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by nrjames 4y ago
Incidentally, it's amazing how terrible MS Teams is at code blocks, both the creation of them and the copy/pasting/using the code from one somebody else created.
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by nrjames 4y ago
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/macroeconomic-changes-ha...
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Whenever I see mysterious Enterprise pricing and that's the only tier with SSO... I don't even both investigating the project because it creates significant hurdles to learn whether I even would be allowed to use it at work. If yo
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by nrjames 4y ago
These animations by Mike Bostock are great: https://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/
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by nrjames 4y ago
The page mentions Tadoma rarely is used now. What is the current preferred/common method?
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What are they offering? I thought they just had the self-driving subscription package?
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by nrjames 4y ago
Selective childhood amnesia occurs in most people and is not necessarily an indication of any trauma: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia
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by nrjames 4y ago
Spelunky HD! Easy to understand and control, terribly difficult to master. I started my oldest on it when she was 4 and she beat it for the first time around age 6. Now she tears through it like a ninja master. She also enjoyed Bit Trip Run
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by nrjames 4y ago
This is easy to do with p5.js. You create a canvas at whatever size you want to print and draw to that canvas. Each frame, you take an image of the canvas and show it on screen in the browser. Wire up a key to save the full-sized canvas out
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I can’t speak for the rest of the US, but there is a lot of wood pellet export happening from North Carolina: https://www.dogwoodalliance.org/2019/10/statement-north-caro... https://www.wfae.org/en
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by nrjames 4y ago
My daughter just received a school laptop that drains battery very fast when sleeping. What exactly should I look for in the BIOS to set it to real sleep mode?
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by nrjames 4y ago
At public schools in the US, teachers have strong incentives to have their students perform well, as schools are graded on overall student performance, impacting awards, etc. Exam proctors would have to be independent from the school system
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GenX contamination in the Cape Fear river (from Chemours) has been a problem for years. There's more info on this page: https://deq.nc.gov/news/key-issues/genx-investigation
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by nrjames 4y ago
I was recently in Jackson, WY and saw this cool hydroponic farm. The business employs people with various disabilities, which is really cool. While I was not there at a time when I could get a tour, a very nice employee provided some inform
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by nrjames 4y ago
Not a game, but my understanding is that the 3D elements and renderings of traffic in the Tesla (and Tesla app) is made with Godot.
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by nrjames 4y ago
Brogue is an excellent and free roguelike. You can grab the Community Edition of it over here: https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE It's fun to get a group of friends together and play a daily seed run... see who g
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by nrjames 4y ago
Sure! I ended up getting the official arduino starter kit and the Elagoo (?) kit Rober mentions in the class list. The Elagoo one is more versatile, but they complemented each other. A lot of learning, for us, came from finding the Elagoo a
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by nrjames 4y ago
I did the Mark Rober Creative Engineering class with my daughters and we all had a blast. We made a apple slicing guillotine, a s’more assembly machine, and a robotic arduino-controlled bird. We finished the class 18 months ago and they sti
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by nrjames 4y ago
Is this meant for use instead of something like Luigi?
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You might want to check out The Thinker's Toolkit: https://www.amazon.com/Thinkers-Toolkit-Powerful-Techniques-...
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No, only if the lane markings aren't visible. It's pretty good at identifying where the lanes are.
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I've been playing this with my kids and we're having fun! It's also on Xbox Game Pass, in case you're a subscriber and want to try the game.
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by nrjames 4y ago
That used to be the case, but the industry is incorporating more cheap plastics to harden against future projected fossil fuel revenue loss. On that topic, this PBS Frontline episode is a good resource: https://www.pbs.org/w
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by nrjames 4y ago
In the early 1990s, my roommate and I used to visit his family's tiny cabin in northern Wisconsin. The place was very rustic but did have electric heat. It was very cold and snowy during the winter. He could call the cabin's phone
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by nrjames 4y ago
This War of Mine has some aspects of a poverty simulator, albeit in a war zone. Papers, Please requires you to allocate your measly pay at the end of the day, somewhat encouraging breaking the job rules for kickbacks.
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by nrjames 4y ago
No, I think what happened is that OneDrive overwrote the local db with a version from the cloud that was several seconds older, corrupting everything. Or maybe it just overwrote the lock file? I'm not completely sure. Whatever it was,
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by nrjames 4y ago
During some low-impact exploratory work on my local machine recently, I launched a Jupyter Lab notebook that connected to a SQLite db that was in a directory MS One Drive had claimed. The sync processes had nuked the db within five minutes.
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by nrjames 5y ago
It's ok to have a ton of ideas and to let most of them go before you finish the work. The important part is that you document the idea so that you at least have the opportunity to return to it in the future. By this, I mean using pen a
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by nrjames 5y ago
On a related note, MacOS QuickTime Player has the ability to record the screen, or sections of it, and it is super easy to use. I wish MS would build a similarly easy-to-use tool into Windows. Is there a Win utility that is as easy? I’ve tr
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by nrjames 5y ago
The Godot editor itself is made with Godot, which is cool. Everything you see in the UI there is available for use in your own projects.

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