jbmny

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by jbmny 1y ago
What a well-written piece. It reminded me of my own habit of logging my pour-over coffee brews. For months I saved every variable about every cup, imagining that one day I'd analyze that data and arrive at the perfect recipe. I never o
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by jbmny 1y ago
Yep, I totally expected this article to be about Divorced Dads inexplicably catching on with Japanese youth.
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by jbmny 2y ago
I vividly remember playing Genesis in my living room as a kid when my parents were having friends over from out of town. My dad and his friend came in after a couple beers and my dad explained what I was playing. His friend knew all about G
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by jbmny 2y ago
I'd like to think `--all` just turns them all on at once.
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by jbmny 2y ago
I agree with you. It comes down to risks vs benefits, and I feel that for a huge number of people that aren't predisposed to addiction, that don't need to drink to the point of blacking out, etc., it may very well be worth it. I k
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by jbmny 2y ago
Reminds me of the fatalities in Mortal Kombat growing up. All the regular moves were in the manual, but IIRC the fatalities were not. It was a form of secret knowledge, and it was really cool if you knew one. Granted, this was right before
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by jbmny 2y ago
I attended, and one thing I learned is that being good at giving talks is often more important than the subject matter of the talk. It's all about keeping it slow and digestible and making sure you don't lose your audience. "
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by jbmny 2y ago
The rules took a while to get used to, but after a couple games I was hooked! You start to get a feel for what works and what doesn't, and it's not quite the same as Scrabble and similar games. Unique and challenging -- great work
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by jbmny 3y ago
I never knew pizza rolls had such history. I assumed they were just an obscure and unremarkable snack before their breakout role in Mr. Plinkett's Star Wars prequel reviews.
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by jbmny 4y ago
The "unattractive slobs" bit seems a bit excessive to me, but I absolutely agree with your main point: the issues are indeed respect and intention. As the professor describes it, it sounds like the perpetrators of this "prank
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by jbmny 4y ago
"Tiles left to rotate" tells you how many still need to be rotated to solve the puzzle. Sounds like you're still two away from the goal. Some of the differences in this picture between right/wrong are very subtle.
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by jbmny 4y ago
Caught them live a couple months ago at Madison Square Garden. I couldn't believe how good they sounded or how energetic they were. Zach had to sit down throughout the whole performance due to an injury, but it didn't bring down t
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by jbmny 4y ago
I've been roughly halfway through the book for years, so take this for what it's worth, but if they were actually footnotes I might have read them. Instead they are endnotes , meaning you have to pick up a solid pound of book and
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by jbmny 4y ago
I use vim-gnupg. It makes the whole thing a breeze. And in my experience, the author is completely right: I won't open up all the way unless I have guaranteed privacy. It's not that I have anything criminal to hide, but we all hav
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by jbmny 4y ago
Anybody else see a resemblance to the awful Microsoft Teams emojis?
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by jbmny 4y ago
Fun idea, but I agree. I was greeted with a shade of cyan and a shade of lavender. Apples and oranges.
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by jbmny 4y ago
Hiccup syntax for HTML is such a joy to use. It maps perfectly onto HTML, it is a breeze to write, and I haven't encountered anything yet that it can't express. It is one of my favorite parts of Lisp.
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by jbmny 4y ago
I'd love to know too. I have a T530 from 2012. I ordered two replacement batteries from Lenovo's official supplier, and both bricked within a week of use. (Thankfully I was able to return both for full refunds.) The machine stil
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by jbmny 4y ago
MyNoise is a really high quality, well maintained website run by a single person. He even goes out and does his own field recordings. I highly recommend it.
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by jbmny 4y ago
Always fascinated by salmon sushi's second class status. Salmon sushi to me is so much more flavorful than tuna. I thought maybe I just wasn't getting great tuna at sushi restaurants in the US, but I found the results to be the sa
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by jbmny 4y ago
"First there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is."
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by jbmny 4y ago
Awesome project. I love the idea of recreating a game in the terminal. I tried doing an exact clone of Pokemon once (with graphics and everything), but keeping the frame rate up always requires getting into the low-level weeds. Sometimes it
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by jbmny 5y ago
I really am starting to feel like any writing I do that is not intended to be read by others should be in list form. When writing prose, I often catch myself worrying about "meta" things that have nothing to do with the ideas I&#x
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by jbmny 5y ago
> one of my favourite things is to use secret undocumented APIs where you need to copy your cookies out of the browser to get access to them I love this too. It's always a nice surprise when you realize you won't be needing to
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by jbmny 5y ago
I use a sort of inverse tactic. While working, I often find that trivial questions pop into my head, and I get tempted to look up the answers and distract myself for a while. Stuff like "what does the word 'ducky' mean"
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by jbmny 5y ago
That feels like yet another aspect of Wordle's appeal to me: the fact that it starts with a "clean slate", where you can enter any word you want. It's an opportunity for creativity, spontaneity, and serendipity. One of m
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by jbmny 5y ago
I have definitely gotten that dopamine rush, and I think I still do. It's probably a big reason why I'm a programmer. There's a certain satisfaction you get from knowing definitively that you "solved" the problem. M
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by jbmny 5y ago
I don't know the ultimate fate of Wordle, but I'm comforted by the thought of thousands of programmers all over the world creating and hosting their own little versions and sharing them with friends and family. It's so simple
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by jbmny 5y ago
Without talking to somebody on the phone, often I don't have a lot of faith that the order will even be received. Sometimes the place closes but the app happily continues to take orders. Other times the order simply gets lost in the et
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by jbmny 5y ago
I've been using dwm for years. Oddly enough, I almost always keep it in monocle mode (one window at a time that takes up the entire screen). I rarely find myself wanting to look at two or more windows at once. More often, tmux seems th

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