lioeters

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   by lioeters 4y ago

   Very interesting effect. Not sure how practical it would be, but I like seeing what's possible with CSS. I'd prefer it without request to Google Fonts for the Roboto font, and just use system fonts by default. Also I'm curiou
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   There is more truth in this one comment than the whole rest of the discussion. Thanks for shining some light and coherence into the confused mess.
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   Generally, new ideas do not arise from trying to think of new ideas. It's like entrepreneurs searching for a profitable business idea, without having a need or problem to solve.
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   That's very interesting. I for one am intrigued by the idea, and will continue thinking about it for sure. Well done, nameless one!
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   Apparently, 5000 is a common lower bound for what constitutes a "town". But then again, I have friends who live in smaller towns than that, and they might feel a bit insulted if I said they live in a "village".
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   > The term "greeblies" was first used by effects artists at Industrial Light & Magic in the 1970s to refer to small details added to models. According to model designer and fabricator Adam Savage, George Lucas, Industrial L
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   You might also like Pirate Weather, a free weather forecast API compatible with Dark Sky. https://pirateweather.net/ It was posted on HN a few weeks ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34329988 (198 c
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   From the FAQ: > To learn to draw stuff with code, I suggest watching The Coding Train. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvjgXvBlbQiydffZU7m1_aw The YouTube channel is created by Daniel Shiffman, the author of _Natur
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   by lioeters 4y ago

   What I find fascinating is that aspect of AI-generated content actually captures what humans do all the time, confidently making incorrect statements, "bullshitting" with filler text that only pretends to be meaningful, making ill
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    https://archive.is/zG4XB
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightfall_(Asimov_novelette_an...
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I'm currently a 0x dev at rest, recovering from burnout. But when conditions are right (given autonomy and not micro-managed), I've been able to achieve even 1000x by writing tools that empower many devs and users all at once. I t
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    That's a tough one. I know some sysadmins would love to quit their jobs to do something concrete and tangible like wood working or carpentry. On the other hand, I imagine carpentry can be hard work, physically stressful, financially un
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I hope you get through the tough times to reach a calmer, more peaceful place in life one day. I imagine it's about persistence and patience, especially being patient with yourself. Good luck my friend!
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    I call her Grandma LUCA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_universal_common_ancestor
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    List of books, resources and courses to study everything about music and sound(github.com)

    3 points by lioeters 4y ago|0 comments
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Playbook for Meta, Alphabet, Uber and other aspiring unicorns. 1. Move fast and break laws. 2. Get caught, pay fine. 3. Repeat. 4. Profit!
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Surely you mean Mac Subsystem for Docker.
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    One cosmic-ray bit-flip per 256MB per month. Significantly more for computers on aircrafts at higher altitudes. I kinda wish I hadn't learned this fact, how fragile everything is. On the other hand, it makes me appreciate the importanc
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    You'll like this: Irony punctuation. It includes "scare quotes". > The use of a graphic symbol on an expression to indicate irony or dubiousness goes back much further: Authors of ancient Greece used a mark called a diple
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    Ayahuasca, Nazis, and the Life of Gerardo Reichel-Dolmatoff(kahpi.net)

    3 points by lioeters 4y ago|0 comments
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    ..Or create a new product with a standard connector for both, an adaptor for lawn mower and another one for mulcher, using the same engine. It can be called Mulchwer - cute and descriptive! When the company inevitably invents a new adapto
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Thanks! I'll check out the Spanish Obsessed podcasts. https://www.spanishobsessed.com/spanish-podcasts/ I'm currently going through Dreaming Spanish, a series of bite-sized videos with an immersive approach u
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    Get more fluent in Spanish, jazz piano, Go, Docker. Bee keeping, gourmet mushroom cultivation. Make short animation films with CSS, SVG, Web Audio, MIDI. Build "smart" systems with ESP32, sensors, actuators, interconnected and rem
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    U.S. gov't announces intent to slash citizenship renunciation fee by four-fifths(americanexpatfinance.com)

    61 points by lioeters 4y ago|110 comments
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    "What tune are you going to play for us?" "Tune? This is jazz , man!"
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    PostgresBuild 2021 Keynote – Michael Stonebraker: Where the DBMS Market Is Going(postgresbuild.com)

    18 points by lioeters 4y ago|1 comments
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    From the above linked article, Et tu, XML? > XML is Lisp’s bastard nephew, with uglier syntax and no semantics. Yet it is poised to enable the creation of a web of data that dwarfs anything since the Library at Alexandria. From A Brief D
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    RustLab 2022 Keynote – Ergonomic APIs for Hard Problems – Raph Levien(youtube.com)

    1 points by lioeters 4y ago|0 comments
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    by lioeters 4y ago

    > Originally google didnt want to do ads in search Sergey Brin and Larry Page on how advertising-supported business models negatively impact the quality of search results in commercial search engines, presented while students at Stanford