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by ramses0 3y ago
But parliament wants to seed your camera with mugshots of the FBI's top-ten most wanted list so the instant a false positive appears (directly on the camera, potentially even prior to writing the image to disk, potentially even prior t
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by ramses0 3y ago
The thing that _really_ irritates me about debian (almost the only thing, actually) is how flipping hard it is to use it as a development environment/system. It's _great_ as a system, but for the love of $DIETY, why isn't the
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by ramses0 3y ago
/usr/bin/debian-configure-thingy.py => import foo_foo_foo sudo pip3 install bar_bar_bar ...depends foo_foo_foo@v4.5.6 ...but debian-configure-thingy.py expects foo_foo_foo@v1.2.3 (or import path conflicts or whatever)
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by ramses0 3y ago
Echoing: doing some "deep" troubleshooting of an issue on my Chromebook (since like 2006 + crouton/crostini), I read about their newer security/architecture for Linux apps running in chrome. https://chromeos.d
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by ramses0 3y ago
GDS. A Global Distribution System is a worldwide reservation system that acts as a conduit between travel bookers and suppliers, such as hotels, other accommodation providers and other travel related services.
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by ramses0 3y ago
Maps. Groups. Upcoming/Local. Flickr. Tech was great, groundbreaking at the time (however, that had its own drag on velocity). Product "management" of anything post-acquisition was demonstrably atrocious.
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by ramses0 3y ago
First sources w.r.t. timing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17359309 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17358548
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by ramses0 3y ago
Look for a ream of short-grain (bookbinding) paper. Other option is a ream or stack of 11x17 and have it yourself. Even a bit thinner it tends to be nice for writing.
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by ramses0 3y ago
Latency lost can never be recovered or never be parallelized.
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by ramses0 3y ago
Syntastic, I think? `~/.vim/pack/default/start/syntastic/README.markdown`
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by ramses0 3y ago
Both _awesome_ comments, I made a similar one up above, but hadn't considered the `testing` use case which is actually really really cool to "protect" your test scope like that. Almost like a fake "setup/teardown&q
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by ramses0 3y ago
...and the epic "comment the empty `else`-block": ... } else { /* no action needed, enterprise users should not frib or frob... */ }
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by ramses0 3y ago
An interesting go-ish thing to do regarding: """Now, DownloadAndVerifyThing is shorter, contains less state, and is more obviously a composition of several tasks.""" ...I've experimented with "convert
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by ramses0 3y ago
Never in a million years, but that's exactly the angle I'm approaching it at. I'll look it up, but it intuitively says similar to what I'm thinking. "Linear-time Sort-ish..." and I guess the "extra"
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by ramses0 3y ago
I remember a website that "raced" different sorting algorithms visually but I don't remember which website, or which oddball algorithm that stood out to me as being especially good for "continuous partial ordering".
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by ramses0 3y ago
Tribes 2 holds a special place in that they effectively built a proto-internet inside the game client. It shipped with user-accounts, IRC (chat), newsgroups (forums), email (direct messages), LDAP (groups/clans/tribes), integrated
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by ramses0 3y ago
Yep, they made the terminal feel slow! /s But seriously, check out their "easing" and transition stuff. The 500ms "lag" is annoying for power users, but does help provide context while learning an app's navigat
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by ramses0 3y ago
More like the generally accepted concepts of "selected, active, focus, style, change", and declaring either a visual response or "onEvent" response. A nested hierarchy, components may be complicated internally but expose
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by ramses0 3y ago
Did a cursory dive through, check: https://textual.textualize.io/tutorial/ and https://github.com/Textualize/textual/blob/main/docs/example... ...what have people had success w
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by ramses0 3y ago
"Source Available" please.
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by ramses0 3y ago
Pilot can't go out and replace the brake pad on the tarmac. Technician busts out the ODB code-reader and says: "Huh, needs a new left brake pad"
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by ramses0 3y ago
OG Wasteland had that feature, along with a pretty decent macro system. Worth a look.
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by ramses0 3y ago
Plug-ins. "The Modeling Store": * Startup9000 Simulator * ClassicAutosAsInvestments Simulator * My Personal Stamp Collection API Plug-in (not-public, not-for-sale) Basically, theres enough weird stuff out there that could be a com
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by ramses0 3y ago
The slobs stuck producing them (aka: myself) then break down a project into: Project => Area(epic/feature) @ T-Shirt Size => ...you're done... If you can backtest/backport simply the COUNT of stories associated with eno
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by ramses0 3y ago
Conversely: “chicken nugget” estimation. Traditional agile suggests “sizing each task” (work estimated to be less than one sprint). I’ve found that simply “counting each task” is more effective... instead of trying to estimate the differenc
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by ramses0 3y ago
Conversely: people are basically forgetting "John Wayne" (to name a larger-than-life character of recent memory). I made a reference a few years ago to "Let's put on the 'Theme Song from Rocky' and get this don
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by ramses0 3y ago
DVD releases of demoscene “stuff”: http://www.mindcandydvd.com/ Well-cared-for in that they captured from original hardware, took scanlines, refresh rate, etc into consideration.
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by ramses0 3y ago
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/750015/send-alsa-au... https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43896 (circa 2008 people were doing this... semi-unironically ;-)
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by ramses0 3y ago
cat /dev/audio | <( mkfifo && netcat ) ...semi-unironically... (whoops, forgot the gzip/gunzip filters...)
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by ramses0 3y ago
AFAIK it’s X, S, Series X, Series S. AFAIK, S is “no physical media” AFAIK, “series” means “fancy” I’ve only ever purchased XBox consoles and currently rock an XBox One. Lemme fix your marketing, XBox: call the “no drive” ones “cloud” or “o

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