atotic

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by atotic 7mo ago
I expected this essay to end with a note about software's golden age.
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by atotic 11mo ago
Thanks for sharing. I'v'e read the book, and for me it made everything click. I've had serious childhood trauma (violence, alcoholism, etc) and have been "clumsy" all my life. Basically, I was all brain, and I compl
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by atotic 1y ago
NYT mentioned NWS staffing shortage, but did not say this was connected to body count: "The office is also one of several left without an overnight forecaster, but on Friday, it stayed open and was sufficiently staffed for the night, i
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by atotic 1y ago
Agreed, Adam really is one of the best at what he does. His talks, demos, were always so interesting. My guess is that he'll be at Microsoft shortly. What Google is saying with this layoff is that they no longer care about web develope
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by atotic 2y ago
Has anyone built a search engine that indexes only "no annoyances" web sites?
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by atotic 2y ago
My kid had sleep apnea. His problem was narrow nasal passages. He got EASE surgery from Dr. Kasey Lee when he was 14, and was completely cured. You get better results getting surgery while bones are still pliable. It was like a miracle, an
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by atotic 2y ago
I am not sure if built-in indexing supports only indexing subset of the tree. YOu want to selectively index for speed and accuracy. The complete tree might contain multiple definitions of the same functions, as headers get copied, pre-proce
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by atotic 2y ago
I was a C++ Chrome developer till 2020, and I primarily used Sublime Text because of speed, and I found VSCode weekly releases too distracting. I indexed code locally with CTags, and then used SublimeText CTags extension for navigation. Thi
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by atotic 3y ago
My 11 and 13yo happily ride on the back of my cargo bike (Extracycle). Some of their braver, bike riding friends, do ask "Why don't you ride by yourself?" I used to have a burley before the cargo. I think the cargo upright po
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by atotic 4y ago
The solution is obvious: the kid should have been armed. The neighbor would not have approached him, and he would have been able to defend himself from predators.
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by atotic 4y ago
Seeing PEEK and POKE two pages into the article made me laugh. I always treated those like black magic, mysterious lines that I got out of a magazine that did cool stuff. I loved the Simons Basic cartridge, that gave me a lot of the PEEK&#x
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by atotic 4y ago
> those places did not emerge with a significantly better COVID outcome. COVID statistics are hard to interpret clearly. But, looking at the list of deaths/100K, it is clear that states that did take COVID seriously mostly had fewer
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by atotic 4y ago
I hope Goggles can be used as a ranking signal to help default search engine deliver better results. Google has never had the appetite for letting users explicitly improve its results. Their reasoning was that pure algorithm is the only pos
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by atotic 4y ago
Thank you! I've scanned over web development, looks like a well thought out modern curiculum. In 2022, it is tough to pick a good path for a beginner, and I like your choices.
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by atotic 4y ago
I think that the decision on whether to use a framework is very hard. When using a framework, you get most of the benefits right away, and most of the costs happen much later, when abandoning the framework is costly. Besides pure technical
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by atotic 4y ago
I was wondering where did all these "I started with fresh account, randomly clicked, and found something awful" articles about TikTok came from. Now I know. It was so puzzling, because my experience has been so different. TikTok i
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by atotic 4y ago
It is impossible to rule out apnea without a sleep study. My kid had apnea, and I'd lay in bed with him for hours, and I never noticed anything beyond sleeping with his mouth open, or slight stirring. Sleep study revealed that he was c
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by atotic 5y ago
Mine is empty as well. I think this article is misleading. The takout list does not come from gmail, but are "purchases made directly within Google Search, Maps, or Assistant". I do wish gmail would keep track of all my purchases.
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by atotic 5y ago
I was helping prep my high school kid for his evolution quiz. One of the concepts was "punctured equilibrium". To get his attention, and make it relevant I used: "global warming is puncturing the equilibrium today. What do yo
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by atotic 5y ago
I was just talking to someone today about what the programming might look like in 20 years. He was hoping for something more graphical. I told him that HyperCard was the only graphical programming environment that I ever loved. My first rea
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by atotic 5y ago
Anecdote: I live in Palo Alto, and my entire neighborhood is on Comcast. In January, service got to be really bad, 1Mbs upload during the day. Comcast came out, said our local node was saturated at 92%, and that they have an upgrade planned
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by atotic 6y ago
I've read this study a while ago, and I think it helped me correct my son's myopia. When my 5yo kid's eye check came back with "he'll need glasses next year", we started strict "hour+ outside play daily&qu
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by atotic 6y ago
I can relate to some of your quirks. I am now 50+, with 3 kids, and I've left most of the quirks behind. I used to always try to please others. My dysfunctional family liked it that way. It made their life easier. That was one of the l
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by atotic 6y ago
I used to be all-in on Amazon shopping, that's where I started all my shopping searches. Now Amazon is my site of last resort for everything but books. The rest of the net has gotten competitive. I do my research on wirecutter/red
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by atotic 6y ago
When I saw that this will be the first RCV Senate election, I was so happy. It is a close race, with great potential for a 3rd party influencing the outcome. This is exactly where RCV is the right way to tally the votes. Interesting bit is
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by atotic 6y ago
I think there is a market for selling rights to browser extensions. Someone I know with a mildly popular extension got offered $10K by a buyer to completely take over. This market might be one of the reasons why extension API powers have be
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by atotic 6y ago
Maybe. I receive several packages a week, and this is the first time I've seen a weird delay since the pandemic started. That's why I found it unusual.
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by atotic 6y ago
I suspect something unusual is happening too. I've been watching a tiny package I ordered being shipped from San Mateo to Palo Alto via UPS. It has been 7 days, and for the last 4 days its status in San Leandro has been: "Package
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by atotic 6y ago
There are online communities dedicated to these questions. Looks like the current tool of choice is OSCR https://gitlab.com/pholy/OSCAR-code
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by atotic 7y ago
"Evaluating the performance of past climate model projections" https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1029/2019... "We found that climate models – even those published back in the 1

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