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by dragonshed 3mo ago
Are you all hiring?
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by dragonshed 4mo ago
Trump is orders of magnitude more financially motivated and self-interested than any other US president in history.
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by dragonshed 1y ago
To piggyback on what PaulDavisThe1st said. Record numbers of US citizens seeking to relocate to Canada & the UK. In the last couple months I remember seeing several news stories variously about Doctors, Professors and students applying
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by dragonshed 2y ago
You are not alone. I'm also just shy of 2 decades of experience, and have had extreme difficulty. My last salary was as a contractor for a 10 month project, which ended Dec 2019. Then came a divorce, the covid lockdown, and a horrend
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by dragonshed 4y ago
While playing with this, I landed inside a tardis [1] in England. Pure awesome. [1] https://neal.fun/wonders-of-street-view/?v=QHW86N
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by dragonshed 4y ago
Wow, I haven't seen anything regarding Forth since the last time I was using an old PowerMac as a daily driver. The openboot firmware for those old macs was a forth interpreter.
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by dragonshed 4y ago
“Lancre woman gives birth to snake” - C.M.O.T Dibbler
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by dragonshed 4y ago
For me, by far the most impactful is: The logistics planning software used by a major sports league in the US. The package I worked on allowed management to comb through a full season schedule, fine-tune a myriad of different associated we
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by dragonshed 4y ago
[Layman, but I've read up quite a bit on thorium and molten salt reactor designs] The 1959 Sodium Reactor experiment was to demonstrate the feasibility of a sodium-cooled reactor as the heat source for a commercial power reactor to pro
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by dragonshed 4y ago
The only framework alternatives I’m aware of are PouchDB and BreezeJS. Most everything else I’ve seen seems to tack on offline support.
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by dragonshed 4y ago
One I’ve used before is BreezeJS[0], and it’s been around for over 8 years, maybe longer. It’s a data framework which takes care of managing dynamic object graphs, providing ways to query, save, and track local changes. [0] http:/&#x
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by dragonshed 4y ago
I’ve had similar backend projects where I setup a reverse-proxy to a backend, along with the frontend dev server, to allow the full site and api to run in the browser from local host. It’s not the most graceful setup, but it works if your b
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by dragonshed 4y ago
I shortened its own url and it yielded “ https://poop.is/remorseful” . A+
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by dragonshed 5y ago
ClearCase was expensive, unless you pirated it. As far as other opensource go to solutions, CVS and SVN, branching in them was nontrivial. Many folks preferred zipped folders to using CVS/SVN.
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by dragonshed 5y ago
I do exactly this - I budget for 2 simultaneous streaming subs and then just cancel one and resub another when I get bored or want to watch something on a diff service. Tangentially, I still prefer Netflix solely based on viewing experience
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by dragonshed 5y ago
Rich created rollup :)
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by dragonshed 5y ago
One of my favorite techniques you don't see at all today but looked amazing from that era is color cycling (or palette shifting). Its more of an artistic technique, but it shows how creatively people can think with and around constrai
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by dragonshed 5y ago
I felt the opposite when I read the books. I thought it was rather clever that Frank Herbert invented a physical force [1] which accounts for much of the interesting tech that isn't possible or feasible in reality. I just wish there
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by dragonshed 5y ago
Suspensors aren't really used for thrust, but as a way to augment or nullify the effect of gravity on an object. In the books, the kernel of fictional science used for multiple effects, including suspensors which is what the Baron uses
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by dragonshed 5y ago
I wonder why the rewrite doesn't have music. The original js13k game implemented a small sonant-x player for the audio, both sound fx and music.
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by dragonshed 5y ago
> Mobile devices needed a new kind of UI, something suitable for small touch screens. People tried things... Exactly this. The flat "Metro" UI style was initially modeled and developed on Windows Phone 7, and for what it did, i
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by dragonshed 6y ago
I used to use Figlet and TheDraw, waaay back when, to draw things like this (though nowhere near as good as these examples). Fun times. These days it looks like PabloDraw might be the way to go. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by dragonshed 6y ago
The behavior and aesthetics of this site reminds me of designs of artists who typically design for print. Fully constrained width, zero use of content reflow, yet theres a 'finished' look to the design (multiple columns, alternat
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by dragonshed 6y ago
NeoCities is a modern recreation of GeoCities.
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by dragonshed 6y ago
Definitely not the only one. Capitalization matters. For me, the mental transposition is less likely with 'SciPy' than with 'Scipy'
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by dragonshed 6y ago
More of a tongue-in-cheek reference to the reoccurring joke that bender wants to kill all humans, except for his pet Fry.
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by dragonshed 6y ago
Reminds me of seadragon images circa 2006, which was, among other things, rolled into silverlight as 'Deep Zoom' images. There isn't much to show for it these days, but for an older opensource js implementation [1]. [1] htt
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by dragonshed 6y ago
On multiple projects I've used a tool [1] to closely match a built-in font to a web font in order to present content faster and avoid avoid FOUC (Flash of Unstyled Content/Text). In one case, I replaced webfonts entirely with nat
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by dragonshed 6y ago
Earlier this year I read an article [1] that spelled out some of the history of how vscode came to pass. I was surprised by how good the electron-based editor was, and early on (2016) it immediately replaced sublime text for me, before lat
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by dragonshed 6y ago
Starlink is a satellite constellation being constructed by SpaceX to provide satellite Internet access. Presumably their router would connect to this.

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