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by chris_st 5y ago
Personally, I found 'Perfect Blue' to be a remarkably unpleasant movie... really well done, but ugh. If you haven't seen it, I recommend seeing 'Millennium Actress' and/or 'Paprika' first, and then if
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by chris_st 5y ago
We had a water heater installed a few years ago, that along with a heat exchanger heats the house, so it comes with a thermostat. Salesman tells me in glowing terms about the WiFi-enabled thermostat they're "giving" me, to wh
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by chris_st 5y ago
I'm a fan of Sakura[0] for this purpose. About the same size, different design choices. It hasa recently-added dark version, which can do the OS-choice switch without javascript. [0] https://oxal.org/projects/sakur
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by chris_st 5y ago
_Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain_ is fantastic. Helped me enormously when I learned to draw. I'd encourage you to do the exercise in order, and spend some time with each one, and then draw a lot between them, trying to integrate
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by chris_st 5y ago
Indeed. I've built a few applications recently, and their Bubbletea and Lipgloss libraries are just wonderful to use.
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by chris_st 5y ago
I think it will make you appreciate how much Python does for you, and (particularly if you try to do anything large) how many more bug-types are possible in C.
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by chris_st 5y ago
I'd really rather recommend Nim [1] for performance-intensive apps. Its syntax resembles Python, it is far and away safer, but it complies (via generating C) to a full binary, and the resulting binary is very fast. Don't let the f
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by chris_st 5y ago
I interviewed with a company once who taught me to give the people interviewing you as much rope as possible, by which I mean ask them to tell you about the company, and then ask them to expand on what they said, and then ask them to expand
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by chris_st 5y ago
I use a light terminal color scheme, and was really pleased that when I tried the `ssh git.charm.sh` it gave me nice, usable colors on my background.
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by chris_st 5y ago
Oops... I guess I should have written "...another technical writer".
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by chris_st 5y ago
This isn't really a content-free comment -- you've let us know that you all are not sitting on your hands. Have you thought of hiring a technical writer? Think of it as a work-stealing algorithm if that helps :-)
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by chris_st 5y ago
> New Lego, get off my lawn. Indeed. My grandson has a ton of lego, and the "old" stuff (you know, brick-shaped bricks) is all used in his various creations. So when we go to play together, he has a bin of "available&quo
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by chris_st 5y ago
So how do you pronounce "gill"?
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by chris_st 5y ago
Arrow keys move you left and right, space bar fires. I'd check the original (?) mentioned here in another comment.
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by chris_st 5y ago
I'm curious how you keep the results up to date -- found a similar thing (without an API), and found lots of wrong results as services add and drop movies.
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by chris_st 5y ago
Yeah, I understand that feeling. I guess I sort of viewed it as a nerd just way too excited about something they think is cool...
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by chris_st 5y ago
Point of comparison -- I can open the hood of my Prius, and would need for various fluids, but everything else is covered by a plastic cover that warns of the high voltage bits underneath.
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by chris_st 5y ago
> "zero down; only $xxx per month on a two year contract, then get a new one." Volvo did exactly this for one of their small SUVs (an inch or so shorter than my Prius, but a couple inches taller, about the same width). It was
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by chris_st 5y ago
I have recently read through the book, "Feeling Good" by David Burns, which is regarded as one of the better books on CBT. It helped me a lot, in particular in dealing with thoughts something like what the OP's partner appare
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by chris_st 5y ago
But... but... but... we HAVE to use C, it's the only language that's fast enough! /s
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by chris_st 5y ago
Absolutely true, and a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone here!
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by chris_st 5y ago
> * My comments are not ambiguously worded. They are made concise so my point can't be missed* "It is impossible to speak in such a way that it cannot be misinterpreted." -- Karl Popper
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by chris_st 5y ago
Be careful doing tempera, though... I was told by an art teacher that a lot of the powder pigments are pretty poisonous, you really don't want to breath them in.
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by chris_st 5y ago
It's a database-backed app, so it's just a marker in the database. I understand the cold-start thing about the "diary" feature, but I think it'd be nice to have a list you could look back on of everything you'v
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by chris_st 5y ago
Sorry, no, not at the moment. It wasn't a big deal to write.
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by chris_st 5y ago
Good luck -- looks nice! I had the "What do I make for dinner?" conundrum too, and wound up making my own web app to address that. The main thing for me was that I couldn't think of any recipes, other than ones I'd alrea
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by chris_st 5y ago
Thanks! I was reading this on my computer, though; I did that, and chose Google Translate, and they translate it as "Gullible Tourist", so I think it's likely an idiom.
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by chris_st 5y ago
Tried taking a picture of this, and using iOS 15's "Live Text" to recognize the characters and translate them. It translates this phrase as "Lightly believe tourists". Anyone care to comment on whether that's a
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by chris_st 5y ago
They've got an "official" Disney logo adjacent to the words. We were in the next table at the cafeteria (remember when that wasn't a scary concept?), big guy, big shirt, big letters. Nothing creepy!
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by chris_st 5y ago
We were there a few years back, and I saw someone with a T-Shirt that proclaimed, in large letters: Most expensive day ever Looked closely, and to my (lack of) surprise, it was an official Disney product.

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