I’m an American and not offended in the least. It is simplified (color vs the obviously incorrect UK variant colour). Gray va grey. y’all is a great addition to the Simplified English. Despite being told long ago by a drunk English visiting
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by acomjean 2y ago
I ran some bioinformatics pipelines on an AMD pangolin notebook. Its was faster than the apple M2 (I think it was an M2 or M3) notebook my work neighbor had. My machine had more RAM, but still for workloads that use the extra cores it ma
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by acomjean 2y ago
I don’t love the scroll back on tmux. I found I was often using it with emacs in one window and a shell in another. On the ocations where I needed huge scroll back I would use emacs in both and would M-X shell and have a whole output buf

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