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811.
by watersb 5y ago
If CSS and JavaScript went away, I suppose the much-needed void would require filling by legions of Kafkaesque Flash and Java apps. Or ActiveX controls. "There! I sexied it up for you!"
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by watersb 5y ago
Design and beauty matter, but I find every day websites that are utterly unusable due to some boilerplate, clueless complexity. To test websites, I always use a barely viable client, like my nine year old iPad. Or an old Android phone. Last
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by watersb 5y ago
Are modern buildings more pleasant to live in? Modern buildings incorporate fire-supression systems and HVAC and (when necessary) dynamic resistance to earthquakes or wind loads.
814.
by watersb 5y ago
> Nothing on the scale of Grand Central for a public building has been attempted in a long time. I am not a commuter in New York City, which may contribute to my difficulty in understanding this. Because the Oculus Terminal looks very st
815.
by watersb 5y ago
Good catch! Looks like they have walked this back, and Hot Reload for CLI (and thus, tools outside full the Visual Studio IDE) is here to stay. For now. https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/net-hot-reload-support...
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by watersb 5y ago
The virtualization option mentioned here, before discussing the native option, is QEMU via the UTM app. I have played a bit with UTM as an emulator, to run x86_64 virtual machines. Emulation is a lot slower than hardware virtualization. No
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by watersb 5y ago
A friend of mine went to school with the son of an exiled king. Everything was fine -- this fellow had a proper passport, visa, etc. I suppose being a prince helps a bit with nation-state level paperwork. The problem occurred when the princ
818.
by watersb 5y ago
Not without peril. But worth the risk in this case.
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by watersb 5y ago
Most of the stuff I run via Termux is open-source. (FWIW, Termux on an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 10 is really nice; I got mine via on sale for about $100.)
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by watersb 5y ago
The first "onboarding" I can remember, from Microsoft Word 6.0 in (?) 1993. It would display a dialog when you opened the program. Every. Damn. Time. Displayed a useful tip from the included documentation. At the time, it felt lik
821.
by watersb 5y ago
You can hurt yourself if you run with scissors.
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by watersb 5y ago
Like LoRa ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoRa ), but for WiFi..? Low frequency, but shorter range (by design) than LoRa. Less attenuation, less power dissipated, way less bandwidth, for embedded systems. I could be to
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by watersb 5y ago
Four years out... that gives me enough time to get this 20TB drive resilvered...
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How Amgen built a patent thicket around its top-selling drug(biopharmadive.com)
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Psychopathic tendencies are more likely to gamble with other people’s lives(psypost.org)
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by watersb 5y ago
Happy October 30th, the 60th anniversary of humans causing a blast ~ 4 times as powerful as the Tunguska Event! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event
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by watersb 5y ago
I've been very pleased with Microsoft efforts of late: Visual Studio Code is indeed a remarkable tool, and their dotNET infrastructure can support productive environments on many platforms, even if they cannot decide how to actually bu
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by watersb 5y ago
I would call this ".NET of FreeBSD". Interesting choice of words. Very Microsoft.
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by watersb 5y ago
IIRC, Steve Jobs stated that Apple had only 90 days of operating capital at the time they did the deal with Microsoft.
830.
by watersb 5y ago
!! I once purchased an airplane for the price of that Esse cooker machine. I learned, of course, that purchase price is just the cost of entry. Also, unless you have experience with rebuilding airplanes, you should probably avoid the one se
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by watersb 5y ago
Pour one out for the grand bookshops of Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue. Moe's Books forever: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/03/books/moes-books-berkeley... If you took a left turn in Albuquerque,
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by watersb 5y ago
IIRC, non-uniform magnetic variation in northwest New Mexico: not aliens or jamming. Just some differences in composition of the Earth around there. In addition to the drift of magnetic north, it's important to keep in mind that there
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by watersb 5y ago
Not necessarily for a Swift project, but your experience makes me wonder about the current web API for highlighting spans of text. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/MSEdgeExplainers/blob/main/... Complica
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by watersb 5y ago
yes. excellent example of a situation almost identical to mandating ISO standards. Should the Library of Congress nationalize the NPFA? I got my local library to buy a copy of the National Electrical Code. I can study it... but only at the
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by watersb 5y ago
Yes. Trying to grasp a time span of one million years feels impossible, in the context of development of culture and technology. It seems quite unlikely to me that we are the first such development on this rock.
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by watersb 5y ago
I did a research paper on water, just a freshman class literature review, and... wow. Quasicrystals? Ha! At small periods in time and space, I got the (probably mistaken) impression that water could form glass or metal or crystal: order at
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by watersb 5y ago
It was awful: "Space-Radio Synthesis [with a] Large 'Y'" or some such. And then, the SKA was split in two: half in Australia, and half in South Africa. So it didn't hold up at all, but at the time, it was fun.
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by watersb 5y ago
The OWT was proposed, but not funded. Yet. "Overwhelmingly Large Telescope": https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overwhelmingly_Large_Telesco... The GBT monster, the king of the telescopes at the Green Bank Obser
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by watersb 5y ago
HK = Herb Kelleher, founder and CEO of Southwest Airlines He stepped down just a few years before his death, in 2019. A colorful character and legendary driver of the culture at Southwest.
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by watersb 5y ago
Possibly related? A discussion of another build-your-own React: https://acko.net/blog/live-headless-react/

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