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by drivers99 4mo ago
Even then. During a recent storm, they went off erroneously in Denver. (Looks like the other two erroneous alerts were via phone though.) > Denver emergency officials say they are working to rebuild public trust after a mistaken tornado
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by drivers99 4mo ago
Looks like "PHY layer" means physical layer.
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by drivers99 4mo ago
Jef Raskin called those "quasimodes" in The Humane Interface (2000) and was in favor of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mode_(user_interface)#Quasimod...
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by drivers99 4mo ago
> On that last point, this technology is horrific for attention. It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends. Folk running 3 screens simultaneously working on totally u
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by drivers99 5mo ago
It doesn’t. I posted a reply to the same comment before I saw your question. Even the books I mentioned didn’t really get into it. I tried a search for some that did and ran across Constructing a Microprogrammed Computer by O.J. Mengali whi
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by drivers99 5mo ago
I did nand2tetris a couple times, but it emphasizes simplicity in every level of abstraction. That in itself is an amazing lesson and has been an inspiration, but that also means it skips things like microcode. In college (in the 1990s) I t
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by drivers99 5mo ago
But evolution doesn't make those developments improbable or coincidental. I recently read a book called Time's Second Arrow about how selection, when present in systems that can create many combinations, naturally evolve more func
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by drivers99 5mo ago
Some terminal software would use a function key that would be labelled "Execute". You'd usually have a template to put over the function keys to tell you what does what.
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by drivers99 5mo ago
That's an interesting idea: if you're thinking of having an accessibility option, consider just making it the default.
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by drivers99 5mo ago
I remember the book saying something like "a person's name is the most beautiful sound in the world to them." The book may say to say their name back to them (I don't remember right now), but that's not what I took
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by drivers99 5mo ago
> one by one I put each book back 20 minutes before it closed If your library is like mine, it makes more sense to put it on a "to be shelved" cart, because they often track circulation even by the ones that didn't get che
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by drivers99 5mo ago
> Apple’s gray on slightly-lighter-gray UI standards It's a tangential point, but I turned on System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Increase Contrast (the on/off option, not Display Contrast) and now at least
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by drivers99 5mo ago
Similarly, I still have my HP-42s but I usually use Free42[0] on my phone and tablet. They also have it for desktops. It's great if you like RPN calculators. Or if anyone wants to learn about them, you can use that program and follow a
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by drivers99 5mo ago
Oh that does look awesome!
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by drivers99 5mo ago
> Recently a Clojure documentary came out and the approach of Rich Hickey was seemingly the opposite: Deep research of prior art, papers, other languages over a long period of time. That was also on my mind thanks to the documentary. The
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by drivers99 6mo ago
See Technology Connections' video about Brown: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU He says brown is perceived when you see an orange-wavelength light that is significantly darker than its surroundings, providin
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by drivers99 6mo ago
> I'm not smart enough to intuit NAND from transistors. I'm also not sure I will be alone in that. It's such a weird difficulty wall. I agree with you, because I feel like I only got that one because I happened to get curi
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by drivers99 6mo ago
They had the longest reaction shot of some people filming it with their phones (maybe they got a good shot) and when they switched back to after the booster separation I said at the time, “that would have been cool to see.”
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by drivers99 6mo ago
Amazing seeing this here. I hung out with him a few times back then, and I was just thinking about this again just a few days ago. It was really great spending some time with such a smart person. He showed me how he would write little notes
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by drivers99 6mo ago
> I wish Mac had the same ability natively Hover over the green button in the top left of the window. I recently found out about that menu for moving a window between screens, which is also an option it has. (I also just found them in th
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by drivers99 7mo ago
Thanks for mentioning that. I have one hearing aid so I've had to take it out so I can wear both AirPods when I want noise cancellation at all with AirPods. (I can also stream to the hearing aid but it is very tinny, completely lacking
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by drivers99 7mo ago
I detest the trackpad on my Windows (Linux soon) laptop, so I have to use an external mouse with it, but I use the "magic trackpad" on my personal and work macbooks including external ones without issues (except if I have to drag
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by drivers99 7mo ago
> Why? Because those individuals tend to spin something up, tell everyone about it (online, and offline) and then stop doing it few days later. That's definitely me (most recent ones: using engineering notebook techniques but for my
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by drivers99 7mo ago
News to me. denhac has grown from 500 members to 600 in the last year since I joined. The space is constantly evolving and they'll be moving to a another larger location (again).
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by drivers99 8mo ago
Can you scan my bookmarks? :) edit: i.e. if someone has a bookmark to a page on your site and it goes 404, then they are blocked for a year. You have no ability to scan it because it's a file on their local system.
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by drivers99 8mo ago
There are actually other time signals around the world. I had a Casio wave ceptor (one with analog hands which it doesn't look like they sell anymore; I should have kept it). Anyway, looking at a model that's currently available (
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by drivers99 8mo ago
Then it's a little bit of a stretch but they could put a script with the name of a common typo similar to commonly run commands there. Maybe "ls-l" without the space in case they miss the space. Yeah, that's a stretch. I
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by drivers99 8mo ago
You can also hold down the back button to get a menu of previous pages in order to skip multiple back button presses. (I still agree with your point and you might already know that. Maybe it helps someone.)
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by drivers99 8mo ago
Interesting, I wouldn’t have thought of that one since I remember not being impressed by the movie at the time. On Wikipedia, a quote from a review said “on the whole, it's one of the few soundtracks that works better as an album than
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by drivers99 8mo ago
and triple the RAM

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