jankins

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by jankins 1y ago
When I broke my collarbone on my dominant arm I learned Dvorak left-handed layout a QMK keyboard. I configured some layers to make all the symbols needed for programming easy to access, and hold-space-for-shift. I learned the layout using E
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by jankins 3y ago
A braille embosser is pretty much the soundtrack to my childhood (along with the dectalk pronouncing “c colon backslash greater-than”). My dad is blind and I’m so appreciative of the technologies that helped him succeed alongside his sighte
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by jankins 4y ago
> not a really winnable game It’s totally winnable! The player almost always has a chance to avoid death. Deaths are usually due to missing knowledge or laziness/impatience. The knowledge is really really hard to gain without wikis,
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by jankins 5y ago
Your phrase “discussing sexual content” strikes me as really odd. If you discuss a “traditional” relationship with a 5 year old, you’re already discussing sexual content on the same level & terms that you would use if you were talking
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by jankins 5y ago
What you’re describing is the scam, and that’s become the definition, but “NFTs” in general do have more potential than that, even if it’s crowded out by bullshit. NFTs make more sense where a token’s utility is implemented in the same syst
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by jankins 5y ago
This seems like a leap. Admin has increased 45% in the same time faculty has increased 56%. And the timeframe is 20 years . Is there too much bureaucracy? I don’t know. But I don’t think this article is enough to say so. The faculty quote
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by jankins 5y ago
There’s a dead comment with a negative take about the YouTube comments being turned off, and I just wanted to point out - the conf is hosted in a really cool custom real-time conference mud, built by em lazer-walker. It’s a fun thing that i
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by jankins 6y ago
MIT pushes for charges, not JSTOR, according to the following accounts. > After his arrest, JSTOR released a statement saying that though it considered Swartz's access to be a "significant misuse" committed in an "una
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by jankins 8y ago
Any mathematical instruction I have found helpful has had a big emphasis on building “intuition“. This post was the first explanation I encountered that explained floating point encoding in a way that was immediately relatable and understan
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by jankins 8y ago
Such a good writer. His Wolfenstein book had the best explanation I’ve ever seen for how floating point numbers are encoded, and that explanation is in the first several pages. If you don’t have an understanding of floating point encoding,
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by jankins 8y ago
There was understandable confusion around whether the sentiment of the original CoC was serious or sarcastic. It appears it was serious, based on the new CoC and this tweet: https://twitter.com/drichardhipp/status/
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by jankins 8y ago
Inconvergent is my favorite as well. The artist in the article uses Processing; inconvergent builds his own tools which I think is cooler: https://github.com/inconvergent/snek
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by jankins 8y ago
My first thought was terminating SSL at a proxy or using sslstrip with a VPN or something - I feel like there’s definitely a way to do what he wants. Each option might come with some UX cost though. At the same time, I’d have to Google to
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by jankins 8y ago
This is my favorite Swift gotcha :D This bug bit me one time back before remote debugging came out when I was developing an app for a device that plugged into the lightning port. The only way to debug was to send log messages over the netwo
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by jankins 9y ago
> You can make `rustc` happy by following suggestions, but may end up puzzled as to the reasons for the changes it suggests. This is how I felt, but it wasn't bad: I think you start to pick up on the patterns. In other words, learni
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by jankins 9y ago
To clarify further: Uncertainty is the cost of gaining more ownership, and I don't want to downplay that. If I'm sending messages where I want to maintain as much personal ownership as possible, I use my personal mailserver and ac
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by jankins 9y ago
Certainty is difficult. I use the approach mentioned - I maintain email accounts at 3-4 different popular providers anyway. If I do ever notice something fishy I'll send to a couple of them. Since I'm only using this for personal
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by jankins 9y ago
I've been self-hosting for the past 4 years and this hasn't been my experience. Things like fixing DKIM/SPF eat an hour or two occasionally, but I've never encountered an issue where the time investment overtook the lear
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Things About Bitcoin That Surprised Me(davidsweetman.com)
1 points by jankins 9y ago|0 comments
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by jankins 9y ago
Beware though: "Note: Flutter is an alpha, open-source project." It's missing some polish (notably, check accessibility) https://flutter.io/widgets/accessibility/ "Make your app accessible. (Th
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by jankins 9y ago
Tangential to the current discussion but you didn't have to cash out, you just had to transfer the coins to your own wallet. I think that was the only reasonable choice -- IMO it really seemed at the time that storing coins with mtgox
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by jankins 9y ago
Yep :P that's definitely a benefit for a class of users, but it's not the benefit that all users are interested in, and all the other benefits are linked to those vulnerabilities. (in the current implementations anyway).
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by jankins 9y ago
I think you are making an assumption that seems common sense but might not actually hold: that cryptocurrency will fail if it is prone to fraud, speculation, theft, etc. I think it's interesting that cryptocurrency has achieved its cur
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by jankins 9y ago
At odds with Reactocese, who suggested that the world at each moment is diffed against a 'shadow world' to apply the minimal set of changes that render the new reality
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by jankins 9y ago
I believe he means it would rewrite Line one Line two As: Line one owt eniL To save your eyes the travel distance to the line origin in order to read the next line.
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by jankins 10y ago
The inference I made was that it had a second meaning to do with water flowing downhill, since the context is how people will always take the easiest path & can be relied on to ignore any safeguards that aren't strictly required
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by jankins 10y ago
I would recommend seeing a physical therapist to get started instead of trying to put together s plan yourself, especially since you're already experiencing pain. Based on my experience I'd also recommend seeing one in a private p
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by jankins 10y ago
I agree with you but I think you might make the same mistake as the author -- to say truly gifted people act as you do, which is to compartmentalize and move on. IMO there needs to be some more substance to support that association.
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by jankins 10y ago
Reminded me of a post recently that suggested liberal arts majors are typically better coders. I felt pretty good about myself reading that one too until I got to the part where it was written by somebody with a liberal arts degree, and lik
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by jankins 10y ago
Uh...no, it's like the difference between the original Greek/Hebrew and the translations.

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