Quimoniz

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by Quimoniz 2mo ago
Huh. Sounds just like me :D Depth helps there. Since I started working mostly on desks with a depth of 80 cm in front of me (or 31 inches that is) it's gotten usually pretty easy to squeeze in a notebook or a paper (also hanging the mo
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by Quimoniz 2mo ago
I am in the same camp. A year ago I switched over to taking notes on a Kindle Scribe, and as a voracious note taker it has been going very well. There are a few small negatives: - twice a page of text just vanished completely, in roughly 50
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by Quimoniz 10mo ago
> So you aren't breaking any laws of physics, you are just able to make much better tactical decisions. With respect I'd like to disagree on this subtly. A lot of games have the client send their cursor position at relatively f
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
Thank you.
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
This really hinges on 'velocity': > .. simple implementation won for velocity .. How do you specifically define velocity in this context? (I am asking because I tend to favor speedy velocity in quick iterations; which is anothe
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
Neat! I am throwing in my Plotly.js-based weather display, based on OpenWeatherMap and hand-drawn graphics: https://github.com/quimoniz/ophelia?tab=readme-ov-file#-ophe... (by default it also displays the Hacker News n
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
Psychological trait: Openness. It's associated with Liberalism and the political left. Also see [Big Five personality traits]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Five_personality_traits ).
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
If I recall Jobs' biography correctly, that came waaay later. First he had to get thrown out of his own company, with the Apple 3 debacle.
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
> It’s an ugly, toxic cycle that bottoms out at everyone constantly having their knowledge and competence questioned over things they know and can do, by people who don’t and can’t. That rings so true in my head. Being too open and tran
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
Another prime example on the typical arrogance of this trade, of computer scientists: My brain immediately goes like: You nitwit, base64 comes back from E-Mails, where you would work with Mail-Server's conception that your mails were a
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by Quimoniz 2y ago
Surprisingly lots of good advice, especially when one got a few years of professional experience. > Do It Scared True. I've deep dived enough topics and technology to confidently say that pretty much everyone is just cooking with wa
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by Quimoniz 3y ago
> When my phone plays certain tracks it makes and explosion of noise when switching songs. [...] Apparently this service has some sort of bug. Using Chrome on Android and also on my computer, the annoying pop does thankfully not appear b
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by Quimoniz 3y ago
> Getting paid to waste time not doing your job Pretty much the definition of 90 % of all the meetings. Just putting on bluetooth earpieces and doing the laundry doesn't deduct the value of me hearing another round of very efficient