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by piercebot 6y ago
I upgraded from a Pixel XL (which itself was a free upgrade after my Nexus 6P ran into the battery shutdown issues) to the 4XL when it came out in November, and while I can't say I _regret_ my purchase, it's just... unremarkable.
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by piercebot 6y ago
Have you written anything about your experiences? I'm very curious to read about them!
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by piercebot 6y ago
The REPL is still something that I haven't quite mastered, but what I enjoy doing right now is working in files and using a REPL connection to evaluate expressions within the file. It feels like a happy medium between "do everythi
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by piercebot 6y ago
Would you mind elaborating on (or provide a link to) some of the problems you mentioned Hololens 2 having? Also, I've never heard of Digilens; do you have a preferred source for learning more about that device and what its limitations
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by piercebot 6y ago
Going to throw my weight behind the Clojure recommendation. For more information about the language, there was a great PDF published about the history of the language recently: https://download.clojure.org/papers/clojur
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by piercebot 6y ago
The hardest thing for us has been the loss of public spaces -- not being able to take my 3yo son the Air and Space Museum (his favorite place), to ride the metro, or even over to Grandma's house for the afternoon is tough. What I mis
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by piercebot 6y ago
A lot of the comments here are reminding me a lot of Tom MacWright's critique of modern web development: https://macwright.org/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html Around the same time, Vladimir Agafonkin (perhap
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by piercebot 6y ago
This refutation is authored by the same person who conducted the study to which these comments are attached :)
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by piercebot 6y ago
Even if that means the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation wouldn't exist today? At the cost of the hundreds of millions[0] of lives they've saved? Not attacking, just starting a discussion. What if we frame this in the context of t
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Nvidia RTX Voice: Remove distracting background noise(nvidia.com)
2 points by piercebot 6y ago|0 comments
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by piercebot 6y ago
Thanks for your comment, it is a nice reminder to receive. When I wrote the comment, I was remembering a coworker whose nephew had ASD, and could not process spoken word from his family well. They discovered that using the "say" c
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by piercebot 6y ago
Having a robot companion as an "impartial" third party may help kids work through issues they (feel like they) can't talk with their parents about. For better or worse, parents are human beings, and (even unconsciously) may s
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by piercebot 6y ago
Laura ( https://twitter.com/carlsonlaura64 ) hosted the "Ag of the World" twitter account (27k followers; https://twitter.com/AGofTheWorld ) for the past week, and there was a lot of demand on Twitte
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by piercebot 6y ago
Unless I'm misunderstanding the ClojureScript team posts, one of the motivations for tight webpack integration is that not every npm module is compatible with advanced compilation. From the article[0]: > But after nearly three years
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by piercebot 6y ago
This is a useful reminder; thank you. It's true that my original comment was made in the context of having virtually all of my needs already met, and being far along the path to self-actualization.
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by piercebot 6y ago
This is an excellent point! I personally subscribe to Rich Hickey's "hammock driven development" approach to problem solving, and I think how we approach problems, like our tools, is something that can be optimized with pract
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by piercebot 6y ago
Maybe you've never been extrinsically rewarded, but surely you've derived some kind of intrinsic reward for improving your productivity? A sense of pride or joy? :)
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by piercebot 6y ago
> Isn't it amazing that someone could do something for 100 hours and not think about obvious improvements, and not even wonder if they've been setup? I have co-workers like this: people who don't bother to learn the tools
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by piercebot 7y ago
Patience.
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by piercebot 7y ago
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned https://web.whatsapp.com/ yet. You need to log in by scanning a QR code with your phone, but once you do, you can use your full-size keyboard to chat! I know it doesn't check all
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by piercebot 7y ago
Your comment reminds me a bit of the relationship between Clojure and JavaScript. Back in 2014, Clojure-based web development had all kinds of groundbreaking ideas that massively improved quality of life: immutable data structures, hot code
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by piercebot 7y ago
This is a great suggestion; the Zero has enough oomph to run the JVM, which gives you access to Clojure! I had the most luck installing the Zulu Embedded version of Java, and I've had a Clojure webapp running on my Pi Zero for over a w
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Spider silk avoids hungry bacteria(economist.com)
1 points by piercebot 7y ago|0 comments
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by piercebot 7y ago
I would not be surprised if a lot of people elected to watch shows in their parked car instead of their living room simply because of the fantastic audio system. I don't have a surround sound system in my home, but I do in my Model 3!
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by piercebot 7y ago
Lots of comments promoting loose-leaf teas. My favorite suppliers are: + https://www.meimeitea.com/ + https://yunnansourcing.com/ If you live in the DC Area, Victoria (who runs Meimei Fine Teas) hosts tea c
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by piercebot 7y ago
>The Screen, whether it’s TV, computer, or phone, has supplanted almost all social interactions. I think social (cooperative) gaming might be an exception to this. I'm not about to argue that it's _better_ than real-life social
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by piercebot 8y ago
I don't think 2006 is valid, because the charts themselves go to 2016
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by piercebot 8y ago
Surprised that Clojure didn't make even the big list.
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by piercebot 8y ago
Bruce Hauman has given a few good talks about how you can use tools like Figwheel to bring a REPL-like development experience to web development. You can watch him live-code the game 2048 in the screencast where he introduces DevCards[0].
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by piercebot 8y ago
Why cotton?

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