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   by philsnow 2y ago

   Years ago, IT at the company I was working at force-pushed a browser extension that did this same trick, but the extension vendor in question didn't even bother loading over https. Edit: the extension's manifest gave it nearly eve
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   "Dialing it in" is getting things working better -> perfectly. "Phoning it in" is when your heart isn't in it, you're just reading your lines or going through the motions.
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   > If you actually want practical and safe self driving cars widely deployed I don't, though. If we're going to propose a sci-fi future state of the world that will take a mind-boggling amount of investment, not to mention a gia
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   I know -- the only people I know who live in Brisbane (the tiny town ~7 miles to the south of San Francisco) enjoy its insularity
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   > These days he talks about "making his own games". I want to wait until a bit before I tell him the bad news about making games Part of the appeal of Roblox, to my limited understanding, is the ability to create content (&quot
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   > Twitter — which at the time was threatening to move to Brisbane Wow , that does not seem like it would jive with the local character for Brisbane, from what little I know of it.
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   > you could try to do this analysis per-window and then construct some sort of aggregate for the whole frame This seems like it could get into the area of smartphone "cameras" that do so much computation on the output of the li
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   > to give you a 10-year payback, I have to pay you 100% of revenues for 10 straight years in dividends My understanding is that a lot of (tech) investors these days do not want dividends, they want growth .
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   by philsnow 2y ago

   I've had an inkling at various times to make a widget or app or something for players of Diplomacy [0] that uses this visualization to make it easier to see activity in all of your conversations at a glance / select who to talk to
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I would be interested to know what the distribution of release times for these "channel files" is like. Dropping them at 8pm Eastern time is in line with some companies' idea of well-timed system maintenance windows, whereas
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    The last picture reminds me of what photos from my iPhone look like around the edges
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I heard just last night that domestically it’s now 68 years (or somebody is trying to make it 68), but this sucks for pilots who’ve been flying for a long time and are now doing mostly international flights, because the intl age is still 65
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I have bought ink-on-calfskin art and had it shipped to me, the artist wrapped it in parchment paper and taped the parchment envelope to the inside of a cardboard sandwich. But for SD cards, I would expect affixing it to the inside of a car
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    “External internal style guide” vs “internal external style guide”, both could make sense in different contexts. Like I said, I never wrote c++ there so I’m quite likely misremembering details, but IIRC the published style guide linked to u
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever gotten paid for a line of c++ but Google has a “style guide” for internal c++ code that omits something like 3/4 of the language, and people seemed pretty happy with it overall. Maybe not “happy” but “grudgingl
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > As long as you cut a compressed audio / video file at the groups / jumps, you can cut it losslessly. If you had a video with keyframes 'd'K and delta frames 'd' like 0 1 |<-->| 2 K
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Blockly (the visual editor used by Scratch) elegantly shows hierarchy of control flow. I've never seen a boxes-and-lines visual editor where loops are as easily understood as Blockly pieces.
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Interrupting what, music? I sometimes wear headphones without listening to music because I don't want my train of thought to be interrupted.
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I had assumed https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I don't even want these devices making outgoing connections to the internet. I have my router drop all outgoing connection attempts from my IOT vlan. I can connect to the cameras etc on there from other VLANs but that's the only
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > Reducing the set of options works all the way down to a d2, which is equivalent to flipping a coin. I have seen this framed as "evens or odds": instead of asking "heads or tails", you ask "evens or odds".
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I did this with a tiny service I run on my home network that just calls yt-dlp on the passed URL and puts the result in a samba share that Emby uses, works amazingly well with all the services that yt-dlp understands.
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I recall that Google has a library that will answer the question, "given two identifiers like cluster names or machine names, which failure domains do they share?". Those failure domains can be like "they're in the same
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Arguably the entire article is clickbait, it's just rant running under the Opinions section.
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    I would also be interested in some more detail on this bullet: - *qq* is not a full *jq/\*q* replacement and comes with idiosyncrasies from the underlying gojq library what is qq missing that jq has? Is that the same question a
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I saw the link in your unminified html to [0], and wanted to boost it here in case others had also not seen it before. > We're doing it all completely bootstrapped. Day 1 starts with no social media presence, no followers, no press
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    I have font-variant-ligatures: none !important; font-feature-settings: "liga" off !important; in my userContent.css, so I had to stare at the three examples for too long because the second and third looked identical to me
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    You can DIY and get any level of customization/integration you want https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40713603
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    Stage 4 sounds somewhat like the structure of the Summa Theologica, wherein Aquinas addresses hundreds of individual questions following a few themes, each with the same structure (quoting from [0]): > Each “Article” has five structural
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    by philsnow 2y ago

    > This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic. You can convince somebody with an unsound argument if you say it in a certain way, but it seems unethical to do so.