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541.
by afandian 3y ago
"250 billion chips" I wonder how many of those are buried in landfill now.
542.
by afandian 3y ago
Are they allowed all the requisites for 2 factor?
543.
by afandian 3y ago
Kotlin has this feature (`try` and `if` are expressions not statements), and a good model for return values. https://kotlinlang.org/docs/exceptions.html#exception-classe...
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by afandian 3y ago
I had a couple of Newtons. And now a ReMarkable tablet. I’ve often thought that if it ran the Newton software it would be perfect(ish).
545.
by afandian 3y ago
This may or may not have been described by Zipf's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zipf%27s_law
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by afandian 3y ago
I love the Programmer view in the macOS calculator. Being able to type in hex, flip binary digits. I've needed it a handful of times ever, but it's nice to know it's there. For a long time I wanted a real one, with a bank of
547.
by afandian 3y ago
That dithering, combined with the quantized palette, is extraordinarily evocative of that era.
548.
by afandian 3y ago
In case anyone else was curious to see Roland music equipment in that video, it's an AR-3000 Digital Announcement Recorder. https://www.roland.com/uk/products/ar-3000/
549.
by afandian 3y ago
Here you go. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)
550.
by afandian 3y ago
From the 'long' in the title I was expecing this to be more like 200 years not 20 years. There's good form for this kind of literature. https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/28169/what-is-th...
551.
by afandian 3y ago
It makes up for all of the "your browser is outdated" banners I see when using Firefox.
552.
by afandian 3y ago
One day Google may well flag your sure as lower security, refuse to let you show ads, or disappear you from search results.
553.
by afandian 3y ago
IMHO emotional maturity is learning to accept these feelings in one’s self, sit with them, and reflect on them. Not make them go away. Just saying yes as a parent doesn’t help them learn to cope with it. Rather a close similarity to GP’s po
554.
by afandian 3y ago
Quicktime screen recorder! Then count the frames with ffmpeg. https://superuser.com/questions/542989/getting-the-video-fra...
555.
by afandian 3y ago
I love Inkscape but for as long as I can remember it's always been laggy on a Mac. IIRC at one point there was a disclaimer on the website that the Mac version wasn't well maintained. I'm running Inkscape 1.1 on an M1 Pro. I
556.
by afandian 3y ago
o18y = "observability" to save you a click.
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by afandian 3y ago
I have a dead-tree copy of the JVM Specification. I'm never going to need it, but it's a fascinating read and stands up well as a book. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jvms/se17/jvms17.pdf
558.
by afandian 3y ago
The book "JavaScript: The Definitive Guide" had a server-side component since I think the first edition in 1996.
559.
by afandian 3y ago
Au contraire. Post on twitter and, if you've got enough social capital, you'll get fast-tracked.
560.
by afandian 3y ago
Just cos I was curious and Java has a pretty good comprehensive library. - PNG: https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/14/docs/api/java.desk... - HMAC - https://docs.oracle.com/
561.
by afandian 3y ago
Why couldn’t you leave the birds to nest?
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by afandian 3y ago
I thought it was excellent. A good critique of the loops people get stuck in, but also very funny. And the comic timing was on the nose. I feel like the humour is quintessentially British (I doubt Harold Shipman is well known on the other
563.
by afandian 3y ago
I enjoy closing the lid at the end of the day and leaving work behind. Separate user accounts doesn’t cut it. With WFH it’s tempting enough to spend too much time “at work”.
564.
by afandian 3y ago
Based on GP, sounds like you had a lucky escape!
565.
by afandian 3y ago
I've got a Watchy. It's a fun toy. Within an hour of opening the box I'd recompiled the code to remove a couple icons. Very cool, and the eink looks really nice. It doesn't have a lot of features, but you could give it
566.
by afandian 3y ago
That tight, opinionated integration of hardware and software sounds a lot like 'mainframe'.
567.
by afandian 3y ago
It could be inflammation making the joints unhappy. You could do worse than get some blood tests done for CRP.
568.
by afandian 3y ago
If there’s no written menu available what’s the other option?
569.
by afandian 3y ago
I’ve had a couple of great laptops off eBay that were clearly from a leased fleet. Could be worse, waste wise.
570.
by afandian 3y ago
That doesn't sound very humane. When you employ someone FTE (vs contract), you employ the whole person, not a machine in a factory. People have good days, people have bad days. Some tasks get unexpectedly complex. Sometimes you need to

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