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by gregschlom 1y ago
I've only skimmed the article but to me it sounds like what the author wants is essentially assembly language, where everything fits in 5 columns: label, opcode, 2 operands, comment. It's not great for usability though :)
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by gregschlom 1y ago
I think it's a cool little easter egg. Goes well with the technical illustration of a 3.5" floppy disk at the top and the pixelated font for the titles. Also, maybe the author meant to say he started thinking about this book since
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by gregschlom 1y ago
The ASCII art (well technically ANSI art) histogram is neat. Cool hack to get something done quickly. I'd have spent 5x the time trying various chart libraries and giving up.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
It’s a great project overall but MDF is a very poor choice for the base. It will get destroyed as soon as it gets wet. At minimum they should have used exterior grade plywood, and painted it
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Semi off-topic, but I just love the header image and the advice frog in the readme. Makes reading the documentation more fun and enjoyable.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Just wanted to say, fantastic work and video. I really enjoyed watching it.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
yes, that's the point.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Came here to say the same thing, excellent name. For people who aren't aware, Chicory has long been used (e.g. in Europe during WW2) as a coffee substitute, and Java is another name for coffee, thus Chicory is a substitute for Java. Ed
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by gregschlom 2y ago
> "What I cannot teach, I do not understand" And the corollary to that, from 17th century French writer Nicolas Boileau: "Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.&
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by gregschlom 2y ago
A bit surprised to learn that their product is called "God's eyes", given that this is a Chinese company - I thought religion was frowned upon in Communist China. Am I missing something?
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by gregschlom 2y ago
> A human brain doesn't need anywhere close to this volume of data, in order to be able to produce good output. Maybe not directly, but consider that our brains are the product of million of years of evolution and aren't a blan
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by gregschlom 2y ago
I have a couple of friends in this exact situation. In their mid-thirties, no kids. They bought a very very nice house in the mountains after their startup got acquired, and spend most of their time travelling around the world. It's pr
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Oh, thank you. Knowing very well that 2^32 is around 4 billion, I should have immediately noticed that 12345678910987654321 is way to big to be 2^31
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by gregschlom 2y ago
On the topic of palindromic numbers, I remember being fascinated as a kid with the fact that if you square the number formed by repeating the digit 1 between 1 and 9 times (e.g. 111,111^2) you get a palindrome of the form 123...n...321 with
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Don't forget to adjust for survivor bias. You don't see all the terrible houses that they built in the 1920's because, well, they didn't last. But you better believe that then just like now plenty of people were throwing
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by gregschlom 2y ago
But then if they have cheese, why would they be hungry?
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by gregschlom 2y ago
For the human review part: maybe crowdsource it? Make the book available for reading online, with a UI to submit corrections (Wikipedia-style).
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by gregschlom 2y ago
"A very crude method would be to remove the last line every 16 pages but that would not be very robust if there were missing scans or inserts, etc. I prefer to check every last line of every page for the content of the signature mark,
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Do you by chance have a contact named Ava in your address book? If so you can try changing their name, or disabling the option to provide auto complete suggestions from your address book
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by gregschlom 2y ago
It's funny, I hold the exact opposite opinion, but from the same example: In the course of my programming career, I've had at least 3 different instances where I crashed stuff in production because I was computing an average and f
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by gregschlom 2y ago
On solid objects at least (like jewelry) it dislodges particles of grime / dirt. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasonic_cleaning . No idea if this also works on soft tissue. Edit: the Wikipedia page above says
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Maybe, but the 60s are also the start of recreational scuba diving and that probably played a big part in it as well. All of a sudden there was this big unknown world that became accessible.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Counter example: until relatively recently you had large segments of the population who didn't know how to read and write, but were very skilled at whatever their trade was.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
By the way, if you're into round-the-world solo racing, this is your reminder that the Vendee Globe just started last, Sunday! https://www.vendeeglobe.org/ and https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4D
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by gregschlom 2y ago
I'm assuming you're not a native speaker? (I'm not) - "to cut a deal" is a fairly common idiom that means to reach and agreement.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
The other repos from this person are also worth checking: https://codeberg.org/drummyfish E.g.: https://codeberg.org/drummyfish/Anarch
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Yes that's what Redfin does actually. And I'm sure a bunch of others.
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by gregschlom 2y ago
That sounds really interesting, could you you share more details? For example, what do you mean by organizing the information into a knowledge graph? Could you perhaps share the prompt you use?
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Probably because things are a bit different now than in the 80's and 90's? 1. We used to do a lot more business over phone calls back in those days, so people were more willing to entertain cold phone calls 2. Technology has allow
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by gregschlom 2y ago
Get a continuous glucose monitor. You should be able to convince your doctor to write you a prescription for it. If not, there brands that will do the prescription for you after a quick video call with a doctor (but they're more expens

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