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by wibbily 9mo ago
Markdown (subjectively) looks better than Org when it’s plaintext - postfix headers and dashed lists are annoying to parse but they distinguish sections visually. Org by comparison feels like a sea of asterisks. (I am tickled by the /i
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by wibbily 9mo ago
The loveliest part of making your own gear is picking all your nits.
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by wibbily 10mo ago
It can be, yeah. I use it sometimes to shim libraries or write one-off scripts. But it's made me disgustingly introspective. Why do I do anything? Where do I draw my lines? An example. I've been writing a Lisp, and I'm using
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by wibbily 10mo ago
> We're glorified construction workers that get paid a lot That attitude is my point. I'm a developer by trade; I have a different set of feelings and concerns about "the industry" and how new tooling will affect it.
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by wibbily 10mo ago
It bothers me that so many programmers I know, here and in real life, seem to never actually have cared about the craft of software development? Just about solving problems. I like problem solving too. But I also like theory and craft, and
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by wibbily 10mo ago
Seems like it could work in the other direction... mandate that adult sites etc. include a standard, relevant flag in the response, so that parental control software can detect it if it's installed. Sites don't have to know anythi
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by wibbily 10mo ago
That's worse? I don't want my car to track me, I'm def not going to volunteer that information to Uber.
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by wibbily 10mo ago
The kernel even has a special error message for you when it happens: > Bailing out, you are on your own. Good luck. https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/96720
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by wibbily 11mo ago
I do something like this. Every page gets an invisible link to a honeypot. Click the link, 48hr ban. Honestly I have no idea how well it works, my logs are still full of bots. *Slow* bots, though. As long as they’re not ddosing me I guess i
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by wibbily 11mo ago
I just finished a little webtoy. It's like a comic strip time machine - you can see a virtual newspaper comics page for any date in the last seventy years. https://lmao.center/funnies V happy with how the CSS came out,
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Show HN: Funnies – read the newspaper comics section for any date in history(lmao.center)
1 points by wibbily 11mo ago|0 comments
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by wibbily 11mo ago
The buried lede here is that Qualcomm is selling chips to hobbyists now? https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/qualcomm/QRB-2210... $20 for something that can compete with a Pi 4 is intriguing, more
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by wibbily 1y ago
Huh? The first "conflict" you list isn't a conflict. > The snippet from "search docs crawling indexing pause online business" states that adding a Disallow: / rule for Googlebot in robots.txt will keep Googl
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by wibbily 1y ago
Are there any American fabs that are competitive with Chinese ones? AFAIK places like OSHpark are several times more expensive and just can’t do what the overseas fabs can (3.5mil t/s, filled vias, etc.)
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by wibbily 1y ago
I like wireless ISPs, because radio works everywhere, and I want my regular ISP to sweat a little. Doesn’t matter who ran what wires to where, all you need is a window I had Fios in Boston, in an apartment that was only wired for Fios. Desp
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by wibbily 1y ago
It’s a shame. Nordic’s chips blow the ESPs out of the water in terms of power consumption. You can get an nRF bluetooth dongle to run for months/years off a coin cell, almost without trying. Getting an ESP32 to behave is much harder II
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by wibbily 1y ago
Oh hey I can post an update. My little electronic dictionary is finished. Software works and it's all dressed up in a stealth notebook case. (It runs Python now instead of Lisp though) https://lmao.center/ilotoki
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by wibbily 1y ago
Does iFixit still post the traditional photo-slideshow teardowns? Their videos are fine but it’s easier to study the still images.
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by wibbily 1y ago
There’s a bunch of books that cover how the food industry exploits your primate brain and tries to make you eat more. Salt Sugar Fat [1] is one. Not a traditional weight loss guide. But, learning about all the tricks they play made me so
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by wibbily 1y ago
Will do. Appreciate the tip
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Ask HN: Where to store my bag for a few hours in SF?
2 points by wibbily 1y ago|5 comments
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by wibbily 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key Everything old is new again! Having this back for games would be nice, but I don't think a screenshot of Excel will disguise my Steam Deck as a laptop
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Tubi launches "Productubity" to help fans stream at work(corporate.tubitv.com)
1 points by wibbily 1y ago|1 comments
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The 100MHz 6502(e-basteln.de)
39 points by wibbily 1y ago|2 comments
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by wibbily 1y ago
What a lovely collection At the end is the OLPC, whose keyboard was as bad as as it looks. Like typing on a Silpat. Yet I used the hell out of it, would take it hiking even - it was indestructible. Mine's logo was green and purple and
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by wibbily 1y ago
> One other possibility is to drop high memory, but allow the extra physical memory to be used as a zram swap device. That would not be as efficient as accessing the memory directly, but it is relatively simple and would make it possibl
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by wibbily 1y ago
The Supernote, but I wouldn't bother... too gimped to be useful. The built-in apps aren't as good as Remarkable's and tend to fall over when you install third-party apps. Hardware's slick tho. Real nice kit. Maybe someda
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by wibbily 1y ago
> The Bang & Olufsen deserves a mention all of it's own. This was a luxury set that retailed at £1200 in the early to mid-90s... it can be nabbed for £10-£40 on eBay They're going on the 'bay now for $1200. Time is a f
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by wibbily 1y ago
I second everyone talking about fake progress bars, but yeah I was just talking aesthetics. Having a progress indicator with obvious segments and animating it with a smooth tween looks wrong. Compare the above with [1], which is how Apple d
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by wibbily 1y ago
Man nothing drives me further up the wall than when a nice progress indicator with discrete segments gets animated with a lazy `to { rotate(360deg); }` etc[1]. It is my molehill to die on [1] https://cdn.dribbble.com/userupl

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