brianpan

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by brianpan 2y ago
I have never thought about the steering wheel buttons on my Tesla as conveniently context sensitive. One person's "context sensitive" is another person's "mode confusion". https://shemesh.larc.nasa.g
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by brianpan 2y ago
Do you measure it in a chair similar to your doctor's office? I thought my couch was similar and I was careful to have my feet flat on the floor. But I "lowered by BP" by 10-15 by moving to the dining room table.
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by brianpan 2y ago
GitHub uses this shortcut, too. (e.g. Option-click to collapse/expand all PR comments.)
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by brianpan 2y ago
I've seen similar for when you are wearing a motorcycle suit. You can search for pee/urination funnel. Apparently, commonly used for camping as well.
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by brianpan 2y ago
His Game Boy Advance was probably out of batteries. Sometimes you gotta make do.
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by brianpan 2y ago
> has made me wonder if laziness is not actually a real thing I think a lot about the insane drive that professional athletes (especially at the highest levels) have and how it's not possible for me to have the same drive. I'm
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by brianpan 2y ago
One of the differences between "general programming" and the kinds of coding that you have done is the /approach/. I'm not sure if that's even the right word, but there's a different set of concerns that a
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by brianpan 2y ago
Not yet.
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by brianpan 2y ago
Choosing the name grep because it is easily recognizable as coming from the command it is inspired by is literally "intentionally designed to be memorable".
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by brianpan 2y ago
I dug a little and apparently Chrome previously used the trust store of the platform but has now transitioned away from that to use their own. https://blog.chromium.org/2022/09/announcing-launch-of-chrom... But ev
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by brianpan 2y ago
It's not entirely about this particular certificate (although this is bad, too). This is about a certificate authority giving someone who is NOT Google, a certificate that can be used to "prove" a server is Google. Accidental
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by brianpan 2y ago
Isn't that show the opposite of the upgrade treadmill? When I buy a new MacBook, it WILL be to make ice cream spreadsheets. Not because M3 is now an M4. (Except for the Intel to M1 transition, I waited for that one.) And when I buy a n
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by brianpan 2y ago
Well, now we know what the logo and the channel name is referencing! (His eye)
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by brianpan 2y ago
Note: If your floor is wobbly- DROP, COVER, and HOLD ON.
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by brianpan 2y ago
For those unaware, Japanese has a word, komorebi, which means "sunlight leaking through trees". https://www.morethantokyo.com/komorebi-japanese-word/
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by brianpan 2y ago
As an introvert who fell quickly into depression at the start of the pandemic, I'm having a very difficult time seeing this comment as anything but gaslighting. EDIT: Instead of trying to persuade you that the pandemic was a bad thing,
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by brianpan 2y ago
As a former hardware engineer, if it can be restored wirelessly or otherwise, it's not a brick yet. Keep trying, you'll get there! ;)
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by brianpan 2y ago
I don't understand this comment on any level. Containers will only ever be on a linux kernel or VM? Never natively on ANY other OS? Only Linux containers exist? Developers were more clueful about containers before Docker made them wild
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by brianpan 2y ago
Surface tension for the win. In the extreme misalignment example they also did not use flux so I guess they were purposefully showing what NOT soldered looks like. They did show how the solder flows in the "too much solder paste"
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by brianpan 2y ago
Is it the async part that's a problem? Or is it that chilling with besties is all we ever really wanted? I was pretty happy with Facebook in 2007 when it was posting pictures and making stupid jokes with my actual friends (not the whol
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by brianpan 2y ago
Being open worked in your case because, as an interviewer, you answered in an open, honest way. The article is about uncovering the truth when the interviewers are being cagey. If there isn't reason to suspect that the truth is being g
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by brianpan 2y ago
The back of the envelope comparison isn't difficult. The energy in different forms are doing the same thing. Doesn't your microwave heat a cup of water in about the same amount of time as a tea kettle? And most tea kettles are big
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by brianpan 2y ago
The San Francisco subway runs off of 5-inch floppy disks. https://sfstandard.com/2023/02/02/sfs-market-street-subway-r... That article links to an (only slightly older) article about British Airways loading n
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by brianpan 2y ago
If the theory of relativity was a person, it would not be old enough to drive or vote in 1930. :) It was an accepted theory, but it was not the wildly successful theory it is today. Showing that a black hole was possible within the theory c
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by brianpan 2y ago
Except that URLs are an API surface and congratulations, now you are supporting an infinite API forever. Vendors change product names, hyperlinks break! Fix bugs or change behavior, hyperlinks break! Do nothing, believe it or not, hyperlink
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by brianpan 2y ago
You're not getting faster service, you're using an additional non-verbal signal. Moving your glass to the edge is how you say, "Please refill my glass." Similarly, if you're in a Chinese restaurant, flip the lid ups
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by brianpan 2y ago
Contact lenses and tap water will do it. From your eye, it can travel to your lungs or brain. https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21560-acantha...
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by brianpan 3y ago
Sabbath includes letting land rest every seven years and forgiving debts every seven years (literally a write-off) so, yes, I think this "write-off principle" with a cute name is the same as the old Sabbath concept. It does bring
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by brianpan 3y ago
People think the USB-A port looks symmetrical. The way I do it is I look inside the connector and note which side the pins are before trying to plug it in 3 times.
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by brianpan 3y ago
Falsehoods programmers believe about names number 30: "There exists an algorithm which transforms names and can be reversed losslessly." https://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/06/17/falsehoods-programmers-..

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