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by knodi123 3y ago
For a counterexample, see Cauldron in the above repo. It looks like a lot of work and refinement went into that.
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by knodi123 3y ago
I saw The Matrix before the marketing campaign or anything. An almost-finished workprint was floating around on our campus residential network. All I knew was that "matrix.avi" was the largest file I had ever seen, over 700 MB!!!
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by knodi123 3y ago
Oh. Well that's a tragedy, because I loved that game and beat it twice.
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by knodi123 3y ago
A decade before Pokemon existed, I went to see the movie The Wizard, a Fred Savage vehicle that was basically a 2 hour Nintendo commercial. And in the lobby of the theater as I was leaving, there was a booth selling subscriptions for the b
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by knodi123 3y ago
"Zoom. Enhance."
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by knodi123 3y ago
Surely not the first death by industrial robot... those things are notorious for being powerful and for being designed for a human-free work area.
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by knodi123 3y ago
me neither. it's the kind of random gibberish that SEO bots insert into auto-generated pages. but it's in the middle of the page of a catalog from 1968! surprising.
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by knodi123 3y ago
I like page 16, where it says > Metal to rubber of asphalt ribbons plugged into Vietnam and the price of aerosolled ketchup thru WDBJ Star City via the chromium telescoping finger. 700 miles of the great highway turn on, 13 hours of kee
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by knodi123 3y ago
I got a really cool vanity email address, back in the early days of gmail. But the downside of that is 100s of goofball people around the world randomly guessing it when they want to put some bullshit value in a field on a web form. The w
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by knodi123 3y ago
Well, it IS 20 years old.... A walkman would have been retro in 2001, and it would have been the same age as the ipod is now....
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by knodi123 3y ago
Now you have me imagining a penny-farthing with an F1 engine.
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by knodi123 3y ago
that's absolutely counterintuitive. is it because all the weight of your car is shared equally between all points of contact, so more grip area = less force per grip area?
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by knodi123 3y ago
not really relevant to micromouse
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by knodi123 3y ago
That was thrilling, thank you. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to leave the country before my bookie gets here.
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by knodi123 3y ago
I have "increment" and "decrement" bookmarklets, that look for the last-most number in a url and make it go up or down by one. I'm always surprised at how often it's useful. Oh, and I have this one called &qu
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by knodi123 3y ago
From that story, > "For example, there’s a trick that nearly every writer uses, of inserting at least one long, obscure word into each story. This makes the reader think that the man is very wise and clever. So I have the machine do
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by knodi123 3y ago
Is it still learning from ongoing conversations? I thought its grasp of context was purely limited to a single conversation, so if for instance you taught it something, it would never share that with me, or with you a few days later .
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by knodi123 3y ago
The story of "operation acoustic kitty" being squashed by a taxi is presented without skepticism; they don't mention that > this was disputed in 2013 by Robert Wallace, a former director of the Office of Technical Service,
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by knodi123 3y ago
I interpreted "you’ll be notified to clear it" in the sense of "You will be notified that this is the reason the camera won't take pictures". It seems like a logical assumption - what's the point of adding tech
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by knodi123 3y ago
"If the LED is covered, you will be required to uncover it."
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by knodi123 3y ago
> The Capture LED lets others know when you’re capturing content or going live. If the LED is covered, you’ll be notified to clear it. Wonder how that works. Maybe the capture LED has a light sensor next to it that detects reflections?
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by knodi123 3y ago
I guess there's precedent: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/74326789852998041...
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by knodi123 3y ago
> Those things are catnip to me lol, I go over to try and solve a react component lifecycle question, and then click over to a Dungeons And Dragons esoteric rule edge case.
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by knodi123 3y ago
Huh. I assumed I was on standard versions of these kind of really old utilities. But you're on to something: bc -v bc 4.0.2 Copyright (c) 2018-2021 Gavin D. Howard and contributors Report bugs at: https://
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by knodi123 3y ago
why not pipe the input through a few more commands? :-P bc -l -e "(2/3) * 3 - 2"
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by knodi123 3y ago
> since they easily outlast any fabric or silicone ones perhaps not as true when they are phone accessories. ;-)
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by knodi123 3y ago
Siri has been less performant than OK Google for something like 5 years, in my estimation.
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by knodi123 3y ago
where "compliant" is circularly defined as "supports charging and data"?
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by knodi123 3y ago
because after he was done, he derailed the meeting for like 5 minutes telling us how he set it up. I kid , though, it was actually interesting.
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by knodi123 3y ago
see also: George Lucas "fixing" the star wars movies and making the originals impossible to find.

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