jen_h

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by jen_h 2mo ago
This--and also, if you're a US resident traveling abroad, you can't access most health data without a US-based VPN. Everything's "in the portal" -- you're effectively helpless without a VPN if, for example, a l
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by jen_h 1y ago
Well, not conpletely Emperor’s New Clothes: after I got my basic chess clock, I asked for skeuomorphic changes…I got a fantastic “next steps” summary in return…but when I said “Go on ahead, your choice,” it created an incompatible dependenc
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by jen_h 1y ago
[Full disclosure, work @ Firebase] But try this: Open up a blank Flutter template in Studio: https://studio.firebase.google.com/new/flutter After everything initializes and your Android and web previews set up, open ch
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Ask your LLM to steal TikTok; Boom, boom, boom, boom(theverge.com)
2 points by jen_h 2y ago|0 comments
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by jen_h 2y ago
Yep. My mother-in-law taught me this. Walking is a pretty great universal cure, if you’re lucky enough to be able to walk long distances. But also: hamstring stretches. YMMV, but whenever I feel the “twinge” that used to precipitate sciati
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by jen_h 2y ago
Wow. Blast from the past. Just tried to log in after 20 years and it worked…but I didn’t get farther than it requiring full name and a phone number and lots of other mobile web badness before noping out. If they still have those account cre
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by jen_h 2y ago
Check out Dithertron, it’s got Apple ][ (and >30 other platforms): https://8bitworkshop.com/dithertron/
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by jen_h 2y ago
It’s not just baby powder. It was in Grandma’s Coty powder puff and is in your little niece’s eyeshadow from Claire’s ( https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-recalls-alerts/fda-a... ). As declaredapple said: talc
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by jen_h 3y ago
I live in Florida, where these subscription-only car washes proliferate like kudzu; they’ve crowded out the good old gas station stalwarts that you might or might not get stuck in for several years now. And the cause for their spread has be
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by jen_h 3y ago
This is awesome! Have really been thinking about this a lot lately, and my SES->Google Workspace solution works, but isn't viable if we ever left Google Workspace. I might set one up because abdullahkahlids' statement is compel
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by jen_h 3y ago
I've been using it for over six years now, I'm always worried it'll stop working...but besides having to bump my node.js version a few times, so far so good, knock on wood.
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by jen_h 3y ago
When I requested to escape the sandbox, my request was granted in nine hours...admittedly, this was six years ago, but it looks like the process is the same ( https://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/dg/request-p
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by jen_h 3y ago
I had not heard that man’s name in several years—and was happier for it. Larry Summers making decisions for OpenAI doesn’t bode well at all.
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Your 8-bit system is a weird PDP-11(8bitworkshop.com)
46 points by jen_h 3y ago|5 comments
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by jen_h 3y ago
A few years ago, my parents were downsizing and I wanted to find a respectful home for some of the amazing stuff he had in the garage, so we donated to the Vintage Computer Foundation: https://vcfed.org/artifact-donations&#x
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by jen_h 3y ago
* A script that periodically screenscraped booked-up campsite reservation sites for cancellations during dates I wanted and sent me text messages (thanks, Twilio!). We got to stay at a bunch of amazing places at the last minute this way. We
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Will ChatGPT replace retro programmers?(8bitworkshop.com)
2 points by jen_h 3y ago|0 comments
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by jen_h 4y ago
The current chatbots are kind of like a calculator for language—they’re not going to do all your work for you, but they’ll definitely speed and streamline the process.
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Atari 800 Winter Solstice Celebration Demo 2022(8bitworkshop.com)
114 points by jen_h 4y ago|5 comments
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by jen_h 4y ago
That's one thing I really like about subscribing for services and news through Amazon or Apple, it's so much easier to cancel or pause the subscription when I want and I've never had a gigantic price hike without warning (loo
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by jen_h 4y ago
Yes, oh my goodness. And it's not just software--I've been feeling this pretty acutely while holiday shopping. Have lost way too much time funneled and sidetracked onto subscription-only "box" sites. And I just got dar
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by jen_h 4y ago
More like, move slow and jump titles. When they finally did send registration paperwork to our DMV, the state had it turned around in two days. Pretty quick!
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by jen_h 4y ago
I went through this, it was a total battle to get them to legally register our car and I wouldn’t recommend the experience to anyone. I’m really surprised to have had to have scrolled down this far to see their registration hijinks mentione
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by jen_h 4y ago
Hrm, I really goofed by linking the `clock_divider` Verilog file and not the Atari Tank clone, which is way more fun (for some of us!): https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.10.0/?file=tank.v&platform=veril...
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by jen_h 4y ago
It’s linked at the bottom, the next release: http://8bitworkshop.com/docs/posts/2021/8bitworkshop-release... IDE: https://8bitworkshop.com/v3.10.0/?file=clock_divider.v&platf... :D
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by jen_h 4y ago
Yeah. Random data point: One of my most favorite SRE interviews ever (serious fun!) involved hands-on troubleshooting that eventually required gdb.
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Emulator Performance: WebAssembly vs. JavaScript (2021)(8bitworkshop.com)
37 points by jen_h 4y ago|13 comments
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by jen_h 4y ago
It may be that some of us didn’t know there was an extension that did this in vscode! ;) I definitely wasn’t aware of it until your comment. Are you using LaTeX-Workshop?
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by jen_h 4y ago
For writing, it's great not to have the distraction. But for publishing (especially book/e-book publishing, which always requires a lot of fiddling to get perfect!), it's really, really useful. My current workflow is TeXStudi
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by jen_h 4y ago
True, but they can be methodically grounded if need be, and we’ve done it successfully before. We don’t have any good playbooks for clearing space debris.

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