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by alexjm 5mo ago
Are you thinking of "The Codeless Code" poem about this? https://www.thecodelesscode.com/case/234
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by alexjm 7mo ago
I read it as a to-do or calendar event: at such-and-such time, we will put the icing on some cookies.
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by alexjm 7mo ago
I have a kitchen slide rule that I use to scale recipes and do simple conversions. I used it last week when inflating a ball that had a target diameter in centimeters, but measuring the circumference was much easier and my measuring tape w
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by alexjm 8mo ago
We don't even need the term "identity theft". We already have a perfectly good word for than: "fraud".
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by alexjm 11mo ago
From the article... Passkeys: - are generated securely and so can’t be guessed - can’t be phished - are unique for each website you use, so if one website is compromised it doesn’t put your other logins at risk
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by alexjm 1y ago
Watch out for Occam's Hacksaw: Any complex problem can be made to look simple by hacking away enough parts of it as "not essential", saying you'll handle them in version two.
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by alexjm 1y ago
Many filing cabinets in the US are also sized so you can put letter sized folders in one way, or rotate the folders 90 degrees and legal sized folders will fit correctly.
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by alexjm 1y ago
You might want to add the --http0.9 flag to curl, to tell it that getting a response of just "ok" (HTTP 0.9 style, body only without headers) isn't an error.
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by alexjm 2y ago
Grep is from an ed editor command: global (g) to apply a command to all lines that match a regular expression, a regex surrounded by slashes (/), and print (p) to display those lines. Or g/re/p for short. This proved a usef
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by alexjm 2y ago
The minor difference is that :q! quits without saving but returns zero as the exit code, but :cq quits with a nonzero exit code. Git interprets the nonzero exit code as "editing failed", following the Unix convention that zero me
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by alexjm 2y ago
That was how I learned to tense my ear muscles -- because I could see they made my glasses shift on my face.
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by alexjm 2y ago
I have a kitchen slide that I use for ratios in recipes. It's an old plastic one from Think Geek. For example, I usually put 15 grams of coffee with 8 oz of water (please excuse the mixed units). To make a different amount, I align t
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by alexjm 2y ago
Shellac isn't made of bugs - it's made by bugs. Specifically, it's the resin secreted by a female lac beetle onto the branch of the trees that they live and feed on.
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by alexjm 2y ago
Some of the letter shapes look like Latin/Roman cursive, but even then I'm not sure I recognize any words either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_cursive
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by alexjm 2y ago
It's most likely legacy from pre-computer unit record equipment. These machines could only handle numbers and printed zeros without a slash because there was nothing to confuse them with. When letters were later added, it was the new
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by alexjm 2y ago
I saw one city park where they took this one step farther. They had a small wooden structure (I think the cover to a water valve, from years ago when they used to set up an ice skating rink). The open it so rarely they don't even pad
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by alexjm 2y ago
To your original question, yes. The phrase "formerly known as" comes before the old name.
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by alexjm 3y ago
BBS, Gopher, Usenet, and friends are all still there - no need to invent a new protocol.
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by alexjm 3y ago
A push notification is generally what creates the "you have a new message on <app>" red bubble.
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by alexjm 3y ago
It's not real - but imagine if it were!
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by alexjm 3y ago
LLMs generate content that's statistically plausible, not factually accurate. We don't need more content about USB that might be mostly right.
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by alexjm 3y ago
Yes, you're looking for US patent 4,549,302: > Thus, even if the file being transmitted [...] includes occurrences of the escape command string of bits, it is extremely unlikely that any random occurrence of the escape command would
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by alexjm 3y ago
I've heard that the "do you not have" phrasing was used in polite Soviet-era Russian, leading to a joke about a customer who walks into a shop and sees all the shelves are empty: - Excuse me, do you not have any bread? - Sorr
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by alexjm 3y ago
It's a poorly worded message, but the idea is that you press F1 after plugging in (or otherwise fixing) the keyboard.
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by alexjm 3y ago
In the Apple documentation for MVC, "controller" refers to a class that sits between the model and view. When data changes in the model, it updates the view; and when the user interacts with the view, it passes events to the mode
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by alexjm 3y ago
If you're curious what spending the night on Antarctica might look like, this video shows one experience (although it's from a part of the year with daylight & darkness). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA9fmEe
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by alexjm 3y ago
Same. And now I'm trying to figure out if there's any advantage to using the UI in System Settings instead of the app I already know.
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by alexjm 3y ago
To help me keep the spellings straight, I pronounce them as "pie pea eye" and "pie pie" respectively. That's also the PyPI project's preferred pronunciation. https://pypi.org/help/#pronunc
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by alexjm 3y ago
Another resource for how Apple silicon Macs boot is the "EFI Jumpstart" chapter of "Apple File System Reference", which starts off with a section about the boot process. https://developer.apple.com/go&#x2
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by alexjm 4y ago
Most man pages give good PostScript output with "man -t". I like reading those on screen or occasionally printing manuals I refer to frequently. The main problem I've run into in recent years are man pages that use ASCII ar

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