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by Yen 3mo ago
I'm reminded of the lyrics from Pink Floyd's Time: "And then one day you find Ten years have got behind you no one told you when to run you missed the starting gun" The longer you live, the more tiny little
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by Yen 4mo ago
I recently got into splatting. I looked for some good all-in-one tutorials, but didn't find any, and mostly muddled through through trial and error and LLM assistance. I present this workflow as a straight-line pipeline, though in prac
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by Yen 2y ago
I've lived in Japan for a few months. I was about halfway through the article, thinking about how it seemed to be a counter-example, before the author called out Japan specifically. For all the other differences in culture, the attribu
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by Yen 2y ago
For what it's worth, it seems like "lego spike prime" is effectively equivalent to mindstorms, in that it includes a programmable brick that can connect to multiple motors, sensors, and can be programmed in a scratch-like env
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by Yen 2y ago
As a workaround in firefox, I was able to right-click, "save video as", and open in VLC.
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by Yen 3y ago
Another approach I've found useful for this - turn off your monitor, or turn your brightness down to 0. You can often do this pretty easily, with keyboard shortcuts or hardware buttons, and it does a lot to limit your temptation to re-
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by Yen 3y ago
The examples of Dropbox and iPod being criticized on tech sites, but going on to become very successful, seems practically a part of the mythology at this point - but it seems to be _always_ those two examples. Are there legitimately multip
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by Yen 4y ago
Ah, good to know!
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by Yen 4y ago
California's Proposition 13 law ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_California_Proposition_13 ) "locks in" property taxes on homes at the time you purchase it. Most other states do not do this, the value
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by Yen 5y ago
If you don't drink alcohol - don't be afraid to ask for a non-alcoholic pairing! Worst they can say is "no can do". The one time I asked, it turned out that our server was ~30 years sober himself, and asked their barte
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by Yen 5y ago
> When government (Latin for “control of the mind”) I don't think this is accurate. https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/160026/does-the-...
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by Yen 5y ago
I've also wanted a better shell scripting experience, and have bashed [no pun intended] my head against this several times. I think some of the major pain points that resist adoption of a language like Python or Ruby for in-line shell
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by Yen 5y ago
On the topic of "who wrote this shit", I'd really like to plug the idea that some of the most high-impact documentation you can write is a good commit message. Say you track down a bug, find a line of code that makes no sense
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by Yen 6y ago
I've been using an HTC Vive on linux. It usually works pretty great. The performance might be percentage-points worse than a "clean" Windows install, but in my experience Windows didn't manage to stay clean. I've go
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by Yen 6y ago
I've been using Skybox on steam vr on linux, and it seems to work consistently for viewing local video files, whether flat or side-by-side.
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by Yen 6y ago
Disclaimer: I currently work for June Oven. The June Oven does this, and it works pretty darn well IMO. It's using just a video camera to do food recognition, but it's fairly high-accuracy for recognizing supported foods. The firs
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by Yen 6y ago
An alternate strategy for seating - For our rehearsal dinner, we had maybe ~30 people, and did a 4-course meal. For each course, everyone was assigned different tables, such that over the evening, everyone would get at least one course with
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by Yen 6y ago
When my partner and I were dating, there was a long period where we were long distance, as they were in China teaching English. I can recall 3 projects that came out of this time I helped set them up with an SSH tunnel, and appropriate brow
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by Yen 6y ago
For a traditional style remote, held in a pointing grasp with thumb on top, I have a hard time imagining something much better than a T9 layout. Personally, I'm kind of enamored with the idea of a phone or tablet for media selection &a
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by Yen 6y ago
I don't have a great deal of experience with classical music. That said, I have this same pianist's album of Well-Tempered Clavier, and I think it's quite nice. ( https://music.kimiko-piano.com/track/prelu
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by Yen 6y ago
I disagree. Don't pay for the news. I might pay for Netflix or HBO. If one is insufficiently entertaining, I won't. It makes sense for Netflix/HBO to compete on producing the most entertaining and addicting product, and I kno
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by Yen 6y ago
Agreed. As-is, it's a poor mobile experience. On mobile Firefox, the Reader mode does a great job of making the articles readable, though. So, mobile-specific default CSS would probably be ideal, but this kind of site also shows off th
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by Yen 6y ago
Looks great! This kind of generative art is, I think, one of the best "non-productive" things that computers have enabled. Two extremely minor nitpicks - * When browsing through scenes, I notice that a title subtly fades in and ou
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by Yen 6y ago
Most gains in productivity have come from simplifying or automating away common tasks: * Text editors spell-check your writing (just put more care into your writing!) * Garbage-collected runtimes,or compile-time memory proofs prevent common
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by Yen 6y ago
Maybe nobody works for the end user ever, but some people work more for the end user than others. If you work for a web site that makes its money by lead gen or advertising, you're often working against the end user. This isn't ne
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by Yen 6y ago
Single data point: before reading these comments, my first reading of the word was pronouncing it "weh-can". Perhaps "WeKan" or "Weekan" would get the other pronunciation across better, if that's the goal?
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by Yen 7y ago
I've always heard it as "There are two hard problems in Computer Science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors"
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by Yen 7y ago
I apologize, I may have made my point a bit unclearly. I don't argue that "it's ultimately hopeless". I think, with effort, it's quite possible to create a pseudo-private safe space online. I just think that the bul
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by Yen 7y ago
I broadly agree that infinite perfect archival, and searchability of that archive, make an online discussion effectively public forever, subject to broadcast forever. But, even if you disable search, disable history, there's the fundam
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by Yen 7y ago
What do you use for editing on mobile, for files synced by syncthing?

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