wrycoder

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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   While the Cpython core developers are Fellows of the PSF, the PSF does not provide technical direction. That is not its purpose.
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Oh, he just did an interview with Lex Friedman: https://youtu.be/ykY69lSpDdo
3. 813.▲
   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Five dollars here, five dollars there. It gets expensive.
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Well, I've done several, and one of the pull tabs generally breaks no matter how slow and careful you are. Then, it's on to reheating everything and dragging a monofilament under the battery. Without a vacuum hold-down stage, it
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Well, it's certainly different from Hemingway two-finger typing on a manual typewriter. Or, Jefferson writing on (expensive) paper with a quill pen and iron-gall ink, with only the occasional overstrike. Supposedly, Kerouac wrote On t
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   It's not so much opening it, it's holding the back while you use heat and force to excavate the battery from the backshell. Apple appears to have fixed that issue with the iPhone 14.
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   You may be interested in this article: https://medium.com/@kris-nova/organic-and-mechanistic-system... What you are dealing with is organically grown software. No one really understands it, and it's likely to be
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   You’re Not Stringer Bell, but You May Still Need a Burner Phone(wired.com)

   1 points by wrycoder 4y ago|0 comments
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   by wrycoder 4y ago

   Hired ten years ago at Google as Director of Engineering [0], His book, released that year, was "How to Create a Mind". He's still there, and that's what he's doing, I think. He is supposed to release his new book,
10. 820.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Just keep laughing. I'd like to hear Ray Kurzweil's view (he's working at Google and is awfully quiet.) Human consciousness is over-rated. I'm reminded of Minsky's Society of Mind - a number of separate, communica
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    You've not maintained drum brakes in New England, I guess. Not as finicky as calipers, but the cylinders do rust and fail.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    It is a little annoying to be elbowed in the nose accidentally by my Dutch customers, though. So, I created a joke. “Why are people in the Netherlands so tall?” “Genetic pressure. They have had occasional dike failures over the centuries, a
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Also, more exposed to salt spray than inboard motors.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    OMG 35 M$ per year
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    We wore out a commercial shredder on a GOCO proposal. At the end, we hired a kid to stand there and spray it with WD-40 as he fed it.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    For once, an article more interesting than the HN comments!
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Not true for floppies, either. To reformat the boot sector, include the /S switch. FORMAT /S
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    I used Dark Sky, but MyRadar is my favorite.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Many people love Dark Sky, and Apple simply killed it.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    I was referring to “asshole”.
21. 831.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    I wish people would find a new word, instead of persisting in using gutter English. Not just back alley, but gutter.
22. 832.▲
    by wrycoder 4y ago

    This was posted at least five times, without much action, until the full title was used. It turns out that the Quanta editor was good at picking titles.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    My DMV in MA didn’t accept cash.
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    Any Sensor, Anytime, Anywhere(saildrone.com)

    2 points by wrycoder 4y ago|1 comments
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Solar powered autonomous sailing vehicles have sailed 800,000+ nautical miles and spent 18,000+ days at sea collecting data that provides unprecedented intelligence for climate, mapping, and maritime security applications
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    If there are any boxes of greenbar sitting around, it’s C A B D. Otherwise, A C B D.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    You are correct. It should have had bipartisan support. But, of course, it had to be politicized. And few understood the issue, so they made up their own straw men.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Circuits involving capacitors and inductors lead you to differential and integral equations, if you want to know the time dependence of the voltages and currents in the circuits.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    > government NOT be just another reality show. You've really hit the mark with that comment.
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    by wrycoder 4y ago

    Depends on how many upvote it. You didn't need to click or comment.