acrophiliac

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by acrophiliac 2y ago
I see PNG tools and GIF tools, but not JPG tools? Maybe make a more universal image manipulation toolkit and just call it Image Tools?
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
> Once a country has been identified it'd be handy to see their neighbouring countries Yes, this would definitely aid memory by providing context. Remembering shapes in isolation is hard, but if there is context it's much easi
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
"You want that new TCP handshake smell" really got to me.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Oh my gosh, the flashbacks this triggered. It was the audio that did it. Amazing.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Thanks! Got it.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Am I asking too much to request a way to preview the site without establishing an account? A short demo video? Even just screenshots?
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Mistitled, I suggest. It only describes a poor work culture and the author is NOT navigating it and wants to bail. I came here to find tips on how to stay in a poor culture and avoid the worst pitfalls.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
An error occurred: tuple indices must be integers or slices, not str https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks-_Mh1QhMc&list=PLWDUzz3hCD...
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
If you're interested in DEC history and haven't read "The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder, you owe it to yourself to get a copy. A Pulitzer Prize winner and IMO one of the best tech books ever written. It is a ca
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
That sounds cool. I could use that. Care to share your Inspector code?
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
I'm totally with you, bro. Maybe the headline should have been "Solving 100 project Euler problems using a different programming language for each one" but that's probably way too verbose.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
I love coming to HN for titles like this that blow my mind because the only thing that I understand is the verb.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Your comment has me very curious what exactly you are looking for in a "markdown equivalent" for spreadsheets. Do you want Excel to be able to export the spreadsheet in a Markdown-like format (including formulas, etc)? Or do you
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Gee, thanks, I hadn't thought of that. (Seriously, did you read the article?)
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
A quick glance at these comments indicates the majority are excited about Starlink. I must be in the minority. Is anyone else here on HN very unhappy with the prospect of having no place to escape internet access? I love the idea of no-r
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
I built a bot to play my favorite word game on Android. It's not technically against the TOS but certainly against the spirit. It gives me an inordinate amount of satisfaction watching it autonomously playing the game and winning ever
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
I hope the text in the game was spell-checked more thoroughly than that in the promo page.
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by acrophiliac 2y ago
Dear Mr. Stewart, I'm glad that this strategy works for your organization, but personally, this sounds like a terrible idea. It's as if I was a carpenter organizing my tools and instead of wrenches, hammers, and saws I call them
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by acrophiliac 3y ago
While I'm waiting for the packages to download, can you explain how I get tabular output when I run a python application using your package at the command line? Does it produce HTML output? PDF? Your "getting started" docs
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by acrophiliac 3y ago
Me too! I was really looking forward to seeing a summary of so many books. Was expecting to see something like: * life is hard * people can be evil * war is inevitable * everyone is afraid of dying * humans persevere even in the face of i
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by acrophiliac 3y ago
Overuse of the SOS feature for non-emergency situations, and false activations are already taxing Search-and-Rescue organizations. Starlink will make this MUCH worse. (Source: Accidents in North American Mountaineering 2023)
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by acrophiliac 3y ago
This question probably identifies me as a dinosaur, but ... is there a user manual? I didn't see one in the README or on the web site.
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by acrophiliac 4y ago
I agree, as an introvert, I'm pretty happy being alone. But apparently it's a big deal. The former U.S. surgeon general calls it an "epidemic". https://www.vivekmurthy.com/post/2017/10/10
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by acrophiliac 4y ago
Stop eating when you are full. Really. Pay attention to when your body feels sated and don't eat anything beyond that point.
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by acrophiliac 4y ago
Floss. A hygienist told me all my teeth were going to fall out if I didn't start flossing. I started that day and have been religious about it every since. Haven't lost a tooth yet :)
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by acrophiliac 4y ago
Oh, man, does this bring back memories. Mostly good ones. When machines were expensive and programming labor was cheap.
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by acrophiliac 4y ago
Whenever there's a discussion about sorting I like to put in a little reminder about the humble Radix Sort which is often overlooked by academics because it's so simple. It deserves more attention as it is super fast: O(kn). Acad
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by acrophiliac 5y ago
I disagree with the author, who says "My code traded the ability to change requirements for reduced duplication, and it was not a good trade." I think this is a great trade, because the number of times I've seen errors resul
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by acrophiliac 6y ago
Aren't there many applications where Java's BigDecimal is a simple and suitable implementation to avoid many of Float's problems?
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by acrophiliac 6y ago
I would enjoy a "slideshow" or auto-advanced feature that automatically moves to the next window when the video finishes or after some fixed period of time.

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