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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Edit: Check out Dasher for a much better interface to enter text with a cursor, compared to a virtual keyboard. https://dasher.acecentre.net/ , source at https://github.com/dasher-project/dasher --- I
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Maybe so; I don't doubt you're correct, but offhand I can't think of how to do it. If you can see a solution that doesn't require boxing, that could make an interesting blog post, or PR to this crate!
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
It's pretty nice that the `Result<>` and `?` pattern can be used in no-std Rust, without heap allocation.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
What's a good way to manage music where there's not a simple/tidy name for the performer? Are there tools that are good enough at handling metadata, that the structure of the audio files on disk doesn't matter so much?
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
> I’m just part of the peanut gallery Me too. As a Rust user and small-scale evangelist, I find this whole thing a bit interesting and also somewhat sad. At least, it seems like increased awareness, and perhaps sandboxing, of proc macr
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
I believe this was meant to be a link to this pre-RFC [0], HN submission [1]. [0] https://internals.rust-lang.org/t/pre-rfc-sandboxed-determin... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37204013
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
> scientists have finite time, it's valuable, and are just as prone to chasing the new hotness as programmers. Yes, I agree. Scientist time is valuable for at least a couple reasons; science funding is a scarce resource, and traine
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Negative experimental results are valid science, aren't they? If you believe attention is a 0-sum game (I don't, but am trying to understand), why not focus criticism on those people spending time on any number of other pursuits t
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Why criticize? People spend their time and money on pointless pursuits all the time.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
These little boards are great - I'd recommend the isolated version for anything that might be referenced back to ground potential. We have one in an OpenEVSE, it's been ticking along no problems for a couple years now. In that sc
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
I suspect you're in USD and they're in NZD. At the moment, 150NZD = 90USD, 150USD = 250NZD.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
I got my first remote gig (firmware work) through a friend's referral, however that was years before COVID-19. These days I'd suggest looking for a remote-first company. Or, maybe apply for remote gigs that say US-only (assuming
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
> Smart developers are leaving. I'm in Ōtepoti/Dunedin (best city in NZ!), and within my social network most developers work remotely for overseas companies.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
I'm sure that I'm not the only person in this thread, who spent many hours absorbing content from this free resource as a cash-strapped cyclist back in the day, and who now makes enough money in an hour or two to run this site for
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
For those who are unaware, Sheldon Brown died in 2008. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Brown_(bicycle_mechani...
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
+1 Surely just a small handful of folks donating a few bucks through patreon or whatever, could keep the site ticking over with no ads.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Natelson: ...I get nervous that people who know nothing about high-temperature solid-state-materials synthesis are trying to cook this stuff up on their stove. I’m just worried you could hurt yourself. Nyce: “Don’t do it.” Is that your offi
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Hmm, superconducting inductors seem like an audiophile thing. Patent?
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
This paper is by someone from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, who has run some simulations of LK99 and found features that are associated with high temperature superconductors. In the last paragraph before acknowledgements, they poin
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
This approach seems wise, and to an extent I've tried to follow it as well. "Learn from other people's mistakes" - for me this has always seemed natural, and in a sense I've been fortunate to have some good learnin
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Sail powered cargo ships were used until mid-20th century. So, for about 100 years there were both steam and sail powered ships in operation - roughly the amount of time we've had ICE cars. https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Broadly speaking, they are, but Department of Conservation isn't well funded and has bigger pest issues than deer. https://www.doc.govt.nz/nature/pests-and-threats/predator-fr...
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
If you're anywhere near Dunedin, drop me a line ;)
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
There are several Polies here (and folks who've spent time in other cool places - Ross Island, Greenland, Atacama Desert come to mind) and at least some are in tech. My Pole experience is a bit dated, but happy to chat about it. Blog
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
My observation is based on spending over a year in that station, and being close with someone who was a chef there. It really isn't as simple as those "only" statements. There are other uses for freezers than warming stuff u
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Planes like C17 can overfly and airdrop stuff. https://weaknuclearforce.wordpress.com/2013/11/17/up-on-the-...
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
The freezers are in the heated main station, however since the "waste heat" from the generators is put to use it's not as inefficient a system as one might assume. The comical part of the food storage situation is that the st
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
Sorry, no idea.
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
> the only bad thing is that it's hallucinating an answer instead of admitting it doesn't know. Isn't this a fundamental issue?
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by bacon_waffle 3y ago
> * Prostitution was legal. As it is in Aotearoa New Zealand, where lately we also have constant news about shortages of workers in hospitality, tourism, agriculture, etc. https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/06-08-2018&

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