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by somat 10mo ago
While trying to find earlier information on type design I stumbled on this gorgeous 1878 guide for sign painters. https://archive.org/details/gri_33125007673623 As someone who is not a design snob (I tend to fall into
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by somat 10mo ago
I was reading the superdome wikipedia page(as one does) and there is this amazing blurb on how in 1987 the jets once played to to an empty stadium due to a scheduling mix up. The idea was so compelling I spent a little time trying to find c
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by somat 10mo ago
On the topic of plain text databases, I have been playing around with wordnet(basically the backbone data structure of a thesaurus ) and while there are a lot of perfectly good libraries to handle the data I was having fun building my own.
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by somat 10mo ago
I don't really want an e-ink "monitor" as that does not really play into the advantages of an e-ink display. By the time the e-ink display is uprated enough to act as a monitor It feels like a lot of the advantages of e-ink a
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by somat 10mo ago
It's funny in an ironic way because the original purpose of air conditioners was to remove humidity from the air, the mechanism used was to cool the air down thus forcing some of the moisture out. The general public quickly caught on t
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by somat 10mo ago
That web version is very neat. Solvespace is by far my favorite cad, it ls hard to explain exactly why because it really is quite limited compared to other cad packages, but I think it is mainly because of the fluidity and shear joy of oper
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by somat 10mo ago
I think they, or at least samsungs. will happily use open wifi if they can find it. Source, my open test network and a neighbors tv that keeps trying to phone home with it.
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by somat 11mo ago
At one point, I think it was TitanFall2, the pc port of a game deliberately converted it's audio to uncompressed wav files in order to inflate the install size, They said it was for performance but the theory was to make it more inconv
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by somat 11mo ago
For me it's lsb radix, Yeah I know it only works on numbers, but much younger me independently invented it when slinging 3480 mainframe tape as a grave shift operator. The company had invested in mainframes early and by the time I had
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by somat 11mo ago
Oh wow, that explains a lot, I sort of always figured it was just market momentum that meant you never see tv's with a display port. sort of like ... we need a digital video link VESA develops DVI ... market gap for tv's identifie
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by somat 11mo ago
There is the vesa standards organization with a pretty good history of successful display connections standards vga(analog video) dvi(digital video) and displayport(packet video) and very little drama affecting the end user with how the con
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by somat 11mo ago
Just break, then revert when anyone complains, on every single release. eventually you will get a release where nobody complains as they move off the depreciated api due to breakage annoyance.
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by somat 11mo ago
I would almost expect the 3 in urllib3 to be the major version and if something needed to break it would become urllib4. Which, I know, is terribly naive of me. But that is how psycopg does it.
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by somat 11mo ago
With regards to BEGIN The only reason AWK needs a BEGIN is due to it's implied data loop. As far as I know perl has an explicit data loop and as such needs no BEGIN. Oh god, perl has an implied data loop mode doesn't it. Sigh, now
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by somat 11mo ago
Some of those Apollo 17 photos are especially epic, did he fall over? I have heard that the moon dust is electrostaticly charged and sticks to everything, but it is all over him, and those selfies. He looks terrible, exactly like I would ex
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by somat 11mo ago
I think the big failure of formula e was the way they failed to promote pit replaceable battery packs. It is debatable how much motorsport tech trickles down to improve our daily motor tech, I think this was much more the case early on and
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by somat 11mo ago
What is wrong with stock buybacks? Genuine question, I don't understand the economics of the stock market and as such I participate very little (probably to my detriment) I sort of figure the original theory went like this. "We ha
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by somat 11mo ago
Postgres features are much nicer, honestly if you are using any sort of orm none of this matters. by design they isolate you from many of the more interesting features of the database. And in general this is probably a good thing. But if yo
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by somat 11mo ago
It only matters if you don't have the source to your programs. So yes, there is a huge corpus of programs where this matters. But there is also a large library of programs where the source is available and backwards compatibility does
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by somat 11mo ago
One of my favorite calculations of pi is to pick random coordinates in a unit square and count how many of them are in a circle. it's so stupid and so clever at the same time. This was recreated from memory. I think it is close but I m
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by somat 11mo ago
Unlambda solves that problem. "What if we had the lambda calculus without the lambda forms?" asked no one. http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/
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by somat 11mo ago
I had to look it up, it's a little obnoxious but it's weird enough that I like it. The intent appears to be that modified versions of gnuplot have to be very clear and explicit that they are not gnuplot or made by the gnuplot team
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by somat 11mo ago
here you go https://plan9.io/magic/man2html/4/webfs
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by somat 11mo ago
I am not really classically trained on the subject but I think this is the idea behind relational storage, it is to have better extraction options, you don't have to treat your data as a single document at a time. Naively, most data lo
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by somat 11mo ago
Every couple of years I look around to see if anyone is selling sterling cycle engines in the 5-10 hp range, I always find a couple neat projects but nowhere can you just buy an engine. I assume that because there is no current market for s
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by somat 11mo ago
I am not familiar with chocolate doom what makes it better than any other doom source port? There are many good source ports of quake, I always liked darkplaces but it intentionally and willfully tries to push improvements so not really for
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by somat 11mo ago
On desktop it has already hit zero. Clear all your tokens and go to home page, no videos. I am being a bit obtuse of course, if you have any sort of identifying tokens it does show videos, but the irony was too good to waste on mere facts.
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by somat 11mo ago
Openbsd's ffs Log message: Make softdep mounts a no-op Softdep is a significant impediment to progressing in the vfs layer so we plan to get it out of the way. It is too clever for us to continue maintaining as i
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by somat 11mo ago
For those that don't know soft updates are a clever method to prevent filesystem corruption. Journaling: write the journal, write the filesystem, in event of sudden power outage either the journal will be partially corrupt and discarde
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by somat 11mo ago
Where he works... Or perhaps more accurately his co-workers. which is the domain. The university of Toronto.

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