nicwolff

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by nicwolff 4y ago
Wish you could change the key combo for this, I've been using a long-abandoned tool called Zooom2 to do this with `fn` (and `fn` + `control` to resize`) and fear losing it on my next Mac if it's an M1.
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by nicwolff 4y ago
I'm also skeptical, but let's remember that the point of the fable is not "the boy's repeated claims lost credibility because the wolf never came", but rather "the people eventually learned to ignore the boy&#x
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Bad midlife crisis = muscle car, high schools. Good midlife crisis = sailboat, Bahamas.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Not if it sounds anything like a terrestrial vacuum cleaner – cats do not get used to those.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Apple Notes' OCR is about as good as Evernote's, and the bulk migration worked fine for me. And Apple Notes will name a new scanned-document note with the first words of the OCR'ed text, which I don't think Evernote ever
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by nicwolff 5y ago
And Apple Notes will automatically name a note with the first words of the OCRed document – did Evernote get around to adding that feature after I gave up on it?
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by nicwolff 5y ago
The trick is, fill the bottom with meat and put them in a 350° oven for 6 minutes – the hot oily meat will soften the "hinge" of the taco shell just enough that it won't crack when bitten.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Similarly, from the prologue to Nikos Kazantzakis' "Askitiki": "WE COME from a dark abyss, we end in a dark abyss, and we call the luminous interval life. As soon as we are born the return begins, at once the setting for
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by nicwolff 5y ago
You left out that those inequities "have contributed to an increased risk of severe illness and death from COVID-19" which is accurate according to the CDC. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid
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by nicwolff 5y ago
In fact you can. With no other formal agreement in place, any cooperative venture is an equally-owned "general partnership", and no partner can legally do anything to diminish another's ownership. And all business debts, howe
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by nicwolff 5y ago
"OK! Per our agreement, you owe me $1,000,000 per share." > he must sell his own shares to Alice at the price she proposed! > The counter-party has the choice to take either side of the transaction.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
> I suppose it just needs to do approximately as well as a human. I think that's a fallacy. We allow humans to injure and kill each other in "accidents" with limited liability because we are human; I can't be expect
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by nicwolff 5y ago
No, that amounts to "we have way too many people of your color, we're going to invite more people of other colors to apply". Says nothing about making it harder to get in. The "personal" ratings might: > Lee said
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Russia isn't a plutocracy – the rich don't run the country. It's an oligarchy: the money and power are Putin's and those to whom he distributes them answer to him. Sanctions are easy but ineffective; seizure of real esta
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Mockingbird , by Walter Tevis, about the first man to learn to read, centuries after humanity delegated even intellectual labor to robots; and the last robot overseer, suicidally bored with his assignment. Tevis also wrote The Man Who Fel
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by nicwolff 5y ago
For me, it's the code. Making existing code better, finding elegant solutions, learning new tools and tricks, and helping other programmers improve. When the code's new, it's like sculpting crossed with poetry, but testable.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Did we run out of letters?
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by nicwolff 5y ago
"All Of The Marvels" by Douglas Wolk – he read (or re-read) all 27,000+ comics in the main Marvel superhero storylines, and limns their distinct themes and narratives in a very lively style. And with a lot of footnotes! https:&#x
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Loved this, and glad to have it recommended by someone for whom Tekserve was just "an old Apple repair shop" ツ Tekserve was the nexus of the NYC personal computing community spanning the desktop-publishing and Internet revolutions
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Quaternions? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaternions_and_spatial_rotati... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8919086/why-are-quaterni...
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by nicwolff 5y ago
They didn't – Madison and Hamilton were backed into a corner during the ratification process by the anti-Federalists.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Does iStat Menus even do what this does? This shows the charge level of your iPhones, iPads, and iPods, as long as they're on the same WiFi network. I don't see that feature mentioned in iStat Menus' docs at all.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
If you want to see "not happy", ask a licensed architect how they feel about people like me calling ourselves Systems Architects.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Somewhere in a box I have the faxes I exchanged with the prime minister of Tuvalu in, I think, 1996 or 1997, explaining to him what the Internet is, what domains are, that they have an assigned ccTLD, why it might be valuable, and how my li
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Or, about 60 million years after it happened...
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by nicwolff 5y ago
I live in a cottage in the woods and my cat brings live shrews into the house to play with. Cats!
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Between "Amazon Web Services" and "Plumbing" he lists "Backflow Prevention and Cross Connection Control Inspector/Tester" and... I'm not quite sure if that's a cloud architecture skill or a plumb
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Simple, the "B" boys each average 1/13 bigger.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Still supported on the 1st Gen iPhone SE, nice.
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by nicwolff 5y ago
Nuts, I was hoping that this was an evolution of https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops which uses Redis to cache and invalidate ORM result sets by an abstracted representation of filter values. It works, but has a lo

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