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by philsnow 4y ago
> The microphone is located inside the left speaker grille anyways, so it would be terribly muffled in clamshell mode anyways I don't think the hardware disable is meant as a UX convenience ("let's always disable it in cla
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by philsnow 4y ago
Instead of keeping N terminals open for N projects, I usually keep only one open and put each project in a screen session, then wrap them all in a “meta” session. I started using this pattern before I moved to macos, but now that I’m usuall
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by philsnow 4y ago
I have tried on multiple occasions to migrate to tmux (because gestures vaguely "it's the future", screen's codebase is ancient and can still connect directly to a serial port etc), but I just don't like the primi
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under naughty behavior change codes, "19 - being a hellion"
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About 15 years ago as well, a cruise ship I was on blocked most connections if you hadn't paid, but allowed DNS, so I tunneled some vpn over dns and it worked.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> For companies that are on the cusp of profitability, or still actively burning through money, layoffs seem to be more about reducing burn, which means you're more likely to lay off highly paid engineers. Bothering to do a layoff o
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by philsnow 4y ago
You know the VC question that they ask founders, "why now?"? For any particular location you might want to create a city, ask "why here?". Successful towns have historically been built near some natural resource (rivers
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by philsnow 4y ago
Except in California where Prop 13 makes property tax grow slower than inflation (capped at 2% per year). The (in inflation-adjusted dollars) tax on any given parcel literally goes down year over year.
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by philsnow 4y ago
On the "pro" side, uses code instead of pointy-clicky, and the integration with the audio source and waitFor looks really nice, useful, and intuitive. I don't know typescript so much of the youtube demo (linked from here htt
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by philsnow 4y ago
East Texas is lush. > Wildfires and related homeowners insurance raises this is the bit I would have expected not to be better in Texas, between floods and energy instability.
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by philsnow 4y ago
TIL that Azure blob storage can be told where to download blobs from, that's neat. > Pre-GTR, the backup procedure would have taken at least 3 hours even with a VPS Setup facilitating the transfer from Google Takeout as even large i
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by philsnow 4y ago
> one might be spending $2500/month for a 1bd apartment. Even returns on $1m should comfortably cover that cost, without even any drawdown The number I've historically heard for "safe rate of withdrawal" is 4%, but a
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by philsnow 4y ago
> I’ve rarely seen a worksite [0] (and doubt that it is the case for any FAANG HQ job) where it was impossible to live closer than 1/2-hour one-way commute from the office. If you're commuting at typical times (getting to the o
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by philsnow 4y ago
IIRC, SLASH'EM is a descendant of SLASH, "Super Lots of Added Stuff Hack"
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by philsnow 4y ago
I got confused by the usage of the term "log" (and the word gets used so much in many pages that I hit semantic satiation). > When you log data to the Rerun SDK, Rerun handles everything needed to visualize it. It handles live
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by philsnow 4y ago
adding some quotes seems to help; you can search for e.g. "coe-xx-mode" and it will turn up results.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Will you be able to source enough rpi modules? I guess your plan isn't just "buy them off the (online) shelves" because it's nigh-impossible to get more than a couple that way these days.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> This would be trivial if Postgres used straight-up TLS ... does it not? (I really don't know, I've never had to admin postgres myself) from https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ssl-tcp.html#SSL-
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by philsnow 4y ago
I'd like to read the paper but not $15 want to read it. Apparently ACM wants to charge $5 or $10 for this one article even if I had a membership. Is this one of those situations I hear about where researchers would be super happy to p
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by philsnow 4y ago
out of curiosity, how did you find out the frameworks used in the app?
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by philsnow 4y ago
When I worked there I literally had a gmail label called "gradients" that I filtered executives' emails into. I had no idea this idea was widespread.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Envious since I probably can't replicate all of your features on MacOS. Don't raise on click: if you can remember to cmd-click, this mostly works, even with right-clicking. The window receives the click and doesn't rais
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by philsnow 4y ago
Adults aren't allowed to wear costumes in the park. You can wear clothing and accessories that strongly suggests a character[0], but no costumes. (I guess this is because they want to avoid "Goofy" or "Donald" spou
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by philsnow 4y ago
I tried using focus-follows-mouse on mac (yabai allows this even without disabling SIP)... it wasn't a good experience because the menu bar is always at the top, so I was always traversing over several other apps to get to the menu bar
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by philsnow 4y ago
stumpwm uses common lisp, you can attach a repl to it and change its behavior/configuration at run-time if you like that kind of thing
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by philsnow 4y ago
I've never heard the term "phrasal verb" but one similar case that doesn't use verbs pops up in my head all the time, "down {for,on,with}": - "I'm down for that", I am prepared and willing t
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Song lyrics are a case in point. It is the height of erudition to contrive a novel way to write some verb or other. This is intensely interesting -- do I understand this correctly, that what happens is a songwriter uses a verb (or I gu
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by philsnow 4y ago
To abuse the idea in the article, you could imagine the layers I mentioned in the brain are various stages of a thought compiler, and English is one front-end. In this analogy, C/Java/whatever are the "thought" and link
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by philsnow 4y ago
The author has discovered (linguistic) morphology. The `setRole` function he describes compiles to various morphemes in Japanese like は, を, etc. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morphology_(linguistics) We have this in
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by philsnow 4y ago
> dealing with the inevitable claims that the government owes them $100mil a pop for “having to comply with increased compliance requirements”. It would be amusing to announce "hey the incumbent airlines each seem to think this chan

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