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by pvillano 4y ago
grug brain tip: password manager. grug only remember one password. even on other computer, grug look up password on phone grug brain tip 2: use grug-brain-compatible password generation algorithm. Grug only need remember algorithm Example:
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by pvillano 4y ago
grug hate magic number, magic string
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by pvillano 4y ago
idea start with one cake. eat only cake mean no cake left :(
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by pvillano 4y ago
think hard ==> always need think hard think hard about think soft ==> no need think hard all time
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by pvillano 4y ago
(some descriptive linguistics) People often think of "=" as "is", when "is" can convey both equality and possession of an attribute. IIRC there was an article about how American kids think "=" means &
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by pvillano 4y ago
invoking Cunningham Maybe it follows the spec completely and defensively, requiring many more checks and supporting typically unused behavior
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by pvillano 4y ago
If you make $XX/hr, playing with your kids is worth greater than $XX/hr. Once you have enough money* to meet the basic needs of food, shelter, and security, the marginal utility of making more money drops considerably. Life can be
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by pvillano 4y ago
I'd love to see image generation specialized on the wikiHow style as a data set, and then set loose on all articles lacking images with no moderation
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by pvillano 4y ago
his body mangled, it was replaced with the nearest donor. a finch
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by pvillano 4y ago
An addictive formula is "hard to win entirely + easy to win a little bit" examples include arcade machines/roguelike, gotcha/lootboxes/gambling, crosswords psychologists have found that the most effective reinforcem
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by pvillano 4y ago
smh my head, a truly adversarial wordle would just use your first guess
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by pvillano 4y ago
it already exists https://www.remotehq.com/ https://www.tracefree.com/ https://webgap.io/ https://www.zscaler.com/
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by pvillano 4y ago
OBS allows you to create a virtual webcam, where you can use the live compositor to switch between, say, a looping video of you sitting still and your actual webcam. Smoke and mirrors could include a low frame rate and heavy compression to
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by pvillano 4y ago
last Advent of Code I took to putting asserts for every invariant in my code. most of my time was spent debugging, not the first write or running code. adding so many asserts provided a number of benefits: * asserts are a compact form
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by pvillano 4y ago
thank you for playing Wing Commander!
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by pvillano 4y ago
How This Indoor Vertical Farm Makes Perfect Japanese Strawberries [22:20] Eater
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by pvillano 4y ago
there was a defcon talk where they tested multiple methods for rapid hard drive erasure, in the event of a raid on a data center. a bomb range they visited happened to have a few of these leftover and https://youtu.be/-bpX8
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by pvillano 4y ago
does that make the rainbow six siege breach charge somewhat accurate? In that, if it doesn't knock the whole wall down like the first part of the video, there would be a door-shaped hole. https://rainbowsix.fandom.com/w
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by pvillano 4y ago
replace the electrolytic capacitors and it'll work like new
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by pvillano 4y ago
my use case for Bluetooth headphones is noise cancellation on public transport/airplanes. for listening to music latency doesn't matter, although for me it's enough that I can't use wireless headphones to play games on m
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by pvillano 4y ago
there are also 3D printed mods that add a switch
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by pvillano 4y ago
Would it be possible for a startup to create a product with [positive externalities] and lobby for companies to be required to create their version of the product with [positive externalities], instead of incumbents lobbying to get away wit
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by pvillano 4y ago
https://xkcd.com/2585/
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by pvillano 4y ago
it appears to be bugs all the way down
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by pvillano 4y ago
or if it's priceless
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by pvillano 4y ago
See also "Why the other line is likely to move faster" [3:42] by Bill Hammock the Engineer Guy https://youtu.be/F5Ri_HhziI0 The very short video touches on Agner Erlang's studies on telephone block queues and
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by pvillano 4y ago
[presented without commentary] my device displays each variation identically
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by pvillano 5y ago
if only English had a gender neutral pronoun that could be used by default when the gender of the subject isn't provided :thinking:
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by pvillano 5y ago
type hints are documentation, and machine readable documentation to boot!
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by pvillano 5y ago
not if the screw melts the plastic, the same way heated threaded insert would?

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