ticklemyelmo

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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
I feel like I actually get a bump in comprehension if I do a menial task like dishwashing while listening to an audiobook, versus sitting down with my eyes closed. I think the key is to occupy that little bit of your brain that would otherw
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
Could this be applied to longer-range applications? Concert / theater cameras, camera / binocular observers, counter-sniper detection?
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
But we're all ape people.
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
I'll nominate Zachtronics for SQLite.
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
I think that's the core innovation here, smart HTTP block storage. I wonder if there has been any research into optimizing all http range requests at the client level in a similar way. i.e. considering the history of requests on a part
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
It wasn't really phrased that way, but that was really the core insight of the piece -- if you take a step back and look at the problem from the context of the code running the regex instead of within the regex itself, it's much s
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
The most common cases today are probably Docker containers, which are often based on the most minimal image possible. Alpine doesn't have grep iirc.
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
I think Grafica Obscura is my single longest-lived bookmark. I've had it in my list since he was actively maintaining it, so at least 25 years.
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
>Hi Marak, this is interesting! Give me a day to work on this; I will reach back out soon! You promised this last time. Why is a post on Hacker News any different than a private email?
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
Isn't the location that a ray strikes entirely a function of angle of incidence, its frequency, and the particular lens? Why couldn't that function be determined and inverted?
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by ticklemyelmo 5y ago
This is the part where Monsanto starts engineering crops to fluoresce in a particular frequency of light, so you can target weeds inversely.
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by ticklemyelmo 6y ago
I'm not entirely clear on the author's thinking. But consider the case of watching a real world voltmeter read 1.02v, 1.01v, 1.00v, 0.99v. Did we really lose a digit of precision there? The leading digit transition between 1 and 9
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by ticklemyelmo 6y ago
Now I'm not sure if the poster was influenced by this Omnibus episode: https://www.omnibusproject.com/324 or I've been influenced by these episodes: https://www.omnibusproject.com/310 https:&#x2F
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by ticklemyelmo 7y ago
It's definitely more applicable. The simulacrum literally starts off as a chat bot.
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by ticklemyelmo 7y ago
https://euipo.europa.eu/eSearch/#details/trademarks/01051770...
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by ticklemyelmo 7y ago
An even better outline would be without all the terrible irrelevant stock photos.
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by ticklemyelmo 8y ago
C# extension methods provide the same syntax, and it is used for all of its LINQ pipeline methods. It's amazing how effective syntactic sugar can be for readability.
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by ticklemyelmo 8y ago
Meanwhile, it's time to go fight 4 groups of 99 berserkers again.
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
Why would they include the T1 option but ignore the nearly equivalent bandwidth of a pair of tin cans connected with string to some acoustic modems?
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
Having trouble calculating the motion of bodies due to gravity, better invent calculus.
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
Nature appears to do some silly referrer blocking. It's the first link under "archive" on https://www.nature.com/nature/dna50/archive.html
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
>how aspects of part 1 resolved to create the environment of part 2 They completely defeated my suspension of disbelief. It was the way a 6 year old would have predicted the result.
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
I remember seeing it in a variety of mid-80's Commodore 64 games, where it ran at full speed and looked fantastic. I always wondered how it worked.
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
Just FYI, #2 was addressed in the latest update, and works well in my experience (open a 130M text file and jump to end in <5s). #1 is available in the current preview build.
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
I wonder whether this engine will specifically require you to fill up with NON-premium gas.
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by ticklemyelmo 9y ago
How is it that Google search results are considered a public service that must run in any particular way other than their own whim? Is it simply a matter of scale?
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by ticklemyelmo 10y ago
Perfectly applicable to software development. You can bang out a simple unoptimized program in tens or hundreds of lines of some scripting language (that compiles to megabytes of executable) in minutes. Doing the same thing in a highly opti
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by ticklemyelmo 10y ago
You should be complaining to your browser vendor. It looks fine in Firefox.
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by ticklemyelmo 10y ago
Looks like some sequence of events convinces Firefox that HSTS is set, and it always rewrites the request as https (which is not supported by the server) after that.
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by ticklemyelmo 10y ago
It looks like it's working too well. The site is unreachable for me.

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