kwoff

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by kwoff 5y ago
Whether or not it will succeed as a gaming platform, I think the Deck looks interesting as a piece of hardware. I was ready to reserve one during the previous round of hype, but held off for now when I saw "Expected order availability:
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by kwoff 5y ago
I don't think "we go with the majority" just because you prefer the majority's preferences. There are many cultures on the internet and the planet, and they have their own local preferences. If anything, I think it would
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by kwoff 5y ago
A fridge (compressor) in a studio I lived in often made me hear Barber's "Adagio for Strings" (sad song in the game "Homeworld" or the movie "Platoon"). I think it hummed at the frequency of the long note
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by kwoff 5y ago
When I was learning/using French, kinda the inverse of what you said, I'd try to think of a sophisticated English word to use. It could even bleed back into English speaking, for example I would "recount" (raconter) some
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by kwoff 5y ago
I guess C's setjmp/longjmp: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setjmp.h#Example_usage (though that's maybe hovering only slightly above asm).
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by kwoff 6y ago
Louis Rossman (Apple repair guy) had a similar great take on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EUbJcGoYQ4 (and followup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdpVzzXWOTA )
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by kwoff 6y ago
I could see a couple ways out of storing it. Either don't do anything when it's dark, or collect the energy on the other side (or from orbit) and transmit it to the dark side.
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by kwoff 6y ago
I feel like most of the chess.com puzzles have a point: fork the rook and king with the knight, or exploit a pin. That makes them easier (or maybe my level isn't high enough there, yet). The lichess.org ones I often have no idea what t
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by kwoff 6y ago
Funny, I used to say the same thing about vi (I normally use emacs, but it was much quicker to open known_hosts with vim, type `29GddESC:wq!`). Though a few years ago ssh started to output a command to run, so I just copy-paste that now.
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by kwoff 6y ago
It's been interesting to see how popular "Among Us" has become. (I guess the problem for me is that, ahem, it's best played with a group of friends...) It does seem to make for a good game on Twitch, since several stream
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by kwoff 6y ago
Though the title says "cancelled", the article in a nutshell: "The author’s estate ... said the “timing wasn’t quite right”".
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by kwoff 6y ago
We have a small number of "slots" of short term memory. I wonder how smart we'd be if we had twice as many slots.
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by kwoff 6y ago
XUL in my memory is a kind of tragedy. It seemed to me to represent a future where GUIs could be programmed on any platform using an HTML-like language. Previously you had to individually write GUIs as applications, using languages like C++
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by kwoff 6y ago
Kinda want to counterbalance all of the "wow, that's extreme" comments. I do have a new routine when I get groceries, though not quite as careful as yours. I think if I didn't, I'd always feel like my home was conta
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by kwoff 6y ago
The comet is getting farther away from the sun.
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by kwoff 6y ago
"Astronomy Picture of the Day" has a picture from the ISS: https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200710.html (There's a beautiful 10-minute video from the ISS apparently based on time-lapse photos from eol.jsc.na
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by kwoff 6y ago
It's very common to see these water ditches in the Netherlands, since 1/3 of the country is below sea level. Land rescued from water is called a polder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polder
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by kwoff 6y ago
I used AOLserver with OpenACS, https://openacs.org/ . AOLserver was apparently more optimized than Apache (at the time, at least). My manager even had us (early 2000s) take a one-week(?) bootcamp at Ars Digita HQ in Boston.
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by kwoff 6y ago
I guess I don't understand what I'm supposed to find in Evelyn Waugh. Previously I've only ever heard the name in "Lost in Translation": "Evelyn Waugh was a man." Skimming the article, I see a bunch of &qu
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by kwoff 6y ago
Also precede the file list by `--`. A very confusing thing can happen if a file happens to begin with a dash... (You can intersperse options like `-e pattern` among file names, if for some reason you wanted to do that.)
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by kwoff 6y ago
In the mid-90s I started using emacs just because a classmate mentioned it (previously we'd used whatever was on VMS; I think this was around when I discovered Unix). A few years later in grad school, I was in the computer lab one even
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by kwoff 7y ago
Also https://www.nand2tetris.org/ and "Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Harris and Harris go into building a computer from the ground up.
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by kwoff 7y ago
Reminds me of an Applied Science video on cleaning in general (appropriate solvents, rinsing): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiL6uPNlqRw
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by kwoff 7y ago
I agree that the truncation at 1998 is odd. The footer has "The Autism History Project © 2019 by Ellen Herman", so it seems like it's not an abandoned univerity account. I think that the previous slide of 1998, which says &qu
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by kwoff 7y ago
This might not be a common experience nowadays (sigh), but I encountered this problem a few weeks ago in Perl. The long-used module at https://metacpan.org/pod/Geo::IP now mentions "the GeoIP Legacy file based dat
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by kwoff 7y ago
There's also https://www.startpage.com/
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by kwoff 7y ago
"His most recent book" - does anyone read beyond that?
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by kwoff 7y ago
So, what is your source that "most people are just fine"? I'd wager that what you mean is, you're fine and you think most people you know are fine. Good luck, in any case.
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by kwoff 7y ago
Not sure how to say it, but however brief your involvement was, I'm glad to read your comment here on Hacker News.
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by kwoff 7y ago
Is there any metric besides A1C for "type 2 diabetes"? A few years ago, I went to a doctor and my A1C was 8 something (among other issues...). I ate low-carb a couple months, and the doctor was impressed my A1C went down to 5.1 or

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