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by kmstout 4y ago
Sunday night. I shave most days with a second-hand DE razor using the cheap blades from CVS and a bar of soap. It's possible that I could get more shaves out of them, but this works well enough. Also, Sunday is a day of rituals for pre
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by kmstout 4y ago
As a lefty, I find that the reporter's notebooks are ideal for carrying out in the world. The binding stays out of my way, and every pair of facing pages forms a long column that works nicely for notes, snippets of code, and shopping l
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by kmstout 4y ago
Input: I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy. Output: I need a disease, not the following treatment. --- Input: Are you there? Output: you are there
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by kmstout 5y ago
https://reindeereffect.github.io/
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Grasping `All-the-Apples-at-Once'(okmij.org)
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by kmstout 5y ago
"We lived as recluses; devoid of friends, alone, and without servants in a few proofs by simplification" "5:5 And, behold, I will deliver you up to the programmer tendency to build overelaborate castles of abstractions"
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Seymour Cray: What's all this about gallium arsenide? (1988)(youtube.com)
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by kmstout 5y ago
The Stinking Rose in SF has it ( https://thestinkingrose.com/sf/menu2.html ).
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by kmstout 5y ago
After the Man in Black retired from being the Dread Pirate Roberts, he had time to visit them all.
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by kmstout 5y ago
Or you could make a launcher for your app that (attempts to) determine whether it needs to launch a terminal and does the right thing. Something like my-beautiful-console-app ======================== #! /bin/bash if tty
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by kmstout 5y ago
This tactic of sending me a custom client in JS that exchanges blobs of JSON and drives the display I generally dislike when I'm in the browser. It is, however, nicer to reverse engineer than in the old days, where I'd have to par
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by kmstout 5y ago
The dictionary seems to be from aspell. After a couple stock guesses, I can usually win in another turn or two using `aspell dump master` and some grepping.
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by kmstout 5y ago
On the Linux console, I couldn't see anything until striking a key. This was also the case for xterm; Emacs ansi-term; screen on urxvt; and SSH via SyncTERM. In all cases, hitting anything was sufficient to bring ptg to its senses. Sti
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by kmstout 5y ago
We clearly need a comic about Real Programmer Man and his exploits.
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by kmstout 5y ago
For years my backup strategy has been to compress and encrypt selected files, then send the hex dumps to transmitters in remote locales. Numbers station geeks dutifully jot down the data, filling pad after pad. When the data apocalypse befa
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by kmstout 5y ago
A poem, by the Washington Post and Emacs auto-fill-mode: Russian warships sailed toward the Black Sea on Tuesday, stoking alarm among U.S. and European security officials who warned that the final capabilities for a large-scal
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by kmstout 5y ago
Reminded me of this talk by Charles Petzold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-N5DuEUap8
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by kmstout 5y ago
A poet once said, “The whole universe is in a glass of wine.” We will probably never know in what sense he meant that, for poets do not write to be understood. But it is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the enti
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by kmstout 5y ago
As a young officer candidate in the US Navy, I took a navigation class co-taught by a very weathered quartermaster (QMCS) whose love was celestial navigation. We spent several days on the subject, and ended with a case study of Shackleton&#
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Robust Local Synchronization – Research Notebook Video(youtube.com)
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by kmstout 5y ago
- Harry Potter and the Two-Sided Limit. - Harry Potter and the Area Beneath the Curve. - Harry Potter and the Osculating Circle.
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by kmstout 5y ago
> After all, even us natives make mistakes. Aye, we natives sometimes do. ;) My morning pedantry complete, I shall stand aside while the next greater pedant corrects this comment. Let the games begin!
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by kmstout 5y ago
The last time I played AI Dungeon, I burned down a hotel, then checked in, went upstairs and connected my laptop to the wifi. When I summoned Cthulhu, a bottle of red wine arrived.
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by kmstout 5y ago
- Professionally, much of my output is in Python--everyone else in the shop knows it--with a smattering of C when it's warranted. That said, I'm an Emacs user, and I do write libraries and custom modes in Elisp to do things I find
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by kmstout 5y ago
It could also use scan lines and the beautiful effects of glowing phosphor. https://github.com/Swordfish90/cool-retro-term
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by kmstout 5y ago
Back in the 2000s, a variation on this was used in the US navy's technical schools. Correct answer? Full points, regardless of showing work. Incorrect answer with work shown? Points off for the error, but allowance for errors carried f
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Mike Bostok – D3 – Data Visualization Meetup (2011)(vimeo.com)
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by kmstout 5y ago
If you like Vermeer, you might also appreciate the works of Han van Meegeren (and it's possible that you unwittingly do). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_van_Meegeren
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by kmstout 5y ago
There's another article that discusses a material-efficient way of making domes arches and vaulted ceilings: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/11/tiles-vaults.html I've been watching videos of the t
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by kmstout 5y ago
I wrote these years ago. They're damn handy. It's true that they're not implemented in Bash (that would be nuts), but having them on hand lets me do much more on the command line than would otherwise be possible. ~/b

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