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by snowytrees 4y ago
As someone who learned programming with scratch in elementary school, the next step they did was using DrRacket but honestly I did not like it. I don’t remember anything I made with it but still remember my scratch projects. I think pygame
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by snowytrees 4y ago
What’s powerful about nix is the language IMO. I was able to build an automatic WireGuard setup[1] with tagging that automatically works on each new machine thanks to the ability to do config as code. Just provide some basic config for each
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by snowytrees 5y ago
Back in middle school we went on a trip and saw them doing the deconstruction of the elwha dam. They were around halfway done. We stood on the banks and saw the process of the reservoir turning back into a river. There was around 50 feet of
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by snowytrees 5y ago
100% this. The language is designed for its use case which is packaging and configuration (nothing more or less). It has a learning curve due to being lazy and functional but works great once you get the hang of it. But the documentation of
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Why is U.S. labor supply so low?(gspublishing.com)
90 points by snowytrees 5y ago|461 comments
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by snowytrees 5y ago
I see the issue being the email was formulated in a way that is easily perceived as a legal threat. I don't see how it is ethical for a study to be sending out legal threats to see how someone responds. Now if the goal is to understand
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I was part of a human subject research study without my consent(christine.website)
434 points by snowytrees 5y ago|365 comments
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‘Lord of the Rings’ at 20: Why It Was One of Hollywood’s Riskiest Projects Ever(variety.com)
64 points by snowytrees 5y ago|58 comments
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by snowytrees 5y ago
while not necessarily on how gondolas work, this is a great documentary on the engineering and design behind the peak2peak gondola at whistler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEAJmxe27h0
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by snowytrees 5y ago
chairs/gondolas detach from the primary rope that carries them up/down the slope. So while the primary rope is moving the same fast speed, the chair isn't attached to that rope anymore. This is what allows detachable lifts to
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Rusty Typestates – Starting Out(rustype.github.io)
105 points by snowytrees 5y ago|32 comments
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by snowytrees 5y ago
If your interested in digging deeper into building docker containers with nix this is my favorite post on the topic: https://thewagner.net/blog/2021/02/25/building-container-ima... . Essentially you can u