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by alexjm 4y ago
There's a video with sound in their GitHub repository's README. It sounds sort of like three short bursts of sound, with the second one warbling between a couple pitches. https://github.com/uw-x/watercomms D
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by alexjm 4y ago
Small savings accounts at your local post office used to be a thing in the US, back in the days when banks mostly catered to wealthy urban customers, and seems to have done elsewhere too: < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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by alexjm 4y ago
If you have a decent photo of the side of the key, you can make a pretty good guess at the bitting code, which is essentially the instructions for making a copy. Here's an example of the process: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by alexjm 5y ago
I used the book "The Italic Way to Beautiful Handwriting" by Fred Eager. The italic method, in contrast to printing or cursive, seemed to have enough connected letters to write quickly, but without insisting on connecting everyth
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by alexjm 6y ago
I've found ProxyJump to be a bit simpler than ProxyCommand -- it might be a newer feature. For example, my SSH config has two entries to connect to my grandfather's laptop through a Raspberry Pi that acts as the jump host: Ho
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by alexjm 6y ago
The process for Apple hardware to find and start EFI is described in the "Booting from an Apple File System Partition" section on page 22 of this document. Basically, the EFI image is read from a special block on disk. https:&#x
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by alexjm 6y ago
This sort of stock ticker uses a small metal wheel that continuously rotates from letter to letter, with an electric mechanism to print the letter that's currently in position. That makes it very slow compared to teletypewriters -- yo
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by alexjm 6y ago
I think I've seen some older content where the convention was reversed like this. Wikipedia's article on slashed zero claims that IBM and some other mainframes put their slash on the letter O instead of the number 0. However, in
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by alexjm 6y ago
Not to be confused with https://podcastle.org/ , which is a podcast of fantasy short stories.
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by alexjm 6y ago
It also says it was uploaded to YouTube in 2013. Typical video resolutions were lower back then.
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by alexjm 6y ago
You can reduce the delay by setting ttimeoutlen, the time in milliseconds between an escape key being pressed (or jk etc. that are mapped to Esc) and exiting Insert mode. I have it set to 100.
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by alexjm 6y ago
True and handy. However, Esc and ^C don't have exactly the same behavior -- from the documentation: <Esc> or CTRL-[ End insert or Replace mode, go back to Normal mode. Finish abbreviation. CTRL-C Quit insert mode, go back to Nor
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by alexjm 6y ago
Sign language in the US forms a sort of dialect continuum. At one end is ASL, which its own language as you said, although with some influence from English). On the opposite end are things like Signed Exact English that reproduce English v
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by alexjm 6y ago
That's Deseret, an alternate alphabet for English. According to a converter, it says: > I like writing in this text, it looks cool. Works different than standard old Latin alphabet, but at the same time formed* from the Latin alpha
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by alexjm 6y ago
NPR has a full text-only version of their site. Here's this article there: https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=156737801 The "sId" parameter on text.npr.com matches the penultimate part of the www.npr.com URL.
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by alexjm 6y ago
One thing I do on a laptop keyboard is remap Caps Lock to Control to make that easier to type. It's in System Preferences > Keyboard > Modifier Keys. On an external keyboard, I don't remap because I have a Control key in bo
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by alexjm 7y ago
Yes, that's the In-Reply-To header. It contains the unique message identifier from the Message-ID field of the email you're replying to. See also https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc822 sections 4.6.1 and 4.6.2
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by alexjm 7y ago
A couple years ago, I was designing an XML schema. The document was a mix of the formal schema and English prose explaining each element. I used a pre-commit hook that extracted the RelaxNG schema and confirmed that it was well-formed, wh
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by alexjm 7y ago
Older APL programs used a 2D layout to show control flow, which probably worked well in handwriting but not so well once APL started being used as a programming language, rather than as a notation for specifying a program to be written. Th
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by alexjm 7y ago
I wonder how well the pay-to-post mechanic helps mitigate spam, trolling, and other misbehavior. Does anyone know of modern systems that work in a similar way?
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by alexjm 7y ago
Very rarely. The only place I notice a difference is if the last letter I type is a j, the cursor 'hesitates' for a moment because Vim is watching for a k. The advantage I found of jk over jj is that, in normal mode, jk is a no-o
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by alexjm 7y ago
It looks like this is a limitation because Git stores dates as seconds after the Unix epoch (1970-01-01). The underlying file format allows storing negative numbers, which would represent dates before the epoch, but most toolchains don&#x2
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by alexjm 7y ago
Trying to make it active requires moving the key information to the end of the sentence: "The time you spent in training last year entitles you to jump pay [for that time]." Although style guides like this one usually advise again
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by alexjm 7y ago
What about this archived version? https://web.archive.org/web/20190803003025/https://www.sun-s...
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by alexjm 7y ago
The ^T command is actually still around in Unix/Linux, but only when the program is reading input using canonical/cooked/non-raw mode. That's pretty uncommon these days, since input tends to be wrapped in readline or si
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by alexjm 7y ago
Yak shaving usually refers to work that you started doing because you needed it while working on your actual problem, but the work isn't directly related to that problem's solution. Here's a more detailed discussion: http:&#
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by alexjm 7y ago
It's part of opaque types, which are new in Swift 5.1 https://docs.swift.org/swift-book/LanguageGuide/OpaqueTypes....
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by alexjm 7y ago
I was surprised by that too. The original/linked YouTube video's description says that the sound was added, not restored: "A collection of high quality remastered prints from the dawn of film taken in Belle Époque-era Paris,
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by alexjm 8y ago
I learned this term from a 2012 blog post, which summarized a (now deleted) Stack Overflow question: https://blog.codinghorror.com/new-programming-jargon/ My other favorite from that list is "baklava code" --