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by ramses0 3mo ago
It's one of those things you'd _never_ stumble over naturally, but once you're aware of the concept, it makes a ton of sense and you can immediately think of tons of uses for it. /def new_.*(/s+8 /20
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by ramses0 3mo ago
I think it's actually due to "pelican on a plane" isn't the same as "pelican on an airplane" (Sonnet5 @ Flamingo x Plane), some consistent and warranted semantic/linguistic confusion!
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by ramses0 3mo ago
Another slew of utility lies in `:help searchoffset`, often like the following: https://til.codeinthehole.com/posts/about-vims-semicolon-sea... /x/e-3 /x/+1 /x/;/yz .
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by ramses0 3mo ago
...and BUTTONS! Pebble's capabilities are excellent b/c the UX of a ~1.5" screen is wildly different than that of an iPhone. Up/Down/Forward/Backwards and the occasional long-press is an excellent match for o
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by ramses0 3mo ago
Mitch Hedberg... "I want to get a job at the Kitchen Appliance Naming Institute: Refrigerator, Toaster, Blender.. you just say say what it does, then you add '-er' What's this thing do? It keeps shit fresh. Well that&#x2
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by ramses0 3mo ago
...and the Ally ISN'T EVEN AN XBOX!!!! """AI Overview: No, the Asus ROG Ally is not actually an Xbox. It is a handheld Windows computer made by Asus, even though it features Xbox branding and uses an Xbox-style controlle
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by ramses0 3mo ago
George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903): "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." http:&
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by ramses0 3mo ago
Fuben-Eki! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37169679
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by ramses0 3mo ago
SCADA. Mechanism Design. ANSI/ISA-18.2-2016. NASA "Power of Ten" Safe Coding. "The Pit of Success". Poka Yoke. Kaizen/Seiton. "The Five S's". Fuben-eki ("The Benefits of Inconvenience&q
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by ramses0 3mo ago
It makes sense even more. If you never enter "insert" mode, you still have powerful navigation and overview capabilities. `*`, `#`, n/p, :set fdm=indent + zM/zR, gf/gx, :bp, the venerable `}/{` pairing, and s
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by ramses0 3mo ago
There was an old blog post comparing pianos to text editors. A "simpler" piano would only have white keys, but to a piano expert the piano appears invisible (and powerful) after the initial learning curve. I think an important att
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by ramses0 3mo ago
Meta: in addition to upvotes and downvotes, we almost need a slop/not-slop slider. This one barely scrapes by at what feels like 30-40% "slop": "honestly", "the one thing", etc... ...but I did learn someth
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by ramses0 4mo ago
That’s amazing! I am just imagining a room full of programmers with slightly divergent crontab start times all playing a "moo" sound effect, seemingly at random... not a bad ambient information radiator, actually!
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by ramses0 4mo ago
So I made a comment a while back about lilypond: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46148831 A salient extract: ...but why is it so complicated? A novice interpretation of "music" is "a bunch of notes!&quo
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by ramses0 4mo ago
That's a really great reframing: "predictability" ...I think we've been exponential (or s-curve) w.r.t. repeatable predictability that _smaller_ prompts are yielding. eg: `regform.php: register( first, last, address, em
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by ramses0 4mo ago
Yeah, but IP address is "obviously" correlated with a distinct/persistent tranche of users. It's surprising that volume c_time is both more persistent as well as more unique than IP.
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by ramses0 4mo ago
```Based on a binomial/Poisson distribution and a baseline of 21 million U.S. device sales per release, a fingerprint relying on "seconds since setup" fails to uniquely identify individuals. In the high-density Early Adopter
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by ramses0 4mo ago
"A compiler is free to optimize...", on sufficiently basic prompting "make me a user address collection form that writes to a database table called 'registered_users'..." ...I agree it's not deterministic
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by ramses0 4mo ago
Don't tell me you're reading all assembly generated by your local golang or javac compiler? And that you've read every line of code down the dependency tree for your node_modules? I'm just upset that we are throwing away
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by ramses0 4mo ago
I'm looking for a better video of it (from one of the engineers), but look at the NASA robot hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfDXzkFHnz0 https://www.google.com/search?q=nasa+robonaut+video+hand+w
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by ramses0 4mo ago
nee: couchapps https://railsware.com/blog/couchdb-and-couchapp-part-1/amp/#... https://couchapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/couchapp/gettingst... https://couchapp.readt
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by ramses0 4mo ago
...maybe some sort of "Software Bazaar", where the users of the software can edit their own software and make local modifications that they need to it, probably with NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICAB
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by ramses0 4mo ago
Thought of you this afternoon, "after you click the record button can you make a 'boop, boop, boop, clack!' like a lead-in from a from a clapboard (using web audio synthesis apis)?" ...was quite surprising the result!
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by ramses0 4mo ago
https://specification.website/spec/well-known/change-passwor...
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by ramses0 4mo ago
https://www.passwordstore.org/ git + somesite.com.gpg https://github.com/FiloSottile/passage (or: forked using AGE instead of GPG)
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by ramses0 4mo ago
And/Or: `*.par` files. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive
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by ramses0 4mo ago
I'm stupefied by the accuracy of the SP/LP/EP rendering differences. Apart from how "accurate" everything is, that one pushed it way past the uncanny valley and into "oh yeah, that's pretty much exactly w
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by ramses0 4mo ago
How much have you mucked with `pi`? I love the "zero overhead" aspect of the short agent/system prompt, but I can just imagine the waiting and potential dead-end's it'd get itself into if I just let it rip on a ran
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by ramses0 4mo ago
Housekeeper. House Cleaner. The first organizes things and may do the laundry or put away groceries or something. I wouldn't know for certain, as my income doesn't yet reach to those heady heights. The second vacuums, mops, clean
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by ramses0 4mo ago
That's a frying pan => fire situation. I started my home automation journey in the same way, and being HK-centric is pretty decent. HA with 100% local-control devices that _bridges_ to HK is what I'm looking at next. Often, the

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