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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   I'd read about her daughter's fault-finding skills before, and the same bug _was_ triggered by astronauts, on "the very next flight, Apollo 8..." And _then_ the safeguard got added before Apollo 11. * https://
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   I picked up an Ikea Markus, under $200 at the time, because of its strong showing on a Lifehacker poll [1] and it was the budget pick on Wirecutter [2], though it's since been superseded. I still like my Markus, but if we're shopp
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   I’m bummed it didn’t match the rhythms, which isn’t impossible for a bot, see https://twitter.com/wiki_tmnt/status/1142070265150464000?s=2... . Maybe I should make a follow up bot.
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   Ah. GitHub repo cards, for embedding anywhere. From the title, I thought this was cataloging every web site.
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   Would that be a spam vector, though?
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   I was going by the twitter thread, but I looked and found this in Wikipedia: > the Zanzibar Archipelago, together with Tanzania's Mafia Island, are sometimes referred to locally as the "Spice Islands" (a term borrowed from
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   There's another thread about naming it - https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576 The original name was Spice, which was nixed from a higher-up; they went to Zanzibar, one of the Spice Island
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   https://twitter.com/LeaKissner/status/1136691523104280576 > Zanzibar was not the original name of the system. It was originally called "Spice". I have read Dune more times than I can count and an acce
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   by pronoiac 7y ago

   James Mickens is great! He's listed his own work here: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens > James Mickens offers his timeless insights for free, because he loves you and he wants you to succeed. P
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    by pronoiac 7y ago

    For text, I'd lean to preserving that in a git repo instead.
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    by pronoiac 7y ago

    On mobile, to get to the other chapters, there's a hamburger menu at the top that's hidden until you tap near the top.
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    by pronoiac 7y ago

    I recorded much of AMP.
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    by pronoiac 7y ago

    I second or third librarything; I've used tags for things like "box1" or "shelf2."
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    by pronoiac 7y ago

    For other folks looking for announcement feeds, see https://forums.aws.amazon.com/rss.jspa - announcements are the asterisks.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    'cat > somefile' is my first instinct, but the while loop described allows for editing, rather than wholesale replacement.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    Ah, then, won't syncing it up to a computer reset the clock, and the lockout lessen?
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    Heads up, store.discferret.com isn't resolving.
18. 378.▲
    by pronoiac 8y ago

    Um. He made an executable using only printable characters.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    They find some accounting details, rather than something more interesting.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    There's also the DirecTV Now app, which gets bundled with some AT&T mobile plans, and the UX there is much worse than in HBO Now. I don’t think you can make watchlists, and it won’t pick up from the same time if you get interrupted
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    He's a hilarious writer! His page at Harvard - https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens - gathers all his work, with my only complaint being a lack of RSS so I can get notified more quickly.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    Huh. The name "Hugging Face" first brought to mind the facehuggers from Alien.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    markdown and git can work together. I've set that each sentence gets its own line, and configured git to use wdiff instead, highlighting the changed words instead of lines.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    Jason Scott's podcast: http://ascii.textfiles.com/podcast
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    If they're not copy-protected, try gddrescue; it logs what it's read, and it can resume. Try another drive if you can. And, I know it sounds odd, you can rub your finger against the side of your nose and then across any scratches
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    I’d use gddrescue - it logs what it’s successfully read, so you can try multiple drives. And there should be some way of reading the dvd / volume title from a script.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    If you're wondering what it is, see https://dynamicland.org/ It's a multi-user interface, using objects on a table, via an overhead projector and camera.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    The mobile experience for PDFs is awful.
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    Oh cool! The mentioned Computer History Museum celebration site is online: https://thedemoat50.org/ The symposium is this Sunday in Mountain View: https://thedemoat50.org/symposium/ I'm looking fo
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    by pronoiac 8y ago

    I love his work! Here's his page at Harvard that collects all of it: https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens