kbutler

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by kbutler 26d ago
Eight of us. Seemed reasonable... We actually volunteered to gate check them, not realizing we would have two really tight connections because of delays. But we all agreed we would rather be in Italy without our bags than our bags in Italy
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by kbutler 26d ago
Boox Go 7 BW? https://goodereader.com/blog/product/onyx-boox-go-7-bw "The Onyx Boox Go 7 is a dedicated e-book reader with a black and white e-paper display. This device has the same specifications and softwa
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by kbutler 27d ago
Had to overcome some crashing issues, but then gameplay was fun (keyboard user), much as I remembered. It was engaging and easy to become absorbed like it was 20 years ago. Music is enjoyable, though limited playlist. Graphics are obviousl
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by kbutler 27d ago
Played the original, and the 2004 remake, and recently re-played the remake. It's available on Steam and GOG - if I remember correctly, the offline installer from GOG makes it easier to add some quality-of-life mods to help it run bet
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by kbutler 27d ago
This is delightful (from that wikipedia page): The first appearance of Meier's name on the retail box of a game was as the credited creator of Formula 1 Racing in 1982. In 1984 Stealey began marketing Meier himself, hoping to attract o
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by kbutler 27d ago
Yeah, did they ever go on to do anything else? :-D
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by kbutler 1mo ago
We recently traveled to Italy, and after purposefully packing light ("just a carryon"), of our 8 gate-checked carry-on bags, we received 2 on day 7 and the rest on day 8. It was revealing to see how much our agonizing "should
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by kbutler 4mo ago
The real message is that, even if you don't get rich and can't buy that clothing item that is 10x your nest worth, your work can provide for your needs and your family - rent, groceries, helping extended family... (Worked at a cou
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by kbutler 5mo ago
Sounds like what they call "bla ra" in Thailand (Northeastern Thailand has a lot of Laotian influence). Thick/chunky, unlike the more refined "fish sauce" - "nam bla". Lived in a house for a while with nei
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by kbutler 5mo ago
Once I ordered extra pickles and I got them - in a vertical stack of about 6 pickles.
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by kbutler 5mo ago
Constant change in position, dynamic motion, strong & brief muscular exertion of whole hand and arm, even including the shoulder vs constant static position w/ small repetitive motions, where the fingers really are doing almost all
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by kbutler 5mo ago
Don't allow your head/chin to drift forward. Welcome to "tech neck" - upper crossed syndrome, from looking slightly down. You're inviting some surprising symptoms, not just neck and back pain, but things like numbne
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by kbutler 5mo ago
Straight wrists is good, but hovering like a pianist is not good for extended computer use.
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by kbutler 5mo ago
I smoothed the sharp corners of the notch by the keyboard, and smoothed a corner where it got dinged from a drop, but nothing this extensive. Respect. I definitely empathize with "concerned I would file through the machine."
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by kbutler 5mo ago
Closing the strait for 1 week is 1.9% of annual traffic if equally distributed, so it is very similar.
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by kbutler 6mo ago
Refactoring w/o removing all dead code.
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by kbutler 7mo ago
I finally subscribed to Dr. Dobbs for the Michael Abrash graphics articles, about a month before he ended them.
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by kbutler 8mo ago
I doubt anyone thought the sticker made it actually legal. More along the lines of "65 miles an hour? I was only out for 30 minutes..."
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by kbutler 8mo ago
When gate-checking carryon bags, staff told passengers to take batteries out of the carryons. It seems like something that is high risk during flight shouldn't be left to passenger compliance with spoken instructions.
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by kbutler 8mo ago
More current discussion: I dumped Windows 11 for Linux, and you should too https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574707 One of these years is going to be the year of the Linux desktop! Hmm: https://books.google.
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by kbutler 9mo ago
I think there's some truth to this - you may still have the tendencies to be introverted, neurotic, disagreeable, etc., but you can choose how much you let those tendencies drive your behavior. You have a choice of how to respond to yo
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by kbutler 9mo ago
You may be thinking DVI, which is a subset of HDMI, and lacks audio, and can have a passive DVI->HDMI connection.
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by kbutler 9mo ago
We had tried video in the car for our teens, but found that audio books worked a lot better - shared experience, nobody has a bad angle/line of sight, can still see the scenery and engage in the travel, less looking down prompting moti
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by kbutler 9mo ago
Wow, politics seems the opposite to me. It has the morbid fascination of a train wreck. You can't stop it, you know it's going badly, yet you can't look away. Family and building things are much more positive sources of energ
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by kbutler 9mo ago
Looks like others have reported similar issues. Entering a navigation route may help? https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/map-location-and-rou...
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by kbutler 10mo ago
To be fair, "write an interpreter for a subset of scheme" is a core use case for lisp-family languages. If it had been,"write a real-time driver for a memory-limited piece of hardware", you may have had a different prefe
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by kbutler 10mo ago
The recent Wizardry remaster encouraged me to go back and play other nostalgic games - finished Ultima I and II, but the nostalgia wasn't strong enough to keep going through the busywork and UI impedance of others. I'll keep this
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by kbutler 11mo ago
Also from that article: "while China was responsible for more than 60% of global increase in overall oil demand between 2013 and 2023, it represented less than 20% of last year’s rise, largely as a result of its slowdown in fuel use.&q
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by kbutler 1y ago
Yes, looks like ground control points for photogrammetry. https://www.pix4d.com/blog/diving-into-underwater-photogramm...
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by kbutler 1y ago
The article was published in 2016, and the authors extrapolated from 7 data points (!) over about 7 years of progress in the world record. This is obviously insufficient to project 30 years into the future. https://pubmed.ncbi.nl

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