TheGrassyKnoll

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by TheGrassyKnoll 1mo ago
Freeeking terrific. I'm gonna 'waste' a lot of time playing with this...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 1mo ago
I got a slice of pizza a couple of weeks ago and they wanted to see my card. I can't remember ever having to show my card for the food. (in southern California)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Shazeer
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3mo ago
Fox owning Roku is alienating to me.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3mo ago
Yes. If this goes through, my Roku is going to the Goodwill.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3mo ago
Wtf, no porn category ?
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4mo ago
DoubleClick (2008, according to Wikipedia)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4mo ago
I wish I had figured that out a year ago. MU up ~10x, SNDK up ~37x. My crystal ball is woefully under performing.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4mo ago
The shovel sellers are ringing the cash register.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4mo ago
Our illustrious president doesn't want any bison. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/us/politics/trump-buffalo...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 6mo ago
Some say the LA aqueduct saved Owens Valley from development. (I’m sure the old timers out there would have a different opinion)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 8mo ago
If an AI model thinks it's alive, isn't it just another hallucination ?
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by TheGrassyKnoll 8mo ago
> "...a vastly understated feature of AI: It makes people confident." Good point. AI is already making regular Joes into software engineers. Management is so confident in this, they are axing developers/not hiring ne
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by TheGrassyKnoll 8mo ago
Reminds me of the Starboard/Larboard nautical terminology. That must have created many disasters over the years. It took the British navy hundreds of years to rectify that one.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 2y ago
Eternity is a LOT of time...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 2y ago
It was significantly larger than a mere $billion. That's pocket change for Elon.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 2y ago
It was probably poisoned & couldn't give a damn about anything else.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 2y ago
I recommend giving ripgrep a try. (it's been around awhile now) https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep
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by TheGrassyKnoll 2y ago
N Is a Number: A Portrait of Paul Erdös (1993) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0125425/
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by TheGrassyKnoll 2y ago
Lol. Geez, we gotta do something about key sequences getting 'molested'...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3y ago
Don't forget the OPM hack (2015) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Personnel_Management...
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3y ago
Hoover Dam 1931-1936 $49 million Golden Gate Bridge 1933-1937 $35 million Spruce Goose 1942-1947 $23 million
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by TheGrassyKnoll 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Fosbury
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4y ago
Mike Tyson, the epitome of sound fiscal management. ($300 million lifetime earnings, had to declare bankruptcy)
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4y ago
I had to: $sudo apt-get install -y systemd-container to get machinectl
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4y ago
I've got an 80,000 line text file full of notes (probably half blank lines). Would never work without the Emacs 'occur' command.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 4y ago
Turbo Pascal was a GREAT tool; it was like a breath of fresh air. It was 'fast' even on an 8086.
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by TheGrassyKnoll 5y ago
COW == Copy on Write Its interesting that certain file systems use COW schemes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Btrfs
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by TheGrassyKnoll 5y ago
Thanks for the code snippet, however (kind of a Rust newbie here) $ cargo install unicode_segmentation (chokes) $ cargo install unicode-segmentation (seems to work) and in Cargo.toml [dependencies] unicode-segmentation = &quot
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by TheGrassyKnoll 5y ago
I tried using Python with import sh for awhile, but...meh. https://amoffat.github.io/sh/sections/faq.html

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