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by fferen 3mo ago
Corporate windows laptop; need to restart every 2-3 days at best.
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In Search of the Leisure Class(libertiesjournal.com)
3 points by fferen 7mo ago|0 comments
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by fferen 9mo ago
Well, they already do in that large files take more time to copy which subconsciously discourages moving them.
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by fferen 1y ago
Very first frame of the video: green digital text is messed up. Stopped watching after that :)
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by fferen 2y ago
I first started coding in high school on the TI-84 calculators. My 1st language was TI-BASIC, 2nd was Z80 assembly - quite a big step - and I quit when I faced some tricky bugs that my teenage self could not figure out :-) Back then, I don&
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by fferen 2y ago
Disagree with first example. If that condition is only used once, adding a variable introduces more state to keep track of, that could just be a comment next to the conditional.
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by fferen 2y ago
Edge on Mac, but IIRC it happens on Windows as well. Just checked in firefox/mac and seems OK.
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by fferen 2y ago
On the topic of calculator font bugs, Google's calculator randomly switches between two fonts: https://pasteboard.co/lmbr4iE6BJej.png https://pasteboard.co/sU3GA5psIaT0.png
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by fferen 3y ago
Fails to mention the actual reason people are fascinated: their diversity of appearance. Typical AI summary with many words not saying very much.
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by fferen 3y ago
Reminds me of TI-BASIC for the TI-83 graphing calculators... The closing ')' is optional at the end of a line, and omitting it could make your program slightly faster...
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by fferen 3y ago
Idea: deplane by row. Each row leaves when a light in that row turns on. An algorithm decides when to turn them on based on several factors: keeping large groups together, expected speed of deplaning (eg. elderly may be slower), current occ
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by fferen 3y ago
My tentative advice would be to find the one with the best reviews. Only pay attention to the lowest reviews, even a few 1-stars are informative. My story: I brush and floss every single day. At my regular checkup, the dentist measured 2-5m
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by fferen 3y ago
When I started grad school in semiconductor electronics, I noticed everyone pronounced it "si-li- cun ", while normal people usually say "si-li- con ". Maybe it's just a west coast thing.
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by fferen 3y ago
At least from the graph, it's leveling out?
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by fferen 3y ago
https://diffxweyl.wordpress.com/ Theoretical physics blog. Something for everyone.
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by fferen 3y ago
I've been using Cloudhiker lately to replace the good old stumbleupon days and it does capture some of the magic of the old web. (not affiliated)
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by fferen 3y ago
Everyone warns you about alcohol, but I have only had positive experiences, and in fact, wish I started drinking sooner in life. When I was going through a period of general anxiety and loneliness, I used to drink alone every weekend. It wa
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by fferen 3y ago
I've found they serve almost exactly the opposite purpose as search engines. When I want reliable info and don't need hand-holding: search. When I have no idea what to search, or want a quick intro to something: ChatGPT. Together,
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by fferen 4y ago
Would be better if you could pan around the board. Having only linear scrolling kinda defeats the concept.
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by fferen 4y ago
Something I wonder: are computers better at chess because they can think faster? What if we give a team of top grandmasters 1 day per move, versus like 1 hour for Stockfish. Will they at least consistently draw? To my knowledge, top human v
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by fferen 4y ago
Sometimes you can get too carried away with drawing exactly what you see. Once I drew a person based on a photo I had on my desk, only to realize that since I was looking down at an angle to it, the drawing was all distorted. :)
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by fferen 4y ago
Transfer length method :)
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by fferen 4y ago
SICP blew my mind the first time, but I think it's most useful when you already have some hands-on coding experience (as I did). It's why we don't start teaching math with set theory.
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by fferen 4y ago
If the major source of latency is key travel distance, does this really impact the user experience? My feeling is that a keyboard with longer travel distance feels more "solid" than one where the key hardly goes down at all, even
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by fferen 4y ago
Data from functions: (define (cons x y) (lambda (m) (m x y))) (define (car z) (z (lambda (p q) p))) (define (cdr z) (z (lambda (p q) q)))
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by fferen 4y ago
> Before I lug my sluggish body from under the security of my warm sheets, I reach for my phone, pull it up inches away from my face, and start scrolling through whatever I missed overnight. In my late 20s, I physically cannot do this an
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by fferen 4y ago
1. The animal icons didn't show up for me until I refreshed the page a few times. (Edge, Windows 10) 2. Would help to say "Somebody at bone AND Somebody at flower". I first interpreted it as OR and thought it was broken when
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by fferen 4y ago
As a last resort, if you remember part of the lost file, you can grep the hard drive: http://blog.nullspace.io/recovering-deleted-files-using-only... Saved some of my code once.
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by fferen 4y ago
> For example, if I have a `Point` object with `x` and `y` fields, and I make a function called `lowest_point`, it knows I want to the point with the minimum `y` value. Because it knows the name `y` is most typically used for vertical di
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by fferen 4y ago
No doubt my favorite creepypasta is the Interface series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9MOTHER9HORSE9EYES9

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