jibbit

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by jibbit 2y ago
A couple of things I noticed while teaching drawing to students (who were quite good) and i was a bit obsessed by Aphantasia.. It's always easy to distinguish a drawing done from life, a drawing done from a photograph, and a drawing do
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by jibbit 2y ago
"unroll your loops" is not something i had on my bad advice bingo card for today
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by jibbit 2y ago
dissociative effects so powerful you'll never perceive the world the same again doesn't sound like a great selling point in the worlds best anaesthetic
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by jibbit 2y ago
now theres a list that "antibiotic resistant bacteria" fits into quite nicely
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by jibbit 2y ago
or a tagged type if you're old enough to have ever been exposed to another language
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by jibbit 2y ago
I'm pretty sure you can narrow that down to "icons. the harde..". I'm not sure that quitting icon fonts is the answer. When you try you pretty quickly remember why they exist
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by jibbit 3y ago
i'll never forget my 1st time coming into a high end Flame suite. it was so exciting.. i don't think i could have been more excited if you'd told me i was stepping into the worlds first time machine
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by jibbit 3y ago
i had one of these and was determined to learn everything about electricity. i started building the projects in order, keeping many notes, over and over again. it was only many years later finding the set under a pile of junk at the back
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by jibbit 3y ago
a recently reported case in the uk https://fortune.com/well/article/vitamin-d-toxicity
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by jibbit 3y ago
"we figure out the interface that matches all possible decisions on that question, and write the code against that interface" i'd sure like to use this button somewhere else, but i'm not clever enough
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by jibbit 3y ago
you're saying that Subgrid is an alternative to Tailwind? Or, you can't use Subgrid as well as Tailwind?
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by jibbit 3y ago
not in the US, but i believe we have plastic manhole covers here now because you can't leave anything metal unguarded
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by jibbit 3y ago
found it.. it's just a slide in "Joe Armstrong - Keynote: The Forgotten Ideas in Computer Science - Code BEAM SF 2018"
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by jibbit 3y ago
joe armstrong gave a talk where he recommends '4 ancient technologies worth learning', or some such. one of them is bash, and another is shell (and emacs, and something else). given that it's joe - i think he knows what he&#
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by jibbit 3y ago
it still surprises me how badly understood brexit is outside of the uk (as most of the comments here demnostrate). it feels like failure to understand it is going to have consequences..
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by jibbit 3y ago
i commented this before and it got reddit-style piled on, so i deleted it.. but on reflection- i'm not sure why i cared, so putting it back: i was looking forward to some good tofu in tokyo (in restaurants, not shops - i was on holiday
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by jibbit 3y ago
> The main issue I see.. you've 180° misunderstood DST, the sole purpose of which is to give you an extra hour in bed in the winter
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by jibbit 3y ago
~ 8%
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by jibbit 3y ago
how old are 'kids'? very few children under say 13 were obsessed with radio, records, books.. i see kids from age 3 who can't put down their tablets
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by jibbit 3y ago
I've never worked in an office where the thermostat wasn't controlled by a sociopath
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by jibbit 3y ago
I just wonder if we have forgotten some medieval flea treatment technique
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by jibbit 3y ago
i wish i could understand how cats became so popular, given -> Fleas. As far as i can tell, anti-flea treatments have existed for about 50 years. I get that catching mice is a huge plus, but a house full of fleas also kinda sucks.
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by jibbit 3y ago
What’s kinda poignant is that there was one tree left where there should be a forest, and you’re directed to feel angry when it is cut down
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by jibbit 3y ago
this is a basic misunderstanding of copyright
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by jibbit 3y ago
I’ve left it as long as I’m comfortable with.. about 12 hours in bad conditions. Not sure what else I can do
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by jibbit 3y ago
My cat gets stuck on the roof three times a day, or possibly has trained me to climb a ladder and carry it down three times a day
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by jibbit 3y ago
this is fab
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by jibbit 3y ago
I don’t think there are any benefits, it’s cancelled (or about to be)
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by jibbit 3y ago
Hs2 needlessly cut down thousands of ancient oaks
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by jibbit 3y ago
Absolutely, a heat pump is three times as efficient as a gas boiler, but in the uk electricity is more than three times the price of gas

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