mandarg

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by mandarg 6y ago
> Quick quiz, hot shot: what did you think of the surgery team metaphor? Interesting side discussion -- I have just started reading the book, but I did think that the idea of the surgical team was an interesting and radical departure fro
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by mandarg 6y ago
There was a Firefox extension called "ScribeFire" which did this and seemed somewhat popular. I used it for a while in the mid-2000s. It looks like the Firefox extension isn't around, and the corresponding Chrome one [1] does
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by mandarg 6y ago
Having learned multiple Devanagari languages at school (including both Sanskrit and Hindi), I don't recall being explicitly taught stroke order as such. There's an intuitive way to write most Devanagari characters that usually cor
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by mandarg 6y ago
Here is an index of different theories that astrophysics departments have developed to explain these FRBs (Fast Radio Bursts): https://frbtheorycat.org/index.php/Main_Page . There are links to all of the corresponding p
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by mandarg 6y ago
> I can't imagine providing a feature-rich web application in Lambda without this kind of abstraction. This reminded me of a caveat about using some of these abstractions – which is that they are still subject to the limits and rest
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by mandarg 7y ago
forge and github-review ( https://github.com/charignon/github-review ) have given me a near-immersion experience for bitesized code reviews in Emacs. They even work together, via github-review-forge-pr-at-point! The only
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by mandarg 7y ago
For what one person's opinion is worth, I quite like the look of old-style text-and-hyperlink websites, so long as there's something interesting to read on them. A canonical example: http://bactra.org/
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by mandarg 7y ago
This has been my experience exactly. I switched from Linux to OSX/MacOS around eight years ago, and the better and (to me) more intuitive modifier keys have been one of the features that have kept me there; along with the convenience o
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by mandarg 9y ago
Nearly 10 years ago (wow, time flies), as a weedy undergraduate, I was fortunate enough to do a research project [1] under one of the scientists [2] who worked on this survey. It was pretty cool to just be able to submit arbitrary SQL quer
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by mandarg 9y ago
What are some alternative sites that send you guests? I have used hotels.com sometimes (has dark patterns too, but fewer of them). I would definitely prefer using something that was more...sensible. I would naïvely think that booking direct
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by mandarg 9y ago
It's interesting to know that a traditional ISP like AT&T is heading the same way. I think Google gets more freedom to try out some of these techniques because people still fundamentally think of them as a website (apart from Googl
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by mandarg 9y ago
Here's my attempt at an explanation, after reading the article. Most companies' networks have edge routers (which sit at the points where they connect to other networks) and core routers (which manage the flow of traffic inside
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by mandarg 9y ago
Just an anecdote, but I tried to use lob.com to send out Save the Dates for my wedding. The couple of test postcards we used did not arrive on time, and the tracking didn't work at all. Their support wasn't good at addressing my s
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by mandarg 10y ago
I still use a keyboard with a PS/2 connector (Hangs head in shame). It's an old (at least 10 years) Kensiko ergonomic one I rescued from a giveaway pile and have never been able to find a good enough replacement for. Pretty sure t
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by mandarg 10y ago
Tangentially, there's a funny Easter Egg in strace – with some trial and error, you can get it to strace its own pid. $ strace -p 957 strace: I'm sorry, I can't let you do that, Dave.
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by mandarg 10y ago
Note that mail sent this way is "in the clear" and can be used for passive monitoring. I wonder if the Great Firewall allows clients to do opportunistic STARTTLS or if it modifies the server response to indicate TLS as being unava
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by mandarg 10y ago
To my (admittedly untrained) eye, the picture looks a lot like an Indian palm squirrel ( https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d1/Indian_P... ) – which does have stripes on its back.