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by smoyer 4y ago
Many years ago my father-in-law was concerned about the pressure I one of his tires. I told him not to worry because I had a tire gauge in my car and we could check it. My sister-in-law was three or four at the time and approached me wide
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by smoyer 5y ago
I've had great success with Lenovo X1 Carbon laptops running Linux (Debian with XFCE). I've also had good luck with the older Dell XPS laptops. Getting either of these for $2k would require a sale and if you want to run a lot of
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by smoyer 5y ago
The word list is indeed right in the JavaScript but what fun is that (find today's word and the next one in the list is tomorrow's word)
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by smoyer 5y ago
Dots allow any character though. I don't have a scrabble5.txt so I'm using /usr/share/dict/words and using the dots resulted in the capitalized words (proper names) and words with apostrophes being included.
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by smoyer 5y ago
At what point do we need to worry about heart from the earth's core into the atmosphere at a faster than normal rate?
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by smoyer 5y ago
With each of these breaches, we're approaching a point where all coins will be considered tainted. When that happens do we jump into a different crypto-currency? It's also interesting that stolen coins are really hard to spend -
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by smoyer 5y ago
If you're interested I'm the original Infocom text adventures, the "Eaten by a Grue" podcast does an analysis of one game peer episode. The first half of each episode is spoiler-free so you can enjoy the content before
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by smoyer 5y ago
A long time ago I wrote a CAD system that ran on DOS and generated G-Codes for CNC machines. One of the features is that it would show the tool's path and it cemented my love for trigonometry. You seem to have found something you lov
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by smoyer 5y ago
If you want to start from scratch, I'd recommend coding along with Casey on https://handmadehero.org . He develops an entire game starting with double-buffered pixel graphics and then moves on to sprite s with movement func
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by smoyer 5y ago
I'm not sure that we're arguing different positions.
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by smoyer 5y ago
You're assuming free will isn't some complex-looking behavior driven by quantum uncertainty. In the multiverse, every social scientist has many clones who's studies refute their work!
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by smoyer 5y ago
An impossible computer is different from a computer that humankind can not yet build. If our universe is a simulation, then some entity has already proven you wrong. If our universe isn't a simulation, our limited resources prevent us
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by smoyer 5y ago
Yes
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by smoyer 5y ago
I've got Ansible playbooks that allow me to keep all my systems tools synchronized, rsync to keep my files backed-up and copied across systems and a friend's script to keep all my dot-files aligned.
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by smoyer 5y ago
I keep a journal which includes bullets for what I've done as well as check-boxes for tasks I need to do in the future (Essentially the original format espoused by Bullet Journal). I fill only 15-20 lines on a typical day so it's
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by smoyer 5y ago
The development group in my company intends to stay fully remote by default and to offer a limited amount of office space to those who are local and want a hybrid arrangement. I'm 2500 miles away so I'm not going to spend much ti
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by smoyer 5y ago
If you set-up the single-person pod in a horizontal orientation, provide nutrient and waste hook-ups and stack them like the pod hotel's you find in some large cities, it starts to look a lot like the human batteries in the matrix - th
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by smoyer 5y ago
Given NATO's stated willingness to accept those countries that apply, imagine a world where NATO asked Russia to join and they accepted.
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Could Putin Actually Fall?(vox.com)
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by smoyer 5y ago
I have a theory that this is another facet of the software developer's need to "hold it all in your head". Once he had a top-level abstraction, the rest of the article could be factored into paragraphs.
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by smoyer 5y ago
This should be marked as 2015 - he's now at the University of Alabama Birmingham.
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by smoyer 5y ago
> This Court is also convinced that the availing of a catch-all configuration being hosted on I'm not saying this particular defendant wasn't purposely trying to capture Adobe's email but having a catch-all account for a d
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by smoyer 5y ago
A single engine GA aircraft can become a glider and safely land but while this is the normal behavior for the glider it counts as an accident for the plane. I'm not sure how you separate these categories without a tremendous amount of
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by smoyer 5y ago
I'm not actually going to ask ... it's not that it's a WHOPPR situation (I don't think they'd be offended) but I told my kids starting at age 12-13 that my job is to keep them from making "fatal mistakes",
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by smoyer 5y ago
I know developing tech in Nigeria is less expensive but raising $105 seems like a lot of effort for very little runway. The original headline should have been used.
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by smoyer 5y ago
Maybe there was some environmental factor that eliminated the spike in 2020 - more seriously, I'm going to have to talk with my kids about why I don't have grandchildren yet!
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by smoyer 5y ago
I had a DEC PDP 11/4 which was amazingly reliable. It ran a CNC drill in a PCB manufacturing plant and, other than cleaning the extra filter boxes, it never shut down.
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by smoyer 5y ago
Funny ... I was born in 1964 (a year after the previous record year) and my first child was born in 1991. I never realized my life could be summed up with a graph ;)
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by smoyer 5y ago
Since both schools are reputable, I think knowing the curriculum you plan to study is an important part of the discussion. NEU is certainly surrounded by more population and a large number of ivies and universities ... Do you need to collab
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by smoyer 5y ago
I guess I'm a bit surprised that this is DC ... Why?

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