PurelyApplied

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by PurelyApplied 2mo ago
I do all* of that with my phone and a Bluetooth bone conduction headphones. It kinda seems like the glasses part only make sense if it's for loading it up with a camera. You know, for looking at things, with your glasses. I agree it
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by PurelyApplied 3mo ago
Yeah. Like, you can do all this without LLMs. "Oh, I didn't copy this open source repo with a restrictive license, I just found an fork that was identical except for having removed the license. So we used that." That's
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by PurelyApplied 3mo ago
Oh hey, Photobucket! I wonder what I stashed in there... Look through old email to figure out what email address they had. Attempt to log in, no memory of password. Get reset link sent to my ancient Hotmail. Hotmail doesn't recognize
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by PurelyApplied 3mo ago
Certainly not fictional. You just haven't heard of the company that doubled every month for a year, which obviously they did because why wouldn't you?
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by PurelyApplied 8mo ago
If minor mistakes are corrected without the PR author's input, do they ever learn to stop making those mistakes themselves? It seems like a system where you just never bother to learn, e.g., style conventions, because reviewers just a
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by PurelyApplied 8mo ago
I apprEciatE your dEdication to ExclusivEly using 'e' in quotEd rEfErEncE, but not in thE rEst of your clEarly human-authorEd tExt. I rEgrEt that I havE not donE thE samE, but plEase accEpt bad formatting as a countErpoint.
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
The etymology of "manuscript" is from Latin "manu" by hand "script" (scriptus) written.
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
They made a drama comedy faux-documentary about it a few years ago titled _Pinball: The Man Who Saved The Game_. It's cute, regardless of your investment into pinball as a whole.
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
Oh, I fixed the link. It was easy enough to figure out. It never bodes well when an author fails to proof their summary line, though.
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
I feel like the header where you define key terms is a space where you really, really want to check for typos.
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
> A major reason they don't make the news is that many aren't that critical. My favorite recall was the letter I got last year for 23V048000. The instructions for how to engage the defroster in my car manual were suboptimal. Y
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
It was turned down three days ago.
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by PurelyApplied 2y ago
> How did they got access to it? Concerning.. Someone bound system:anonymous to ClusterReader "just for now, for testing, I'll delete it right after".
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
Or quote-wrap `'rm'`.
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
Not the glib root-commenter, but the two big caveats is that Go is memory-safe provided you import neither `unsafe` nor `c`. That can end up being a pretty restrictive constraint, if it's not something your dependencies cared about. If
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
I don't know anything about markets or why things trend certain ways, but I am an avid pinball player. In fact, as I write this, I've traveled halfway across the country to attend the Chicago Pinball Expo with a buddy of mine. I
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
I too remember when all my projects were greenfield, before my first burnout, when a less jaded me with better knees enjoyed the simpler times.
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
There are so many things to dislike about git, but I feel like so much of this post is reaching for cause to be offended. Sha1 is a hashing function. As a hashing function, it's fine. Why does your identifier need to be cryptographic
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
There should be a `curl | sh` in this, a security-oriented product? To demonstrate how badly you need it, perhaps? Please don't pipe the Internet directly into your command line.
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
> The Industrial Revolution shaped humans and culture to move to cities, work in factories/offices instead of home/fields and to think in more abstract terms (math, written words, etc). Surely you aren't suggesting that ma
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
This just in: flawed model discovers flaws in model!
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
> > it is recommended not to ... compare values based on different models > i.e. R0 numbers are worthless. You can't compare these values between pathogens That conclusion doesn't follow from the predicate. The model isn
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
Oh, duh. I shouldn't try to read code past midnight... Thank you!
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by PurelyApplied 3y ago
Do you typically need to check both `Done` and `ok`? The latter is only false when the channel is empty and closed, so unless multiple routines are pulling from that channel, you should only need one, should you not?