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by ramses0 2y ago
Two phases: Pick things up (until both hands, arms, elbows, armpits, etc are fully saturated). Put things away. DO NOT PICK UP ANYTHING AT ALL UNTIL BOTH HANDS ARE EMPTIED. 1) take out the trash 2) put clean stuff away (from your "sort
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by ramses0 2y ago
Similarly in iOS there's some surprising: "Move my 3pm meeting from today to tomorrow 10am", and a clutch tip: "Hey Siri, Delete All My Alarms", b/c there's no UI to delete and confirm the 100 alarms that
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by ramses0 2y ago
Visit "Musée Méchanique" if this tickles your fancy! https://museemecanique.com/
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by ramses0 2y ago
Good. Food. Flood. Lews. Lows. Luse. Loose. Lose.
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by ramses0 2y ago
Back in 'ye olden days, people used to print out programs... nay, they even used to _hand-write!_ programs before they began typing, because keyboard-time was valuable (nevermind compilation/computation/debugging time). Seria
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by ramses0 2y ago
The Tao of Programming, 7.3: """ "Corporate Headquarters has commanded," continued the magician, "that everyone use this workstation as a platform for new programs. Do you agree to this?" "Certainly,&
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by ramses0 2y ago
Also: echo "Hello" echo 1>&2 "World" It makes a _ton_ of sense for functions to have two "streams" for output/returns (stdout / stderr).
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by ramses0 2y ago
Excellent summary, add "Water Computers" to the mix for completeness. https://www.ultimatetechnologiesgroup.com/blog/computer-ran-...
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by ramses0 2y ago
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1178.html I'll share overlapping advice: don't name (conference rooms) after geographical locations or places, eg: "We're meeting in Colorado/Houston" ... too m
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by ramses0 2y ago
Check also SeaweedFS, it has some interesting tradeoffs made, but I hear you with wanting some of the properties you're looking for.
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by ramses0 2y ago
Everything old is new again: https://www.netrek.org/about/netrekFAQ.html#10 """ I compiled the client source, but every time I try to connect to a server it kicks me out or tells me to get a 'blesse
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by ramses0 2y ago
The opposite. Complicators gloves would be to use a solar powered fan to make electricity that drives a robot arm which uses a raspberry pi driving a computer vision controlled arm which is plucking individual boxes and folding them neatly
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by ramses0 2y ago
Complicators gloves. CriCut some card stock to have an SD-card shape and stick some post-it paper over both sides. "Lift to Experience"
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by ramses0 2y ago
No. The _ability_ to exploit it "en-masse" didn't exist 30 years ago. Random dell advertisement shows 16mb RAM (max 64mb), and 450mb HD. https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/comments/49o9tm/
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by ramses0 2y ago
You forgot: [X] print requires parentheses
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by ramses0 2y ago
I've dug fairly deep into docker layering, it would be wonderful if there was a sort of `LAYER ...` barrier instead of implicitly via `RUN ...` lines. Theoretically there's nothing stopping you from building the docker image and &
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by ramses0 2y ago
Also take a look at Circuit Playground Express. https://learn.adafruit.com/circuitpython-made-easy-on-circui... It's a "computer" that boots straight to your program. MicroPython (I even did it with TinyGo),
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by ramses0 2y ago
2006: Flash-based, online/web NLVE, focused on clipping / remixing (eg: "TikTok / Stitch Me"). https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/04/jumpcut.gi... ...sadly, acquired
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by ramses0 2y ago
Also, don't forget 256 color + dithering. AAALLSO don't forget the CRT and line-by-line image loading. Or wonder at the genius of progressive JPG that could render from blurry to clear instead. In some ways it's like the &quo
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by ramses0 2y ago
I think they're saying "boring" in that there were no surprising or unusual choices. Go. Test. Mock. Three Postgres Databases, mostly immutable, partitioned by data patterns / access patterns. Crontabs and shell scri
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by ramses0 2y ago
It's kindof a dumb answer, but `abcde` (A Better CD Encoder) continues to be my go-to reference for "everything shell". https://git.einval.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=abcde.git;a=summ... https://
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by ramses0 2y ago
Dang! Thanks...
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by ramses0 2y ago
Random e-reader tip: stick some sort of pop-socket thing on the back of the reader so that it "grips your hand" while reading. Then you don't have to "hold" the book/kindle, you just place/maneuver it. Se
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by ramses0 2y ago
I like the interactive nature of esc-., you can keep "up arrowing", to a value a few commands ago and crucially: edit the value. (add/remove `tgz`, etc)
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by ramses0 2y ago
tpope has $DIETY-tier naming skills: `fuGITive`, `scriptEASE`, `PATHoGEN`
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by ramses0 2y ago
Remiss for not mentioning "rlwrap": https://github.com/hanslub42/rlwrap ...basically "readline in a can" that you can use to improve text input of other programs. I forget if it was RMS or ESR that
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by ramses0 2y ago
cfg.linebreaks: LLM-plain-tex /s
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by ramses0 2y ago
VGS! Midair keeps the torch lit, and has had a re-release, but they're less "base" and more CTF with lights.
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by ramses0 2y ago
A personal pet-peeve of mine is "movies that feature an airplane flying away and turning left off into the sunset..." ThEy NeVeR AniMaTe The FlAps!! It's like you'd have an animated motorcycle scene and they don't t
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by ramses0 2y ago
This seems to be a Trojan horse for even further "personalizing" (de-anonymizing) the internet. If one site can require FaceID (or any sort of attestation) then either some, all, or arbitrary sites can require the same. I'm i

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