jvandonsel

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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Years ago I sent a donation to his charity and was pleasantly surprised to get a personal thanks from Bram. A wonderful person.
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Finally! Thanks.
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Except maybe a file with really long lines.
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Perhaps it’s because they wear contact lenses now.
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
This is why I always hide at least one bug in my code.
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What my musical instruments have taught me(newyorker.com)
99 points by jvandonsel 3y ago|41 comments
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Similar article in the latest New Yorker : https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/03/the-perils-and...
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
This page renders poorly in an iPad. For example, for me question 20 is empty unless I rotate to landscape. Terrible UX.
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Epicycle Clock(sophiehoulden.com)
30 points by jvandonsel 3y ago|6 comments
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Sorry, I just could not get past casting Mark Rylance as Cromwell. In the books, he, Cromwell, is described as a thug and a street brawler, albeit a clever and ambitious one. As much as I like Rylance I can’t see him in a pub brawl.
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Epicycle Clock(sophiehoulden.com)
2 points by jvandonsel 3y ago|0 comments
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
No problem! The sinking of the city will counteract the rising of the ocean. Oh, wait...
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
8 bucks for a Big Mac at Lee Plaza on the Massachusetts Turnpike westbound! The funny thing is that the Eastbound plaza, on the other side of the highway, sells them for $6.69.
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
New blog genre. “Workbench porn”
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by jvandonsel 3y ago
Love the guy in the white lab coat with the starting flag.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
This is a surprisingly well-written science article for a business magazine. It helps that a physicist wrote it.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
I've always used protoboard and hand-wiring for all my home projects. Is it worth the time and effort to layout a PCB and have several fabricated for a one-off project? Do the aesthetics of a PCB win out?
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
Fun fact: The entire article is a palindrome.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
Yes. My workflow usually includes: 5) scream obscenities because you forgot to thread the heat shrink tubing before soldering. 6) snip wires 7) goto step 1
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
The title of the podcast is “Conversations with Tyler” but it just sounded like Tyler reading a list of canned questions, mispronouncing a couple of names along the way. Not exactly a conversation.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
I pity all you heretics who are celebrating the new year tonight. We followers of The One True Julian Calendar are sitting at home alone for the next 14 days.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
I’ve listened twice now to the wonderful audiobook narration of Middlemarch by Juliet Stevenson. Highly recommended. Maybe someday I’ll get around to reading the novel in print.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
Typo in the second sentence of your intro.
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CLEAR is a pox on America’s airports(slate.com)
158 points by jvandonsel 4y ago|94 comments
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
These winners are always too long-winded. “Brevity is the soul of wit”. The alternative is the much funnier Lyttle Lytton Contest: http://adamcadre.ac/lyttle.html
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
Yeah, at first I didn’t understand the pun walking into a bar joke because the punchline really needed to be spoken out loud.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
Transparent aluminum
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
U.S. imports from China year by year. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/imports-from-chin... The Chinese economy was not “crushed by Trump”.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
NuMega! Their SoftICE was amazing.
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by jvandonsel 4y ago
The do have a shorter lever arm.

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