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by mcovalt 5y ago
Hey look, my crush I wrote about! Naw, that's no fun. The better solution is buying a Honda generator or maybe trying to build one.
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by mcovalt 5y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20220408055110/https://kiwiziti.... in case my power goes out or something
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You may not need Cloudflare Tunnel. Linux is fine(kiwiziti.com)
279 points by mcovalt 5y ago|167 comments
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by mcovalt 5y ago
https://kiwiziti.com Named after our cats. We're using Gatsby and it uses JavaScript for displaying a static website; both of those things I dislike. Nothing is special about it, except ... It's running on a laptop in
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D4M: A database built with sparse matrices in Matlab(d4m.mit.edu)
1 points by mcovalt 5y ago|0 comments
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How to Store a Permutation Compactly(hackmd.io)
2 points by mcovalt 5y ago|0 comments
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by mcovalt 5y ago
Check out https://news.ycombinator.com/best I believe it’s the same thing that you made. I changed my bookmark to that URL. I think it makes me spend less time on here.
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Geometry on the Sphere: Google's S2 Library (2017)(docs.google.com)
1 points by mcovalt 5y ago|0 comments
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by mcovalt 5y ago
You can also drag an email from Mail to Reminders. I drag email from Mail and links from Safari into Reminders all the time.
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by mcovalt 5y ago
You’re gatekeeping. Learning is possible for anyone with adequate access to information and support from experts. Be the expert that teaches. Do not be the expert that obfuscates information in order to protect their ego. If you feel someth
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by mcovalt 5y ago
I was curious how our use of black pepper came to be. One of my favorite Wikipedia articles chronicles history's utterances of the same question: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pepper#History
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by mcovalt 5y ago
I have been learning and using Nix and NixOS for the last few months. Learning how to use it has been a tremendous effort. Often, I wonder if I'm actually at the butt-end of some sick and depraved joke by a disgruntled sysadmin (they a
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What Is Nix?(shopify.engineering)
3 points by mcovalt 5y ago|1 comments
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Computation graphs and graph computation (2020)(breandan.net)
60 points by mcovalt 5y ago|7 comments
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by mcovalt 5y ago
> Apple has always been a hardware company though. Software has just been for the purpose of selling their hardware. I'm not sure that's the right perspective. Steve Jobs said in an interview [0] that "Apple views itself a
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by mcovalt 5y ago
I’d like to see a tool using lol-html [0] and their CSS selector API as a streaming HTML editor. [0] https://github.com/cloudflare/lol-html
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by mcovalt 5y ago
Most likely they proxy traffic, act as a CA, and mandate devices used on ISPs have them as a trusted root authority.
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Mathematics of Digital Hyperspace(arxiv.org)
1 points by mcovalt 5y ago|0 comments
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Finite-state automata and directed acyclic word graphs (2002)(quretec.com)
4 points by mcovalt 5y ago|0 comments
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by mcovalt 6y ago
Much of my graduate research followed closely to Haber’s work, too. His papers allowed me too finally grasp FVM with the “oh, that’s not so complicated” feeling you get from a great teacher. Really great stuff.
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by mcovalt 6y ago
My point is that sawing off your hand is a false equivalency. tobacco ≠ meth ≠ alcohol ≠ weed ≠ sawing off hands. We are very derailed from the original conversation. No, I don’t think tobacco and alcohol should be illegal. I do think addi
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by mcovalt 6y ago
> Sawing off my own hand with a circular saw is legal. Why isn't poisoning my own brain? If it was incredibly addictive and loved ones were dying (literally) to saw off their hands, then I'd want to make it illegal.
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by mcovalt 6y ago
Why is cookie based auth a problem?
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by mcovalt 6y ago
Does integer scaling matter for text or images? Or is it just for UI elements drawn on a pixel grid?
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Data Laced with History: Causal Trees and Operational CRDTs (2018)(archagon.net)
103 points by mcovalt 6y ago|10 comments
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by mcovalt 6y ago
Is 5K standard on desktops? Where can I get a ~200 DPI 5K monitor for less than $1,299.95?
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by mcovalt 6y ago
I use Windows at work for its killer feature I rarely see mentioned: text antialiasing and rendering. I believe (?) Freetype came very close to Cleartype in Linux land, but MS holds patents on the extra bit that makes Cleartype just a bit b
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by mcovalt 6y ago
There's a great Planet Money episode I listened to recently about this. https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799345159/episode-967-escheat...
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by mcovalt 6y ago
Developers have been reimplementing W3C specs in Javascript. Forms don't work, password managers have no idea what's going on, back buttons are hijacked, and sometimes even scrolling is thought to be better handled by a 4MB JavaSc
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by mcovalt 6y ago
Replace phone number with encoded IPv6. Run mail server on your phone. Would solve a lot of issues.

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