cuttysnark

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by cuttysnark 17d ago
There’s a huge gap and missing inspirational book sentence between “doing music and nothing else”, the proceeds of which bought a house, and selling a tech company for tens of millions. The real cliffhanger was the part where he almost fell
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by cuttysnark 20d ago
Sounds like your relationship is suffering. If it’s as you describe, in my eyes, that counts as broken. Do you have any biological children? This child is not yours, you made that sufficiently clear.
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by cuttysnark 27d ago
Culinary hats serve the important purpose of helping catch stray hairs, not unlike a hairnet.
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by cuttysnark 3mo ago
I experienced this. I only lived in the U.K. for 6 months, but the number of chiefly British phrases/words/idioms that nestled their way into my way of speaking and stayed (20+ years on) was interesting and somewhat surprising. Fo
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by cuttysnark 3mo ago
I've had some success with local models by chaining "agents" together in a workflow. Each agent has a different prompt and uses a different ollama model based on what their role is. The project manager, schema agent(qwen3:14b
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
Since then we've gotten: position: sticky — which is like fixed but only "fixes" itself once its Y offset is satisfied. Updating the bookmarklet to also check for that, in addition to position: fixed would help modernize it a
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
Comments decrying or dismissing the disclosure to the public of long-hoarded information is saying that, IMO, and that's the joke. It sounds like a point no reasonable person would make. "there's too much going on right now
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
"No, don't finally release the top-secret files that have had a huge impact on our culture and have led to decades of confusion, distrust in government, and wild conspiracy theories." ..said no one, ever.
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
> Afaik bootstrap is getting replaced by tailwind. By whom? Not by me. > Which is actually pleasure to work with. Have you heard of jQueryUI, by chance?
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
> Something's not right there. I agree. To me, TWBS is just a collection of intuitive components that have been tested vigorously. They also function in a way that way people are used to because of their lineage. That they can be st
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
jQuery got the Nickelback treatment. Except I really did enjoy using jQuery, and only moved on because "the industry" was and I didn't want to be left behind. Looking back now, we all were lead down a path of needless complex
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
Saying it out loud made it click. Thank you.
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
> it's a little heavy on the ass I hadn't heard this idiom before so I looked it up and I couldn't find anything relevant. What does this phrase mean in this context?
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
cc: 4242424242424242 cvc: 424 exp: 2/4/24 Fond memories of speed-running the checkout flow in Stripe sandbox.
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
I'm in love, I didn't know I wanted this, and now here it is. With an explanation from the author that touched on things I was feeling but couldn't quite but into words. To ice the cake, saved the file to disk and ran it with
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
From where I'm standing, it looks like when Dorsey was CEO, leftist accounts got more leniency and were more likely to not be banned after being reported for offenses—be them legitimate or not; this was the opposite for accounts on t
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
While I tend to agree with your sentiment, this particular project resurrects bricked-by-corporate e-waste—I'd call that a win. Plus, let's have fun while we can. On the next planet, cameras will be recyclable, limited to 12 holog
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
That mistake is that it's not true. Altman has earned a name for himself in the truth-telling/transparency department. He wasn't briefly sacked for his fashion sense. In the article they quote Marc Fagel, who previously serve
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
>karma: 9533 With respect, you're asking me why I care about a feature you have that I don't—that's only achievable by getting more points. The candid answer: because I take it personally (which is my own fault).
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
I accidentally corrected someones use of a word on here and got downvoted so hard I was scared to comment for months. I guess what I'm saying is I'm surprised this very honest comment from hours ago never went grey. to be clear: I
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
In the video, we see the students briefly rotating the model in the CAD software—with translucency on—it looks like the one main stream is divided into many spiral chambers which then exit distributed along the rim of the attachment's
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by cuttysnark 2y ago
This is very cool. Discovered Ctrl+Option+F produces a florin 'ƒ' [on my machine] and the format function key-combo check is Ctrl+Option + regular ol' 'f'. Forked it and added the || 'f' and am now using t
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
Have a look at SiteSucker[0] - an app that essentially lets you input a url and it will suck all the locally linked files/images etc. into a folder. Once you have the "guts" of the site, you can move it, grep it, edit and upd
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
UNEXPECTED ITEM IN BAGGING AREA If one is buying in a hurry, or just a handful of things, or maybe "sensitive" items at the pharmacy, self-checkout is a nice-to-have. Apart from that, it's been a PITA that I can only assume i
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
edge of the galaxy: 'if when that then wherever where while for'
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I can't seem to find an explicit save or export option apart from File > Print. Using that, the Chrome print dialog, "More Settings" allows it to be opened in Preview or "Print Using System Dialog" where it can b
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
I was confused too, but I'm stubborn, eventually figured out: Clicking "Draw Fast" creates a box with the label "a city skyline"—drawing in that box will render an image to the right as you draw. Double-clicking t
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
> deeply emotionally retarded It's best to lead by example. There are a million other words to use to express how you feel about this. Consider shaking your vocab tree. I come in peace. Edit: I stand corrected. I was unaware that th
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
The main issue is that the Progressive Left views Jews as "privileged whites"—not a minority group with a history of persecution. Despite what you've written, and the various antisemitism surveys you quote but don't link
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by cuttysnark 3y ago
"C'mon, man! Your computer codes are munitions, Jack. And they belong to the US Government."

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