mdpye

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by mdpye 1y ago
There are loads of systems where every button and encoder has many functions, with modal or paged interfaces. But I'm trying to stick to a model of no hidden or ephemeral state with my modular, just for fun, I guess. Mostly analogue, s
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by mdpye 1y ago
I remember in the very early days as a hobbyist working with cgi perl scripts for forums or guest books where the script just edited the "static" content in place. The script would write new html files for new posts and do "f
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by mdpye 1y ago
It is a life goal, for sure! Not necessarily one I'll be able to reach, but we have to have stretch goals :D
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by mdpye 1y ago
Catches me every time too. And it's so quick. You can go in to a shop to pick up a packet of crisps thinking it's daytime, but actually is quarter past 6, so you come back out and it's full dark! I'm in the southern UK,
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by mdpye 2y ago
If you were a fashionable person, that's exactly what you'd be doing! ;) The cycle is roughly 30 years, and teenagers are revisiting the 90s trends right now.
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by mdpye 2y ago
-thorpe, from either old nose or Anglo saxon also shows another nice geographical line. Complements the defaults selected on the page nicely: https://placenames.rtwilson.com/#W3sidGV4dCI6ImJ1cmdoIiwiY29...
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by mdpye 2y ago
Unfortunately there are lots of materials run through a table saw which can trigger a sawstop. A false positive destroys the blade. Decent blades cost several hundred dollars, and are intended to be resharpened and last for many years. I
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by mdpye 2y ago
Have you read Infinite Jest? Barely any of the book is really about it (the actual theme being a study of addiction is many forms), but the ostensive premise is that a video clip has been created that's so compelling that it's i
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by mdpye 3y ago
I've been to enough boutique hotels in the Netherlands with clear glass doors from bedroom to bathroom to say that probably wasn't a "future" thing, just a Dutch thing...
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by mdpye 3y ago
Because then it would need more registers for the other purpose? But actually the decision about which general purpose registers to use for what is made at compile time (hence we're discussion a compiler flag here, the frame pointer
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by mdpye 3y ago
It's an ML story. The article specifies that the current (now previous?) state of the art models are numerical, crunching vast equations representing atmospheric physics.
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by mdpye 3y ago
You can safely return that oyster card and get your deposit back now :D I live in London and recently passed a convenience store whose signage advertised the usual stuff: "Fresh veg. Off licence. European specialty foods. Oyster &quot
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by mdpye 3y ago
Huh, last time I thought about it was the kickstarter in 2015,and I remember it being closer to £120. £40 is very reasonable :D
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by mdpye 3y ago
Here you go (2015): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ridebeeline/beeline-sma... I thought it looked fun, but no way to justify the price.
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by mdpye 3y ago
You still don't appear to get it though. The fact that there even exists an option (never mind a default) which does not scrub storage between use by different tenants is completely unacceptable in a multi-tenant environment.
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by mdpye 3y ago
I was also given to understand that while boxes give optional privacy, a big part of their function in older theatres was to be seen , rather than specifically to see the play. Presiding, if you will. At least that's the oral traditio
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by mdpye 3y ago
I'm not aware of an anime adaptation, but it does sound a bit like J G Ballard's High-rise.
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by mdpye 3y ago
Ireland is an independent country, not part of the UK. Pubs in the UK are much less like this than in Ireland, which I also believe are quite special. There are pubs like this in the UK, but they're less and less common the larger th
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by mdpye 3y ago
My work laptop has a touchscreen. I've never used it, but other people use it by accident fairly often. Usually only once each though, the look of shock is sometimes even worth the fingerprint :D
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by mdpye 3y ago
I haven't checked if this works in mysql, but in postgres I would certainly reach for an index on the computed values, which it supports. Index the thing you're querying on...
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by mdpye 3y ago
Kind of the opposite of what you're asking for, but you might enjoy an earnest exploration of why it didn't happen: https://acoup.blog/2022/08/26/collections-why-no-roman-indus...
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by mdpye 4y ago
It absolutely does not add clarity. Enough people do not even know what a cervix is, or whether they have one, that it's an obfuscation. One which harms women disproportionately, like most other things radfems get upset about. Go measu
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by mdpye 4y ago
> when baking Yeah, that's pretty important. Cooking is an art, bakery is a science. Like, for real, it's significantly more chemistry than most cooking, so the proportions do matter.
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by mdpye 4y ago
People wanted to believe they were incapable of considering or even conceiving of such a thing, so anti-thetical to the narrative they built sparring with some US law enforcement agencies...
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by mdpye 4y ago
Right, I misunderstood which vote were were talking about, sorry. I thought we were talking about voting on union action (e.g. to strike, or to accept a specific deal in a negotiation)
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by mdpye 4y ago
Those who have opted in choose to be bound by the vote in exchange for the increased bargaining power that a consistent position affords, right? In the car analogy, you're missing the "free to not have any car at all even though y
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by mdpye 4y ago
Not the GP, but I have a composite / s-video to hdmi converter from ebay. You can get DIN to RCA or S-video (the C64 exposes seperate luma and chroma signals) cables for the C64 fairly easily as well. Picture quality is... fine.
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by mdpye 4y ago
A mini-roundabout is a centre circle painted (not curbed), plus the priority rules (give way to your right - would be your left in the US). They don't take up any extra space, but they do probably require drivers to intuitively under
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by mdpye 4y ago
I don't think it's that important, the rotating slots and constant light were appropriate ways to get the necessary switching speed with incandescents. The experience that was in London recently used banks of led spotlights, not
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by mdpye 4y ago
Rule of the specific tunnel. Its not particularly spacious...

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