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by smitelli 2y ago
Is that vanilla JavaScript or TypeScript? I had always thought that one of the main benefits of TS is that it would probably yell about the first case. (I currently only dabble in the JS world.)
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've been using imap-backup for years on both my personal and work machines. IIRC I had to set up a Gmail app password to get it to work, but that landscape may have changed since then. 31 GB written and still going strong.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> I got a picture of my great grandfather, thing took six hours to take your picture. [...] Every guy had one picture back then. And it's just him like, "[grimacing] I gotta get back, feed them hogs!" Now, in the future of
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by smitelli 2y ago
> LectroFan Ah, somebody who appreciates the finer things in life. Our LectroFan will more than likely remain at our bedside until our dying days.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I can’t find the article at the moment, but my recollection is that it has been estimated that each symbol was carried in on a few hundred photons.
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by smitelli 2y ago
That interval (B-F) would be the tritone, arguably the most dissonant one in the toolbox.
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by smitelli 2y ago
They did that with film too. The editors sliced up a copy of the developed film, called a “workprint,” spliced it all back together, and produced a list of numerical edit points as they went along. Then a person called the negative cutter w
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by smitelli 2y ago
Yes, and in some cases you can casually chat up the people at the rental house and find out what other (potentially high profile) productions the equipment was used on.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> Who cares actually? Nobody. I do. Speaking only for myself, but Tesla has a long long way to go to repair its manufacturing reputation in my eyes.
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by smitelli 2y ago
The principal reason why I can’t see myself daily-driving a kei truck: I’d have to get extremely good at reversing through drive-through establishments. Everything in the U.S. is built for left-hand drive.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Is my toilet tank a single-algorithm analog computer?
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by smitelli 2y ago
This effect is enshrined into the default EGA palette[1] -- you'll notice that the bit pattern sent to the monitor is always either 000xxx or 111xxx except in the case of brown, which is 010100. In any given color, the base bits (0..2)
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by smitelli 2y ago
Well, partially, because it’s hell on the first responders to have to clean up a fatal accident scene, which is made worse if the death(s) could have been prevented.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Ah yes, the new Hippocratic oath, “above all else, maximize your profit.”
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by smitelli 2y ago
The problem, to my eye, is lack of contrast. It’s something I’ve started to notice more and more in modern designs — grey dividing lines/objects that are too close to the light background, failing to stand out. My hypothesis is that th
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by smitelli 2y ago
Can’t I just enjoy playing a game for however many hours without having to buy shit?
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by smitelli 2y ago
That sounds just awful. Like an aggressive cancer that spreads until it kills the host and itself.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Odd flex but OK.
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by smitelli 2y ago
Another happy customer of NameSilo here. A handful of .com, .net, and a .org domain registered with them, and I've never been personally irritated by anything they've done.
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by smitelli 2y ago
If the world were flat, cats would’ve knocked everything off the edge by now.
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by smitelli 2y ago
> similar (or even the same, depending on font) characters which can be used in malicious ways These are called "confusables" and boy does that well run deep: https://www.unicode.org/Public/security/16
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by smitelli 2y ago
Eh, there's something serene in the knowledge that I could just get up and walk away from all this technology at any time and just... exist... as a simple no-tech mass of meat. Just getting by with whatever biology gave me. It's f
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by smitelli 2y ago
"Tuning a Mellotron doesn't." —Robert Fripp
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by smitelli 2y ago
Yamaha’s engineers did a whole lot with very little. I can only speak to the OPL2 as used in the original AdLib PC card (and to a much smaller extent the OPL3 in Sound Blasters) but IIRC all the sounds came from a lookup table of 10-bit int
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by smitelli 2y ago
Scribe[1], Scuba[2], Hive[3], and folly[4]. It's neat for sure, but speaking as an outsider without the resources to learn (much less create!) an entire universe of data infrastructure and SDKs, it feels like I'm in the corner eat
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by smitelli 2y ago
I would imagine a sizable portion of these old (15+ years ago) accounts are abandoned. Forgotten password, email address tied to an ISP that only serves a region where the person no longer lives, that kind of thing. YouTube wasn’t always ti
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by smitelli 2y ago
Modern construction is insanely "tight" in the sense that most of the inside air stays in and most of the outside air stays out. Some of the most energy-efficient buildings need convoluted ventilation systems to prevent the humidi
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by smitelli 2y ago
Separate from Twitter the company and Twitter the app, there is Twitter the community. That is absolutely dead, rotting, and never coming back to what it once was.
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by smitelli 2y ago
I've noticed that some of the worst ego-related issues arise from people who care the most about their work -- the craftspeople, if you will. There is a type of person who will pour their entire soul into creating the most ideal expres
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by smitelli 2y ago
If some developer out there has adopted a stenography keyboard, I suspect they write Java code with it.

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