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by wcarss 4y ago
Came here to say preact is pretty nice and the no build pipeline thing is wonderful. I needed to make a little thing "with a few screens" once, and using a react-like model of rendering specific components based on state just felt
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by wcarss 4y ago
> but it wouldn’t be until some time between my mid 20s and early 30s that I felt like a mostly socially functional adult Just for the record, it's also common for people who attended school to not be really socially functional adul
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by wcarss 4y ago
> we can be pretty confident that it is not happening. We don't _really_ know this. It could of course wait for a signal (say, in a certain memory region, depending on the host OS) and be activated only by remote control in collabor
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by wcarss 4y ago
For anyone else thinking (especially later in this thread) "what is AWACS?": > AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) is the name of the specific system installed in the E-3 and Japanese Boeing E-767 AEW&C airframes, b
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by wcarss 4y ago
I couldn't play that video for some reason (says it's unavailable), so here's another link to (I think) the same song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1KfOMkyU_w
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by wcarss 4y ago
It's a way of sending commands to safely power down a linux (maybe *nix?) system even when it is in an otherwise unresponsive state -- I'm pretty sure not a kernel panic, but if it's otherwise frozen, these [0] may work. The
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by wcarss 4y ago
They could offer just a few "pet flights", with different livery, and interiors for easier cleaning, and a premium on the tickets for the pet owner and pet seats -- then also a discount for the excess no-pet travelers who explicit
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by wcarss 5y ago
or... of viruses being von neumann probes, possibly corrupted from some original purpose like "find, adapt to, and take over hosts, then build signals"
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by wcarss 5y ago
Supposing you're discussing in good faith, I'll engage with you, and _agree_: for the near term, I do not believe that fusion will be a commercially viable competitor to wind and/or solar. Not within 10, 20, 30, or even 50 ye
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by wcarss 5y ago
disclaimer: I am not a fusion scientist, nor even a physicist. Just a bystander who has been following this closely for years. But: Yes. Just one of those avenues is what MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center[0] has been talking abo
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by wcarss 5y ago
Just in case, did you know cmd+tilde will cycle through unminimized windows of the currently active application? I originally hated Mac alt+tab behavior, but after learning to combine cmd+tab and cmd+tilde, I actually hate going back. I sti
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by wcarss 5y ago
> My team is totally PR based though so if/when doing (Git compatible) feature branches lands in JJ I'm excited to switch. I'm trying to find the part of the docs that refers to this functionality as missing but I can&#x27
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by wcarss 5y ago
My very amateur musician take: it can have little, or it can have a lot. One way to 'improvise' is to have an understanding of the relationships between keys and while moving around at pleasing intervals and making interesting cho
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My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel(lithub.com)
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by wcarss 5y ago
And so were coined the warp bombs and the warp shots, two weapons of unimaginable power against which no defenses could stand. Undetectable until arrival, unstoppable upon arrival. A very fast and saucy radiation souffle.
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by wcarss 5y ago
I feel Wargames is often underrated. It was one of the very first movies about the topic (1983), and yet it balances being an entertaining blockbuster with very realistic depictions of many kinds of hacking, from waiting around for a port-s
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by wcarss 5y ago
I often find when I'm not actively writing code and am just scrolling up and down reading, it's nice to just pick the mouse up off the table and sit or stand with my arm and hand in a more neutral position, with my finger somewher
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by wcarss 5y ago
A pile of .exes and compiled python code like this, especially with such a targeted audience, seems like a great vector to potentially own a lot of people's boxes.
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by wcarss 5y ago
Music and/or drawing. These are both long curve activities where the more you put in, the more you get out. For example, fooling around with a ukulele for a year or two really improved my guitar later (especially fingerpicking!) when I
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by wcarss 5y ago
A programming sketchbook sounds great! I imagine having e.g. GPT-3 generate syntactically-correct code out of hand-written pseudocode
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by wcarss 5y ago
unfortunately, trust is a two way street!
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by wcarss 5y ago
Anecdote time! I had a much harder time trying to get by as a white anglophone in Leipzig for about a month in 2018 than I had in Berlin, but much of that was admittedly my own anxiety around asking people for help in the wrong way, and tra
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by wcarss 5y ago
This seems like a really good idea.
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by wcarss 5y ago
That's neat, but isn't this whole thing about stacking restrictions on empty containers? My understanding of what the Flexport CEO said in their twitter thread was that the best example of the problem is the haulage company that
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by wcarss 5y ago
As a one-time guelphite, seeing the University of Guelph in that TimeInDaylight tool link caught me quite off guard!
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by wcarss 5y ago
I had never heard of that, and the story you linked does not appear to make or to support the claim that lawyers can "own companies and sit on boards on behalf of clients". It does suggest that lawyers are not required to keep rec
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by wcarss 5y ago
oh interesting! I didn't realize they are iframes -- the homepage ones (e.g. the hero animation, the scale animation, the hardware-accel one) all seem fine, even right after pageload. It's the iframe demos that have the stutter&#x
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by wcarss 5y ago
This looks really nice! 2 bits of feedback: - hitting 'play' on your site's demo animations is adding pageviews to my history, which made getting back here to leave feedback unusually tough :) - for some reason, even the ba
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by wcarss 5y ago
cool! Yours is rather mesmerizing to stare into :) In a somewhat similar vein, I actually just finished a weekend generative art project[1] inspired by the recent HN post on minsky circles[2]. 1 - https://wcarss.ca/circles&#
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by wcarss 5y ago
Related, here[1] is an excellent ~hour long talk by Kerry Davis of Valve about how much thought they had to put into doors for VR while working on Half Life: Alyx. 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kzu2Y33yKM (edit: it l

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