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by mchahn 11y ago
I have been expecting github markdown to become the defacto standard just as github itself has become the defacto standard for hosting. This would be a good thing since any standard is better than the tower of babel we have now.
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by mchahn 11y ago
He neglects to mention the new trend of adding images and in particular screen caps with animated gifs. In my opinion this new trend has been a major improvement to READMEs. I can often just watch the demo to both understand what it is an
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Dropdown menus, tooltips, and other features which do not strictly reside in the character grid If it does this then it is heading into GUI application territory. I wonder if an existing GUI application could be extended to add comman
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by mchahn 11y ago
Any chance of getting a JS version in the future? I'd jump on it in a heartbeat.
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by mchahn 11y ago
There were many years when any hardware computing acceleration card failed pretty quickly because CPUs were advancing so rapidly hardware could not keep up. Apparently we have reached an end to this. With GPUs, and things like this FPGA int
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by mchahn 11y ago
I did an ugly UI for a mobile app I did for personal home use. My daughter said "Haven't you heard of Bootstrap?". This is getting insane.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I know it may seem silly, but I've been putting off Babel because of the the initial learning involved. This might be useful. Unless it takes as much learning as Babel.
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by mchahn 11y ago
My memory could easily be wrong. It was 40 years ago. I've told the story so many times it could have "evolved" over the years. (grin) Maybe something other than water was dumped. You really have to be careful about technic
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by mchahn 11y ago
I love it. We had servers, then we had clouds, and now we have personal clouds. Uh, isn't that a server?
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by mchahn 11y ago
It never occurred to me how easy it is for a police officer to scan your phone sensor across your finger while physically holding you down. In many places they can't force you to give them your password but this bypasses that.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I am lucky to have a nervous disorder that keeps me from drinking caffeine. Any amount and I get a headache. I can even tell how much is in something by the intensity of my headache. It is surprising how many things have caffeine. The wor
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by mchahn 11y ago
Wouldn't the automatic upgrade mean you didn't agree to any T&C?
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by mchahn 11y ago
> their ideas only become interesting Odds are good that everyone knows the proof that all integers are "interesting". If not, the first non-interesting number would be interesting for being the first. (grin)
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by mchahn 11y ago
Cool. Can't wait to try it.
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by mchahn 11y ago
Finding patterns in primes is old news. In the 60's Scientific American had an interesting article about a curious pattern in primes. If you start on a grid and fill in the integers in a spiral there are obvious patterns of connected
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by mchahn 11y ago
I used to work in a semiconductor processing facility many years ago. There were workers who worked with hydrofluoric acid at benches. That stuff was nasty. If it got on your skin it would rapidly dissolve your body down to the bone. They
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have all my bad email addresses forwarded to me. This is better than a bounce since I know immediately. The only issue might be that I accidentally see private email intended for someone else.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> and am currently in the middle of a 360. You have no faith in AI. The car will always be better at driving than the human. It would be much better at handling a 360 than a human ever could. Actually humans are very bad at handling
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by mchahn 11y ago
> First and foremost, you really ought to understand what order of magnitude matters for each line of code you write. Isn't that exactly what the phrase means? Understanding where it is important and where it isn't? At least
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by mchahn 11y ago
OK, this is just silly. They clearly had to throw away some of the capacity to get that number. Or am I am being duped?
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by mchahn 11y ago
Correction: The amazon card is 3%.
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by mchahn 11y ago
I have no doubt that this is groundbreaking, but pulling heavy things is an old trick. Have you ever seen a picture of a guy pulling a train car with his teeth? F=MA and if A is tiny then so is F, no matter how large M is.
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by mchahn 11y ago
My wife and I use an amazon card. We get bonus credit towards future amazon purchases. I calculated the discount and it only amounts to around 1%. I'm a somewhat rational person but I still feel like I'm getting something free wh
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by mchahn 11y ago
It's a shame the page is totally broken, at least on my Chrome browser. CLicking on anything just tries to go to https://waytools.com/undefined .
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by mchahn 11y ago
All I know about Atom is that people come on the forum and report that they can't get it to work. Then they are told that the core team has no plan to support it. I guess there could be a pull request. I myself am curious as to why s
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by mchahn 11y ago
> replicating the architecture of the brain, is essentially a trivial task given the required hardware. I think it's pretty clear now that this isn't true. I think it will be like airplanes. We don't flap our wings but we
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Within thirty years, we will have the technological means to create superhuman intelligence. Shortly after, the human era will be ended. This was written in 1993 so 30 years makes it 2023. That may not be too far off.
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by mchahn 11y ago
The flocking to Silicon Valley for the dream of success reminds me of the flocking to Hollywood that has gone on for 100 years. They are similar in that the odds of success are tiny but the rewards are great.
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by mchahn 11y ago
This was written by Jeph Jacques, author of the webcomic Questionable Content. He did it as a favor for XKCD. I'm surprised he doesn't get credit.
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by mchahn 11y ago
> Low contrast / dimmed comments are basically saying "I spent time writing this, but it's not important, disregard". One could make the opposite argument that comments are the important part and you only need to rea

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