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by dkurth 2y ago
Sad to hear! I noticed that some are available through the Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/Hexaflexagons
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by dkurth 2y ago
You often don't know which work was "10x" except in retrospect, so this advice is a little like recommending people only invest in the stocks that are going to go up.
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by dkurth 3y ago
I solved this problem by taking a photograph of my library card. To check out a book, I load the picture and hold it up to the scanner.
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by dkurth 4y ago
As Seymour Cray said, "The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late." It can be months (at a high salary) before you really know whether a hire is likely to work out.
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by dkurth 4y ago
Re: the age of "That's what she said": I thumbed through The Frogs (Aristophanes) at a used book store once. This play was written circa 400 BC. In the prologue, one character is offering to entertain the audience with a fe
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by dkurth 4y ago
We are now, but there's a little more to it. When we first got this dishwasher, we never cleaned the filters. Our previous washer didn't need that, and we didn't know better. So it got pretty bad before we realized we neede
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by dkurth 4y ago
I admit that I'm not actually sure. We got this advice from a local appliance shop.
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by dkurth 4y ago
Thank you! Another comment recommends the same video, so I will certainly check it out.
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by dkurth 4y ago
Thank you, I will definitely watch this. We have tried pre-wash detergent, tabs, liquid soap, powder detergents, in various combinations. There may be something unusual wrong with our dishwasher. Although we clean its filter regularly, so
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by dkurth 4y ago
Exactly. We pre-rinse the dishes, get the water running hot before starting the machine, and choose the heavy cycle. Even so, the dishwasher barely cleans our dishes. And it's a Bosch, well reviewed by Consumer Reports when we got i
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by dkurth 7y ago
> A digital book requires the same minus actor The digital book also requires formatting work. Depending on the type of book and the publisher's workflow, this can be simple (an export from InDesign) or very complex (a custom pro
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by dkurth 9y ago
A while back, Gmail began blocking .js file attachments, but I didn't realize until today that this means my old JavaScript file attachments would be retroactively blocked. I tracked down an email from two years ago with a JavaScrip
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by dkurth 9y ago
There's a musician named Andrew Huang who sometimes makes music based on song challenges from his fans. Years ago, I asked him to write a rap song in which none of the lyrics contain the letter "e." Like the person in the a
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by dkurth 10y ago
According to that boundless.com link, "The half-life of carbon-14 is 5,730 years, so carbon dating is only relevant for dating fossils less than 60,000 years old."
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New Method of Producing Random Numbers Could Improve Cybersecurity(news.utexas.edu)
1 points by dkurth 10y ago|0 comments
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by dkurth 10y ago
There's some interesting analysis of the math behind Spot It! on stackoverflow [1]. That post mentions the Fano Plane, which, incidentally, I first read about in the book How Not to Be Wrong by Jordan Ellenberg, a mathematician quoted
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by dkurth 11y ago
Right before leaving my last job, I updated an internal web-based tool to add a menu item called "Add Unicorns." It just used cornify to show unicorn images when clicked. But I also made it only show that menu item at random and
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by dkurth 11y ago
Since Bandcamp does not have a "random song" feature, I built a page that will let you hear a randomly selected album. I have a scraper that runs nightly to pull newly added albums, although it's not perfect (e.g., I never c
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by dkurth 12y ago
I thought this was fun. If it loaded quickly enough, I can imagine spending more time playing around with it. It's not loading reliably for me right now, but I got it to work a few times. I enjoy an element of randomness in music dis
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Why Clay Shirky Banned Laptops, Tablets and Phones from His Classroom(pbs.org)
3 points by dkurth 12y ago|0 comments
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by dkurth 13y ago
Another possible pro (from the site-owner's perspective) is increased user engagement. When you are quietly loading more content all the time, it's easier for the user to continue to say, "I'll just look at one more pos
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Perpetuating Terrible Javascript Practices(christianheilmann.com)
2 points by dkurth 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkurth 13y ago
Although "refurbished" wouldn't be the right word, I took it to mean that they would print out a new one for you, having already created the 3D model.
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Roger Ebert dead: A film critic with the soul of a poet(chicagotribune.com)
4 points by dkurth 13y ago|0 comments
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Internet Census 2012(internetcensus2012.bitbucket.org)
1 points by dkurth 13y ago|0 comments
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by dkurth 14y ago
It also helps when the bug is ultimately not your problem, so you don't have any personal stress about getting it fixed. It's just an interesting challenge. Treating your own problems in this way can be tough, though!
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Thawte Crypto Challenge(cryptochallenge.com)
1 points by dkurth 14y ago|1 comments
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by dkurth 14y ago
And the weight of the hard drive would clearly be the cause of the pigeon getting pulled down into the chimney and unable to get out.
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by dkurth 14y ago
Right -- as improbable as that sounds, it pales in comparison to the likelihood of renovating your chimney and finding a pigeon with a coded message from WWII!
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by dkurth 14y ago
I don't know if you're joking, but I would love an app like Garage Band for making 8-bit/chiptune music!

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