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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   It's interesting that we've gotten away from this as more and more things have moved onto computers. I worked with some legacy systems in the government that still used paper case files and it struck me one day how the "statu
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   What does this mean?
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   > Suck Fairy Well that’s a new one on me. https://fanlore.org/wiki/The_Suck_Fairy
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   @dang - The title’s wording suggest that OpenAI’s CEO is leaving, not Windsurf. A more accurate title might be: “Windsurf’s deal with OpenAI is off, and its CEO is going to Google”
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   Wandrer [0] is a good site if you want to do something like this in your own town. It integrates with Strava and automatically imports your walks/rides and tracks your progress on the map, which lets you see where you’ve been and what
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   I’m surprised they don’t spend more time taking about the “soft fork” that voided the coins. For all the talk about the immutability of bitcoin transactions, it’s worth mentioning that things were once a lot more fluid.
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   Similar to this, the Munch Museum in Oslo has three variations of "The Scream" on rotation, with only one of them shown each day [0]. So you're always guaranteed to be able to see it in some form, but you'll have go to
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   I agree, but the vague title hardly even hints at that. At least the subtitle actually mentions Huawei…
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   by pimlottc 1y ago

   @dang suggest changing the submission to use the article's less clickbaity subtitle: "My journey to a Huawei watch"
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    There’s a similar confusion in Australia, where ground beef is called mince. You can go into any supermarket and pick up some beef mince, pork mince, even kangaroo mince. And then to the pet food aisle where you’ll find… “puppy mince”?!?!
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    This is sadly not mobile friendly in an amusing way; the map controls are nice and legible but they block basically the entire map. If there was a way to minimize them (perhaps automatically), this might work well on mobile.
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    I'm just happy this article doesn't start with "So I fed all 863 episodes of TAL into ChatGPT and here's what I discovered..."
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    This is gross on multiple levels.
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    Everyone experiences cardiac arrest when they did, but that’s not always what kills you.
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    > Popularised by von Braun in his 1949 sci-fi novel, Project Mars Von Braun's novel was written in 1949 but wasn't published until 2006. Perhaps the author means the technical appendix "The Mars Project" [0] which was
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    And it's within a circular mask. Half the challenge of ASCII art is creating the illusion of smooth curves and edges when you mostly just have blocky letters. There's barely any attempt at smoothing the edges at all. https:&#x2
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    What is "toms"?
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    To be fair, the question implies the port number of the local service is the problem, when it's more about making sure users can access it without needing to specify a port number in the URL. Yes, an experienced person might be able to
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    *colleague
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    I’m trying to read the box scores and they keep updating. I thought we all decided that automatic carousels were a bad idea years ago. Yes, I see now that you can stop this my manually advancing the carousel but it’s not at all obvious. Par
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    I’m shocked at your suggestion that the best puzzlers would ever look at the picture on the box!
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    “Totes Not Tots”
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    *cachet
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    For a moment I thought it was about the VA, like maybe this was a musical therapy tool for veterans or something.
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    Sometimes I think the effect is better when they're not quite the same. You get that bizarro-world feeling. "He sort of looked like you but also not like you? It was weird."
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    Wow, I can see how many people would find this to be a very boring game but it looks amazing to me. Sad that I missed its golden age.
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    I read "playing viking" affectionately. How many people manage to turn a childhood dream into a sustainable career?
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    > From your link, "the researchers extracted beads from deep within samples". Which made me laugh as earlier they stated, "The beads, each less than 1 mm across," so deep here is relative. What's contradictory ab
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    COVID might have finally done some stragglers in, but large scale indoors malls in the US were pretty well wrecked long before that
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    by pimlottc 1y ago

    Appreciated the concise summary + code snippet upfront, followed by more detail and background for those interested. More articles should be written this way!