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by dcminter 2y ago
He was very funny about it, but honestly I think he was probably a bit of a nightmare to work with. If he hadn't had the huge success with the Hitchhikers paperback his publishers and other collaborators would have been a lot less unde
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by dcminter 2y ago
Another Linux guy here to report that the corporate experience on Macs can suck balls too. Not just Windows. At $dayjob the corporate issued Macs are locked down (for good solid compliance reasons so there's no point fighting that) bu
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Despite the article I've always found the Ubuntu upgrade process to be pretty painless. I actually did a minor upgrade this afternoon on my personal laptop from 22.04 to 22.04.1 without issue. But I agree with the article that snaps ar
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Not much. I've encountered a handful of esoteric file conversion tools, though I couldn't say whether any of those are still for sale/available now that you can hide the secret sauce behind a web front end. It doesn't se
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The Fintech I work at is an abbreviation & acronym heavy environment. I made this little command line tool that makes it easy for me to capture them whenever I encounter them and then I periodically export them to a Confluence page for
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by dcminter 2y ago
> Though I think that such observations would require at least two years It is at least two years at least if I'm understanding this⁰ correctly: Observational concept Ultra-high precision, long (at least two years), uninterrupted
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Tips for faster Rust CI builds(corrode.dev)
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Quantel Paintbox History(quantelpaintbox.com)
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Brits say "kaput" in informal speech - OED says we pinched it from German. Not sure if it's common in US English.
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Sounds like that might work for OP while they're using APIs, but if they decide to run models locally can you get GPU equipped servers from Hetzner? Edit: Not sure if I misread, or if you edited, but I see you addressed this, and yes i
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by dcminter 2y ago
I'd think in terms of running this on a PC in my spare room if I was trying to keep costs down and the usage wasn't going to be all that high. Depending on how many concurrent users you're expecting, and if you do something w
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That is an absolutely adorable picture!
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The novel High Fidelity has an opening scene with the protagonist deciding exactly how he's going to re-order his collection in a particular personal way.
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In terms of the brand I think the ZX Spectrum +3 came a good bit after the QL and there was a peculiar "Sinclair" branded MS DOS compatible machine, the PC200. Both in the Amstrad era of course. Ignoring the brand but focusing on
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Or on the other side you remind me of a literal party trick - a rubber balloon filled with helium that's starting to deflate and thus has neutral buoyancy can be moved around without touching it. The charges on the surface of the ballo
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I'd never heard of them until a few days ago, then this article mentioned them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42737510
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Oh that surely must be it! Even if it isn't though, that is a neat little anecdote and I'm glad I've had the chance to read it - I hadn't seen it before.
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I think it was in a Daedalus article that I read a passing reference to a technician who had had an operation for cataracts - the synthetic lens then allowed them to see a little way into the ultraviolet and thus they were able to calibrate
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I suppose you could take advantage of diamagnetism if a moving charge was involved... it works for frogs :)
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You wouldn't find out, you'd just get to see a lot of people talking across each other. Those kinds of destructive conversations then colour the other non-political discussions.
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I tried to sign up for Stack Overflow the other day with my email address - and got rejected. Initially it seemed to be rejected due to containing the "stack" term and being mistaken for a "temporary address", but then a
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That's absolutely the kind of thing I would flag and I'm very much a left winger. The posting guidelines⁰ explicitly say: "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic." You don't need a conspira
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Oh I entirely concur; I think there's a team of sorts, not just Dan, but I'm sure the gentle steering is a huge part of the reason things are still on course. https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silic
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Yes, but the proportions have still changed. It's not static, it's a progression. 2010 will have been different to 2008 (when I joined) but so will 2013 with respect to 2010, 2020 with respect to 2013, and 2025 with respect to 2
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> What's changed? Largely, the make up of the audience in HN. I sincerely doubt that the hard core of people doing startups, thinking of doing a startup, or just very interested in the topic has gone away or changed attitude very mu
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Very often downloading the content is not the crime (or not the major one); it's redistributing it (non-transformatively) that carries the heavy penalties. The nature of p2p meant that downloaders were (sometimes unaware) also distribu
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Omens
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Jodrell Bank⁰ is open to visitors; not in Wales, but not a million miles away either. I remember reading something in The Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy as a child and not just not knowing where "Jodrell Bank and Woomera" were,
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Indeed, "The Dish" is about the Parkes⁰ radio telescope. Very fictional though :) Tom Scott did a nice video¹ visiting it a little while back - as a vintage computing enthusiast I was rather pleased to see a PDP-11 in their equipm
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Not if you run uBlock Origin they aren't. That said, it's telling that it's so difficult to disable auto-playing video entirely in Firefox. I'm not convinced that a profit motive is NOT the reason behind that (it is poss

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