tlhunter

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   by tlhunter 3y ago

   Is this the first mainstream tablet without an audio jack?
2. 182.▲
   by tlhunter 3y ago

   I taught myself some German by translating Die Bruders Grimm stories word by word, writing between the lines. Combined with other learning sources it seemed to work okay.
3. 183.▲
   by tlhunter 4y ago

   Kinda neat. I mentioned my mapping app and it recommended the Latin Carto root.
4. 184.▲
   by tlhunter 4y ago

   Yes, it's always been broken. You can search for an identifier that exists in code on the main branch and get zero results.
5. 185.▲
   by tlhunter 4y ago

   https://archive.is/QkUtM
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   Where Were the Regulators as SVB Crashed?(wsj.com)

   2 points by tlhunter 4y ago|1 comments
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   Sunbird: Blue Bubbles on Your Android(sunbirdapp.com)

   2 points by tlhunter 4y ago|1 comments
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   by tlhunter 4y ago

   I would argue that Linux was the first OS to implement an app store and that it predates the other major operating systems by over a decade. It's just that the Linux apps were free.
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   Benford's Law, or why most numbers start with 1(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by tlhunter 4y ago|0 comments
10. 190.▲
    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I've got one in my drawer and no idea what to do with it.
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I'm working on a project called "mig", which is a SQL migration runner for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Of course, it's distributed as a single binary, and it's configurable via an rc file, env vars, or CLI flags. It'
12. 192.▲
    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I always wanted a modern Omega Boost
13. 193.▲
    by tlhunter 4y ago

    > cannot be weaponised It's smaller than a coin and could be sewn into someone's favorite shirt. I'd call that a weapon!
14. 194.▲
    by tlhunter 4y ago

    This reminds me; if I look at a red LED in the dark, my eyes seem to add a purple shape around it, kinda like an infinity symbol. Does this happen to anyone else?
15. 195.▲
    by tlhunter 4y ago

    If i3 is still in an upstreaming mood I'd love to donate my web based theme/config generator: https://thomashunter.name/i3-configurator/
16. 196.▲
    by tlhunter 4y ago

    Hollow them out and hide stuff inside. The old hardcover Java books work particularly well.
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    For giggles I just tried booting into Linux on my gaming desktop. The screen goes black and I'm basically stuck. Linux works great on my dev laptop. My how the times have changed.
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    Extended Pigpen Cipher to Include Numbers(thomashunter.name)

    2 points by tlhunter 4y ago|0 comments
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I suppose it depends on the questionnaire that was sent out. Sounds like survivor bias might come into play. Was the questionnaire about dying from a university buffet?
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    > would have been enough to alarm Zuckerberg’s minions If you're not going to write the article seriously, I'm not going to the article read seriously.
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    What's the simplest way to kill a Delaware C Corp?

    21 points by tlhunter 4y ago|21 comments
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    "Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction" is all it took for me to understand and enjoy game theory and it's only a small cheap pocket book. I've purchased five copies for friends. https://academic.oup.com&#x2F
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    Lose SMS, gain Stories. Such a shame.
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    > This was the consensus in a webinar from ProfitView, a crypto trading tools developer, on high frequency trading using C++. Maybe the discerning developer just doesn't want to enable the current snake oil fad.
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    Only disabling half of the ads makes sense from a business point of view. Most likely, the users who are the best audience for an ad (in the sense that they have spare money and might purchase an advertised product) are the ones that would
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33158475
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    The Steamdeck also helped kill Stadia. If I want to game on the go then I can simply access my established Steam library from the Deck. At that point, why buy into another library?
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I've been saying this for a decade!
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I download and install the developer edition of Firefox from the Firefox website, extracting the tarball to /opt/Firefox, and add a menu entry to the KDE launcher. Takes a little more effort at first but afterwards it's smoot
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    by tlhunter 4y ago

    I really do believe that buying land in the far north will be a good investment.