shawn_w

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by shawn_w 2mo ago
Interestingly, By the Waters of Babylon was written in 1937, before WW2 and the development of atomic and nuclear weapons - events that obviously and understandably triggered that theme in later writing like Bradbury's.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
My college was a DEC shop; I learned programming and how to use unix in labs full of dumb X terminals connected to Alpha servers. Still have a lot of nostalgia for the architecture.
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by shawn_w 2mo ago
I'd rather learn MUMPS or COBOL than use JS... not kidding.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
The old Cree bulbs that Home Depot used to carry have been great for me. I need to find a new supplier though because the brands they have now are junk that last a year or two if I'm lucky.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
The Troll is in Fremont, not Ballard.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
GP is listing it under exceptions to affordability.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
Roombas have been a thing for many years, long before the current llm craze.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
No? You can tell it to stop printing the citation notice.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
>Why the hell was perl even relevant? Nothing I wrote used Perl. parallel is written in perl.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
Substitute "target date fund" for "S&P 500 ETF" and that describes most retirement accounts... Not exactly niche.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
What did HN ever do to him anyways?
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
Medical gloves are not sterile (outside maybe of ones specifically packaged for use in an OR).
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
That's clever.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
Lots of things don't work with clisp.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
The area around 3rd and Blanchard is sketchy, but in the rest of Belltown the biggest hazards are incompetent Uber/lyft/doordash/etc. drivers and drunk people on lyme scooters.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
If you're talking about casu martzu cheese, Wikipedia says >Due to these risks, Italian authorities have banned the sale of this cheese, deeming it dangerous. Consequently, it is also prohibited across the European Union, as EU food
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
>There was also a company I think who spent hundreds of millions of dollars (IIRC) in creating a large grocery website with buying large warehouses then and basically losing a ton of money. That business also failed quite drastically. Pr
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
People go to Costco and only get a couple of things and not a cart load? You've got more self control than I.
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by shawn_w 3mo ago
There's a simple solution to that. Tax the rat farms.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
What do the grabbers do?
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
Until I read some of the comments here, I didn't realize anyone used any other approach with Wordle. A word that doesn't include the known letters is just unnecessarily increasing the number of guesses it takes to solve and doesn&
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
And an even bigger influence in Stephenson's first book, The Big U.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
There are multiple left lane exits (and onramps!) on I5 in downtown Seattle. Fun times.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
We have one of those diverging diamond ones in the general area too (at the I90/SR18 junction). It's interesting to drive through until you get used to it.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
The Tu-22M is almost as old as the B-52. They don't want to make more.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
Taking the object as the last argument works just as well. Just needs to be consistent whichever way is chosen.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
And, for anything but a throwaway one-liner, it shouldn't be made scary at all.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
Put the s-expressions back too.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
You see that style in SQL too.
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by shawn_w 4mo ago
I read this as "Perlism" at first and got excited to see perl on HN.

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