dudleypippin

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by dudleypippin 2y ago
My favorite description of this sort of setup is "coded by vandals".
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by dudleypippin 2y ago
Yes, yes they do. And they have high-pressure air wars and they short batteries through paper clips chains to see how hot they can get them. Kids still do stupid things, honest. -a mentor of an unspecified FRC team
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by dudleypippin 3y ago
Not a Steam game, but an amazing programming puzzle game that I keep looking for a modern version of. Year: 2001 Title: Colobot Link: https://colobot.info/ My description: Use code to direct wheeled, hover and flying bots t
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by dudleypippin 3y ago
"Back then", just being nearby and showing interest was often all that was needed. I remember wandering into the engineering computer lab my first day of college and being asked if I wanted an account by someone only a few years
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by dudleypippin 3y ago
Similarly: https://www.trackthetropics.com/
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by dudleypippin 4y ago
Or you can make it go away completely with: https://zoom.us/profile/setting and search for 'apps'. Turn off "Zoom Apps Quick Launch Button" and I believe that makes the dock go away, too.
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by dudleypippin 4y ago
I think the key would be knowing what flavor of Unix they were on. `bsd man learn` gets me to that page.
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
Every instance of the flag will be created with a random view and rotation of the planet! (But none will have New Zealand, of course.) (Or it’s some cool cloth display that shows a rotating version in realtime.)
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
I look forward to seeing what flag Musk plants when he lands. Given that some countries are dropping metal flags on the arctic seabed just to claim the mineral rights, I’m sure it’ll be a source of much drama.
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
Love that one! My first thought was “we’ve already got one, you see; it’s very nice.” When I decided to start flying flags a few years back, I got one of these. Good conversation starter with the neighbors. (And my Kerbals always flew th
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
My daughter checked the existence of the tooth fairy by not telling us when she lost a tooth and putting it under her pillow. The pride on her face when she informed of of the results of her experiment the next morning made my heart sing.
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
It’s quite discouraging to stumble upon a well-written bug report that matches exactly an issue I’m having and see that it’s been “sent away”. I’m not getting angry, per se, but more disappointed and concerned that the project might not hav
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
https://github.com/adorad/adorad/blob/dev/docs/docs.md
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
I agree with your assessment. “Experience is what lets you recognize a mistake when you’re in the process of making it a second time.”
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
I settled on https://textbelt.com/ since it was cheap, a curl one-liner to use and didn't require me to install something new on my phone. % long-running-job.sh ; sms "the job is done"
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
To be honest, I thought this was an “ask HN”, not an actual article. Thanks for saving me the click. I’d be interested to hear what other people here could come up with. What’s the metric? Financial gain? Damage done? Most Clever? Mo
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
Interesting. My third thought was “Huh, perhaps we’ll be eating less beef until the inevitable price shock and hoarding passes.” (First thought was for the poor IT folks stuck in this mess and the second was remembering a sensitive machine
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
I remember a friend complaining that he had to work over the weekend when they hit 10,000. That 5th digit screwed up all their column formatting. Technical debit is ever present, unfortunately.
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
> During the COVID crisis, many Americans stated a desire to allocate healthcare according to a notion of value to society that elevates those with high social cachet. All of the professions you mentioned (except, perhaps, “god knows wha
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by dudleypippin 5y ago
Delightful writeup. Two bits that stood out for me: - The incremental nature of exploration of this type. Often, the results are shown without the messy bits like "then I made it just teleport the piece to a specific spot to test&quo
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by dudleypippin 6y ago
I have a visceral memory of a jump that I Just Couldn't GET and the joy of finally hitting it. Looks like you can play online here: https://classicreload.com/below-the-root.html
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by dudleypippin 6y ago
As my younger brother told me once, “Remember, the ‘nurture’ you got was different than the ‘nurture’ I got, simply because you were around.” My older kid explicitly declined to pick up a hobby that she seemed to be interested in because, “
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by dudleypippin 6y ago
I think the key bit is where "my" is in that second sentence. At the time, the main server (or your hosting service) would, indeed, have the full list of messages for all the groups they carried, with a lookback of a certain numb
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by dudleypippin 6y ago
I wear a watch to bed, but then again, I did even before watches got clever. These days, I like it for the sleep tracking and knowing I can get alerted or have my alarm go off without waking my spouse.
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by dudleypippin 7y ago
I’ll assume that they’re VPN’ing into work and their IT doesn’t allow split tunneling. As a result, all traffic has to flow into the VPN concentrator as a bottleneck.
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by dudleypippin 7y ago
Oh, yes, that feeling when you mix up “init 5” and “init 6” on a machine 300 miles away. “Huh, it’s taking longer than usual to reboot...”. 20 years later and I still remember the name of the guy I had to call at two in the morning to go
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by dudleypippin 7y ago
There appears to be a config file that defines this: https://github.com/similarweb/finala/blob/master/config.yaml
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by dudleypippin 7y ago
There needs to be a middle ground between shutting down actual dialog and allowing flatearthers to suck all the air from the room. We all have limited time on this (roundish, mind you) earth and it sucks to have to rehash arguments. “No,
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by dudleypippin 7y ago
Absolutely. The two roles are both challenging, but math teachers don't typically have kids competing to be in their class. It's a lot easier to motivate someone when they have someone on the bench who wants their spot. Up early
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by dudleypippin 7y ago
I'm having flashbacks to when, at a startup in 2000, our CIO insisted we needed an EMC Storage Solution. "We're going to be _huge_!" (Over my written objections, mind you.) I spent precious time and huge amounts of mon

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