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by cnasc 5y ago
> she said the #1 predictor of a bed opening up on their ward was a family member coming in and telling their sick relative that it was, "Okay to let go". Wouldn’t that be because people are unlikely to say that except in the m
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by cnasc 5y ago
If you use an iPhone and you send a regular SMS, the messages appear as green bubbles. iMessages appear as blue bubbles
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by cnasc 5y ago
You’re running through a list of functions, the lisp example has a list of _function calls_ (which are not evaluated until necessary). Consider how your approach would have to change if each of those functions takes different parameters.
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by cnasc 5y ago
I’ve experimented with this a few times. I find at least some degree of color and style differentiation helps (e.g., comments, string constants). For this I liked the Tao themes for emacs. It was completely fine. I moved back to various col
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by cnasc 5y ago
My company installs uBlock on all laptops by default
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by cnasc 5y ago
Got a pair of fresh turkeys from a nearby farm, brined in advance, put them in the smoker. Delicious juicy turkey, not at all like the typical dry turkey I had while growing up.
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by cnasc 5y ago
You’ll have to forgive me for being skeptical that these 3 obscure sources that you needed a search engine to find were common knowledge among regular Joes in Massachusetts during the Great Depression
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by cnasc 5y ago
Counterpoint: people back then saw people chain-smoke cigarettes all day long with no apparent ill effect.
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by cnasc 5y ago
> For instance there is no need for a 5nm power management chip But like what if you did it anyway? I remember pondering this while looking at some guitar pedal schematics. A lot of them use ICs that are basically ancient. Do newer proce
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by cnasc 5y ago
An alternate universe where Closure Compiler became the preferred way to build JS projects would be interesting. Clojurescript made that choice, though in retrospect it kind of seems like they backed the wrong horse.
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by cnasc 5y ago
I’ll second the recommendation for Racing the Beam. Highly engaging, just technical enough, and a fascinating window into the gaming world a few (console) generations before my time
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by cnasc 5y ago
> Most cities [citation needed]
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by cnasc 5y ago
I spent a lot of time playing with Kyle’s Quest on my Visor
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by cnasc 5y ago
IMO Sega’s problem was started by having a confusing lineup of too many products. Then they fumbled the US Saturn launch and faced stiffer competition than before. Then the Dreamcast was a victim of the PS2 _also_ being a DVD player, which
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by cnasc 5y ago
> Now what we really need is a functional dialect which compiles to TypeScript... Why would it be beneficial to have TS as an intermediate representation? It turns into JS anyway, and there are already statically typed functional languag
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by cnasc 5y ago
http://friendlyorangeglow.com/ was amazing! Made me wish I'd been around to experience it.
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by cnasc 5y ago
I absolutely love the ethos behind Cuis Smalltalk[1]. It’s something I try to keep in mind when working on my own projects (though I’m not always able to be as strict!) I really wish I could stomach using Smalltalk for my own projects (beyo
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by cnasc 5y ago
> Rounded corners and touchscreens, is that windows 8 again? Windows 8 distinctly had no rounded corners. The metro design language was quite square
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by cnasc 5y ago
> one of Indy's allies is a young Chinese boy known only as Short Round, if we're talking about outdated ethnic stereotypes Uh, a “short round” is an artillery shell that falls short and lands on friendly soldiers. I don’t know
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by cnasc 5y ago
I also don’t live in Brooklyn, but some people do
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by cnasc 5y ago
> What’s awful about VSCode? Genuinely curious. - palpably slow on a recent 16-inch high-specced MBP - does a lot of extra distracting stuff that can’t be easily turned off (I know I opened a .java file, I don’t need you to open an extra
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by cnasc 5y ago
“Go to the store” is the action and “I’m” is the object, so your example supports the Kakoune case not the Vim case (These are also English-specific justifications)
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by cnasc 5y ago
Asking genuinely because I’m not sure, but were Britain or France forced to upgrade due to war-related damage?
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by cnasc 5y ago
I typically say “cactopodes”
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by cnasc 5y ago
There’s always https://shen-language.github.io/
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by cnasc 5y ago
> They could just as easily choose a car that didn't have ABS as originally equipped and no one would say anything about the omission. That’s the kind of failure case I wish fancy electronics had. Component breaks = now you’re drivi
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by cnasc 6y ago
I remember one of my high school theology teachers had a placard placed above the wall with a Russell quote: > most people would die sooner than think—in fact, they do so
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by cnasc 6y ago
You would have to pay me to live in New York again
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by cnasc 6y ago
The armies of statisticians and (human) computers working for the war department found that most munitions fired off don’t hit people. One figure often used is 25,000 bullets per casualty (where casualty does not imply killed). How many dis
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by cnasc 6y ago
Here in the US you can hire a broker to negotiate with a car dealer for you. This is because car negotiations are tedious, uncomfortable, and full of pitfalls and the broker is an expert who can handle it the best possible way (for a fee).

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