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by cbanek 6y ago
Github pages is pretty easy if you don't need a custom name.
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As an astronomer, I'm definitely going to remember and use this quote. <3
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(And What It Has to Do With Aliens) Hint: nothing. Why the need to bring aliens into it? I like how this isn't in the topic here, because it's really clickbait. I didn't find one mention of any talk about aliens in the whol
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One thing not mentioned is a lot of high quality indoor grows will actually supplement CO2 into the air from tanks, or less frequently, natural gas burners. (Burners aren't ideal, since they generate heat, which is the major problem i
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by cbanek 6y ago
This is great. I have someone in my meetings to has the bad connection problem all the time. When trying that one out though, if I disabled it, it would only sometimes disable itself (and re-enable audio)?
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by cbanek 6y ago
It's true, I've loved steam for its pretty great linux support. I love that games like RimWorld, Kerbal Space Program, Stellaris, Civ, and other games are playable on my linux machine!
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by cbanek 6y ago
Just a small point, but I feel like the editing has also gotten worse over time as newspapers have gone digital. I see spelling errors, punctuation and other problems in WaPo about once a week, and I don't even read it all.
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by cbanek 6y ago
You have both earned upvotes and my unending love for this wonderful quote I never knew existed. I will be using this, mark my words.
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From personal experience in both, I would say academia is worse, and I think it's due to the lack of choices. Also, when academics are getting paid less, I feel like they gain some of their status by lording their power over other peo
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by cbanek 6y ago
I'm not sure if this counts as #2, but I've hired a number of good people on HN via the monthly job postings. It's a good community, and not even just people who blog.
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by cbanek 6y ago
I remember being at work when we turned off Xbox 1 support for LIVE. We had one last Xbox console and we watched it start to be able to not connect. The end of an era.
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by cbanek 6y ago
Funny enough, I was just looking up transatlantic balloon flights the other day, and the first successful one was long after the first powered flight, which was kind of neat! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Eagle_I
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As someone who worked for SpaceX and Microsoft I think they are more similar than you might think. A lot of the harder persistent problems are things like managing complexity, having a good process, keeping a team running, and keeping an e
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Wow that's really cool - thanks for sharing. This almost makes me want to get a new 3ds! I just have an old one. But I can't think of any other reason to upgrade. These days I'm living on the switch :)
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I wish I could have decent output of a 3DS! I was looking into it and apparently it is really hard and one of the small setups modding them in Japan recently closed down!
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by cbanek 6y ago
I really hope the South Park creators run with this one. The episode about Metallica and Lars fighting Napster is one of my favorites. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Rock_Hard Not a big deal?!?!
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by cbanek 6y ago
They might blame you but that doesn't mean they have any proof that you did anything. If they did, they would likely have already told you, and you'd be arrested. But for sure, don't say anything to anyone at that company a
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by cbanek 6y ago
Using the right tool / pattern for the job, vs rather than hacking at it. Generally simplicity and lack of code I think show a veteran at work.
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by cbanek 6y ago
Please index source code files that are "too large to render". It seems like the indexing misses these files, which are sometimes very long automatically generated stubs, but I still need to figure out where they are defined. Fo
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I was just twiddling my GTK theme for the first time since the 90s the other day. I guess my tweaker gene got activated again. It is really fun though, and getting even more dark mode was worth it!
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by cbanek 6y ago
happypuppy.com (happy puppy games). Used to have all sorts of shareware in the 90s, and free demos. Sadly gone now apparently, but here's a reddit thread discussing it 10 years ago about how someone hadn't thought about it for 1
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by cbanek 6y ago
For me, back when I used to have coworkers that I would see and eat with, we would have the default be tacobell, which was the closest lunchtime option, but terrible. It forced us to travel the town to other options, although I've als
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by cbanek 6y ago
I also wonder if it's different for tax purposes? Not sure if it's considered a loss or a donation at this point, but it's probably good to at least get it off the books if they are shutting down.
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I use this and it's amazing. There's also another visualizer program by the same person to do custom visualizers that works on the RGB stuff in your case, connecting to RGB over a network port. https://gitlab.com/
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Well, I've had to actually worry about radiation bitflips as well. It does happen. But usually not so much on Earth!
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As someone who has had to read thousands of random game crash reports from all over the interwebs (you know when Windows says you might want to send that crash log? like that), I totally agree. Of all the things to be worried about, like O
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by cbanek 6y ago
I'm reminded of the episode of M A S*H where they are exchanging one color of scrip for another [0], and the hijinx [1] that ensues. [0] https://mash.fandom.com/wiki/Change_Day_(TV_series_episode) [1] Triple word
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Stratego is a fun game and easy to program but allows for a lot of different strategies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratego
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I've done this with the Elgato Camlink 4k on linux with a Lumix G7 that has an HDMI output, and it's pretty nice. Sadly there's a bug in the firmware I think that reports a bad colorspace, but there are ways to pass it aroun
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What about power / energy? Some kind of tightly focused long distance laser? I guess this depends on how much interstellar dust (extinction) is between the two places, which would diminish the efficiency. But of course you could may

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