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by paulmooreparks 10mo ago
Same. I was singing this in the very early 80's, if not late 70's.
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by paulmooreparks 10mo ago
This is an entirely new level of performance art. Bravo! Edit: I'm saving this so that I can compare it to the real one in ten years.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
A 1d row of cells also affects nearby cells above and below the line. Consider a row of three cells: https://parkscomputing.com/page/conways-game-of-life?boardSi... ; That produces a spinner, because the empty cells abo
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
> If you’re considering FileZilla Pro, understand exactly what you are walking into: You can pay for a perpetual license, and later be denied any way to reinstall the product you legally own. No. You are not denied any way to reinstall t
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
It's not a function of price. One of the most expensive hotels in Southeast Asia has this problem. I've complained. They said they're fixing it in an upcoming design refresh.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
One of my favourite hotels in SE Asia has this problem. (I won't name and shame, since when we complained they said it's going to be fixed soon in a redesign.) On the topic, though... I want a desk that isn't made of glass so
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
I remember hacking the "Start" button in 95 through 7 to say "Whee!" instead of "Start". Childish and silly, but I liked it. I miss being able to make little hacks like that.
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Just Spell the Month(parkscomputing.com)
4 points by paulmooreparks 11mo ago|3 comments
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
I'm not entirely sure what constitutes "normal" anyway. A frequent tongue-in-cheek topic of conversation between my wife (a counselling psychologist) and me is how we're weird, and everyone else seems to be normal, where
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
I'm still running the old version, and it's using 171MB of memory. That seems excessive already. Granted, I have 128GB, but still....
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
"I would walk 500 kilometers" just doesn't sound as romantic.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
I think it's a generational thing. I used to mow the lawn for an elderly distant cousin, in the hot Florida summer weather. She would invite me in afterward for a snack and a 6.5oz Coca-Cola. I would guzzle mine in a couple of seconds.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
What I've seen in places that eliminated .01 coins is that the .05 coin begins to be the one that everyone hates. I remember walking around Amsterdam several years ago with pockets full of .05 coins, and the same thing happens now in S
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Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 app compatibility patched broken programs(devblogs.microsoft.com)
2 points by paulmooreparks 11mo ago|0 comments
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
One reason I don't quite trust AI for OCR is that it will, on occasion, hallucinate the output.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
Sadly, I wrote this article about people who are coders, whom I would expect to know that I would prefer the text rather than a screenshot.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
OP here... this is priceless! True performance art. Well done.
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
OP here. You raised a point that I should have mentioned in the article: screenshots of web pages that don't include the URL. I'm perfectly fine with screenshots of browser windows, since the context is almost always relevant. The
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
OP here. My current team uses MS Teams. I've been teaching my colleagues how to create code blocks in Teams (basically, teaching them Markdown). It's there, but it's not readily discoverable.
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I hate screenshots of text(parkscomputing.com)
340 points by paulmooreparks 11mo ago|224 comments
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
BMI isn't a great predictor of health. Waist-to-hip ratio and body-fat percentage are probably somewhat better indicators. https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/why-you-shouldnt-rely-on-b...
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by paulmooreparks 11mo ago
XferLang, a data-transfer and configuration language to serve as an alternative to JSON. https://xferlang.org/ Most obvious features, at first glance, are no commas and no need for escape characters. Other useful features i
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Yes, this is a problem I see more and more often. Besides the fact that it's always a good habit to spell out an acrostic or abbreviation the first time it's used in an article, there's also the fact that this is, you know,
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
The only killer app for me, when it comes to VR headsets, would be flight sim, and I have been too busy for the last year to even sim on my 4k monitor, so I haven't taken the headset plunge yet. Still, that's the only thing I can
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A century-old piano mystery has just been solved(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
An AI interface to a point-of-sale (POS) system: https://github.com/paulmooreparks/PosKernel I'm actually in the middle of a complete redesign of the AI layer, but there is a POC video linked from the GitHub READM
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
I seem to have missed the part of the article that explains how this symbol goes back 3000 years. The earliest date mentioned is in the 1300's.
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Why is Windows still tinkering with critical sections?(devblogs.microsoft.com)
5 points by paulmooreparks 1y ago|0 comments
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
I work almost exclusively in C#, and I do a lot of reviews. I'm familiar with the syntax, and I use it. It's the assignment version that I'm talking about here.
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by paulmooreparks 1y ago
Sorry, I would flag this in a code review. It's too easy to skip past this visually. Explicit if statements make it a lot more obvious what's going on. This is too much syntactic sugar.

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