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by nategri 7y ago
Clicking on a LinkedIn link evokes the same "unpredictable behavior" paranoia/stress reaction as a url for a site that peddles game ROMs or guitar tabs.
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by nategri 7y ago
Can we not have LinkedIn links on HN
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by nategri 7y ago
To badly paraphrase Willian Gibson: the richness is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.
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by nategri 7y ago
IIRC that only buys you 2-3 orders over LHC energy.
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by nategri 7y ago
Oh hey. I just used some SPI-based Nixie tube drivers that this same tindie user made. I've been super impressed!
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by nategri 7y ago
Whether or not it's factually true, this is good news.
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by nategri 7y ago
Endlessly frustrates me how much of the food economy is focused on producing cheap carbohydrates. This is perverse regulatory pressure.
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by nategri 7y ago
I'm definitely an outsider but I get the distinct impression that starting a successful consumer robotics company is like 1000X harder than the baseline for other kinds of tech ventures.
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by nategri 7y ago
Ah, "winmodems." I think the final boss of my ca. 1999 Red Hat install was a winmodem.
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by nategri 7y ago
There's a two or three parter on youtube where some main Autodesk dude makes a widget. It's something like 90 minutes all-in, and that was enough to give me the traction I needed to start experimenting. From there it's re-wat
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by nategri 7y ago
> “OOP is prevalent because cheap OOP developers are readily available, while functional programmers are typically more smart, and more expensive…” Yuck-o. That's a physically painful amount of bias.
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by nategri 7y ago
Tangentially related but I've had a 3D printer for years but only just recently learned Fusion 360; it has been a real game changer in terms of the kind of projects I can tackle. Can't recommend it enough.
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by nategri 7y ago
I just can't make it very far in articles like this anymore. I've heard too many breathless food/nutrition takes vectored in too many different directions, and now I'm utterly desensitized. And part of me is screaming fo
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by nategri 7y ago
Amusing to me that "scooters" gets the number two slot here.
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by nategri 7y ago
Currently living this lifestyle. Luckily there's a set of level 2 chargers in a nearby parking garage that don't see heavy use, so I just charge there. But I still have to pay a premium, and walk half a mile there and back, so it&
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by nategri 7y ago
Once in a lifetime discovery.
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by nategri 7y ago
Current and former use cases: 1.) Arcade emulator box for a custom control panel I made 2.) Host machine for a twitter bot 3.) Octoprint server 4.) Virtual disk drive for an Apple II computer 5.) Internet connection quality monitor
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by nategri 7y ago
"If the adversary is the one who sold you your diode, he might have entangled it in some way with the devices in his own lab" lol
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by nategri 7y ago
I mean, if you think generating a large amount of pure randomness from a quantum mechanical source is cool, you can do it with crap you can buy at Microcenter. Just amplify a reverse-biased diode. You'll get some entropy from quantum t
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by nategri 7y ago
Me, for one. I was burdened by about 80 pounds of excess weight before I realized that I had no safe level of consumption for carbohydrate-rich foods.
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by nategri 7y ago
Took a year of grad level particle physics and I only managed 16/20, haha.
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by nategri 7y ago
I finished my first game-ish C/SDL project a few months back, and found it to be a very instructive experience. It compiles to WebAsm so you can fiddle with it here: https://nematode.farm
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by nategri 7y ago
I remember when iTunes came out for Windows ca. 2003. I had friends with Macs so I leapt at the chance to try it for myself---it just seemed lightyears ahead of whatever I was using to interface with my music library at the time (Winamp, pr
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by nategri 7y ago
I'm quite pro-nuke, so that's my bias, but I'm parsing the show as more about the consequences of normalization of deviance than anything.
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by nategri 7y ago
I wish I could eat in this purely-thermodynamic way but I know I would be miserable. Carbohydrates just don't induce satiety in me like they seem to for other people.
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by nategri 7y ago
Feel free to abstract it to "how programming languages interface with memory."
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by nategri 7y ago
OP here---you nailed it. Pointers and pointers-to-pointers can seem pretty abstract unless you work one level closer to the metal for a bit.
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by nategri 7y ago
Learning to write 6502 was a formative experience for me as a programmer and I strongly recommend it as a pedagogical exercise if nothing else. The instruction set is tiny, and easy to grapple with, but after learning it you'll get an
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by nategri 7y ago
Best deadpan spoof I've seen in a decade probably. 10/10, A+.
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by nategri 7y ago
Is "a year" supposed to add a lot of impact here?? I frequently spend multiple years on more dubious endeavors, and have zero regrets about it. That's life. Edit: Okay this came out pretty harshly, but what I am poorly trying

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