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by eichin 2y ago
3a. Twist - given what you analyze, this time it's a time traveller from the past that needs to stop you :)
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by eichin 2y ago
I've been carrying around a copy of "git blameall" for years - looks like https://github.com/gnddev/git-blameall is the same one - that basically does this, but keeps it all interleaved in one output (wh
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by eichin 2y ago
Buried "mascons" (mass concentrations), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation_of_the_Moon has some nice color maps of the deviations/anomalies. (TLDR: some of it is explained by basalt but not all o
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by eichin 2y ago
The "inspired by" link is to a reddit thread that uses (coins?) the term "SheetOps"...
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by eichin 2y ago
Python certainly was too, back in the day. It feels like it's roughly a "first 10 years of the language" thing, maybe stretched another 5 if there's an underdog aspect (like being interpreted.)
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by eichin 2y ago
There was something like this on Macs in the mid 1990s, that would watch you work and suggest timed automations - there was a bit of a developer panic the first time it told someone "I see you launch <popular desktop game> around
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by eichin 2y ago
Hmm, looks like https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?40720 is just lengthy explanations of how the unicode issues are hard to fix in the current code base; savannah doesn't seem to have bug search, but I didn't see
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by eichin 2y ago
One of the things that got me intrigued by Unix was an early 1980s(ish) Byte article which walked through building a (trivial example, not the "real" one) spell checker out of a split/sort/comm pipeline, something like 7
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by eichin 2y ago
For perspective, in 1983 or so, Grammatik on CP/M ran in under 64k and did "grammar checking" (spell checking, plus a bunch of expert system rules) on an 8-bit system. (It sticks in my memory because of the time spent poking
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by eichin 2y ago
They've been able to recognize this pattern since the 1960s (popcount is a very historically special case and not really a sign of complexity, since traditionally it was "if you write this exact code from the documentation, yo
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by eichin 2y ago
https://2cev.co.uk/ showed up on ev-youtube last year (but other than the drive train, it's going out of it's way to not actually be modern... the 2cv aesthetic of "you think a VW Bug is too fancy" kind
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by eichin 2y ago
Actually, EB Garamond has c_t and s_t ligatures.
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by eichin 2y ago
If the Light L16 https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2018/4/10/17218758/l... hadn't failed, you might have seen this (as the "weaker but still useful" version of the tech spread d
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by eichin 2y ago
It looks like bluesky only just figured out (in the last couple of weeks, I think?) that even if you authenticate foo.example.com they need to keep foo.bsky.social reserved, because otherwise they immediately get snapped up for impersonat
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by eichin 2y ago
I was actually a tiny bit disappointed - I was hoping for a closer coupling of tetris-logic to life-logic :-) Per https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Universal_computer the first turing-machine-in-Life goes back to 2000, an
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by eichin 2y ago
Hmm, https://github.com/abcminiuser/python-elgato-streamdeck/ already supports the Plus (that's the library behind https://github.com/timothycrosley/streamdeck-ui ) I wonder if there&#x2
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by eichin 2y ago
Part of the issue is that "bootstrapping real oauth with ssh" is something people actually want, so there's some (unearned) disappointment in finding out that this isn't it.
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by eichin 2y ago
The `ssh-import-id` package is the basic mechanism for this.
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by eichin 2y ago
For jpg: jhead -purejpg, exiftool looks like it only has "remove this specific kind" (like -gps:all= .) (The more boring use case for this: putting images up on a web page - if you use jhead -autorot to correct the orientation, t
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by eichin 2y ago
I never got that deep into it. It mostly caught my attention because it was distinct variant of meta-gaming that I hadn't seen before.
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by eichin 2y ago
I worked down the hall from Ken Arnold (he was one of the later additions to the project, mentioned about half way down the page) at HP/Apollo around 1990; aside from being an inspirational Senior Troublemaker, he kept an eye on Rogoma
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by eichin 2y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8QWxJhna8Y shows off some of the efforts of https://welldonefoundation.org/ to actually do something once they find them - which also puts more emphasis on the abandonment
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by eichin 2y ago
Some time in the early 2000's I heard a Microsoft ad, on FM radio, for FAT32. I turned off the radio and basically never turned it on again (and made sure my next car had mp3 player support.)
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by eichin 2y ago
Hand inspected 30 items[^sample] and found 10 real ice cream shops, 9 "exists but closed at least a year ago", and 6 "couldn't even find a vague match". (Also 2 real frozen custard shops, which for my purposes don&
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by eichin 2y ago
Looking at the narrow subset I care about (ice cream in massachusetts) they've got a bit of duplication, particularly "vague place and precise place that aren't combined": Far Fars, None, Duxbury, Farfars Danish Ice Crea
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by eichin 2y ago
That does sound glorious, but I didn't have any trouble loading individual parquet files into pandas on a 3 year old Thinkpad X1...
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by eichin 2y ago
That's really convenient - I zoomed the map to an area in my town, clicked on a place, and even though popup is just raw data, it let me see which fields hold which values (which I could then feed back into pandas search expressions on
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by eichin 2y ago
Neat! I'll have to poke at it and see if I can come up with a usefully broader-but-not-too-noisy search - my personal "obsessively search 'ice cream in $town' for each town" collection has about twice that many indi
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by eichin 2y ago
Ooh, I have an "all ice cream shops in Massachusetts" project for which this would be at least an interesting cross-reference for (the "places humans show up at" bias in foursquare's business works in my favor here.
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by eichin 2y ago
> plays the sphere like a theremin Wow, that's a brilliantly horrifying image. (Are there other analogous ones? Does anyone do musical timing of building demolitions, or something like that?)

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