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by kbouck 3y ago
this already exists in the djay app (paid add-on feature). even runs on a smartphone! performs about the same as the app this thread is about.
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by kbouck 3y ago
Would love to see something like this auto-mix song transitions in playlists to be more DJ-like.
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by kbouck 3y ago
not easy to convert accurately in your head, but google does unit conversion right in the search bar: "200 f to c" and macOS spotlight you can go even shorter: "200 f"
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Canonical to abandon Snap, remove in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS(news.itsfoss.com)
92 points by kbouck 4y ago|28 comments
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by kbouck 4y ago
'Urban Arrow' cargo bikes seem popular in Amsterdam (with piles of kids being the typical cargo). They seem to be available in Australia too.
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by kbouck 4y ago
It generally means an sequence/array of flat json objects, each key represents a column name, and the value representing the row value for that column. Nested json can also be "flattened". > "... ordering of key-valu
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by kbouck 4y ago
and miller also has a powerful (and intuitive imo.) dsl should you need to go beyond what the simple command line switches offer. so, it remains simple and concise for the easy problems, yet can scale up to address the trickier ones as well
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by kbouck 4y ago
you could shorten to: $ mlr -N --csv head -n 20 pp-2002.csv -N is a shortcut for --implicit-csv-header and --headerless-csv-output
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by kbouck 4y ago
seems almost like playing dobble https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dobble
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by kbouck 4y ago
... or inadvertently turn off your phone while intending to take a picture
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by kbouck 4y ago
> David Attia Did you mean Peter Attia?
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by kbouck 4y ago
No discussion on swearing dictionaries is complete without mentioning "Roger's Profanisaurus": https://a.co/d/bbKKHME https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger%27s_Profanisaurus
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by kbouck 4y ago
... and on iphone/ipad https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212630
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by kbouck 4y ago
if plugged in and at 100% at the start of the measurement, wouldn't a simple kill-a-watt give a decent per-day measurement? if you are looking to get the measurement data in the computer, then this isn't for you...
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by kbouck 4y ago
For those with larger collections (I'm up to ~350 individual sheets), I'm interested to know you access (find/read/edit) the cheatsheets. My way: (Mac Desktop): I use xbar [0] with a custom script to create a menubar nes
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by kbouck 4y ago
(Anecdata): The past few years I've oscillated between periods of consistent exercise and then periods of inactivity and I definitely notice a pattern wrt hunger. recent periods: 1. a period of months of inactivity. 2. a period of mult
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by kbouck 4y ago
> sqlite3 :memory: -cmd '.mode csv' ... csv mode can also be set with a switch: sqlite3 :memory: -csv
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by kbouck 4y ago
> "Having to think about paying a bill every month" Others can correct me, but I believe each payment just adds a month of time to your balance. So a number of months can be added at once.
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by kbouck 4y ago
a game like overcooked except where the players are parents (or babysitters) taking care of too many toddlers that are needy and bent on finding everything dirty or dangerous in the room.
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by kbouck 4y ago
this doesn't directly address the ease-of-editing concern, but if you have csv (or tsv) and want ascii (0x1f, 0x1e) or unicode(U+241F, U+241E) separated (or vice versa), 'miller' [0] is a command line tool that supports conve
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by kbouck 4y ago
IBM was doing something like this in their software load balancer ~1996. The technique was used in the large sporting events websites of the day (olympics, wimbledon, ...) went something like this: - a routing node (a kernel extension) woul
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by kbouck 5y ago
also look at cheat. combines community maintained and custom cheat sheets configured as simple text files. https://github.com/cheat/cheat
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by kbouck 5y ago
There's a traceroute+ping utility called mtr https://www.bitwizard.nl/mtr/
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by kbouck 5y ago
thanks for plaintextsports too! don't know what's going on inside of espn but their web experience (mobile or not) is just terrible - and i don't bother with the app. was really looking for something like how simple yahoo spo
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by kbouck 5y ago
The YouTube channel linked to here (Brick Experiment Channel) is just great. From making submarines, to bending steel axles, to making drones, to climbing walls, to lifting heavy loads, all with legos. Highly recommended if you're int
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by kbouck 5y ago
I was going to suggest that the resistors could be skipped in favor of internal pull-ups, but that is already covered in the "gen 2 plans" section.
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by kbouck 5y ago
i always felt that it should be possible to use a raspberry pi or arduino as the controller. with some tinkering i was able to generate IR signals that were accepted by the power functions receivers. and the power functions extension cable
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by kbouck 5y ago
> "the pile" it's essential to organize them otherwise locating the piece of interest becomes too frustrating and time consuming. we use a stack of tool boxes from the hardware store to organize ours.
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by kbouck 5y ago
maybe something like this? https://eclecti.cc/hardware/tiny-usb-type-c-adjustable-power...
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by kbouck 5y ago
Ultimate Plumber https://github.com/akavel/up HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26644110

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