gknoy

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by gknoy 2y ago
If at some future time, we actually find a way to recover plastic / oils / utility from plastic that's sitting in a landfill, someone will then go back and dig up landfills to find it. If every trash bag has 10-15% plastic in
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by gknoy 2y ago
This looks really neat. Now I'm tempted to see if I can get one and have a way to render a conference schedule on it. :D
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by gknoy 2y ago
Have you considered trying an alarm clock that will run away from you? [0] I've never used it but I also have a tendency to sleep through _the most annoying alarms_ so I would consider it if I couldn't put my alarm out of easy re
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by gknoy 2y ago
I still find them helpful when the change is outside the cope of the current task. I especially like the ones that include both a reference to a Jira ticket (or similar), and an explanation of why, or any gotchas: # TODO: (CAFE-1256)
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by gknoy 2y ago
I'm sure you've heard this many times, but thank you for sharing these blog posts. You're doing some _really cool_ stuff, and it's a treat to be able to read about the depth to which you've thought of these problems
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by gknoy 2y ago
World of Warcraft action bars are this way by default, and I imagine other MMOs do as well. Drag a spell onto the bar to be able to use it more easily. Click it (or, ideally, press an associated hotkey), and it casts the spell or uses the i
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by gknoy 2y ago
I am not sure if you've already experienced-and-disliked his work, but may I recommend Neal Stephenson? I have always appreciated his style of prose, and the way he describes characters. He writes in a nerdy way that I can't qui
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by gknoy 2y ago
These are... not books. you don't have to mentally picture the scenes/people/actions I sort of see what you're saying, even if I don't agree with it. I think the really neat thing about these, are tha
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by gknoy 2y ago
Seconding the "audiobooks count" that Imzadi said, I'd like to note that the Martian audiobook is exceptional, and I've heard that others by Weir are excellent as well. You might enjoy reading _short_ novels. I really li
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by gknoy 2y ago
Maybe it's that I'm not in as sunny an area, but all of the (battery + panels) numbers I've seen tell me I'll see a break-even in 15 years, vs in ~5 if I just have panels.
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by gknoy 2y ago
I normally just auto-apply `black` to my code, but occasionally I feel the need to have things arranged in a way that is easier to read -- e.g. a list of several dictionaries. In that case, I just put a comment telling it to stop reformatt
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by gknoy 2y ago
I realize that this is not even on topic, but _what a jolt of nostalgia_. I haven't even thought of that comic in what feels like a decade. Perhaps that's the optimal way of reading a webcomic (waiting until it's binge-able)?
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by gknoy 3y ago
> scorched-earth, mass-graves liquidate every single participant in the old regime, and all of their supporters I feel like this would be an excellent way to speed-run the creation of a large group of people (and their descendants) who h
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by gknoy 3y ago
One thing that would be convenient would be a link to the previous / next song in the game. I found myself linking the archive page to friends, and while convenient, that isn't as compelling as your clear call to action on the nor
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by gknoy 3y ago
I have no comments on the JS, but this is a neat idea for a game, and fun to play. Thank you for making and sharing it! :)
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by gknoy 3y ago
Does loss of revenue matter at all? It feels like it should, but I had thought that it didn't matter in courts.
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by gknoy 3y ago
I hope this doesn't derail the conversation much, but I found it interesting that you seem to be using 5 digit years, a convention I've never seen before. What drives this choice?
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by gknoy 3y ago
I'll just watch even fewer things on Prime, I guess. Everything about the UI and watching experience seems worse than Netflix, but then ... that's been worsening recently as well in ways I can't quantify.
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by gknoy 3y ago
I mean, it's often a reaction to the cold air on previously insulated parts. :D When we were doing diapers, we found it helpful to have the replacement prepped as a shield ;)
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by gknoy 3y ago
Don't stress about how others may feel about your child's inevitable public meltdowns. Every parent has had children who have a meltdown (tired? hungry? you said no?) in public, and we have all felt embarassed/etc. I guess
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by gknoy 3y ago
I heard that advice many times, agreed with it, but still didn't really feel the weight of it until now, as my kids reach that range. It's bittersweet -- you see them blossoming into ever more amazing and beautiful versions of the
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by gknoy 3y ago
I was going to comment that all the ergonomics things I've read suggest arm-length (touch with tip of finger) as the optimal monitor distance, but if you're nearsighted enough that doing so would require glasses, I can completely
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by gknoy 3y ago
I feel like trying to make Hammond's greed/foolishness into the main point of the novel is a disservice to the rest of the story. He's not some rare supervillain, he's only a bit more greedy than most people would be in
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by gknoy 3y ago
> I have considered using a cellular hotspot, but it's not competitive in terms of pricing. I had the opposite experience. I was a very happy Comcast customer for a year or two (their curfew-for-kids-computers feature on their route
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by gknoy 3y ago
> It's just so very noticeable that the observation is made by a person who has greatly benefited from its effects You'll likely notice the same about most of PG's essays. Of course he's biased -- but most of the read
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by gknoy 3y ago
As a professional Python programmer, I regularly search for the official documentation on things like the details of MagicMock or other things, for both Django and Python. I'm generally looking up things that are more than "what
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by gknoy 3y ago
Thanks for posting this -- as someone who was never on Tumblr, nor used Mastadon, this still felt like an interesting explanatory facet that helps me understand it better, both in terms of mindset and how people use it.
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by gknoy 3y ago
That seems very strange that they would _ban the account_ rather than deleting the profile image and rendering a placeholder instead.
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by gknoy 3y ago
> The rest I have never seen carrying anything other than groceries or the occasional new TV in the bed. They are entirely unnecessary. I have an older pickup that my in-laws sold us years ago. It's not in the best shape, and most o
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by gknoy 3y ago
Not only that, if they really didn't want to kill 3rd party apps, they've had a week to say, "oh no! We see exactly how this is going to kill third party apps, let's iterate to try to fix it so that we don't do that

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