victorstanciu

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by victorstanciu 8mo ago
> tldr.sh is a community maintained database of examples, for example you can run it as tldr grep. Lots of people have told me they find it useful. +1 for tldr. For example, here's the output of `tldr ffmpeg`: ffmpeg Video co
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by victorstanciu 1y ago
> The pair, wearing only flat-soled sneakers [...] I appreciate a good "AI" hate session as much as the next man, but these people would have had to be rescued no matter what tool they used to plan their trip, as long as the on
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by victorstanciu 1y ago
@tete called it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44262324
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Reinventing the Box(tegowerk.eu)
1 points by victorstanciu 1y ago|0 comments
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by victorstanciu 1y ago
Shame on the author. I clicked the "cats" link in the header only to find out it's short for categories. Boo.
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
It is! For the latest incarnation of my blog I forwent comments in favor of a simple mailto: link at the bottom of each post which prefills the email subject with the post's title. I've had significantly fewer interactions with re
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Erika 10(tegowerk.eu)
6 points by victorstanciu 2y ago|0 comments
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
You can use two integers, one that represents the entire number including decimals, and one that represents the precision, to know how many decimals are there. For example, you'd represent "123.45" as 12345 and 2. That's
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
Obligatory mention that if you want to enjoy Half-Life today (in spirit if not exactly the same game), Black Mesa is the best option for doing so: https://store.steampowered.com/app/362890/Black_Mesa/
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
This reminded me of a Romanian joke from the communist era. A son corresponds with his elderly father, who writes that he'd like to dig up the garden and plant potatoes, but the ground is hard and he's old, and can't the son
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
This is great news, thank you, I was just thinking how much I'd like some affiliate links in my browser. Also many thanks for all the telemetry improvements listed in the changelog, those are also something I've been looking forwa
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
> Even though they were working on it for the past few years it's still slow, buggy, and super unpolished, it doesn't matter, because they shipped. > Their mobile app is terrible and it needs 10 seconds to sync. It doesn&
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
I guess it shows that no matter how objectively successful you are, your skin can still be see-through thin.
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
Beautiful!
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
Martin (ETOE) is awesome, his channel is where I learned to paint bikes from too.
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
> Now, I have a very unique and beautiful bike (people on the street tell me). Well you can't just entice us like that without posting a photo! Here's one I painted that I am really proud of how it came out: https://
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
Uh, what? Did you reply to the wrong post by any chance?
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
Interesting point of view, thank you! For me maintenance and repair have enhanced riding rather than diminish it. I find it's similar to how cooking enhances eating, or yard work enhances laying around the yard. Of course I hate having
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
> The blog comes very close to quoting ‘zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance’ -I wonder if the author read that… I did! But I did so long before I started with bike repair, so at that time I couldn't really connect with it. Tha
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A love letter to bicycle maintenance and repair(tegowerk.eu)
219 points by victorstanciu 2y ago|168 comments
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
> I manually hide them every thirty days The inability of tech companies to accept that no means no, and not "bother me later" is a dark pattern that I've noticed more and more lately.
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by victorstanciu 2y ago
If you use uBlock Origin, you can also just hide them: https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
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Reject Minimalism(tegowerk.eu)
3 points by victorstanciu 2y ago|1 comments
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
> There is no way of effectively repairing the connector other than throwing the motherboard away You're exaggerating. NorthridgeFix on YouTube has probably dozens of videos of him replacing USB-C connectors. Yes, he sometimes has t
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
This is the same Dave Plummer that also created the Task Manager. He also has a YouTube channel with a lot of nice tidbits like this about what it was like to work at MS back in the day: https://www.youtube.com/@DavesGarage
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
> The experience is much worse than physical books [...] We must have different reading habits, because my experience has been the exact opposite. On my Kindle I can read every book with the same font, same text size, same layout, same b
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
Yes it has. Just because _some_ woodworkers still exist doesn't mean the profession as a whole hasn't massively declined with the advent of the likes of IKEA.
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
> I just list my email address. That's what I did too. I added a mailto: link to the Hugo post template that also prefills the subject line with the title of the post when you click on it. The interactions I've had with this me
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by victorstanciu 3y ago
The argument against animal testing is not necessarily that we should find an alternative, but that maybe the experiments themselves aren't worth it to begin with. That maybe the moral cost of the knowledge we gain from them is too hig
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DIY Lighted Arrow Nocks(tegowerk.eu)
1 points by victorstanciu 3y ago|0 comments

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