alterom

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by alterom 7d ago
>So you can use more than one iPhone as your primary phone. For example, if you have the new iPhone Duo but want to use your other 'standard' iPhone for the telephoto zoom camera capability, you could transfer your phone numbe
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by alterom 7d ago
>It almost always does. People put so much effort into building layers of abstractions to avoid using SQL, while just writing it directly would be much faster, easier, more readable, easier to maintain, modify, and debug. I do not get it
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by alterom 7d ago
No it did not. The data wasn't relational. The ORM was the smallest part of it, I could have written/read from JSON too, but SQLite was just a far better choice for a mix of structured data and big blobs. The thing it replaced was
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by alterom 7d ago
Wait till they find out where the Internet came from. Or what drove the demand for silicon in the first place. As for "transforming", that happened some time during the Vietnam war when the laser-guided bomb was introduced. Been a
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by alterom 7d ago
> Interestingly, to counter the people who say that the best thing to learn from is an actual globe, a couple of children's globes of the world that I had as a child had large metal caps around the axle that obscured most of Antarct
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by alterom 8d ago
>Interesting that Waymo chooses to compare accident rates with the average driver vs the rideshare drivers their cars replace "Interesting" is doing so much heavy lifting here. Fully agreeing with your other points as well.
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by alterom 8d ago
Acme is just a way of calling your company "Best Brand" or "Peak Product" while being just a tiny bit less pretentious about it (and, conveniently, getting yourself listed before "American Anything" in lexi
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by alterom 19d ago
A long time ago, I wrote an ORM to serialize/deserialize object data seamlessly into SQLite, with massive arrays of floats being stored as blobs. In code, I could effectively mark which class members need to be stored/restored, an
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by alterom 19d ago
Wait, are all of those shared online? That was the part I really missed from my Google days. That, insane achievement badges, and terrible-ideas-discuss (if anyone at Google is reading this, I have one word for you: dirigibles). It was li
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by alterom 24d ago
JSPaint to the rescue: https://jspaint.app/ It's a pixel-perfect modern clone (with some actually useful extras that won't get in the way unless you look for them), and yes, you can clone the repo and run it l
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by alterom 25d ago
Yet somehow "preemptive nuclear strike is a valid defense" France is a bit different from Hungary and Slovakia in their stance on Russia. So maybe natural gas imports aren't the thing that determine the outcome.
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by alterom 25d ago
>precisely the countries that should know better, since they were the principal recipients the "love and friendship" from Russia Goes to show that 1984-style conditioning really does work, decades later. Remarkably, it can ev
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by alterom 28d ago
>As an API it might not be convenient but consider converting angles internally into a tuple of sin and cosine My friend, it's called a complex number . A unit complex number, to be specific. >Recall rotation is a linear transfo
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by alterom 1mo ago
The bandwidth is absolutely there ("we tried this and it didn't work" is totally the stuff of conference discussions). The incentives are not. The incentives are skewed towards "a magician never reveals her secrets&quo
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by alterom 1mo ago
See, I'm keeping my siidebar open most of the time, so I WANT it to cover the content that would otherwise be visible - said no one ever. But yay, it's centered relative to the window now! God forbid the user tiles their windo
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by alterom 1mo ago
I mean, this could have applications, if you need to be facing a certain direction to read the content. While the Silicon Valley is merely a figurative Mecca for all things tech, Apple could require people to be facing Cupertino if you wa
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by alterom 1mo ago
I hope the author gets the point then.
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by alterom 2mo ago
Well it doesn't sound like you're having much luck with that setup, or would award it any gold stars, so there's that.
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by alterom 2mo ago
Bastards. I didn't notice. Welp. I guess most people who are/were using it also had accounts.
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by alterom 2mo ago
Seriously though. Musk promises self-driving cars, hyperloops, tunnels, and what they actually deliver is... a †balance bike*?! Satire is dead, because I can't imagine a worse self-own.
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by alterom 2mo ago
....Why?!
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by alterom 2mo ago
>. AI is going to be internet hug box echo chambers at an unbelievable scale. More like hotbox of one's own farts, but yeah
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by alterom 2mo ago
Asus, not Acer :) They pioneered the netbook with the EeePC line. Sadly, they didn't keep it alive.
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by alterom 2mo ago
I had the 1000HE too, and ran everything from LaTeX to DAWs on it. The only serious contender in that category now IMO is Chuwi Minibook X.
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by alterom 2mo ago
This is the stuff that I come here for.
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by alterom 2mo ago
Oh, a great new idea then! What if the same port could be on both headphones and phone? For convenience, we could make it, like, round so it could go in which every way. Then you could use whatever male-to-male cable you want if and wh
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by alterom 2mo ago
>so that, again, you could use the headphones while you charge them. Yes! And you could charge them off your phone! If I could dream: wouldn't it be nice if you had headphones with charging cables attached to them so that you neve
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by alterom 2mo ago
My XReal Beam Pro¹ has two USB-C ports: one for charging, one for Thunderbolt video output (both support data transfer IIRC). My other phones (Samsung Galaxy A23 etc) have a USB-C and a 3.5mm headphone jack as Lord intended, so I don't
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by alterom 3mo ago
>Well at least postdocs have a PhD That's the point. This is the bar. >Still, sometimes, frauds do slip through. You're projecting your experience in IT on academia, and I can't emphasize strongly enough how far off y
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by alterom 3mo ago
No, no, dissecting humor to death is the funnest part of the experience :D (I, too, am autistic)

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