Fwirt

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by Fwirt 11d ago
Not only that, but why buy diamonds when Moissanite exists? Not as hard as diamond (by a tiny amount) but much less brittle and much more sparkle. Also even more “rare” than diamond since the only natural occurring ones are microscopic. Plu
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by Fwirt 2mo ago
Actually it's an odd split. The temperature and fan adjustment are physical buttons, but the A/C, recirculation, and heated seat controls are on the screen. I'm thinking this is for two reasons: If a lower trim level lacks he
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by Fwirt 2mo ago
I've been daily-driving a Planck with a custom layout for years now. I developed my own layout (QWERTY based but with punctuation and function keys on thumb-driven layers) and it took me a few weeks to get speed parity with my old 104
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by Fwirt 2mo ago
Touch screens don't have to be modal, that's a UI choice. The 2020 Bolt we just got leaves the climate controls on screen at all times, even when CarPlay is open. I was also pleasantly surprised by the number of buttons it has, in
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
What I’ve always wished is that I could take pictures with a nice DLSR or bridge camera and have a way to quickly load the RAWs into my phone for culling and processing. You could get the best of both worlds, better sensors and lenses, and
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
It’s exploiting the natural tendency of trees to create “waterspouts” through a technique called pollarding. When a tree suffers an injury it creates a bunch of new twigs that tend to grow straight upwards if the injury is on the upper bran
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
No, because the criteria here is state transition from not-in-use/power saving to in-use/"on". The Pi Zero has no meaningful sleep state, as I lamented above, thus the only valid "off-on" state transition for t
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
Yep, those are the ones! There's also the oddity of the [[ and ]] motions. In the POSIX standard, those are the only two-character motions. I was using a state-machine to implement motion commands, and that single command threw a wre
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
I started writing a more fleshed out vi compatibility mode for TextAdept earlier this year. As someone who understood the basics after going through :vimtutor multiple times but always struggled with the more "advanced" commands,
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
It's a shame that, being based on a full-blown Linux SBPC, it has an absolutely unacceptable boot time for a camera. 22 seconds. I can have my iPhone camera out and ready to capture an ephemeral moment of child's play in under 3 s
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
The point they were trying to make was that if you take appreciation of assets into account, if your billion is appreciating by a relatively modest 5% per year, you are passively earning 50 million/year . Whereas someone with one mill
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
We just bought our first (used) EV, and charging stations are the Wild West right now. Any random station you pull up to might charge close to the local cost of electricity, or some wild sky-high amount. And hopefully they’ll tell you what
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
G-code is like assembly language for CNC. It’s human readable, you can write it by hand if necessary, most machines will compile it internally to machine instructions, and there are a million different flavors with incompatible macros, etc.
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by Fwirt 3mo ago
I'm sure the idea here was a physical quine, although since it only contains 2.5% of its own G-code it's not really a quine, any more than a "Hello World" program is a quine since the string "Hello World" is in
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by Fwirt 4mo ago
I think ultimately the conclusion the author reaches is an interesting one, that the real "disease" of tourism is like sepsis. It comes not from without, the tourists themselves, but from within, the changes made by locals to try
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by Fwirt 4mo ago
Houses are big, the air mass inside is big, convection and recirculation maintain a fairly consistent temperature throughout the house, and the thermostat is centrally located so it averages the temperature of the air. The air coming out of
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by Fwirt 4mo ago
It also prevents all kinds of clients who (for various reasons) can't implement SSL from visiting your website. I'm sure this is a "small web" blog, whose author wants to be visited by e.g. a Commodore 64, an OS 9 iMac,
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by Fwirt 4mo ago
For anyone who was also curious what Justin Frankel got up to after the speculation at the end of the article, he founded Cockos Software and is the lead developer on the excellent REAPER DAW.
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by Fwirt 4mo ago
It's a shame, he's a genuinely cool guy! If I wasn't convinced that my kids would find a way to break it when I wasn't looking I'd definitely have an Acme Klein Bottle by now.
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by Fwirt 4mo ago
The question is, do the same firms ban Excel? Excel spreadsheets often end up as shadow databases in unlikely places.
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
It's not just that, Notepad++ is built around Win32 APIs and is designed for Windows. He's got some non-portable optimizations baked in. At its core, Notepad++ is just another Scintilla wrapper (like SciTE or Textadept) but it&#x2
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
Touch and mouse are two very distinct forms of input that need to be kept separate. Every convertible Windows laptop I have ever used has convinced me of that. Mouse interfaces can be incredibly information dense because mice are both incre
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
Not wanting to install an OS package to do something as simple as sending some bytes a couple years back, I wrote a shell script to send WoL packets. Its only dependencies are netcat and bash so if you have busybox it should run almost anyw
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
To me the buns still look far too perfect and fluffy. I don't know if I've ever received a wrapped McDonald's hamburger that hasn't been smashed flat to some extent, with cracks in the bun. The ones that come in boxes fa
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
Quick plug for this guy who built a LoongArch emulator for use as a... scripting engine? https://github.com/libriscv/libloong
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
Yes and no - while it's still simple enough to replace parts in some cases, and said parts are usually easy enough to track down, manufacturers are starting to go the Apple route and lock the ECU to a given part, or require what boils
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
My point was that when it does go, it will go with no warning, and there is a non-zero cost to replacing it. Cheap, easy, yes, but nothing lasts forever.
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by Fwirt 5mo ago
I realize the purpose of the essay, and I agree with the author's sentiment that our possessions ask more of us than is necessary, and more than ever before. But I disagree that any object is finished . That Casio that the author ment
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
This jives with something that’s occupied my brain a couple times in the last year, the separation of art and science. Science is empirical knowledge and processes which can be transferred, art is gut feeling and subconscious knowledge appl
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by Fwirt 6mo ago
AdGuard has never given me any trouble.

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