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by hcrean 2mo ago
Meh! We only need it for like 2-4 weeks a year, a fan works adequately. The nine months around that we need heating, which every home has.
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by hcrean 2mo ago
Well, that was depressingly bleak. It is even AI generated.
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by hcrean 3mo ago
You loosely have two major types of Ocs that are popular: English Vessel Flutes (aka "pendants") and "little geese" (aka "Japanese-fingering" or "traverse")... Pendants typically have about the same r
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by hcrean 3mo ago
Hello, Ocarina maker and long time player here! Ocs are unfortunately almost always significantly louder than recorders...
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by hcrean 3mo ago
Hi, Ocarina maker here! This is a genuinely interesting idea, and some Ocarina like the Goslings do have a double keying with a single finger. Sadly with English Vessel Flutes (4/6/8 holes) the holes need to all be roughly equidis
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by hcrean 8mo ago
When this was written there was a clearer divide between people with higher educational training, qualifications and interest and those without.
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by hcrean 1y ago
Some of us use chromatic tuners to fast (lazy) check our CNC speeds and feeds. 1/4Hz matters to me, go Korg!
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by hcrean 1y ago
xml-rpc.php paid for my pool... but I freely admit to a degree of "because the scanner said so".
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by hcrean 2y ago
In 2024 the word "Hacker" means someone who begs rich VC companies for money... This is sadly not the correct site to find advice on doing naughty things with computers.
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by hcrean 2y ago
The elephant in the room: People who have gotten over the K8s learning curve almost all tell you it isn't actually that bad. Most people who have not attempted the learning curve, or have just dipped their toe in, will tell you they ar
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by hcrean 2y ago
This article assumes a lot more self-determinism than is available in practice to most people. Beyond that many of us have been running on fumes for years, I can't lose ten extra hours every week away from seeing my family, so I can up
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by hcrean 2y ago
Posting a nonsense job to accrue CVs and a call-list of details is a common tactic used by the people tasked with building the internal candidate database.
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by hcrean 2y ago
At some point an arbitrary conspiracy theory will be shown to be true; and the title of this article will have to change to read "Reducing people's belief systems through dialog with AI"...
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by hcrean 2y ago
Humanity is possibly racing to it's own destruction by making a buck along the way. Humanity is possibly about to breed home appliances that pathfind our way to greater knowledge than we could ever have gotten to on our own. AI might h
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by hcrean 2y ago
Imagine working this hard to track down people sharing ideas, that you didn't work to produce or fund in the first place, in order to punish them for not giving you a financial cut... Companies like this are just holding humanity back.
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by hcrean 2y ago
I am highly reluctant to use type casting as a mathematical function!! I was burnt by early languages struggling with this problem... Even modern languages still have issues with this! Try running this in Python3.11 ``` float(90071992547409
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by hcrean 2y ago
Leetcode is about proving you can give up huge chunks of your time to learn about the current industry fads, useless to life though they may be: This is unfortunately a vital work skill in the software development industry...
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by hcrean 2y ago
I failed FizzBuzz the first time someone gave it to me in an interview... The specific failure was that I first attempted to solve by using repeated subtraction. The guy kept asking me to "solve it a different way", or saying &quo
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by hcrean 2y ago
There is a method where you piece the glass together supported in investment, (a type of ceramic casting plaster), by building it up in layers. You tightly pack it and put it in the kiln, the investment holds the shape of the object when it
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by hcrean 2y ago
This is actually kind of an awesome idea, printing overhang has been a issue with printer adoption, and greatly limits some of the parts you can fabricate. I hope this becomes mainstream in the major slicers soon.
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by hcrean 2y ago
Open Source is, by and large, intended by the creator to donate their ideas to benefit humanity as a whole; many people feel that using their thing to help strengthen an (ethically questionable) monopoly is acting against that core goal.
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by hcrean 3y ago
Auth in 2000 was "here, have a Cookie". Auth in 2024 is ... not that anymore.
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by hcrean 3y ago
What if Bob and Alice and Charlie all had a hand in developing invention X... suddenly we would find ourselves just redefining companies.
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by hcrean 3y ago
Budget is likely a large contributing factor.
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by hcrean 3y ago
We also have something like 16% of the per-capita murder rate of the states, so not all that incomprehensible...
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by hcrean 3y ago
This comment hurts, because it is true.
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by hcrean 3y ago
Left-pad is a very good case study. For most of my early career (Security focused), companies would download copies of packages for use, they would go through a rigorous security scanning and vulnerability management processes before being
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by hcrean 3y ago
Or you could just re-use the same number; no one can prove it is not random. https://xkcd.com/221/
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by hcrean 3y ago
I wonder if they checked for exploit code in the image the they likely originally found somewhere on Google.
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by hcrean 3y ago
08/25/2010 Bandundu,Congo Democratic Republic A passenger brought aboard a crocodile hidden in a sports bag. The crocodile escaped, causing a panic among passengers who all rushed to one end of the plane. This caused an imbalance

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