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by mwexler 3y ago
This one guy touched so many of the cult sf films of the 80s and 90s. Impressive to see his style woven throughout these movies. Though, even with his design talent, Space Truckers was still a washout.
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by mwexler 3y ago
We've had newscast-speak, that Midwest tone and cadence of half-walter-cronkite and half-peter-jennings. We've had valley girl-speak, the rapid-fire slang ending on an upnote that's rediscovered every few years by a new gen
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by mwexler 3y ago
It's not really what one would expect in SQL, but SQLite often defies expectation. In this case, handy, but non-standard.
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by mwexler 3y ago
Fair point. Had missed the footnote on first review.
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by mwexler 3y ago
Should date in the parent be (1954)?
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by mwexler 3y ago
The station does not have the space on the tiny platforms for a few hundred people to wait for the train, and they would obstruct those exiting the train if they did. The upstairs does. I don't find it overcrowded, just inefficient. Fo
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by mwexler 3y ago
In my opinion, this was the most yawn-inducing Apple event yet, and I thought last year's couldn't be topped. Is all this this really the best we can create? A shared port standard, a button, a yet-again better camera? Anything el
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by mwexler 3y ago
I loved it's hackier relative, the Belt Manlift, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belt_manlift https://youtu.be/hI0klJJNLHA gives a view.
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by mwexler 3y ago
Got it. You have to press and hold to get to the "non-Google" standard info. Thanks for the pointer!
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by mwexler 3y ago
I was surprised by the claims of the "ease" of sending your GPS coordinates. I had no idea how to do this before this post. I dug around a bit to see what I had missed. Some apps make this easier than others, with Google Maps st
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by mwexler 3y ago
The windy.com app (at least on iOS) is quite elegant and packs a lot of info into the experience. Very diff from most other weather look-and-feels.
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Simplenote free notes sync broken for days(forums.simplenote.com)
3 points by mwexler 3y ago|3 comments
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by mwexler 3y ago
Sync issues appeared in Twitter (X?) around Aug 2, were acknowledged by Aug 6, and have continued through Aug 8 and ongoing. Great tool when it works, but this breakdown is disappointing.
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by mwexler 3y ago
All makes sense but the AR glasses. What role do they play for your work?
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by mwexler 3y ago
Perhaps poster was thinking of https://notesnook.com ? Their pitch is as a privacy focused notes manager.
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by mwexler 3y ago
I keep looking for replacements but wind up every time coming back to Simplenote. Well worth considering as a baseline to compare other offerings against.
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by mwexler 3y ago
The early Festinger (1959) studies are basically this exact point. Getting paid or paying transforms an internally driven experience into an externally driven one (get paid or deal with fines). Later studies generalized, but the idea that
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by mwexler 3y ago
Cognitive dissonance in action. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_dissonance
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by mwexler 3y ago
The new leadership at HBO came from Discover. They have a stable of brand names they could have used (Max came from the Cinemax collection, known in the US for it's "After Dark" soft porn movies, aka "Skinemax"). Fr
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by mwexler 3y ago
So... Saw all these a while ago. Anyone have the next layer down, like: "Underrated gems that will be impossible to find but are worth it though you'll never see them" And "Top schlock for free on pluto or tubi that we
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by mwexler 3y ago
And if you can't find this, the film "The Thirteenth Floor" with Craig Bierko is a pretty similar if more stylized remake. But the series is worth the watch.
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by mwexler 3y ago
Fwir, BigQuery doesn't yet support lateral joins, though they do use the same concept in their UNNEST and array expansion features. It would be nice to have this feature; its a handy hammer for the right type of nail.
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by mwexler 3y ago
Not open source but free with many features, https://www.waveapps.com/ can fit the bill for many small businesses. However, it may not scale the way QB does, and folks you bring on won't have had experience with it&#x2
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by mwexler 3y ago
The medium article is ok, if blocked at times. This is just a summary, not by the package author. You can jump to the code at https://github.com/gventuri/pandas-ai to see more of what it's trying to do.
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by mwexler 3y ago
Not all drivers.
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by mwexler 4y ago
"Street prices" can also be surprisingly high in NYC. For example, https://gothamist.com/news/why-does-this-ham-and-cheese-cost... But when public groups restrict data even after an FOI request, it's har
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by mwexler 4y ago
The EFF has tried to get folks to pay attention to this for years. See https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/ aka Panopticlick And it probably understates the problem these days, missing some of the more recent techniques.
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Paper: Slot Machine Development: A Course for CS Majors (2014) [pdf](fdg2014.org)
1 points by mwexler 4y ago|1 comments
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by mwexler 4y ago
MS Teams refuses to put some webcams in HD mode on Mac. Zoom may require some configuration for some HD webcams. Certified stuff makes it easy for procurement groups to defend "IT's" purchase choices and easy to distribute a
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by mwexler 4y ago
I think you can embed the mermaid text directly into draw.io/diagrams.net. It becomes a boxed object so a bit painful to edit but make it easy to get a quick diagram up. https://www.diagrams.net/blog/mermaid-diagr

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