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by watersb 5y ago
"Dislike the average Russian" I find that quite surprising, actually. I absolutely don't dislike a Russian I don't know. How could I? Maybe I don't understand this correctly. I'd like to know more about this fe
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by watersb 5y ago
I had great fun and intense tech time working for astronomers. Ideally, the telescopes are located in remote areas. This led to the engineers and programmers out there, too, or perhaps the nearest college town. https://NRAO.edu
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by watersb 5y ago
Live a long time and never stop learning.
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by watersb 5y ago
Emeryville started as a mudflat on the Bay where they'd drive cattle to slaughterhouses and leather tanners. It smelled real bad so they did it way out in the middle of nowhere. It sort of became the place for messy industry, when just
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by watersb 5y ago
I live in a four-plex apartment, but surrounded by other low-rise apartment buildings. There are at least 27 WiFi networks in the 2.4 GHz bands that all dance to share bandwidth. 5 GHz is dramatically better for us, more channels and less c
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by watersb 5y ago
A quick announcement on Ars Technica -- the Lambda is nVidia CUDA, Linux beast laptop with very nice Razer design. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/04/razer-designed-linux...
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by watersb 5y ago
They've recently passed on, but I'm pretty dang old, so it's ok. My relationship with my mom was really strained, during my transition from living at home to college. Improved dramatically soon after.
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by watersb 5y ago
Interesting. I've resisted the pull of the Nix side so far... There's a similar package that auto-pulls dependencies for Swift scripts, but it requires you to explicitly state the external dependencies as comment annotations. The
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by watersb 5y ago
Wow. Just last night, I had a dream where I had taken my family along to a conference of AppleScript and HyperTalk developers. Family enjoyed the hotel and the glorious metropolis of San Jose. A dozen or so programmers thought about ways to
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by watersb 5y ago
So far, Western economic sanctions have hastened the decline of the use of the US dollar as a means of exchange, especially among Russia, India, and China. This transition has severe short-term disruption for Russia, but a wartime (sorry, &
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by watersb 5y ago
It would have been a better bad movie on 1/10th the budget. And a different script. And a different premise. Oh well, the actors tried... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_(film)
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by watersb 5y ago
First, congratulations! It's a paper worth HN attention. Very cool. Second: do Hacker News posts form a small-world network? I don't know. I don't even know if my question is well posed (it might be a meaningless question). D
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by watersb 5y ago
I guess it comes down to the fact that no one gets paid to fix anything. Visual redesign, sure, the client will pay for that. Fixing an existing visual design when problems are reported? Nope. And as @gwern mentioned, https://new
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by watersb 5y ago
The utter frustration is real. One reason that Target Display Mode has faded away could be a real, tech hardware issue: retimers required to drive the High-DPI displays on recent Macs. It's not a satisfying thread of speculation. And
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by watersb 5y ago
Prolog; I did a lot of this (well, hundred+ hours, maybe) in college, but that was 1988 - 1990. There were toy versions of this in Scheme as examples in SICP, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, that I enjoyed, and some AI of
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by watersb 5y ago
I'm tempted to reply that I went back to using "vanilla" Zsh, and just added stuff to my awesome repo which is only 3.9KB minified and gzipped. But not yet.
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by watersb 5y ago
> a kind of non machine specific "virtual machine" (called the Visi Machine) that all applications were written for. Only the very core of Visi On (called the Visi Host) was machine specific... Sounds kind of like Java or .Net
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by watersb 5y ago
Very fond memories of the Foothill College Swap Meet. With that and Weird Stuff Warehouse, I was able to put together a complete TRS-80 Color Computer rig in a matter of hours. The cassette recorder cable was a particularly nice find.
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by watersb 5y ago
Wow, thanks for responding about this! ---- `font-display:swap` is great Font-display on CSS-Tricks: https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/f/font-display/ MDN: https://developer.mozilla.or
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by watersb 5y ago
Oops. It's been a long time... Ratings (5 stars!!), not play count. Thanks!
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by watersb 5y ago
Or even if there was a way for them store an image, like album art, as a file in a filesystem. They could keep a folder with multiple files... That might be confusing, though. Too bad they don't have a way to show a directory as a sing
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by watersb 5y ago
Two complaints I have with iTunes. One is that it stores a "play count", the number of times you've played a song, directly in that song file. So it's always re-writing the source file of the track in the library. That w
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by watersb 5y ago
There are many great suggestions in the comments, which are good advice if I were trying to solve the problem of the limits imposed by my antique tablet. But that's not quite my point. The comments helped my realize that I actually had
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by watersb 5y ago
Love the comments. Blows my mind how diverse the reactions are. I read most HN on a 9 year old iPad. It's savage, raw compute would be fast enough, but limited RAM and pinned to a very old version of Mobile Safari. I generally keep Jav
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by watersb 5y ago
Does anyone remember JavaScript Style Sheets?
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by watersb 5y ago
Surprised that no one has yet mentioned ObjectiveSee tools, KnockKnock and BlockBlock: https://objective-see.com/ KnockKnock looks for malware like this rogue launchd service. You use it to quickly check for the presence of
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by watersb 5y ago
Objective-C is an attempt to bring SmallTalk/Actor to C programming. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21833331 I haven't yet tried to tweak a Swift macOS program, but in OS X era you could inject extra message
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by watersb 5y ago
Curious! What model and configuration are you using?
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by watersb 5y ago
From the article: > The platter is 39" diameter and 1/4" thick. It is made of magnesium. My brain initially read that as "made of momentum"...
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by watersb 5y ago
Striking similarity to the photograohy in this of HN item today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30818253

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