lfowles

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by lfowles 11y ago
Even "pancake flat" states aren't that flat! (Kansas, specifically) The cows get the bumpy fields, the tractors get the flat ones.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Perhaps generic Lysol. Generic white bottle with lots of text is common on ranches.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Funny, because neither Pycharm or CLion have randomly frozen for me in Linux. Sounds like they support Linux in my case!
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by lfowles 11y ago
Some of the comments propose granting a perpetual license after 1 year of subscription. I would go for that.
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I was a bit put off that statement though since I expect bug fixes as part of my original purchase price. You should expect that. But when it comes time to purchase the upgrade, would you do it ONLY for future bugfixes? Or for new fea
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by lfowles 11y ago
Vertical tab bars :) It doesn't impede my workflow as if I had that many tabs open on a traditional horizontal bar, so they just accumulate.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Just copy the countless IRC game bots :)
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by lfowles 11y ago
Hah. That's a very similar search term to the one that got me in foobar.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Another example of merely "gluing together a couple of pieces of open source software": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
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by lfowles 11y ago
Linode has had a textmode in-browser console for quite some time (LISH). This post is introducing GLISH: > It's similar to Lish, except instead of connecting to your Linode's serial port and being text, Glish connects to your L
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by lfowles 11y ago
What about Google Photos? ;) They're already explicitly categorizing my pictures (Dog, Flowers, Food, Chicago, etc)
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by lfowles 11y ago
Whoooosh
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I really envy people who can dedicate their entire lives to doing one thing and one thing only 24/7 - whether gaming or coding. Similarly, I used to have a crippling envy of accomplished coders who were same age as me, which has
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by lfowles 11y ago
Interesting perspective, but consider time allotment for a day. You get 24 hours generally broken down into: ~8h sleeping, ~8h working/studying, ~8h "free time". Can't you argue that they're being productive by virt
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by lfowles 11y ago
Do what you find enjoyable. There's little point fighting it. My personal threshold for addiction is "this is a mindless time filler keeping me away from other things I want to accomplish" which is enough for me to determine
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by lfowles 11y ago
Despite driving the same exact route every day, it has saved my bacon when it snows, routing me around accidents. Same for construction, it answers the question "is the construction zone going to make me 2 minutes or 15 minutes behind
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by lfowles 11y ago
> -- USDA food pyramid. (The uneducated don't realize that the USDA (and hence the chart) is influenced and manipulated by the meat & dairy industries. Because the nutrition advice is officially published by the government and p
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by lfowles 11y ago
There also seems to be a constant barrage of assembly/CPU posts (I counted 4 posts including this one earlier on the front page) , I'm not sure where GP gets the idea that no one here cares.
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by lfowles 11y ago
I have several boxes of brown sugar handed down to me from my parents years ago.... I just get out a serrated knife and cut out X amount packed! ;)
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by lfowles 11y ago
Measure compactible dry by weight*. A "cup" of flour can be anywhere from 4-8oz, but is commonly 4oz when a cup is called for in a recipe.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Not mine! Just the tool I used
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by lfowles 11y ago
Not a whole lot lower though, only in the 10-100x lower range from what I've experimented with (couple generations old card vs couple generations old i7 with a straight up "process some floats" test[0]). Certainly enough to t
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by lfowles 11y ago
pocl seems to be another: http://portablecl.org/
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by lfowles 11y ago
My daily working keyboard is an Alphagrip.(Just tested at 69wpm vs 120wpm qwerty on plain English.) http://alphagrips.com/
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by lfowles 11y ago
> EDIT: As an aside, what width space-bar do most of you think you require? I've just been thinking about KB key-width, and the space-bar shaped elephant-in-the-room loomed it's lengthy head. Well, mine's about a half inch
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by lfowles 11y ago
What changed a few years ago?
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by lfowles 11y ago
irssi moved to git (github even) to encourage contributions.
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by lfowles 11y ago
Also interesting when applied to OSS. https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/260347/ship-...
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by lfowles 11y ago
> but my second son and third son have recently been enrolled in the local high school Just curious, but why the change? (if not due to Life)
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by lfowles 11y ago
> I'd be more interested if we were also presented with the alternative: how do students who didn't meet whatever minimal standards for grade advancement but were advanced anyway (and thus could have been held back a year, but

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