eigenhombre

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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Indeed. I live in Chicago. Several years back, mid-winter, we suddenly had a geyser in the middle of our courtyard: burst pipe. Called in experts, and several hours and one coffin-sized hole in our yard later, we had running water again.
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Borges meets Knuth.
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Looking Back at Boards of Canada’s Music Has the Right to Children (2018)(pitchfork.com)
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Scientists find way to make energy from air using nearly any material(washingtonpost.com)
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Is Arc still built on top of (formerly PLT Scheme, now) Racket? The Wikipedia page[1] says so. I'm more familiar with Common Lisp (which blazes) than Racket, but these seem like impressive stats to me. [1] https://en.wikip
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Seeing this post/thread brings back some good memories! Am happy to see Phillip Glass is on Bandcamp. I found an old cassette copy of Koyaanisqatsi kicking around but also just got a digital copy of the soundtrack there; happy to supp
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
We specifically preferred Leiningen for all new projects at my last job because of a number of plugins we still used that were unsupported by Deps. This was a year ago, so that may have changed since I left. I still find Lein a little easi
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Enso looks really nice, as does Sit and your about pages.
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
Amazing video in that link!
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by eigenhombre 3y ago
I wonder about the "Last" in the title, and how common road landings are in general. We had one not far from us awhile back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QOMDyMZD3k , saw the plane from a bridge on my bike com
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SpaceX didn’t want to blow up its launchpad. It may have done just that(washingtonpost.com)
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
If Borkdude says it's the best, I'm listening. Why is it the best release ever?
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
That doesn't seem that bad to me for a Lisp. Common Lisp / SBCL equivalent for me is 41MB. Clojure überjar size for the same is 4.6MB. There is a cost to having so much language ("all the language, all the time") availab
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
"Best known for being home to a marina and a restaurant with goats on its sodded roof, the tie is one of the more exciting things to happen in the little town of 1,160 near the Canadian border." I've been to Sister Bay many t
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
Wouldn't listen to audiobooks if they had ads. Am surprised nobody has mentioned Libro.FM here - I get most of my audiobooks from them. They claim to give a portion to my local bookseller, though they don't provide any evidence t
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
If you're interested in compilers and language implementation, it may not be obvious, but one needn't be a university student or devote a semester to the topic. Taking a four-day compiler course[1] (now five days) whetted my appet
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New Biden Cybersecurity Strategy Assigns Responsibility to Tech Firms(nytimes.com)
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A Gold Mine of Clean Energy May Be Hiding Under Our Feet(nytimes.com)
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
The data on the site is fascinating, and can be downloaded as CSV, XLS, etc. (I live about 100m from a rail corridor, and though I love trains, I do worry occasionally about accidents).
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
Have been a mostly happy DO customer for some time. Would be interested to know if the layoffs were carried off skillfully/compassionately or messily/carelessly.
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34658286
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
Here's the former CTO of my last salaried job talking about part time work and the arrangement I had there: https://youtu.be/Gsai-2ZCHwk?t=431
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
I've worked less than full time for a good portion of my career -- sometimes salaried, sometimes on contract. If you can make it work financially, I highly recommend it. I can do unrelated personal work at a much higher level when I
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
The men's urinals are water-free toilets. The sit-down toilets are low volume-per-flush, I expect. Water isn't exactly rationed -- people are just asked to minimize. To be clear, there is a LOT of water (the station sits atop two
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
I wish I'd thought of that when I was at the Pole!
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
If I recall correctly, Gary made a little funnel apparatus to keep his goggles from fogging up.
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
I wonder if that is the same thing as the radome installation I visited in 2010 or so. It was a long, long (cold!) hike almost to the other end of the skiway, and the installation was fascinating. I have to say I remember the people who s
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
Am tickled to see this here, having done these calculations myself in the same place several years running (due to summer visits at the Pole for work from 1997-2011). The author doesn't mention workouts. There are good gym facilities
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
As a 10x traveler to South Pole, have never heard this assertion. Do you have a reference somewhere I can learn more about this?
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by eigenhombre 4y ago
+1 for Halide, which I didn't know about. Apple doesn't give non-Pro 13s access to RAW images (that I know of), but Halide does out of the box. The camera AI was driving me crazy on my 13mini; now I have a solution. Are there o

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