jtbarrett

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by jtbarrett 2y ago
Interesting that the port side is unfinished; I didn’t realize that we never saw it!
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by jtbarrett 3y ago
Hmm maybe not, this is still happening for me.
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by jtbarrett 3y ago
Neat! Bug report: on my iPhone when I quickly double-tap the backspace button it zooms on that element, which is pretty distracting.
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by jtbarrett 3y ago
That place was casual but not cheap; ~$30 for a lobster roll. It’s out of business now.
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by jtbarrett 3y ago
I spent some time with my kid trying to get ChatGPT 4 to write bedtime stories. We found that it kept devolving into the pattern of a generic but acceptable setup followed by something like "and then the heroes solved a variety of chal
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by jtbarrett 3y ago
> Now only if I could find the name of this historian. Is it Hieronymus Wolf? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Wolf
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by jtbarrett 3y ago
Thank you! This version is much better than that Instagram edit.
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by jtbarrett 4y ago
The displays can show black, white and red. He picked a good image for that palette. Still, the dithering was surprisingly effective.
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by jtbarrett 5y ago
If this really needs to happen then I like .GetAwaiter().GetResult() instead of .Result to get the same exception behavior as await rather than the wrapped AggregateException that .Result throws. This is especially helpful if DoSomethingAsy
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by jtbarrett 6y ago
I’m not the parent but I built something similar in the Fractal Node 304 which supports six 2.5” drives. Mine’s been going strong for 7 years now. https://www.fractal-design.com/products/cases/node/node-304
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by jtbarrett 6y ago
One thing that frustrates me is that as far as I'm aware none of the delivery apps provide an option for me to tip the restaurant. Especially in these times I want to give some extra support to the workers preparing my meal. The lack o
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by jtbarrett 10y ago
You could also consider the Precision 5510 [1] if a Quadro GPU works for you. Essentially an XPS 15 but it includes Intel wifi. Recently got one from work and I've been pretty happy with it. [1] http://www.dell.com/us&#
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by jtbarrett 11y ago
If you're tying to follow along in calc.exe but the percent key is disabled, switch to Standard mode. It's not on in the other modes.
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by jtbarrett 14y ago
I have a free Google Apps account mostly so that I can have a custom domain for my small (free) App Engine site: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/domain It's sad that now attaching a custom domain will cost a lot more than the
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by jtbarrett 15y ago
Just FYI, Skype proper (but not on facebook) does support group video chats as a paid extra feature now: http://www.skype.com/intl/en-us/features/allfeatures/group-v...
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by jtbarrett 16y ago
I enthusiastically second this recommendation; Quirks & Quarks has definitely been my favorite podcast recently and is the only one I listen to that holds my attention and interest every single program. It covers a delightfully broad ra
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by jtbarrett 16y ago
A tape that ends with three blues still ends with two blues. But fair enough, if there were a test case then there wouldn't be this ambiguity. Anyway, fun little game. I wonder how non-programmers receive it.
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by jtbarrett 17y ago
With regards to your last point: I don't doubt that the vast majority of hiring processes aren't correlated with on-the-job success, but Google is definitely the kind of company that would strive for objective measures and to refine their p
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by jtbarrett 17y ago
Oh, that's a pretty small area then. When I saw the map in the article I thought that the suggestion was that all those roads were non-existant. If it's just a blank area of map with a stray label then it's a lot less interesting, but makes
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by jtbarrett 17y ago
No street view, but the satellite images match the allegedly non-existant streets shown in the article's screenshot. Curious. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&#38...
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by jtbarrett 17y ago
Definitely agree, but I've had lecturers who take this too far. My intro. quantum physics professor was a brilliant and accomplished researcher at the bleeding edge of this field whose most basic concepts were deeply mysterious to us studen
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by jtbarrett 17y ago
I didn't see any examples of a case where design was "held back by a tyranny of data" in the article. Maybe a data-centric view is cumbersome, but Google clearly feels strongly that it's worth the price. Designers should be free to create s
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by jtbarrett 17y ago
Maybe I'm missing the point here, but it sounds like he's suggesting using AdWords to do some quick A|B tests to solidify a position and confirm assumptions. Sure, the low-QS page will perform poorly in absolute terms, and it will be diffic