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by dhosek 9mo ago
If I’m not wearing my glasses the screen blurs organically.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I’d been thinking more just typing the commands into a terminal window on the big screen, but something like this could be really helpful for seeing the intermediate steps.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
It’s often surprising what we discover younger people have no idea about. I had a twenty-something co-worker in 2018 who was a self-professed aficionado of submarine movies who had never seen Yellow Submarine (I can’t remember now if he’d h
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by dhosek 9mo ago
There used to be an ad for a radio station back in the 80s where a girl says, “Mom, did you know Paul McCartney used to be in a band before Wings?”
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Do you realize that you’ve digested a whole bunch of misinformation uncritically?
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I’m wondering whether it could be played with a Unix box connected to the big TV in the living room so that with each command added to the pipe you can see the result. That’s my instinct for what to do with this, although it does feel like
457.
by dhosek 9mo ago
African or European?
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by dhosek 9mo ago
Generally, I go with wiktionary which is reasonably comprehensive. I remember as an undergrad being stumped by a word in the Septuagint that I could not make any sense of and now I imagine I can search on the inflected form on wiktionary an
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by dhosek 9mo ago
I pulled my Liddel and Scott off the bookshelf to see the word in print (I have dictionaries and thesauri on shelves over my desk for easy reference) and discovered that I have the abridged edition.
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by dhosek 9mo ago
This is one of the things that I like about BlueSky. The only algorithmic feed I use is one that highlights quiet posters ( https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vpkhqolt662uhesyj6nxm7ys/fe... ). I’ll go to the main feed
461.
by dhosek 10mo ago
Headline changed on the article to reflect that AT&T and T-Mobile are not having outages
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by dhosek 10mo ago
https://dahosek.com My writing site along with thoughts on religion, politics, sex and art
463.
by dhosek 10mo ago
I stopped using entities once we had UTF-8. I suppose there’s a case for the occasional < > but beyond that, I have no problem typing “‘—’” or üçě when I need to.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
Conspiracies are wonderfully self-reinforcing: anything that doesn’t support the conspiracy is clearly the work of the conspirators hiding their existence.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
Yesterday, my daughter asked me if it was “a round earth day or a flat earth day” thanks to my habit of providing outlandish explanations for things, often contradicting myself in the course of a single conversation in the process (they’ve
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by dhosek 10mo ago
This was the first book that I picked out to buy for myself as a child (I remember pestering my parents for it at the Kroch’s and Brentano’s on Lake Street in Oak Park back in the 70s). I read it over and over and thanks to that, when I lat
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by dhosek 10mo ago
I use rectangle on my mac for window resizing and generally keep most windows in the sizes that come by default with that.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
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by dhosek 10mo ago
As a high school student I didn’t have the money to buy a 6502 assembler and I used to write my assembly code out in long hand on graph paper, hand-assemble it and type in the hex in the monitor.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
The “loose” standards of HTML led to some really awful things happening in the early web. I remember seeing, e.g., <large><li></large> item text to get a bigger bullet on a list item which worked fine in Net
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by dhosek 10mo ago
I think that was php in the social network.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
I think I’d pick a shorter high-quality life over a longer low-quality one given the choice.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
This was the first thing I thought of when I read the article. I remember making my own nuclear-powered big bus out of legos after watching that movie.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
I think there’s also latency issues and some features possible with the active pen that wouldn’t be with passive technology, although I don’t know for sure.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
I was thinking the same.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
Exactly. It’s quite impressive to watch from the ground and even more from the coast on landing (but be sure to wear a mack since you will get splashed).
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by dhosek 10mo ago
There is (was?) a utility that would flip individual F keys on the Mac, although it’s been years since I used it and who knows if it still works post Apple Silicon transition. TBH, I kind of miss the touch bar. Once they restored the esc ke
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by dhosek 10mo ago
Skimming the code, I think it also monitors log events.
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by dhosek 10mo ago
Look up to my post—the village proposed shooting the deer and residents decided that they’d rather have nuisance deer than see Bambi shot in their neighborhood. (There’s also the safety questions around shooting deer in residential neighbor
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by dhosek 10mo ago
This is one of those things that cause confusion: There are two sets of centuries, each mostly overlapping but not quite identical. There’s the numbered centuries: e.g., the twentieth century, which ran from 1901–2000. Then there’s centurie

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