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by philsnow 4y ago
Have either of you considered some kind of ipad + sidecar for that? I'm not familiar with the ipad product line but I think there are large-ish ones with high DPI.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Hammerspoon has the benefit that in addition to managing your windows / spaces, you can also script tons of other things in the macos interface with it: have a glance at https://www.hammerspoon.org/docs/ to see
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by philsnow 4y ago
Nobody will ever see this response since the article was posted 3 days ago but: Another advantage of doing it this way is that the sender can downsample on large/gross movements that would render faithfully as splines with fewer points
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by philsnow 4y ago
> The theory is usually that he's one of the major gods, not a demigod It's probably too blatant for Tolkien to have cone up with but Tom Bombadil has the same number of letters in first/second names as Eru Iluvatar. The
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by philsnow 4y ago
Especially since alarms can sync between phone/watch (or at least you can snooze/cancel phone alarms from the watch, which shows that they're at least talking)
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by philsnow 4y ago
> In the situation in this post, I would hope that the critical “get up and fix this” messages come through a different system If PagerDuty goes "ding" at 3am, it's probably best to take a look. If Slack goes "ding&qu
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by philsnow 4y ago
For a time while I was working at Google I nursed the idea of transferring to the natural language processing / language modeling areas, but I only have a bachelors in linguistics whereas it seems like they strongly prefer PhDs. Lingu
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by philsnow 4y ago
> HTTP needs an upgrade with scattering and rerouting on the fly, otherwise these deanonymization techniques can never be fixed. Isn't that e.g. TOR's job? Doesn't belong in HTTP.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> That can't be true, Google Books was 15 years prior to the advent of large language models. Until 2020 nobody could train on such a large collection. ... pull the other one. Okay, your statement could be true depending on what yo
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by philsnow 4y ago
Ruby has Sinatra, which is much closer to Flask than to Rails.
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by philsnow 4y ago
Back in ~2001 I saw cute little devices you put in your car and they would light up / blink / dance when it detected the same thing.
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by philsnow 4y ago
You're probably right; vim macros are almost the entire reason I personally prefer vim to vi, I can't imagine not using them.
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by philsnow 4y ago
I only ever end up actually manually shifting code when I'm pasting python code from somewhere and it doesn't come in with the right indentation. If I'm working in any other language it's == (for a single line), or = aft
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by philsnow 4y ago
> map q <Nop> you turn off macro recording? any particular reason why?
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by philsnow 4y ago
I've also seen a large uptick in the number of them (~1/week vs 0 before), and they're not political, they're mostly scammers pretending to know me. I haven't played along enough yet to learn what they're afte
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by philsnow 4y ago
Thanks, that's interesting but I'm not so anti-Chrome that I'm going to use a "custom modified Firefox runtime" just for PWAs. I don't even use the above trick these days; I've gone back to just using Sla
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by philsnow 4y ago
I also got tired of this especially when I wasn't even looking at Slack but it was not hidden, so it kept animating gifs and emoji etc that I can't see. Hammerspoon let me just disable them whenever I was on battery power: https
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by philsnow 4y ago
On Macos Chrome you can still do hamburger menu -> More Tools -> Create Shortcut... and enable "open as window", and Chrome will create a .app file that, when you run it, opens that site as a PWA. Additionally it gets the f
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by philsnow 4y ago
This would be incredible -- it feels like the tax form documentation is written in a dialect of Accounting English from the 50s, and just little things like adding some parentheses to group and/or con/disjunctions would go a long
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by philsnow 4y ago
Another tool that bears on this idea is courgette [0], in that it operates on one of the intermediate representations of the final bundle in order to achieve better compression. https://blog.chromium.org/2009/07/sm
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Concatenating / bundling your assets is probably still a good practice, even on H/2 connections. Obviously this comes on balance with cache eviction costs and splitting pre- and post-load bundles. I guess this latter part ref
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by philsnow 4y ago
Back in ~2003 I had bought a new motherboard + cpu (a Duron 800MHz IIRC) but as a poor college kid, only had enough money left over for 128MB of RAM.. but the system I was replacing had ~768MB. I made a ~640MB ramdisk on the old system and
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by philsnow 4y ago
Lunar regolith seems to be about 20% silicon (by mass). We could try to lift that much silicon from earth's gravity well, or try to build a refinery and launch system on the moon, with ~1/6th the gravity of earth.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> Catholic doctrine might, American Catholics, especially, do not This is unfortunately true (but unsurprisingly so, especially these days). That doesn't mean that they're somehow right; they don't speak for the Church.
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by philsnow 4y ago
> The Catholic Church opposes the use of condoms[1]. Even in areas of the world where AIDS is rampant. Correct. > They are not sex-positive, they are procreation-positive. They are both. "Sex-positive" doesn't mean &qu
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by philsnow 4y ago
> The same crowd that wants to prevent abortions also wants to prohibit contraception, allow unrestricted gun ownership, and cut back on any social programs that support families. I see this kind of thought process all the time: when so
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by philsnow 4y ago
I just want to jump in and say that even though we don't agree on the issue at hand , I nonetheless appreciate you trying to clear up bad arguments and present only the strongest arguments. It's often exhausting trying to get peo
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by philsnow 4y ago
This may be the case for some but the Catholic worldview is both pro-life and extremely sex-positive, in the appropriate context. If you're talking about not just "women who have sex" but "~women~ people who have sex wit
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by philsnow 4y ago
Totally agreed there. Also condition keys have such a high cognitive load; I can never ever remember the exact spelling of them or whether I need StringEqual or StringIsEqualIfExists or whatever other operator. The documentation has tons
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by philsnow 4y ago
I dunno, it seemed fairly rosy. They could have twisted the knife quite a bit more: there were a couple 3-second interactions where people are buying things [0][1], if they had been denominated in "hours of service" rather than US

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