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by niccl 2y ago
is it intentional that one arrangement of the letters is correct when another, equally correct, arrangement is wrong? eg 'L L I P S' can be 'SPILL' or PILLS, but only PILLS is accepted. Similarly for NOTES being 'co
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by niccl 2y ago
Any time you have a character with a special meaning you have to handle that character turning up in the data you're encoding. It's inevitable. No matter what obscure character you choose, you'll have to deal with it
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by niccl 2y ago
Excel. Before you dismiss it as 'not a language, people have argued that it is. And you can definitely program stuff in it, and so that surely makes it a language
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China About to Lead World in Science and Tech [video](backreaction.blogspot.com)
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by niccl 2y ago
but it doesn't seem to happen the same way in other parts of the programming world. Even in Django, yes, there are squillions of libraries for different things, and many of them haven't been updated in years, but the long-lived on
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by niccl 2y ago
including, IIRC, at least one FPGA-based circuit that had a blob of logic not connected to anything else (ie could not possibly be involved in the logical functioning of the circuit), but when removed the implementation stopped working. So
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by niccl 2y ago
yeah, but _lots_ of style points!
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by niccl 2y ago
XOR is used in one of the LEET fizzbuzz answers: https://tech.marksblogg.com/fastest-fizz-buzz.html
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by niccl 2y ago
absolutely agree. We get lots of csv files to process and most of our consultants will check them in excel and totally mangle them one way or another. You _can_ make excel import them without messing them too much but it's several hoop
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by niccl 2y ago
napkin is literally a small piece of napiery (cloth)
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by niccl 2y ago
There's a laundry folding section at the end of that isn't cut. Looks reasonably impressive, if your standard is slightly above that of a teenager
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by niccl 2y ago
I'd read the title as 'if you see this there's a nuclear war going on and it will escalate and you'll die' Maybe not what was intended but that's how I see it
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by niccl 2y ago
who pays for moving the observatory?
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by niccl 2y ago
This sounds slightly familiar. Were you in the UK at the time? There was a series on BBC during the children's watching time (pre-6:00 pm, I'd guess, about the same time that Belle and Sebastian [0] showed) that had Slavic fairy&#
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by niccl 2y ago
sounds interesting. How does it work?
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by niccl 2y ago
maybe not, being stainless steel (at least the body is. Don't know about chassis, if there is one)
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by niccl 2y ago
:-) clever
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by niccl 2y ago
Isn't Electron Beam Lithography [0] that sort of thing? slow, obviously, and I'm not sure about resolution, 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_lithography
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by niccl 2y ago
Not OP, but... It suggests that it's less different than one might have originally thought. Bats using echo location can build a persistent model of the environment, in just the way we can. I'd be prepared to bet a small amount th
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by niccl 2y ago
I think Derek Sivers [0] had something to say about this. He used to run CD-Baby, and IIRC was also a musician with some well known bands from back in the day. I've found his stuff about different ways of approaching live music very th
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by niccl 2y ago
I'm back working on my lighting desk [0]. I stopped a couple of years ago because depression robbed me of all motivation, but now it goes and I've done a few gigs with it. Still lots of bug fixes to do then a backlog of new featur
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by niccl 2y ago
That's a really good idea. Thanks
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by niccl 2y ago
In the course of interviewing a bunch of developers, and employing a few of them, I've concluded that this ability/inclination/something to do this deeper digging is one of the things I prize most in a developer. They have to
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by niccl 2y ago
It's typically buttons and programming stuff on the right. So you could argue that it's right handed because the keyboard stuff is on the right. But when you're running a show, it's the faders you need, and need to manip
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by niccl 2y ago
Curiously, almost every lighting control desk I've ever seen or heard about is left handed: the faders for controlling the lights are almost invariably on the left.
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by niccl 2y ago
I can't tell if this research still applies. There currently appears to be an emphasis on CO2 as a particularly Bad Thing, but the research in this paper suggests that CO2 is less of an issue than just temperature in deciding whether a
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by niccl 2y ago
there is something of a difference between 'per household' (US) and 'per head (Germany). So maybe introduce a factor of 4.something and the US doesn't look _quite_ as extravagant, or Germany _quite_ as frugal, depending
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by niccl 2y ago
Congrats on shipping. And double congrats on coming up with a pricing model that is a bit different from the normal SaaS monthly fee type arrangement
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by niccl 2y ago
No, I think it's an engineer in search of a fun challenge
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by niccl 2y ago
One of the local music venue owners used to be tour manager for Leonard Cohen. When Cohen died, this guy organised a tribute concert with a whole bunch of local talent. The guy that did Hallelujah is a fantastic rock guitarist and, recognis

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