mechanicalpulse

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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
I'm reminded of a Final Jeopardy! clue from a few years back -- > As of 2013, this 3-letter verb common in sports, theater & politics has the largest entry in the online OED. The correct response? What is "run"?
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
The site was assembled using webpack and at least one element has a `data-react-helmet` attribute, so my guess is it's a React or React derivative such as Next.js. You're right -- it's not progressive enhancement and it&#x27
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
> Why intentionally introduce potential bugs for the sake of making a point? It seems spiteful, but it strikes me as an interesting illustration of how the robustness principle could be hacked to force change. It’s a descriptivist versu
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
Great read, though I am compelled to comment on this ad-hoc date/time conversion: $ date=$(python3 -c 'import datetime; print(datetime.datetime.fromtimestamp(1707074879).isoformat())') Consider reaching for `date` fr
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
> So it looks like those have drifted further from "standard" Spanish, while Chile hasn't as much? I think the chart is saying less about differences relative to Spanish Spanish and more about each regional dialect relativ
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
I had the same thought. Backing up a boat is already difficult enough; I would require mechanisms for making alignment easier else I’d have fits. Since parallax will affect the observed alignment, it doesn’t have to be prefect. Perhaps a
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
> That is not how HOAs work. They have a very defined set of rules, and a very defined process for changing and enforcing those rules. You are not at the mercy of anyone. This. I live in a drama-free HOA and appreciate it for what it is
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
I appreciate this quote, but after looking into it, I must offer some correction regarding attribution. Félix Revello de Toro is a Spanish artist born in 1926. He specializes in portraits of women, including a 1965 one depicting a woman cu
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
> Do words evolve by mistake, or do they evolve because we need to say something and we don't have the right word for it? Both, I believe. See also linguistic descriptivism versus prescriptivism. And the words cromulent and embigg
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by mechanicalpulse 2y ago
I enjoyed the names and headlines on the bathroom reading materials. The free look mode on the cam is fun.
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
I believe the best herbicide for many situations may very well be patience and elbow grease. Disclaimer: While I am an avid gardener and I enjoy learning about the agricultural sciences, I am a computerologist, not a botanist, biologist, or
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
It's you. :) More magnanimously, you caught the story for the first time this year. I seem to come across a story about it every year around this time ever since first learning of it a couple of years ago through the Tennessee Natur
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
Yes. It was a bug in bash -- the Bourne again shell -- that permitted the execution of arbitrary code by embedding a function definition into environment variables. It was a Big Deal because it was remotely exploitable in systems that set
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
I'll take environmentally responsible planned obsolescence over the current situation. Nothing lasts. Durable plastic and metal goods become damaged or worn. What then? When repair, reuse, or recycling is not socioeconomically attra
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
I often use them in compound keys (e.g., in a flat key space as might be used by a cache or similar simple key/value store). IMHO, they are superior to other common separators like colons, dashes, etc. because they are (1) semanticall
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
Isn't that a limitation imposed by the POSIX APIs, though, as a direct consequence of the interface's representation of hierarchical filesystems as trees? As you've illustrated, that necessitates walking the tree. Many tool
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
The key/value pairs after the "WIFI:" prefix are as follows: S - the SSID P - the password T - the encryption type (WEP, WPA, or blank) H - whether or not it's a hidden network The only required pair is &quo
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
I thought primary rate interfaces were 24 channels (23 bearer channels plus one data channel) for a total throughput rate of 1.5 Mb/s, but apparently that’s only the case in the US, Canada, and Japan. European PRIs (E1 vs T1) are as y
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
That's part of the process, but not all of it. The overall process of water movement through vascular tissue is called transpiration [0]. Yes, capillary action plays a part, but the underlying process is due to differences in water p
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
The Venusians certainly weren't conservationists.
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
This subject can quickly become a fascinating epistemological journey into solipsism, semiotics, and cognitive biases. A "lie" implies intent to deceive or mislead, but not all false facts are shared with such intent. You may be
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
> They can’t use foam for flotation at that depth. There is a concrete like “synthetic foam” if you want unpowered rise to surface but it’s expensive. I read early on they wanted carbon to be light enough to get back up by releasing weig
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by mechanicalpulse 3y ago
It’s a common acronym and term in the software product life cycle. It’s been around for many years. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle#Ge... Here are some other examples in common use: https:&
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
This reminds me of using a hex editor on the version of explorer.exe that shipped with Windows 95 to change the infamous "Start" menu text to something else. I think the only requirement was that its replacement also needed to be
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
Yes! I once had a cheap microwave that only had a timer knob on it and I found myself twisting it indiscriminately because all I wanted was for it to be on. Being a mechanical timer, the resolution wasn't good enough that precise coo
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
Meanwhile, my wife just initiated a no-hassle refund of moldy pizza crusts we bought from Wal-Mart. She was instantly refunded online without having to talk to anyone. And there's no need to physically return it. Such bizarre timing
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
I use fetchmail+procmail for IMAP. I have no problem with freezing or multiple accounts.
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
Mutt remains my primary email client to this day. I use procmail for filtering and mu for indexing/searching.
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
I do the same. iOS 15 introduced Focus, which extends the DND functionality to an arbitrary number of configurable “focus” profiles. Each profile may have its own schedule and exclusions by app and contact. It’s fantastic.
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by mechanicalpulse 4y ago
I've used trentm's json (formerly known as jsontool) package from npm as my default tool for command-line manipulation of JSON for many years now. It provides CLI arguments for passing JavaScript code for filtering and executing

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