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by notbeuller 3y ago
It so reminds me of Douglas Adam's Electric Monk from Dirk Gently: "The Electric Monk was a labor-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washi
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by notbeuller 3y ago
There was an old peanuts cartoon[1] where Linus suddenly becomes “aware of his tongue” - and Lucy gets angry because she comes aware too. A lot of spam ads I see these days reference tinnitus - and that’s when I notice it. [1] https:/
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I wonder what percentage of even frequent shell users are even aware of !! or ^subst^ - an informal polling of 5 workmates here (engineers, command line git users, people I would have thought would know) shows no takers. To be fair, I&#x2
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by notbeuller 3y ago
(An easier way I've found is to compile an entire project with --save-temps, for c, objc, or c++. Makes it easy to instrument a lot of files at once.)
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The Autodesk File (2017)(fourmilab.ch)
1 points by notbeuller 3y ago|1 comments
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I was puzzling about Hydra- vs Hydro- the diagrams don't claim that water is involved, but I wondered if there was some sort of ingenious multi linkage gearing involved that might merit Hydra. Still really neat.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I had never trusted the automatic “reheat” options that a lot of microwaves have had for years, until just recently I tried it out for reheating some chicken and pasta - and it really did a decent job. They’ve obviously iterated. (I don’t e
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I've got an iPhone Xs Max (how old? no clue) Despite the camera bump if I have it on a flat surface playing audio it will scoot off and take a dive. (I ended up putting a case on it for that reason alone)
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by notbeuller 3y ago
macOS is absolutely and infuriatingly the same as the examples here. I’ve yet to find anyone that actively defends this style - just like I have yet to find people to actively defend open office workspaces. (In apples case, both were desig
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Back in the mists of time when writing cross platform software for any platform (Mac, Win < 95, SunOS + xview) each platform had bugs and we’d have to take pains to workaround them. Our customers didn’t care whose fault it was. It used t
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by notbeuller 3y ago
It was from a study of how to mark a nuclear waste disposal site so that it would be understandable in 10k years. That was one of the sentiments they were trying to express - through symbols, earthworks, multiple languages.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
“What does “this is not a place of honor” refer to?”
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by notbeuller 3y ago
On the other hand, I despise the mock playfulness exhibited by, eg, Slack. It’s such a frustrating environment for me - I feel like it’s not-so-subtle attempts at promoting engagement over presenting the content fill me with rage. I want
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FFmpeg Explorer(ffmpeg.lav.io)
253 points by notbeuller 3y ago|85 comments
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QR codes appearing in Google street view?(nso.group)
223 points by notbeuller 3y ago|76 comments
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by notbeuller 3y ago
There was a huge push around that time for Apple to make a thin client style thing. Sun was doing it with java stations and it seemed to be “the buzz” and obvious direction. I don’t think anyone expected a consumer push in response.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
But as a leader, if you don't know - then it's an opportunity for you and the team members to learn it together, the real point of which is teaching the team members how to adapt . Half the crap people ask me, I don't know,
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I saw some snark on mastodon that applies here: I don't need AI to write essays or synthesise art, I need it to stand in line at the DMV for me.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Maybe he should try the the Naughton defence: Arrested for various "related to chatting up a child online and crossing state lines to meet up", his defence was that he was involved in role playing the life of a successful high fly
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I find the latter - with all the conditions much less clear. I have to pause and reason about each condition and it’s relation to the others, the order of the comparisons and the effect of short circuits. The first example makes it very cle
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Interesting to me - the NYC area (I’m from Connecticut nearby) seems like it’s been on solid ground for most of the timescale represented. And Florida didn’t exist 20mm years ago.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I’m not a “sportsball” person myself - but you’d be surprised at the number of extreme tech geeks that live and breathe the statistics of sports (particularly baseball). For them it’s about the mechanics and statistics and not the personali
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Atari 2600 Myst Demake(mastodon.social)
2 points by notbeuller 3y ago|1 comments
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by notbeuller 3y ago
prep.ai.mit.edu
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Best dev flow for me is coworkers that don’t ask to ask, closed door office as necessary, and mid 70s prog rock (mostly, in 2003 I did a bluegrass rotation that seemed to coordinate well with Oh Brother Where Art Though) Point being, what w
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by notbeuller 3y ago
Had to be about a year ago - I pulled down the latest sources for gnu emacs and built them on my next slab running OpenStep 4.2 (I think? 3.3?) - I think I had to tweak one source file and I joked about how long it took to build ("thi
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I don't know if it qualifies or not, but I recently discovered Hawkwind (circa 1970) and while it's not as lyrical as favoured prog bands, it has that "Oh, I really like this and it's only halfway through the 15 minute t
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by notbeuller 3y ago
As someone that has relied on such devices to survive cancer - thank you.
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by notbeuller 3y ago
I find it really hard to maintain a mental model of all the settings now - I wish there was a “save as text” (that had better structure than the direct output of “defaults read”) that would show all the Boolean switches. Maybe have a commen
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by notbeuller 3y ago
This should be hosted by Blank Reg from Max Headroom. It reminds me too of Over The Edge / Negativeland.

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