stevesimmons

5 ms·

61.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
If you want to add signatures, the best option is to use a PDF viewer that supports that directly (FoxIt Reader, for one). That saves the original PDF plus an annotation for the signature. Second best is print using "Save as PDF".
62.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Same for me... I had been tracking Datastar for months, waiting for the 1.0.0 release. But my enthusiasm for Datastar has now evaporated. I've been bitten by the open-source-but-not-really bait and switch too many times before.
63.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
If in Python, have you looked at dictdiffer or JYCM? https://github.com/eggachecat/jycm
64.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Then they're lying... (Friends was on Veronica, Net5 and Comedy Central, not BBC :)
65.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Dense? The TeX book is a total delight to read.
66.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
The teams we beat trained as individuals and were selected competitively against each other as their school's "best 3". We were "just" three friends who had studied together for 4 years, knew each other's stren
67.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
As a former ICPC winner, I'd say ICPC is mainly a test of teamwork, given the format of the competition (3 team mates, one computer, scoring that rewards clean solutions submitted quicker, tackled in the optimal order for your three se
68.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
I find this a curious hypothesis, to say the least. So I'm a marathon runner (ran a 3:08 marathon this morning, actually, at age 55). The carbs I eat are neither excessive, nor low fibre. And all the endurance athletes I know are extre
69.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Might be all you need, except an open source licence: > For production or managed service use, please contact SQLite Cloud, Inc for a commercial license.
70.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
That's not how the process works.
71.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Always remember it is the web site owner who chose to waste your time. The more obnoxious the cookie banner, the quicker you can conclude "I didn't really need to visit your site anyway".
72.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
I can't comprehend an environment where kids aged 14 can't be independent. From age 5, I walked 20 minutes to and from school every day.
73.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
That's in the mobile app. In the web browser, there's no such setting. Or at least, none that I can find.
74.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
If Google Maps would like to hire me so the km/miles switch can remember I only ever want to see distances in km, my contact details are in my HN profile. I must have changed that back from miles once a fortnight since Google Maps laun
75.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
> I suppose a 2005 computer wouldn't be able to serve a Python backend smoothly. Python had web servers from 2000, including Jim Fulton's Zope (really a full framework for a content management system) and in 2002 Remi Delon&#x2
76.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
The key factor imo was Travis Oliphant merging the competing numeric and numarray libraries into numpy in 2005. That quickly became the foundation of Python as the key environment for open source numeric processing. It brought across a ton
77.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Agree. There's lots you can do to slow the affects of aging. Most of us just don't try. I'm 55 and found - much to my surprise - that 12 months of carefully progressively and intense running training has improved me from a sl
78.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
You can upgrade SSD on most laptops other that Mac. My Dell XPS13 came with a 1TB SSD, which recently was replaced with a 4TB one...
79.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
At the risk of asking a dumb question, what really is mental fatigue and do all people experience it the same way? On one hand, I understand -- and feel very directly -- physical fatigue, and the metabolic limitations if I try to say run sl
80.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
Why would I want to listen or watch a presentation (even sped up), when I can read a transcript many times faster, can scan through for the bits that are most relevant, and can quickly jump back to review something if I want to? It's o
81.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
A few prior HN discussions on the Buttplug standard, including the inevitable "in Rust": * Buttplug: An open-source software suite for teledildonics ( https://buttplug.io/ ) 5 years ago | 249 comments * Empathy for
82.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
They don't all have to work to age 70. Anyone can stop working earlier, and fund their own retirement.
83.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
I think of it as "otherwise:"
84.
by stevesimmons 1y ago
And Minsk in Belarus has more than 1000 electric buses, of which 150 to 180 are powered by supercapacitors rather than batteries!
85.
by stevesimmons 2y ago
I remember it by heart too, from 38 years ago. Plus most of "O Sirmio, gem of islands and peninsulas, every one of which Neptune, in his dual role, supports in the liquid lakes and vast seas...". That was thanks to a mid winter Ca
86.
by stevesimmons 2y ago
Your first two links don't work
87.
by stevesimmons 2y ago
Australian Secret Intelligence Service
88.
by stevesimmons 2y ago
When I was learning Dutch, I found the same gap between kids' books that were too simple and proper novels that were too complex. Newspapers were the easiest and best way to bridge that. They made it easy to pick a story where you had
89.
by stevesimmons 2y ago
An HP15C or HP12C app is the perfect companion for your mobile phone. Turn the phone on its side, and it's even about the right size. Here is a relatively recent review of the main Android options: https://www.hpmuseum.org&#
90.
by stevesimmons 2y ago
Because Brexit solved nothing and made lots of things worse.

More ›