shawn_w

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by shawn_w 6mo ago
>Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle at the top of the linked pages.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
There are areas of the city where instead of dumpsters, businesses and apartment complexes just put trash bags out in the alley/sidewalk for daily collection. https://www.seattle.gov/utilities/your-services/co
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Quite a few architectures have a dedicated 0 register.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
I wonder if a keyboard where the keycaps are little eInk displays is feasible.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
I don't remember humor, just lots and lots of ads.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Computer Shopper was in the US too.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
I mentioned the existence of`string-set!` a few days ago in the reddit post on this release of fset[1] (as well as some Racket inaccuracies). He might just not have gotten around to updating it. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r&
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Random access with similar performance to a balanced binary tree, and ordered iteration as simple as a linked list. It's a nice combination. (Of course, so is a binary search of a sorted array, which I lean more towards these days unle
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
I'm more concerned about the giant desert ants. I've seen that movie...
100.
by shawn_w 6mo ago
Redmond has decent (though not great) bus coverage and light rail stations to Seattle and points beyond in the core downtown area and next to a huge park.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Wish HN markup had spoiler tags. Let's just say it involved spending quality time with Yuri? I played it on my Switch; not sure if it has a skip option.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Not the original commenter, but I thought sqlite had that title.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
That scenario is so unrealistic that nobody would be able to suspend their disbelief enough to get into it.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
I'm not sure I could tolerate a second play through. One part in particular that just goes on and on and on for what feels like forever is really tough to get through and resume the plot.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
>The charger also gets hot and sparks. Some heat is normal, but the sparking seems concerning.
106.
by shawn_w 6mo ago
Maybe they're embarrassed to admit they lost the password for their wallet.
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by shawn_w 6mo ago
Devilbunnies? Man, I haven't heard that name in a long long time. I used to be obsessed with reading all the stories in that universe. Never contributed anything though.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
To be faaaair, authors usually don't have any control over the cover design; that's the publishers decision.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
Movie? That happens in the original book.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
Asimov's and Analog are struggling too
111.
by shawn_w 7mo ago
There aren't many people left who've been that close to the moon. Lots of people would love to be on that list.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
At my most recent EMS job ("ambulance driver" is considered insulting), the younger people couldn't navigate anywhere without mapping it. Some of them brought up being amazed that I could get to every hospital in our area fro
113.
by shawn_w 7mo ago
Complicated, expensive CPU marketed to very high end workstation use? Nobody thought it was worth picking up even if it was faster than the alternatives.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47518965
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
Far right totalitarianism and far left totalitarianism have a lot in common.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
Man I wish the Xenosaga games would get a rerelease for a modern console.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
IIRC the GNU sed people looked into adding pcre support but decided it was too much work and that people should just use perl instead.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
Or put the logo on a pivot so it's always right side up no matter the orientation of the laptop.
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
A bunch of Scheme implementations define little-known syntax for partial application[0] that lets you put limits on how many arguments have to be provided at each application step. Using the article's add example: (define (((add x)
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by shawn_w 7mo ago
perl, though that uses lists rather than multiple value or fixed-size tuples: #!/usr/bin/env perl use v5.36; sub f($a, $b) { return ($a+1, $b+1); } sub g($k, $l) { return ($k+1, $l+1); } say f

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