OnACoffeeBreak

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by OnACoffeeBreak 2mo ago
Cool story with an interesting ending (to me at least). Just a tiny nit... Should "Brewed as directed for 4 minutes in boiling water." be "Brewed as directed for 4 minutes in boiled water." Was the tea sitting in water t
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3mo ago
And then we add the diminutives like Kolichka. Though, admittedly, there's much more of a pattern there.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 3mo ago
I assumed that in urban USA the map would be fairly complete and opportunities for edits would be somewhat rare. My assumption was very wrong. The app showed a dozen quests just outside of my office building. Thanks for suggesting it!
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by OnACoffeeBreak 4mo ago
Borderlands 2 (BL2). I love the characters, the writing and the story. Handsome Jack is my favorite villain of all time. The game play mechanics feel good to me. The difficulty levels goes up with subsequent play-throughs (True Vault Hunter
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by OnACoffeeBreak 7mo ago
"The darker colours are points that were updated closer to 2007 and the brighter colours closer to December of last year." It's possible that this area was just more recently updated and is not necessarily more densely covere
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by OnACoffeeBreak 11mo ago
I pick a category, like fruits and vegetables or cars, and then try to come up with a word in that category that starts with every letter of the alphabet in order. To keep it relaxing I synchronize it with my breath. On the breath in, I not
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by OnACoffeeBreak 11mo ago
From the Introduction: "Each satellite may carry traffic for dozens of independent networks through an array of on-board transponders, each covering a diameter of thousands of kilometers (at most a third of Earth’s surface)". Can
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by OnACoffeeBreak 11mo ago
"Unbreakable: The Western States 100" [1] came to mind after you reminded me of the Barkley documentary. “The Barkley Marathons, the race that eats it’s young” seems more human and better grounded than "Unbreakable", but
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by OnACoffeeBreak 1y ago
What's the method for connecting the watch to the Internet? Garmin Bounce [0] has some of the features on your list and many more (like on-watch LTE). I don't believe it includes the ability to use heart rate and stress levels to
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by OnACoffeeBreak 1y ago
The author says that they tend to load all of the assets on init. This sidesteps the issue of the C#'s garbage collector (GC). I am not a C# developer, but seem to recall reading that GC can cause unexpected slow downs. Web search show
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by OnACoffeeBreak 1y ago
I am not at all familiar with C# development, but the author mentions Native-AOT, which, from a cursory look, seems like a C# compiler. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/deploying/nati...
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by OnACoffeeBreak 1y ago
No BIOS necessary when we're talking about bare metal systems. printf() will just resolve to a low-level UART-based routine that writes to a FIFO to be played out to the UART when it's not busy. Hell, I've seen systems that f
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by OnACoffeeBreak 1y ago
Tangential to this... Wright brothers lived and worked in Ohio, but the first flight happened in North Carolina due to its wind conditions and soft sand. In the early 2000's (if I remember right) North Carolina came out with a license
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by OnACoffeeBreak 1y ago
That's what Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) is trying to accomplish. https://contentauthenticity.org/how-it-works
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
PyTorch The book's code repo: https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
The basketball thing can be such a shit show. As a parent of a kid that fell in love with basketball, did travel AAU basketball and ended up playing for a D3 college, I've experienced parents at all levels showing their full ass. Examp
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Starlink to T-Mobile is using PCS spectrum (1850 – 1990 MHz) licensed to T-Mobile to provide Directo-to-Cell (DTC) service, not whole 5G spectrum.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
To add to what others have posted... Activity (i.e. running, walking, cycling, etc.) FIT files are found in the GARMIN/Activity directory on the watch after connecting it to a computer over USB. File names are date time stamps.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Look into driving apps designed to track miles driven by learners who are working towards their full driver's license. My state's DMV requires a driving log with start/stop times and miles when getting the full license from a
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Current discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41932225
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
The book has been on my shelf for a long while, and I haven't read it yet, but I really like the full title "Mistakes Were Made, but Not by Me: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts"
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
That's my favorite book as well. I came to it much later than college, and still found so much wisdom in it.
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Garmin has rolled out a sleep mode feature that makes the AMOLED watch face sparsely populated, and you can set the brightness to the lowest setting for sleep mode. Compared to my watch set to the lowest sleep mode brightness, the brightnes
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
They probably mean "on-board" instead of "on-chip". Data sheet [0] section "5.4 Powerchain" shows an external RT6150 buck-boost switcher with an external inductor. 0: https://datasheets.raspberrypi.c
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
When I think of "sport" I think of "fitness" watches from Garmin and Apple Watch. Patek sport watch is definitely not that. What is meant by "sport" in case of the Patek sport watch?
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
This is probably not helpful, but, can you figure out the infra of https://godbolt.org/ and follow what they have done?
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Matt Parker ("Stand up Maths" channel on YouTube) gave a very informative and entertaining lecture in 2010 titled "Clutching at Random Straws" [0], which, among other things, covered something similar. From the subtitle
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Ze Frank (True Facts YouTube Channel) recently released a video about crows crafting tools to solve problems. It's quite amazing and, of course, very funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-HF-wBwQsc
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
Your "my life in weeks" page is just lovely. I teared up from the tenderness of it. That is such a great idea. I have been toying with the idea of writing a memoir, but I haven't started because it seems so daunting of a task
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by OnACoffeeBreak 2y ago
100 Mbps Ethernet over barbed wire was demonstrated back in 1995. [0] "Only four properties really affect the performance of most digital transmission structures. The "big four" transmission-line properties are impedance, del

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