daemoncoder

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by daemoncoder 4mo ago
I switched to Freesimplegui as a replacement.
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by daemoncoder 7mo ago
Or "fount" from older, non-American English.
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by daemoncoder 7mo ago
Ability to handle email coming soon.
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by daemoncoder 9mo ago
This is excellent clarity of thought.
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by daemoncoder 1y ago
It seems possible to me at least, that social media can distort or negate any parentally installed firmware, despite parents best intentions and efforts.
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by daemoncoder 1y ago
First thing I did after getting the csv export was throw together a python script to save all the URLs as PDFs based on the title. Not horribly robust, but a csv list of failed URLs will be ready when I wake up in the morning.
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by daemoncoder 4y ago
So is trolling: one of the meanings is: fishing by trailing a baited line along behind a boat
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by daemoncoder 4y ago
There's an AutoHotkey script for that!
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by daemoncoder 4y ago
But Pa won't.
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by daemoncoder 4y ago
https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600... I used this a great deal, when I first started out on serious UNIX tasks (1996+)
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by daemoncoder 5y ago
And so it goes on: Egyptian temples defaced by early Christians, Palmyra temples destroyed by Isis...
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by daemoncoder 5y ago
I like to say they should remove the block from under the accelerator pedal.
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by daemoncoder 5y ago
I have the opposite problem: colleagues who don't want to learn how to do anything new.
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by daemoncoder 5y ago
With the 'no drone left behind' policy, there will be drones to fetch injured drones.
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
TED Talk https://youtu.be/-Lg7G8TMe_A
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
Somewhere around 2005, most of my job as an Oracle DBA/developer for a pension company seemed to consist of writing small scripts to automate some process. Somewhat like little Unix daemons to do my bidding - hence the handle ”daemonco
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
”The Fine Article” that this discussion is about :-)
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
Unix Power Tools was a great help when I was learning shell scripting: https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/unix-power-tools/059600...
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions - reminds one of David MacKay's book: Sustainable Energy – without the hot air. In particular as Professor MacKay puts it: "Obsessively switching off the phone charger is like b
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
I've been using The Vim Outliner (TVO) for years now, haven't found anything else that works as well for my daily workflow. https://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=517
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
Those two groups are not mutually exclusive :-)
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
I've heard this concept called the cardboard colleague - you explain the problem to a cardboard cutout representing a colleague instead of an actual person. Of course it remains a concept, I don't think anyone would go so far as m
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by daemoncoder 6y ago
Time-domain reflectometry
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by daemoncoder 7y ago
”I can leave anytime I want!” :-)
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by daemoncoder 7y ago
This is a good point - the cable is probably 20+ years old and has been used for weed eaters and lawn mowers. It's been regularly uncoiled and re-coiled, not always correctly. The correct way is using the over-and-under technique: ht
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by daemoncoder 7y ago
I got the capacitance idea from having worked with TDR in the late 80's. As students we used them to tune FM antenna combiners, but I never quite got the hang of it at the time.
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by daemoncoder 7y ago
I found the break in a 10m extension cable, by measuring the capacitance at each end and calculating the ratio of the two values. This predicted a break at roughly 1m from one end. Then started probing the cable from 10cm towards the ”short
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by daemoncoder 7y ago
HN user demographics...
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by daemoncoder 8y ago
Cargo cult at its finest :-)
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by daemoncoder 9y ago
Do you have any references for (b)?

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