fatboy

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by fatboy 4mo ago
St Yorre is my favourite. I will have to seek out this Rozana !
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OpenAI Amends A.I. Deal with The Pentagon(nytimes.com)
11 points by fatboy 7mo ago|4 comments
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by fatboy 1y ago
I remember around 25 years ago being in the big music hall in Philadelphia and feeling a bit like I was inside a giant cello. The cheapest seats were in the coolest place architecturally because you were right up at the back, closest to the
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by fatboy 1y ago
You can get nasties like legionella growing in tanks if the temperature is hot but not hot enough to kill them. The insides of these tanks can be filled with oxidised metal bits too.
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by fatboy 2y ago
When I was a kid I worked in a double glazing factory. Some of the old timers demonstrated just how hard it is to break a piece of toughened glass to me by whacking one with a bit of wood right in the middle of the pane, really really hard.
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by fatboy 2y ago
Forklift is the one I settled on as well. I had the experience you describe with Path Finder before and finally I gave up. Forklift has a couple of things that annoy me daily though. Often I will have to refresh a pane to see a file I know
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by fatboy 2y ago
I have a (badly made) variant of kill sticky that I use on my phone. It kills sticky, then messes with any code blocks it finds to make them full width and use a smaller font. It drives me mad when I'm reading articles with embedded co
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by fatboy 2y ago
I remember hearing an interview with Richard Hipp where he said he pronounced it as you do ("rhymes with kryptonite" I think he may have said, or perhaps "like a mineral"). I'd always pronounced it in my head S-Q-L-
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by fatboy 2y ago
After driving a new Mercedes Vito (I can't describe how insane the controls of this vehicle are, but it has capacitive-touch buttons that you have to swipe to change the stereo volume ON THE STEERING WHEEL), I long for controls that lo
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by fatboy 2y ago
Such a great theme tune. That scream from mumm-ra is the icing on the cake. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ooVDv8kuzXY
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by fatboy 2y ago
There's one on that page: https://syntax.fm/show/779/why-sqlite-is-taking-over-with-br...
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by fatboy 3y ago
I only half-conveyed what I was aiming to; I'm able to do what you're describing by editing the search-results scratch-file then saving it. The changes propagate to the target files with the save. I've had a look though, and
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by fatboy 3y ago
In VSCode if you do super-shift-f for find-in-project, at the top of the results pane, just right of where it's marked "x results in y files" there's a link button titled "Open in editor" which I believe does w
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by fatboy 3y ago
Can anyone explain how this works? Are these satellites in a similar orbit to GPS satellites? Do signals from cell phones etc include timestamps? Or is there a high resolution way of detecting the direction of a signal?
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by fatboy 3y ago
Maybe you already know this, but when I used to use sublime I'd save those dozens of files with cmd/ctrl-alt-s (save all open files). I think this is a universal-ish command for well-behaved applications on both windows and mac. I
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by fatboy 3y ago
One place I've seen it used was a lib by a guy called DHoerl for reading images that are too big to fit in memory (this was years ago on iOS). A very over-simplified and probably a bit incorrect description of what it did was to create
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by fatboy 3y ago
Thanks!
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by fatboy 3y ago
Could you post that script somewhere for us? I'd be interested to see if there are annoyances I'm just living with in there.
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by fatboy 3y ago
That's a bit I find surprising. I would have thought that working out if the pad was up to the job would be one of the easier rocket-science tasks they were faced with.
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by fatboy 4y ago
Can you tell us a bit about a project you've embedded it in? Was it done to provide a scripting interface to an application? Something else?
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by fatboy 4y ago
I agree with the sentiment of every response I've read to your comment so far. The agressive tactics, paywall, general sense of sleaze all make me actively avoid following medium links. But even ignoring all that, medium is the worst p
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by fatboy 4y ago
With both French and English enabled, it sometimes randomly "corrects" the English word "the" to the French word "thé" (meaning "tea" in English), despite every other word so far being English and des
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by fatboy 4y ago
That is sound advice and I take it to heart. I was mainly wondering if you'd hit any roadblocks whose existence might not have been obvious from the outset?
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by fatboy 4y ago
I've just done a small project using web components. I didn't use the shadow dom at all (please note I have no idea what I'm doing). This was after reading a single hacker news comment saying not to bother with it, after days
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by fatboy 4y ago
Can you speak of your experience with liveviewjs? I've been looking at it, and htmx, and everything else, over the past few months for a heavily-interactive frontend project I need to start. I'm an experienced ios dev, but in at t
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by fatboy 4y ago
I find that wearing earplugs really helps with the background noise in bars thing. Counter-intuitively (for me) it makes it much easier for me to hear the person next to me. These ones I can wear all day comfortably: https://firs
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by fatboy 4y ago
Yeah a lot of love has gone into that. I like the subtle animations as the caret slides rightwards whilst typing or the "_I_" appears above it when he sets it to italic.
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by fatboy 4y ago
I don't understand what's wrong with breaking changes. Do they not happen in php major versions anyway? Why not fix the parameter ordering and built in function names whilst you're at it? Seems odd to me.
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by fatboy 4y ago
I have five or six Makita 18v batteries and a load of their tools. If they only make new tools with the new battery they are potentially making me quite miffed. If I want the new tool I need also the new batteries and charger. Also I'd
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by fatboy 4y ago
That's not really so surprising though. Any brand that already has a system would be penalising existing customers by changing, we're not talking usb cables here. Good on Metabo for doing it, and good on Mafell for signing up to u

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