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by scrumper 4y ago
The idea in the article is a pretty well-worn one, which does work: make a visual record of your training or other beneficial activities, so you enjoy having a streak and don't want to break it. X's on a calendar. The article itse
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I think we'd have to file that under "reasons to be optimistic" but it's a grim entry. A full-scale second civil war may be pretty damn near impossible for the reasons you mention, but on every other front than physical
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by scrumper 4y ago
I think that offshore is Q4 2022, though very hard to tell from those colors in the coverage map. Really unhelpful visual design there!
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I think at those prices you'd have a boat big enough to have the power budget. It's clearly aimed at commercial or scientific use with a side of super yacht. I'm guessing a more affordable version more like the RV product wil
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The socket half of the lightning connector is actually pretty delicate inside: there are little tiny fingers that contact the strips on the plug. It's quite easy to damage those fingers and ruin the port when cleaning it out after expo
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by scrumper 4y ago
My Tele has a six saddle bridge, so the intonation is fine but now there's twice as many screws to cut yourself on. I like to think the guitar demands a tribute in blood before it'll sound good, certainly I've bled into it a
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by scrumper 4y ago
I don't think it's healthy, and I suffer from that too. But I'll turn away if I see a tourist point a camera at me (well, not at me, obviously, at whatever interesting thing I'm standing near), I'm obsessively priva
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by scrumper 4y ago
I was fortunate that my last team was a group of engineers that all liked video games. So we downloaded 0AD and beat the crap out of each other for a few hours one Friday. Crucially, they'd been nagging ME for months to do some sort of
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I found that too. It’s relevant today I think, as office-based companies start to think about hybrid futures.
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JetBrains had a go at an Xcode alternative a few years ago, I wonder if that ever took off? AppCode I think?
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by scrumper 5y ago
There's quite a few actually. In the hero image, "Documentation Exlporer"; "variable" needs to be pluralized in the "Automatic renaming" section; conversely "documentations" should be singular in
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by scrumper 5y ago
A bit hidden here is the tech they’re using - vacuum tubes! Gyrotrons. There’s still a few hair-raising applications remaining for this lovely technology for which there are no solid state alternatives: Ultra fast high energy switching (kry
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by scrumper 5y ago
Your IMG might be from Gem Paint? I remember that extension from my first computer, and that's what we used. It's about the right age. EDIT: Ugh, maybe not, I looked at LINEN.IMG and there's a lot of text in there.
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by scrumper 5y ago
> Or a naturalist tale of trying to turn the desert green? That's an interesting premise, and a nice third way between the obvious and tired approaches of Imperialist Exploiter 2000 and Mujahideen Simulator.
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Oh I follow you. Yeah no reason at all, at least until the economic incentives become strong enough (I doubt that'll ever happen but when knows.) What would a "dragonslaying" bit even mean in the context of, say, a puzzle gam
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by scrumper 5y ago
So - interesting, turns out it is done, and in this very area too. I read the 1960 report of their dive[1], linked to in the parent article. And it talks about "800 TNT explosions" preceding their dive in the Trieste. [1] http:&#x
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by scrumper 5y ago
You hash the bits that are the "thing". If it's one of these digital dresses the article talks about, there's some format for encoding that dress so it can be loaded into whatever environment supports an avatar's ab
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by scrumper 5y ago
This is ambitious. It seems to be an attempt to cram a lot of information and functionality in a single page, which should be applauded. Right now there's lots of little gremlins in here: Click the CAGED button and a piano keyboard app
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They're not really ok though. You have to flip both horizontally AND vertically to get the correct results: 1. Flip the fretboard left to right so the open string is on the left 2. Play the open strings by clicking their names, hear th
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by scrumper 5y ago
On a long highway run I find cruise control helps with economy more than anything else. This is because it stops you unconsciously accelerating when you don't need to. It also gives you the chance to wriggle your feet and legs a bit wh
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by scrumper 5y ago
Delighted to see this. Nearly a decade ago I made a sort of virtual desk blotter which let you put notes or drawings anywhere. It was during paternity leave after my first child was born and I was in that weird head space of free associatio
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by scrumper 5y ago
Maybe the Teams product manager...? It certainly puts you off Skype!
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by scrumper 5y ago
It's the devil's CAPTCHA, basically. And apparently you have to do it ten times in a row. Some evidence in the thread that this only applies to non-Edge browsers.
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This is not a joke, this is real Skype account creation(old.reddit.com)
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I second the incredulity in every other comment here, but the bit that really struck me was the aluminum chassis reinforced with carbon fiber to _dampen vibration and resonance_. In an ethernet switch. What? I guess, if I had to stretch to
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by scrumper 5y ago
I remember learning about CORBA in undergrad too. Then a few months into my first job, "new guy, go do this integration with SOAP/WSDL." Crushed me so hard I went into sales.
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I'm not sure I agree with that. Misses on short-term plans are a different concern to progress on a multi-century plan. Pig iron production might've missed its forecast for 2020, but it'd undeniable that China is building tre
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by scrumper 5y ago
They might have a point there about potential for declining general vaccination rates in children in future - the anti-vax movement was already seemingly gaining steam before COVID, with measles outbreaks on the West coast and other things.
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I agree. It was lovely to watch, a good-hearted, entertaining, relaxed show with very likable characters and gorgeous photography. And I will forevermore know to call people operating metal detectors "detectorists."
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Nice that their legacy lives on, thrives really, in GIFs.

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