troymc

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   by troymc 3y ago

   Yes, one could use troff/groff to generate a PDF invoice. You might want to try it before you suggest that it is somehow a better way.
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   Letter O Considered Harmful(en.wikipedia.org)

   1 points by troymc 3y ago|1 comments
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   by troymc 3y ago

   As Kevin Kelly pointed out in his book What Technology Wants , most technologies never actually go extinct. There remain people who are still interested in making "new" ones and reparing broken ones. And thanks to the internet, i
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   by troymc 3y ago

   Their intro video says you can run it on Cloudflare Workers, so I guess you can also run it locally using Cloudflare's local dev setup for Cloudflare Workers. https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/wrangler&#x2F
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   by troymc 3y ago

   Adobe Dreamweaver still exists and is still proprietary. This one (Webstudio) is open source. https://www.adobe.com/ca/products/dreamweaver.html
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   by troymc 3y ago

   The Clippy one is cute/surreal.
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   by troymc 3y ago

   I guess another option would be for her to get a job at Apple, in a role where her ideas would be considered.
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   by troymc 3y ago

   Your daughter could start by reading the 5000+ patents that Apple filed related to the Vision Pro. If her ideas aren't already in those patents (possibly unimplemented in version 1), she should then look at Meta's AR/VR paten
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   by troymc 3y ago

   Games sometimes do come to the front page of HN, especially if they do something new or deeply-nerdy. Wordle and 2048 come to mind as past front-pagers. Why those? They're superficially simple, but it's quite challenging (i.e. f
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    by troymc 3y ago

    Hmmm... now that we know what shapes these tiles take, maybe we can look for or design molecules with the "same shape" (and yes I know molecules aren't 2D planar objects, but some can be approximated as such, e.g. the benzene
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    by troymc 3y ago

    Tilings are easy to understand and relate to... you can tile your bathroom floor with them for example. Despite that superficial banality, it turns out that it takes a lot of mathematical cleverness to construct and analyze them fully. This
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    by troymc 3y ago

    You might start here: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=capt...
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    by troymc 3y ago

    Also a CD-ROM from AOL!
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    by troymc 3y ago

    Maybe they heard "not weed".
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    by troymc 3y ago

    Once your NPCs get good enough, you could connect them to the real world (via APIs) so they could do goal-oriented sensing and actuation there too. I'm fairly sure it would be wonderful for all involved.
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    by troymc 3y ago

    In tourist-filled parts of the world where they drive on the left side of the road (e.g. UK, Australia, Japan), you sometimes see signs reminding the tourists to look right before crossing the road.
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    by troymc 3y ago

    I just use the dryer. I use duct tape to keep it all together.
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    by troymc 4y ago

    I looked it up in the Oxford English Dictionary (via my local public library). greenwash verb, transitive . (a) To mislead (the public) or counter (public or media concerns) by falsely representing a person, company, product, etc., as b
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    by troymc 4y ago

    I was curious about that and found this nice Wikipedia list of all Apple printers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Apple_printers
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    by troymc 4y ago

    I'm not familiar with S7, and Google wasn't much help. What is S7?
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    by troymc 4y ago

    I wonder what code-words or Unicode lookalike glyph substitutions people have started using so that they can continue to refer to "Substack" without the bots supressing them. "Hypopile"? "ʂυβʂταƈκ"?
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    by troymc 4y ago

    It's an open source project. You could create an issue on their GitHub repo, or better yet, create a PR and reference this existing issue: https://github.com/finos/perspective/issues/2133
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    by troymc 4y ago

    https://github.com/markusschanta/awesome-jupyter#hosted-note...
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    by troymc 4y ago

    "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not “Eureka” but “That’s funny...” —Isaac Asimov
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    by troymc 4y ago

    I am in Canada and when I went to their website I found that it's not available for me either. I wonder what they do.
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    by troymc 4y ago

    It would be nice if there was a univesal ad blocker that worked everywhere ...
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    by troymc 4y ago

    Ubuntu has a release every April (e.g. 22.04) and every October (e.g. 22.10), but I do the same as you, only upgrading when there's a new LTS version. Snap and Flatpak are two different things.
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    by troymc 4y ago

    These days, in the .NET ecosystem, there is Blazor. You write your whole web app in HTML, CSS and C# (frontend and backend). There are several different deployment models; Wikipedia gives a good summary: https://en.wikipedia.org&
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    by troymc 4y ago

    Some random characters didn't render in my browser. Upon inspection: font-family: Georgia, Serif; I don't think those fonts support all of Unicode. Google created their Noto fonts [1] for this purpose; I wonder why those aren&#x27
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    by troymc 4y ago

    What about https://playcanvas.com/ ?