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by eichin 3y ago
and that can mean high outdoor radon levels... a home inspector back in early 2000 told me about a seller sneaking back in and opening basement windows to attempt to pass a radon test (sensors left in the basement over the weekend.) The
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by eichin 3y ago
Part of the problem is there's some use of e-paper to mean "e-ink but we don't want to trigger their trademark lawyers" polluting the space. (The part of the description that actually made sense to me was where it sai
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by eichin 3y ago
This is exactly classic survivorship bias, right? It's the kind of thing that usually works for the hunter (or they'd have learned not to do it), and the bird surviving to be observed far away is a combination of rare circumstance
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by eichin 3y ago
I think senior engineers should always have good "knowledge gained is proportional to equipment damaged" stories, they're great for helping juniors through their own "learning experiences". (At my current startup, t
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by eichin 3y ago
In the late 80s I bounced off of a couple of linear algebra courses (when MIT had a lot of trouble teaching undergrad courses in advanced topics because they assumed it was just prep for the graduate course instead of actual teaching.) The
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by eichin 3y ago
Yeah, a coworker tried an exercise like this, and it was basically (even with as-an-expert prompts) like trying to mentor a high school intern that's trolling you (except that it won't actually get better at anything in the proces
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by eichin 3y ago
BSD-style is more "anti-SVR4" style, but you also need to remember that everyone working on linux ps in 1991 had years of experience with BSD 4.3 and SunOS 4; the post-reno liberated BSDs (386, Free, Net, and a dozen others that o
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by eichin 3y ago
Also, isn't the British Monarchy the only one Americans have had cause to take up arms against, multiple times? (To the point where we still do annual re-enactments of some of the events?)
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by eichin 4y ago
I was vague about the years to avoid having to do too much research for mere nostalgia, but there was a transition in there from "just MIT-MULTICS and MIT-ATHENA" to "MIT-MULTICS.ARPA" and then eventually having .EDU n
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by eichin 4y ago
PARC and SRI in the news? what is this, 1993? am I going to see a DECWRL announcement next?
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by eichin 4y ago
The one people will remember, though, is SRI-NIC because that's where you FTP'ed the offical HOSTS.TXT file from (mid-to-late 1980s before DNS.)
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by eichin 4y ago
Given that there's just more room in the 16", I wonder how hard it would be to just build an adapter board (and some 3d printed scaffolding) to just mount an actual lenovo thinkpad replacement part...
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by eichin 4y ago
Hmm, this might be the right audience - anyone with C and JS skills want to poke at https://github.com/osnr/TabFS/issues/75 and maybe come up with a pull request? (I got as far as I could on the C side, all
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by eichin 4y ago
In the last few years I came to understand that the main difference between "hoarding" and "collecting" is "having stories attached" (though my context for that was retrocomputing hardware in particular.) Just
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by eichin 4y ago
I recall a quarterly review that fit "actually getting work done" into the fad-of-the-week by breaking it down into * fix old bugs * write new bugs * ship bugs to customers (mid 90s, "dash process" I think? it actually r
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by eichin 4y ago
hmm, that's the example that made it click for me: my identity has little or nothing to do with my topic, in email, twitter, blogging - having an identity that's related to a themed server doesn't feel like the right layer at
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by eichin 4y ago
It's been in https://kaleidoscope.readthedocs.io/en/stable/plugins/Kaleid... for a while (as in, it's a plugin you can include in your custom open source keyboard firmware, with both 2x2 and 3x3 mod
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by eichin 4y ago
As someone whose computing career was improved by learning to touch-type in grade school (Mom had been a secretary, saw that these "personal" computers had keyboards, and bludgeoned the high school to let me in to the summer-schoo
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by eichin 4y ago
Huh, I wonder how close that is to what `ronn` does (also markdown to man, via a couple of paths, written in ruby.)
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by eichin 4y ago
That's new in 2019 (0/8 was prohibited), and there is a story... https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
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by eichin 4y ago
Aww, noone mentioned that `debian/rules` files are almost always makefiles? (To the point of starting with `#!/usr/bin/make -f` ...)
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by eichin 4y ago
In a professional context I'm known for telling people "we don't care what editor you use, but it's where you're going to spend most of your working career, so there's a lot of payoff to picking one and obsessi
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by eichin 4y ago
There are some interesting interactions between emacs and the rest of technical computing that might be interesting additions here, or at least footnotes. For example, me recollection of the first version of Linux that was worth running ins
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by eichin 4y ago
It's got some of the commercial emacsen, but I don't see CCA Emacs (ran on VAX BSD, at MIT in 1984-1985 at least; notable for things like "running a child csh to do file globbing" which was almost clever... until you d
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by eichin 4y ago
This sounds a lot Jaybridge, acquired by Toyota Research. They had things like grain trailers driving next to harvesters until full, then driving to the edge of the field for pickup... also Giant Dump Trucks, operating within open mines.
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by eichin 4y ago
Oh, like Nokia?
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by eichin 4y ago
Yeah, a modern update of the Sony Vaio P would be amazing...
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by eichin 5y ago
I've seen them (specifically, filenames generated from values in a "modern" configuration language - json or yaml - that mistakenly had newlines in them.) Fortunately, most of the shell tools involved used `-print0` and the r
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by eichin 5y ago
heh. I use `chronic` all the time, `ifdata` in some scripts that predate Linux switching to `ip`. I occasionally use `sponge` for things but it's almost always an alternative to doing something correctly :-) Looking at the other comm
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by eichin 5y ago
> exactly 4 pumps > start > exactly 2 pumps ... does this sound to anyone else like he's basically got a Permissive Action Link protecting his car?

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