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901.
by philsnow 5y ago
Care to give the part number?
902.
by philsnow 5y ago
This "blue tape walkthrough" approach is one concrete way of introducing the delay between stimulus (hearing/seeing something obviously wrong) and response ("correcting" them on it): https://randsinrepose
903.
by philsnow 5y ago
> first ensure the company is optimised for sellability there are a lot of things you can do easily early on but become very hard later: - ensure the culture of the company doesn't require you to be there for it to function -
904.
by philsnow 5y ago
UX depends heavily on the quality of the packages in your init.el; if a maintainer has gigabit fiber at home and writes their elisp to hit the network during `(interactive)` elisp, it's going to feel slow for people on worse connection
905.
by philsnow 5y ago
Other online retailers (well, only the huge ones) seem to be stepping up their game and getting closer to Amazon's logistics and shipping ability. It reminds me of how Netflix had more or less a monopoly on big-name video streaming for
906.
by philsnow 5y ago
Not related to Google maps, but just today I got tired of the Amazon app sending me "you might like this deal" notifications and dug into whether it's possible to disable them. You can , but if you do, Amazon will no longer
907.
by philsnow 5y ago
You can pack more than you'd expect into ~4k if it's zipped and then base64-encoded.
908.
by philsnow 5y ago
I do the same thing but with just a handheld mirror. It's not that bad.
909.
by philsnow 5y ago
The book felt almost like a screenplay to me; I suspected when I read it that it would make a solid movie. Also you can go into more technical detail in a book than you can in a film, and maybe detail wasn't important to the plot of t
910.
by philsnow 5y ago
My friend and I would play what we called 'frungy', where you just have two teams of all zoqfot ships and you have to stay in the gravity well and can only use the secondary attack, no primary.
911.
by philsnow 5y ago
For me this is 1. developing an intuition for which stars will have resource-rich planets, 2. arriving at the planets and actually doing the mineral scans to reveal sometimes huge deposits of whatever minerals, and 3. actually picking up th
912.
by philsnow 5y ago
Having found some in vendors' native macos apps (a private key for an IAM user that happened to have the Administrator managed policy attached to it, to boot), I would personally not be the least bit surprised to find them in mobile ap
913.
by philsnow 5y ago
What part of Love Letter has negotiation or lying(+consequences)? In my house it's nearly strictly deduction.
914.
by philsnow 5y ago
> Why not cooperate with China for mutual good? This works until it doesn't. "American exceptionalism" is not unique to Americans.
915.
by philsnow 5y ago
... 'feek' ? If it were 'fk' sure, but the Q on the end makes me think of all the English words that come from French and end in 'ique', like technique. 'fq' looks like 'feek' to me.
916.
by philsnow 5y ago
In today's world of stitching together dozens of services, who each probably do the same thing, how is one to avoid a dependency on us-east-1? Add yet another bullet to the vendor questionnaire (ugh) about whether they are singly-home
917.
by philsnow 5y ago
One of my back-burner projects is putting some esp32s or similar around the house with microphones, streaming whatever audio they hear to Dragon NaturallySpeaking like in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SkdfdXWYa
918.
by philsnow 5y ago
> I wonder if optical illusions work when we're picturing things in our head. I want to say that some won't work, since I know there are some that rely on design flaws in our eyeballs (placement of the optic nerve). I'm t
919.
by philsnow 5y ago
Very interesting, I got glasses at age 5 and I'm exactly the same, including not being able to clearly visualize even my wife's face. My last job was 100% remote, and I started a week before one of the twice-yearly retreats where
920.
by philsnow 5y ago
> And the voice / thoughts in your head. I dont have it either. > For me, This is a shocking! And slightly depressing. FWIW from what I understand people who do have a mental narrative voice think "slower". It certainl
921.
by philsnow 5y ago
I have no idea if I'm in the minority of humans in this, but when I picture something in my head, it has colors, shapes, and I guess I'm using the same brain hardware as when I use my eyes to process the "phantasm" of it
922.
by philsnow 5y ago
What do you do if the $800 drive dies? The ~ubiquity of ethernet / fast-ish wifi is is one of the best reasons to use online backups. > Mine supports hardware encryption with AES Can you get the bytes off the tapes without that par
923.
by philsnow 5y ago
I didn't even see this in the feature list before doing the signup. One of the signup questions is "how do you usually search?" or so, I wrote in the blank "I want to search for symbols, not substrings, so if I'm s
924.
by philsnow 5y ago
This is neat, and immediately made me think of the annotations that show up when you hit the play button on https://lowerquality.com/gentle/ , but it turns out those are made with absolutely-positioned divs and a lot o
925.
by philsnow 5y ago
please tell me it had some way of playing the "llama's ass" mp3 when you booted the computer/car, or at least a hotkey on the keyboard
926.
by philsnow 5y ago
Maybe not the kind of "cloud provider" you're thinking about but tarsnap works on a prepaid basis. You top up your account and it debits that account daily. You get warnings when you go in the red. Super simple.
927.
by philsnow 5y ago
I'm committed to not replacing any switches/plugs if it doesn't Just Work when the home assistant / hub goes away. My poor kids shouldn't have to wander around in the dark if my hass container craps the bed while I
928.
by philsnow 5y ago
Just a nitpick, emacs is every bit as "modal" as vim. If you configured vim to start up in insertion mode and had to ^O to do every normal mode command, it would be somewhat close to Emacs's fundamental-mode. C-x enters a ke
929.
by philsnow 5y ago
The way this was proposed was, only prompt for the modern-user-friendly options like CUA mode if the user doesn't have an ~/.emacs.d/init.el or .emacs file, which makes some sense to me. Emacs isn't the kind of thing yo
930.
by philsnow 5y ago
If you're a big user of vim macros, take a look at some of the quality of life enhancements that emacs macros have: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Ed... specifically

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