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by waltbosz 1y ago
That was a bug? I always thought it was because of my dual boot configuration.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
How delightful, if you click on the picture of the shed it changes the background color of the page and the shed since it's a png with transparent pixels over the shed walls.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Sci-fi books are full of reverse anachronisms like that. Worlds with space travel, but no computers. Asimov has some good stories where people no longer know how to read and write and multiply because everything is done on computers and all
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I'm not sure how it came to be. My guess is typo. The restaurant in question was down the street from me and it did have a payphone outside of it. I can't recall if I ever went to check the phone number of the payphone. They actua
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I did win a Lord of the Rings prize pack from MoreFM, but it never arrived at my house. Either it got lost in transit or they just never shipped it. The call with them was right around the time of the theatrical release of the first film, a
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by waltbosz 1y ago
In the early days of the Internet, there was this website with a list of payphone numbers from all over the United States. In my state, there were only three entries, and my home phone number was one of them. It was listed as being outside
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I think I used there was a Surface used at the "Sum of all thrills" attraction in Epcot in Disney World. It behaved very similar to the Board. It definitely had a "knob" that you placed on a screen could spin to make adj
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Reminds me of that LLM computer built in Minecraft that was discussed here a few weeks back.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I have a smaller version of this puzzle. It's fun and easy to get lost in. My wife was convinced we were missing a piece until I solved it.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
My experience is it often generates code that is subtlety incorrect. And I'll waste time debugging it. But if I give it a code example that was written by humans and ask it to explain the code, it gives pretty good explanations. It&#x2
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Very cool. I wonder how much of that 1950s IKEA furniture has survived to today.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I always assumed flagging was for inappropriate off topic content, I never considered flagging lazy content.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Disable the vote buttons until the article link has been clicked? I feel like people often vote topics not content.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
> In 2016, researchers installed a wooden boardwalk (below) in the bunker, connecting the ventilation pipe to the ground. Within four months, nearly all the trapped ants had deserted the bunker floor. It sort of feels like the ruined a g
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by waltbosz 1y ago
From the research paper: https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/element/2/11// > The upper part of the ant trail in Fig. 1; the ants (on the left) were unable to move along the ceiling and th
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I'm unfamiliar with these apps. What is geofencing used for? Automatically alert you if there is ICE activity nearby so that you can drop what you're doing to converge ?
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Are people using non app work arounds ? Could the app be replaced with a SMS tree https://notbau.com/how-to-create-and-manage-a-manual-call-tr...
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Futurama had a joke about this hobby
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by waltbosz 1y ago
they resold returned tooth brushes? eww.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
It reminded me of the human computer in "Three Body Problem"
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by waltbosz 1y ago
My desk at work is a 15 minute walk to a carillon.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Reading this thread is making me want to go out for breakfast, but the reminders that cracker barrel is a corporate entity is making me want to patron a local diner.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
I always viewed Accenture's main business was signing contracts, second to delivering a good product. I figured, they couldn't sign a contract without having people ready to staff it. I met a ton of people who were hired onto the
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by waltbosz 1y ago
> How long was that ago? 2009 > But the bench also provided great opportunities to do actual good trainings, certifications and upskilling of all kinds. I did spend some of the time studying new developer skills. But on my own, Accent
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by waltbosz 1y ago
> Juniors are getting fired if they don't have a project for 3 months When I worked for Accenture, I got benched for an entire summer. It was great. At the time the only resource to find a new project was this spreadsheet uploaded t
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by waltbosz 1y ago
It's funny you ask, I had this exact idea back during the NFT craze. I have an unlimited supply of rocks thanks to the creek in my back yard. Well not unlimited, but there are more rocks back there than people willing to buy them as a
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by waltbosz 1y ago
The NIMBY argument is often one of aesthetics: windmills on the horizon will look ugly. I want to see a barge with one of these windmills anchored off the coast at the proposed install spot. So people can actually see what one would look li
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Reminds me of the uglified camera to deter theft. https://web.archive.org/web/20090521084503/https://blog.jimm...
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by waltbosz 1y ago
After struggling for a while I gave my phone to my daughter who solved it with 98% accuracy in 2 minutes.
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by waltbosz 1y ago
Turns out I accidentally threw away the scrub brush. I got it back with a browser refresh since the game refresh button didn't work on that level. I was scared to do a browser refresh because I thought I'd have to start from level

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