johtso

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   by johtso 5y ago

   Edit: Here's a really well executed online tool that someone else made: https://pinfruit.com/ ------ Went digging through my old files, turns out this was almost 10 years ago!.. and looks like I left it unfinished. I w
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   by johtso 5y ago

   I once tried to write a script that would generate the most efficient encoding of an arbitrary length number using the Mnemonic Major System. Definitely an interesting problem!
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   by johtso 5y ago

   Right, the locations in a memory palace are just a form of "peg system" [1]. The advantage it has compared with a "link system" [2] is that forgetting one link doesn't mean you lose the rest of the chain. You can al
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   by johtso 5y ago

   I do the same, except I edit the information on musicbrainz (including adding album art) and then use that as the source of data. That way I'm contributing to the database and making sure my tags are perfect.
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   by johtso 5y ago

   T-cell tests are available in some places now. https://www.tspotcovid.com/
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   by johtso 5y ago

   This is my go to site for etymology https://www.etymonline.com/word/muscle Has a good description of this derivation.
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   by johtso 5y ago

   This trips me up at least a few times a week. Infuriating!
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   by johtso 5y ago

   My immediate thought was a morbid clock that used a live insect to measure they time. Once the creature dies you know that a certain amount of time has passed.
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   Lazy Shuffled List Generator(chrismaclellan.com)

   2 points by johtso 5y ago|0 comments
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    Designing an async API, from sans-I/O on up(snarky.ca)

    2 points by johtso 5y ago|0 comments
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    by johtso 5y ago

    I recently came across sanity.io as a jamstack backend. Generous free offering. Rather than the spreadsheet model, you define your schema and get a nice CMS interface generated that you host as a static page
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    by johtso 5y ago

    Same, it's the only mobile browser I've found that has decent dark mode..
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    by johtso 5y ago

    Also may impact your future immunity. Good to know what your clinical history is..
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    by johtso 6y ago

    This is great news! Well done steering council. Definitely raises questions about the best way to avoid these kinds of last minute situations in the future..
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Initial submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26826158
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    by johtso 6y ago

    I guess a better question is, why is the Banksy stencil something that needs to be protected, but the work by the unknown street artist not. Because Banksy is a famous brand, and his work has big price tags attached to it. The whole thing i
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    by johtso 6y ago

    I think it is supposed to be doing that?
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Dead how? I find forestry with integrated cloudinary for asset hosting a really decent solution.
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Yeah, spot on. I was slightly surprised by the almost universal sentiment that peeing in bottles was bad. The tricky thing is that in this context, the fact that drivers are peeing in bottles is likely a symptom of a broken system that is e
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Oh yeah, definitely should never be a situation where someone's working environment penalises them for using a bathroom. And you're right, there are lots of things that might make someone less able to work around a lack of toilet
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Not being a woman I can't speak from experience, but I've heard that it is totally possible to learn to do. Obviously not with a narrow necked drinking bottle, but with a Nalgene or similar. There was an interesting podcast on the
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    by johtso 6y ago

    What exactly is wrong with peeing in a bottle? It's a practical solution to a very easily solved biological need. Hygienically, peeing is very different from pooing, and can be dealt with much more easily. If anything, having to beg so
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    Lazy Shuffled List Generator(chrismaclellan.com)

    1 points by johtso 6y ago|0 comments
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Is this the kind of thing that can be added to youtube-dl? Are they pretty open to adding new sites?
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Some previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14960597
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Or just use scrapy's caching functionality. Super convenient.
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Seems to possibly also be affecting scheduling.. my task that's supposed to run every 10 minutes hasn't checked in for an hour. And I can't log in. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26079228
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Think this might also affect scheduled tasks? My service that's supposed to run every 10 minutes hasn't checked in for an hour.. and I can't log in. Edit: I can log in now and my scheduled task is running again.
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Akrasia is a related concept. Enjoyed this blog post on the topic: https://blog.beeminder.com/akrasia/
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    by johtso 6y ago

    Right.. probably one of the worst I've come across. Finally got me to make the effort to install a browser extension. Seems to be doing the trick. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/i-dont-care-about-..