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by glxxyz 6y ago
I bookmark pages in Chrome because they show up higher than non-bookmarked pages in auto suggestions. I sometimes search within my bookmarks, but never organize/browse them the way I did 20 years ago.
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No the placebo effect tells us that if we ask some people if some things are working, they tell us that they are working, when those things are not in fact working.
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It's the corporations, and big Pharma, and the Pentaverate.
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by glxxyz 6y ago
> If anyone here is experimenting with breathing, it is better to stop while there is still time. Stop experimenting or stop breathing?
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by glxxyz 6y ago
The placebo effect is magnified by spending one's own cash on the treatment.
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by glxxyz 6y ago
Yeah it's worked out fine for me too, those awesome wall mounted panel saws are more accurate than any table saw- but our experiences are both imagined apparently ;)
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I thought it was a prototype until I got to the end of the article, I was looking for the finished version in something more permanent. Yes there's no requirement to own a circular saw etc.- as well as hand tools the hardware store wil
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I owned a house in Edmonton where ice would form under one side of one garage door in the minus-a-lot-in-either-scale 9-month-long winters. I used to break up the ice damn daily with a mattock, fun times.
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by glxxyz 6y ago
They were also slightly over-egging it with 'coffee revolution'; it's a slightly different way of making coffee. I work for a company too frugal to buy an espresso machine and Nespresso is perfect for me at work. Cheaper and
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by glxxyz 6y ago
Me too, I thought it was some tree operation I had missed in my recent Covid pre-interview Leetcoding.
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by glxxyz 6y ago
When customers switch over to torrenting Netflix can keep their 'watched' list updated in case they come back.
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by glxxyz 6y ago
It's even harder to imagine how someone could rewrite the code to Super Mario World on an unmodified SNES to play Flappy Bird just using regular controllers, yet it's possible: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I bought Juggling...Klutz from a small local bookshop (New Saxon Bookshop in Bury St Edmunds) in about 1992 and taught myself and pretty much everyone else I knew (some were more happy about this than others) to juggle. I made sure to start
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I just read man re_format but that's a lot more fun
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by glxxyz 6y ago
A manager went to the Master Programmer and showed him the requirements document for a new application. The manager asked the Master: "How long will it take to design this system if I assign five programmers to it?" "It will
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I provided extended support on a custom system for about a year at a former employer, where the whole dev team had left before I started. I once tracked a bug down to a confusing line of code that looked like it shouldn't be there. Rem
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I'm sure her WeChat contacts are now in for some close scrutiny as well. I hope they were aware what she was doing, and none of them have anything to hide from the Government.
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by glxxyz 6y ago
It was pretty easy to modify the Bedstead code, all fonts are available for download. Let me know if there are any issues!
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I looked into this some more and a much better approach was taken by the creators of this Teletext font: http://bjh21.me.uk/bedstead/ Instead of creating characters by hand I'm going to see if I can modify the bed
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I'm going to add a few of the Latin-1 characters this week. Quick question- how important are the double-height versions, and the multiple aspect ratios? It's slightly easier if I leave out the double height characters, and just p
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I just found that a Unicode working group cited this page! They are considering adding Teletext glyphs to Unicode: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2018/18235-terminals-prop.pdf http://www.unicode.org/L
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by glxxyz 6y ago
Yes, it would be good- I was only trying to reproduce the look of an authentic BBC Micro which was sort-of ASCII. The complete Teletext spec lists a lot more characters; probably all of Latin-1 and even Arabic and Cyrillic: http:/&#x2
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by glxxyz 6y ago
You may also be interested to see these BeebFax that Pitfall Jones generated using my font: 1981: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-beebfax/1981/page_100.htm 1982: http://www.pitfalljones.com/bbc-bee
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by glxxyz 6y ago
You're welcome! I found it in a second-hand bookshop a few years ago and bought it for novelty value. It's a pretty good summary of the wealth of hardware and software options available at the time. Someday if I have access to a b
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Marshall Cavendish Microcomputer Catalogue (1983) [pdf](galax.xyz)
2 points by glxxyz 6y ago|2 comments
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Show HN: Teletext TrueType Font(galax.xyz)
22 points by glxxyz 6y ago|11 comments
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by glxxyz 6y ago
I don't buy physical books anymore. It's just stuff to get dusty and clutter up the place. Reading on a tablet is great- carry it anywhere, also has search, highlighting, bookmarks etc. I prefer no DRM but I don't complain ab
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by glxxyz 6y ago
This is what procrastination looks like.
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Show HN: Go version of Stroustrup's classic C++ desk calculator(github.com)
1 points by glxxyz 6y ago|1 comments
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by glxxyz 6y ago
While I'm learning go I decided as an exercise to implement go versions of a few programming greatest hits. This one is Bjarne Stroustrup's simple and elegant interactive calculator, from The C++ Programming Language. I've ma

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