tlavoie

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by tlavoie 10mo ago
One side is "wronger" when driving an unnecessarily large land yacht. My Civic, it's fine.
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by tlavoie 10mo ago
Even still, I have to make sure my KVM switch is connected to the correct laptop. (Work on one side, personal on the other, and shared keyboard / trackball)
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
It's amazing the technology that we have available, often cheaply. I'd had some suspected infection in my leg one time, where it looked pinker (sunburned?) compared to the other, and I thought it felt warmer. I happen to have a ch
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
I had (maybe still have somewhere?) a book I'd ordered online as a youth, on how to do exactly that. They were somewhat fiddly, in the sense of being slightly lower-impulse, with clay nozzles and a hollow fuel grain. Never quite got ar
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
Yeah, the letters go up by powers of two. So an H would be eight Es, sixteen Ds. Considering the cost of a three pack of the latter, I could only dream of those brutes.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
I've still got mine somewhere, did get some pics with it. I was paranoid about losing it though, so I went with a couple big streamers instead of a parachute to get it closer to the launch site.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
You can buy some that are a sort of chalkboard texture, so you can literally chalk on them. I think there are similar spray paint coatings too.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
Some are even more obnoxious. My wife bought a car once, where the dealer had their logo added to the inside of the middle brake light panel. This did not fly well at all.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
I don't mind sharing, but the point remains, they're for the person wearing them. Enjoy them, in public, or in private. They're yours to do with as you wish.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
Beautifully said!
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
This is a good argument against getting them on impulse, or cheaply. Find a good artist whose work you can appreciate, pay them well, and you keep some art that will be with you forever.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
My work devices don't have much on them, mostly corporate asset tags and the like. My own, though, I make my own. The stickers reflect things I like or find amusing; maybe they'll get a smirk or a chuckle from someone else, maybe
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
Oh, damn, good to know thanks! Sad news indeed.
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
The "Temporary Containers" extension is great here, allowing pretty easy compromise between different buckets of sites. I'll have some personal ones that I log into, others go specifically into a snoop container, and the rest
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
I've taken it rarely, but not found it to be a panacea on the night I'm having trouble sleeping. That is, if it isn't already early when I take it, I'm positively trashed for the morning after. The next night is when I f
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by tlavoie 11mo ago
It's probably the path of least resistance if following the Real World OCaml book ( https://dev.realworldocaml.org/ ), which is quite excellent.
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by tlavoie 1y ago
Speaking of OCaml vs Python, I quite enjoyed this post from 2014, and actually his whole blog post series: https://roscidus.com/blog/blog/2014/06/06/python-to-ocaml-re...
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by tlavoie 1y ago
Hm. My ducks (Indian runners) weren't, between eagles and raccoons gunning for them.
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by tlavoie 1y ago
Good to know, thanks!
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by tlavoie 1y ago
This is probably a good place to mention a cool book, "50 Years of Text Games", at https://if50.textories.com/ . Based on a blog series as I recall, but essentially takes a game from each year or so, to look at in
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by tlavoie 1y ago
That's Lu, one of the regular hosts now. All very bright and interesting people, different from each other. I think only Jimmy has a formal CS education, but he'll talk as much about philosophy sometimes. Also, show notes link to
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by tlavoie 1y ago
I listen to podcasts while walking our dogs. Might not be enough for some of these really long episodes, but generally enough to know whether I'm going to finish it or not.
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by tlavoie 1y ago
A coworker (also works from home) had some commotion across the street, when one of the roofers on his neighbour's place went off the second-story roof. All these guys were wearing harnesses, but not clipped in. The one who fell was lu
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by tlavoie 1y ago
My wife had both eyes done over the past year. I would guess that her new lenses did not have UV protection, because she has a most interesting side effect. Basically, certain glass will (to her) essentially fluoresce in sunlight, so to her
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by tlavoie 1y ago
It's not the cub I'd be worried about, but where's it's mom? I have yet to go north much, though our son and his girlfriend worked in Eagle Plains for a bit. One fun snippet from their trip back, having a raven as an esc
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by tlavoie 1y ago
It's almost like battery-powered angle grinders should be regular items in the neighbourhood tool lending library.
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by tlavoie 1y ago
It seems to me that it's not their utility, but lack of support in general for the sorts of changes that enable its wider use. E.g., looks like it's getting practical use in FreeBSD: https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/resear
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by tlavoie 1y ago
Gotcha, thanks!
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by tlavoie 1y ago
I'd love to see software adopt strong capabilities-based models that enforce boundaries even within parts of a program. That is, with the principle of least authority (POLA), code that you call is passed only the capabilities you wish
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by tlavoie 1y ago
Some Model Ys have them, under a trim piece, in a door pocket. Others have none, so it's a total gamble to get into one. Kind of related, Teslas (some?) don't have a manual hood release either, so firefighters' first hope i

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