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by angry_moose 4y ago
The name of the show is 60 Minutes, a popular and generally reputable* US news program. The actual clip is 13 minutes. *Because I know it's coming, yes, they aren't perfect; but considering they've been going 55 years they&#x
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by angry_moose 4y ago
I tried it to a lesser extent (Keyboardio 100) and stuck with it just long enough to determine it would be great if I never used any other computers with a standard keyboard. After 2 weeks I could barely even type on my laptop anymore - I j
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Yeah, it's unfortunate. At best they're still 20 years behind the major players - I started working in Inventor in 05 and Solidworks in 08 and I'd gladly take those out of date versions over current FreeCAD. Its impressive wh
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Yeah, the next step is "Sorry, you're only on Pro. This update is only available for Pro++ subscribers or higher". Creeping monetization always plays out the same way. Ease people in, then squeeze them later.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
How's Rocky coming along? I used to be a RHEL admin and was just more comfortable over there, but after the whole CentOS mess I ended up running Ubuntu LTS at home instead - I just wanted a "set it and forget it" machine so I
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Based on the gofundme, I think an editor replaced "largest" with "first" > Starsailor's engine was first successfully tested in the summer of 2021. The test became a world-record-setting event: the largest rocket
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by angry_moose 4y ago
There's a version of MENACE online that you can train from scratch: https://www.mscroggs.co.uk/menace/ Around the 50th game it starts drawing pretty consistently.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Its analogous to that in a lot of the US but the social pressure remains and is somehow getting worse. Where I live, waiters used to be exempted from the minimum wage laws, meaning tips were effectively their entire wage. Recently, my state
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Is there a way to make it sticky? I have to repress the button on every new article I open.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
I posted this separately, but look into a heated mattress pad too. Its life changing for cold climates. Direct heat into your covers makes it so much cozier.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Heated Mattress Pad. It's like an electric blanket built into your bed, with dual temperature zones and an on/off timer. As someone in a northern climate with a less-than-ideally insulated house its a life changer.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Omnibus Podcast (Ken Jennings and John Roderick) did a good episode about it as well: https://www.omnibusproject.com/340
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Slightly tonque-in-cheek, but: > The main sentiment in your comment which I don't think I've seen addressed in other comments is the fervency of the people attacking the mere notion that Linux is not a viable option...but I&#x2
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by angry_moose 4y ago
My suggestion: The first step is casting on. This gets the first row of stitches on the needle and no matter what you have to start here. There's a ton of variations of it, but this is a nice basic cast-on: https://www.youtu
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Yeah, I think it was something like that. Once I began checking for it, it seemed inconsistent - possibly related to how long the car was off? The joys of modern technology - every time I get in my car, I have to spend 15 seconds checking t
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Forget rain and snow, they can't even handle non-California roads yet. I had the misfortune of taking a rental on narrow mountain roads and it actively attempted to kill us twice. While moving over to pass an oncoming car, the lane kee
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Covered really well in episode 39 of Causality, one of my favorite podcasts: https://engineered.network/causality/episode-39-therac-25/ Each episode focuses on a root cause analysis of a major engineering disaster
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Spotify's recommendation algorithm is weird. I feel like it knows exactly what I do like, but its only able to suggest slightly worse carbon copies of bands I already listen to. Going through my recommendations feels like a bunch of ba
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by angry_moose 4y ago
In a recent past life, I was a HPC (high performance computing) administrator for a mid size company (just barely S&P400) who was in the transportation industry, so I had a lot of interactions with the "data science" team and
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Most coffee grinders have a large bean hopper on top that feed the grinding mechanism, and mine uses a power on timer that can be changed from 5-30 seconds. The grinder processes beans at what seems to be a pretty constant beans/second
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by angry_moose 4y ago
I use a Chemex drip coffee maker and get pretty good results by halving the amount of grounds I use for subsequent cups. No idea about the caffeine content but the taste is not noticeably different. With my grinder, a 12 second grind gives
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by angry_moose 4y ago
"Ask HN: Is HN worth caring about?" is by far the best one I've gotten. "James Webb Telescope Recall" was pretty amusing as well.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Wikipedia uses Semantic Web: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web They really don't even distinguish between Web3/3.0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web3
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by angry_moose 4y ago
Paraphrasing this week's TWiT: Web 1.0 and 2.0 were created by engineers to solve problems. Web 3/3.0 was invented by finance bros to disguise their various scams as the next technology revolution.
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by angry_moose 4y ago
I've long felt that the tech industry is somewhat blinded by decades of Moore's Law and its equivalent in storage, networking, etc. 2-10x improvements are so normal for Silicon Valley that they begin expecting to find them everywh
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by angry_moose 4y ago
I'm in a highly regulated/high consequence-of-failure industry and its often a defense mechanism. A way to contribute without contributing, or a way to provide input without being held accountable for that input. People will endle
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by angry_moose 4y ago
As someone going on 5 years vegetarian: Environmental impact (both carbon and water), animal cruelty/welfare in factory farms, high cost of more sustainable/lower cruelty options, general distaste for most of it
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by angry_moose 4y ago
One of my Grandpa's go-to joke from the 90s: "Before <Grandma> starts making breakfast, can someone check the news and see if we're allowed to eat eggs this week?"