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by ramses0 4y ago
Basically high APM clicking in StarCraft becomes a transferible skill...
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by ramses0 4y ago
Cough, cough, Google, cough, cough… I’m not ashamed to admit that I’ve done some jquery shenanigans on my Facebook friends page to “export” my friend list so I can retake control of my friend relationships (disintermediation for the in-crow
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by ramses0 4y ago
A simpler explanation than some of the below: imagine a damaged CD (or floppy) where one of the “blocks” returned inconsistent data. for x = 1 to 10: total += (read $DAMAGED_BLOCK) mod 2 assert total > 2 and total <
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by ramses0 4y ago
A lock is a delaying device. A lock is (should be) tamper-evident. All locks can (probably) be bypassed (eg: sledgehammer), but it’s best if it is visible that tampering has occurred.
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by ramses0 4y ago
Think of it like a split-flap display. It physically must “rotate” something to the right color. I’m no e-ink expert, but there may always be some level of “shimmer”.
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by ramses0 5y ago
https://www.crackle.com/watch/8196/2483291 (via google, but have fun with it... popcorn and turn down the lights ;-)
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by ramses0 5y ago
Have you seen the movie "Failsafe"? It's an old black-and-white "non-action" movie about nukes during the cold war. Fascinating movie.
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by ramses0 5y ago
I've recommended that video to near 100 people, it's so heartfelt and insightful.
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by ramses0 5y ago
Tests ensure you always have two consumers for an API (the API "in-place" as used by the functional portion of your system, as well as "how the tests use it"). This ensures new uses of the API have a path/model to
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by ramses0 5y ago
> - wrappers around third-party libraries. That's an "acceptance test" or "fit for purpose" test in case you're looking for industry terms. Closely related is "law of demeter" (the law of one dot),
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by ramses0 5y ago
This is a _very_ clear P.O.V.: Who installed '/foo/bar/baz' when '/foo' is a symlink to '/usr/bin'? I'm 100% in favor of the DPKG maintainer's perspective of "do ugl
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by ramses0 5y ago
vis: https://couchapp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/intro/what-is-couc... CouchDB supports "select index.html && index.js from my_couchdb.some_app" so you can have a UI bundled with your DB Blob.
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by ramses0 5y ago
Thank you, I was trying not to feed the trolls. ;-) http://www.robertames.com/blog.cgi/entries/the-unix-way-comm... ...I link to some good references that I found w.r.t. command line options which was a useful ba
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by ramses0 5y ago
IMHO, we've reached the point where shortopts for "non-superstar" commands are considered harmful (especially when the command args are used in scripting). Basically, of course, all your posix commands should keep shortopts a
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by ramses0 5y ago
Flickr started the trend of devowel-ing to get a "cool" domain, and was basically _the_ example API used for web development, along with a bias towards extremely high quality content (your lens must be this-$$$ to qualify). Then c
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by ramses0 5y ago
Agreed: Chronic => continual/frequent (chronos?). Emergent => sudden (emerge?). "Emergency Care" => "Sudden Care". Urgent => important (urge?). It finally made a lot of sense realizing that an "emer
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by ramses0 5y ago
Compare: https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/chandra/news/black-hole-i...
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by ramses0 5y ago
There's a benefit to direct manipulation of pixels/voxels within the game. Imagine, if you would: build a 64x64 "flat" foundation of stone. Clicky-clicky-pokey-pokey to place/remove colored blocks. Post something
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by ramses0 5y ago
In the early days of iOS there were tons of those apps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geotagging#Wikipedia_article_g... """One of the first attempts to initiate the geotagging aspect of searching and loc
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by ramses0 5y ago
Also consider OpenSCAD: https://files.openscad.org/examples/Basics/union.html difference(); union(); def my_obj(p1, p2, p3) { for(...p1...) { sphere(p2); cube(p3); } }; ...etc...
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by ramses0 5y ago
Minimally you can look at the pdf tools / toolkit and "imposition". Basically, Lilypond has like a zillion different output formats and page sizes: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.22/Documentation/n
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by ramses0 5y ago
apt source hello apt build-dep hello dpkg-buildpackage ... https://wiki.debian.org/BuildingTutorial#Building_the_source... https://ostechnix.com/how-to-build-debian-packages-from-sour... https://
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by ramses0 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdparanoia https://xiph.org/paranoia/faq.html#progbar """A plus indicates not only frame jitter, but an unreported, uncorrected loss of streaming in th
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by ramses0 5y ago
I've been very happy with this monitor for quite a while (probably 2017-ish): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01MY142C0/ ...although fair warning it does have occasional "flickering maroon blanko
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by ramses0 5y ago
But static typing implies shared typing, and then you run into issues like: <type:Username> and how do you marshal that across system or library boundaries?
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by ramses0 5y ago
I'm with you w.r.t. people on Jan 1 2022 trying to tag things as "(2021)", but can definitely understand the value of tagging as (2020/2019/...and prior).
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by ramses0 5y ago
Suppose: 1) foo.lang: class foo { func bar(a) { return b } } 2) baz.lang: import foo && print( foo.bar(1) ) Generally `foo` needs to have unit tests (self-tests), but `baz` needs to have "acceptance tests" for `foo` becaus
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by ramses0 5y ago
This description is like a dissertation and history lesson in calculation, all in one. Add a comparison of `chalk` to the babbage difference engine, and it'll be 100% complete! :-P
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by ramses0 5y ago
With a little experience in this area, I think that a replay-log is the best way to go, possibly with some data "encrypted until revealed". eg: chess has algebraic notation and that allows replay, undo/redo, save/load, e
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by ramses0 5y ago
Actually it's very likely that Git is exposing a failing or unreliable underlying storage medium (or memory?). I can't find the reference for it, but b/c git is so aggressive about actually checking hashes, it sometimes expo

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