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by foofoo12 1y ago
Programmable (punch cards I think) sliding knitting machines were a thing in the past (70s or 80s). They occasionally pop up for free on FB marketplace or little on ebay and such. Or perhaps you had to flick switches instead of punch cards?
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by foofoo12 1y ago
The latest post on KingJamesProgramming is hilarious: "then shall they call upon me, but I will not cause any information to be accumulated on the stack."
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by foofoo12 1y ago
Years ago I worked in the hospitality industry with a great group of people. Almost none of the days/nights felt like work. Even when it was crazy busy. The morale was excellent. I "blame" it mostly on the two owners who also
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by foofoo12 1y ago
HN title doesn't match the link or the comments? Dang?
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by foofoo12 1y ago
I though it was about machining threads on screws. If you did too and found it exciting, you'll find this book exciting too: Exactly: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern World https://www.amazon.co.uk/Exactly-Pre
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by foofoo12 1y ago
Sweet Lord Jesus.
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by foofoo12 1y ago
Yikes! Imagine if people were to start sending photos and videos to each other!
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by foofoo12 1y ago
Mineral oil test bookmark: https://youtu.be/2DKasz4xFC0?feature=shared&t=873 It's a non destructive test. Quote from the video (with funny youtube transcription spelling errors): "Without getting too technical
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by foofoo12 1y ago
Nope, it means the people that would have gone to US will to to Canada instead.
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by foofoo12 1y ago
I don't know what the Google Authenticator team was thinking, if at all, when they did that deplorable implementation of the sync feature. One click on the "backup codes" on main screen and boom, no confirmation or anything.
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by foofoo12 1y ago
> Email about an upcoming charge is automatically sent a couple of days in advance I'm talking about additional email. 24 hours before the transaction. With the subject "You'll be charged $10 for renewal in 24 hours".
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Add a warning email 24 hours before the transaction. In the subject put "You'll be charged $10 for renewal in 24 hours". > we also provide a simple, self-service way to cancel the subscription It's hard to comment wit
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> Because you have little kids and you want to give them a single easy-to-follow box with instructions on it? Box mixes are a very US thing. I promise you that kids still get to bake in other countries. Having done both it is my opinion
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by foofoo12 1y ago
I think you need 371 boxes of cake mix to skip rounding errors. Granny wants consistency.
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That was news to me!
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I did wonder why they didn't just switch out actionscript for js and use plain html/svg/canvas. I'm kind of glad they didn't but I think there would have been money in doing so.
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by foofoo12 1y ago
You can call them views, and you can call your tap water a solution of dihydrogen monoxide with contaminants. It isn't helpful.
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> I feel like these examples are cherry-picked I don't know of a demo, image, film, project or whatever where the showoff pieces are not cherry picked.
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by foofoo12 1y ago
Ask people to visualize a thing. Pick something like a house, dog, tree, etc. Then ask about details. Where is the dog? I have aphantasia and my dog isn't anywhere. It's just a dog, you didn't ask me to visualize anything els
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by foofoo12 1y ago
I found out recently that I have aphantasia, based on everything I've read. When you tell me to visualize, I imagine. I don't see it. An apple, I can imagine that. I can describe it in incomprehensibly sparse details. But when you
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by foofoo12 1y ago
It's the fundamental principles of right and wrong. Morals. It's not just views or kind of.
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> it really depends on people's views. No it does not. It depends on peoples morals.
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There's this joke that in Scotland, if you can see the mountain tops then it's about to rain. If you can't then it's raining already.
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> if you remembered to copy them, and write down a very long password All that BEFORE your phone was stolen/damaged.
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> wasn’t a reward I'm pretty sure someone was willing to pay for this, but at least the researches acted responsibly.