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by floren 4y ago
I've been given a metal straw at a restaurant. My immediate thought: how do I know this is clean on the inside? I can't see in there, it could be full of mold. I just drank from the glass instead, because I'm an able-bodied a
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by floren 4y ago
> Fruit and veg aside, why am I expected to buy a new spray bottle for every half litre of kitchen cleaner, say? Why can't I just buy one bottle and spray and then some kind of refill? There's a company (whose name escapes me a
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by floren 4y ago
Per Wikipedia, the US army defines an assault rifle as: "short, compact, selective-fire weapons that fire a cartridge intermediate in power between submachine gun and rifle cartridges." Selective-fire means it's not just semi
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by floren 4y ago
As someone who follows gun laws, "compromise" often takes this form: Lawmakers: "We intend to outlaw all semi-automatic rifles with scary black stocks" Gun owners: "Please don't do that." Lawmakers: "
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by floren 5y ago
He chose that one because it's Hedy Lamarr, movie star and electrical engineer
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by floren 5y ago
We recently moved and my wife & I both scheduled checkups at the same new dentist. She recommended a crown replacement and Invisalign to both of us, in my case while wearing an Invisalign-branded face shield. We both got weird vibes fro
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by floren 5y ago
I'm sure it's not the only reason. Maybe some people fork repos they depend on just in case the original owner decides to take theirs offline, etc. But if someone lists their Github on a resume, and then the whole account is just
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by floren 5y ago
Yeah, honestly seeing someone add a big chunk of fresh, useful information to a project's documentation would be even better than seeing code go in, because most people hate doing docs! Unfortunately what I've seen is absolute low
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by floren 5y ago
I've seen applicants with lots of Github repos, which all turn out to be forks, and all the applicant did was make a trivial change to the documentation (not fixing a technical error or expanding the comprehensiveness, but adding perio
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by floren 5y ago
> It seems a bit like saying, “I don’t understand why people don’t like this neighborhood. Sure the murder rate is 10x the national average and cars are stolen off my block every week. But I built a big wall with razor wire around my hou
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by floren 5y ago
http://jfloren.net/b/2022/3/2/0 has pictures and a video
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by floren 5y ago
"Smart" is to contracts as "Democratic" is to country names
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by floren 5y ago
I've spent the last 5 months or so working on a custom-built mouse, for the fun of it. Designed the PCB around a high-end laser sensor, designed the case in FreeCAD, wrote the firmware. I've made two so far and given one of them a
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by floren 5y ago
India sure felt like it... no such thing as a sidewalk, and the street is a nightmare of cars, tuktuks dodging around the cars, and motorcycles dodging around the tuktuks and cars. But I was just visiting; maybe if you live there it feels s
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by floren 5y ago
If you're outside SF itself, look for the old parts of a town, with houses built in the 20s or earlier. There's probably a "main street"/downtown area near by, and because it's an old part of town, the streets
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by floren 5y ago
Getting the kids into structured, college-application-fodder activities early enough, so that the kids can get into Stanford and get a job that pays enough so they can repeat the cycle of abuse, err, pattern of success with their kids.
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by floren 5y ago
I'm drinking coffee out of an Oracle Linux mug from SCaLE 9x, which would have been 2011... note how Oracle Linux has absolutely taken over the world since then :)
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by floren 5y ago
> The corporatization of social media is a big factor. There's big money involved in controlling reviews. Critics and influencers devoted to certain fandoms inevitably get influenced, pressured, infiltrated by studios who expect fav
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by floren 5y ago
Looks great, look forward to poking around some more. Hope it doesn't get destroyed by spammers!
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Implementing a 0.016 Hz MIPS CPU by abusing Gravwell flows(gravwell.io)
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by floren 5y ago
> NYC and DC picked every single representative, senator, and the President. This is essentially the goal of those who complain about the electoral college and the Senate.
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by floren 5y ago
I don't think anyone still makes new slide rules, except for the E6B flight computer which is rather specialized. However, you should be able to get a metal Pickett slide rule on ebay for a reasonable price; they're great slide ru
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by floren 5y ago
Arista EDU has always been my cheap go-to, although it's increased in price a little recently: https://www.freestylephoto.biz/190244-Arista-EDU-Ultra-400-I... . (I believe Arista EDU is rebranded Fomapan?)
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by floren 5y ago
Bring your whole self to work, but make sure you also bring a smartphone!
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by floren 5y ago
> Anecdotally, as someone who grew up in Spain, my generation would often comment on how bizarre it seemed to us that American high schools in fiction virtually always implied such a clear dividing line between those who were popular&#x2
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by floren 5y ago
You mean the scary prompts that I just mash "Y" on??? (can you tell that I've shipped Debian packages before?)
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by floren 5y ago
> Overcrowded nature. This one personally bothered me a lot. Many trails in Southern California are almost always crowded. Beach access is long, difficult, expensive (if you use a parking lot) and exhausting if you live inland. This is a
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by floren 5y ago
You should have gone for it! The VLA is in an amazingly beautiful region. I camped near there once and had the darkest skies I'd ever witnessed, and I saw a massive fireball meteor. Socorro is the nearest proper town to the VLA, with a
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by floren 5y ago
https://jfloren.net Artisanal hand-crafted CSS on a mix of hand-written HTML and Markdown-to-templated-HTML pages, with a webserver I wrote myself in Go (well, stitched together the standard library HTTP code myself...) It took
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by floren 5y ago
Yeah my personal site is hosted on a very small VPS instance, has gone to the front of HN twice, and never really blinked.

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