rectangleboy

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by rectangleboy 4mo ago
Something like this came up in Robert R. McCammon's 1987 book Swan Song[1], one of the first novels to win the Bram Stoker award[2] for Best Novel (alongside Stephen King's Misery that year). One of the survivors finds a glass rin
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by rectangleboy 8mo ago
I was complaining about SQLAlchemy's insane quirks to a group from my alma mater and one of the grad students said, "Well, the solution to your problem is clear: Write your own ORM." and I had to explain that this startup doe
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by rectangleboy 11mo ago
Us iPhone 13 Mini holdouts need to get a little louder. It feels like I find more and more on the internet every month -- I'm pretty sure there're far more than just "dozens of us" who want a reasonably-sized phone.
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by rectangleboy 1y ago
> Unfortunately, the quality of the readings can vary widely . . . I tried LibriVox in college to listen to difficult-to-understand poems (at the professor's recommendation) on my iPod and my ears couldn't take the harsh plosiv
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by rectangleboy 2y ago
Yes
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by rectangleboy 2y ago
Just looking up his callsign, I found this: https://www.cardcow.com/215722/k9bcj-ill-seeing-you-farther-...
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by rectangleboy 3y ago
My friends have managed to avoid introducing their 5 year old to the iPad. They do allow her to use it on airplanes, but they rope the flight attendants into it and have the attendant present it as "the airplane's iPad."
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by rectangleboy 3y ago
Interesting. I get this controller headphone port feature when using the PS5, it's too bad it doesn't carry over to PC.
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by rectangleboy 3y ago
Location: South Bay Area of SF, CA Remote: Yes, prefer hybrid. Willing to relocate: No. Technologies: Java, C++, Python, Bash, C, Objective-C, SQL, Unix/Linux, BigQuery, Google Cloud Platform, Xcode Résumé/CV: https:&
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by rectangleboy 3y ago
I have the \LaTeX command in my skills line, which is really hard to typeset in anything other than LaTeX. Other engineers notice it unprompted.
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by rectangleboy 4y ago
ugh me too lol
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by rectangleboy 5y ago
The Tile existed before the AirTags.
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by rectangleboy 5y ago
Flying toasters!
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by rectangleboy 5y ago
The most common error is installing Brew in the first place.
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by rectangleboy 6y ago
I just went to Central Computer for the first time a couple weeks ago! I got my PSU, AIO, and a smattering of other cables and cable wraps. The Microcenter near where I grew up was just too far away to drive and Fry’s never really had the s
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by rectangleboy 6y ago
Some kind of local time zone vertical line overlay option might be a nice addition. Why I thought about this: I'm using a ~12 year old monitor that occasionally has a broken column of pixels about 2/3 of the whole monitor width aw
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by rectangleboy 6y ago
It was behind the exorbitant number of spatulas the whole time!
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by rectangleboy 6y ago
just put some cardboard down and you're fine
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by rectangleboy 7y ago
Substantial?
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by rectangleboy 7y ago
Watching this frustrates me tremendously.
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by rectangleboy 8y ago
I think this is what you're looking for: https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/ "Dr. Thompson peered inside his perfect offspring to gain insight into its methods, but what he found inside
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by rectangleboy 8y ago
> Most people come by their politics by assimilating their family or communities, especially in college . . . I, without a doubt, formed my opinions largely because of my family (against my moderately-strong conservative family), not tha
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by rectangleboy 9y ago
A tweet thread [1] from @realscientists (a Twitter account authored by a different active scientist each week) supports this point: "People think math and coding are skills u r born with. ok there r prodigies out there. but most talent
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by rectangleboy 9y ago
To me, [Syn,Lin]thesia are very useful when YouTubers don't have time to transcribe the thing into proper sheet music. Hari Sivan[1] and Kyle Landry[2] do this and often times fans may work together to make a proper sheet[2]. Music the
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by rectangleboy 9y ago
Community college classes are a great way to satisfy that need to learn. Usually, community colleges have group keyboard classes, which are a great, cheap, and not-intense introduction to piano playing.
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by rectangleboy 10y ago
Usually I'm not making the switch visually. On arch, I know what spaces each application is one and just switch to it instinctively. The visual search and movement to the trackpad ends up being slower and more annoying than a quick Sup
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by rectangleboy 10y ago
Where's the commentary on FreeBSD? It certainly seems like the right idea (to replace OS X), but I want to know their experience.
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by rectangleboy 10y ago
Similarly, I've been using AwesomeWM for a few years. Going back to OS X is frustrating to me because it's so languorous and lacking control. On Arch/AwesomeWM, I can instantly flip to the space I want, but Mission Control fo
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by rectangleboy 10y ago
Can someone explain to me the benefits of using TensorFlow over Theano?