mds

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by mds 3mo ago
Have been working on a modern replacement for Notational Velocity (last updated in 2011), I call it “neonv”. https://github.com/msnodderly/neonv
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by mds 2y ago
"We were in a vicarious position, but we flushed out a solution over instant messenging."
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by mds 4y ago
ChatGPT in particular writes in middle school essay format: introduction, point 1, point 2, point n, conclusion.
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by mds 4y ago
Not as bad as "GitOps". IaC got people to understand at the idea that your infra code should be treated like your app code. Checked in to source control, deployed via COCD etc. Not defined by clicking buttons and stored in opaque
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by mds 4y ago
Sounds like the setup for a William Gibson novel.
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by mds 4y ago
Also a big truckers hitch fan, but that animation was hard for me to follow because it doesn't look anything like how it's used in real life. It doesn't really make sense to compare to a bowline, it's basically used lik
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by mds 4y ago
And it is in fact the inspiration for "Sandy Shores" in GTA5.
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by mds 5y ago
In a rational environment if you're leaving "for cause", it shouldn't come as a shock to your employer when you quit, in the same way a bad performance review or firing shouldn't come as a shock to the employee. The
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by mds 5y ago
This statement after Methuselah had lived for 969 years, before (it is implied) drowning in a flood.
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by mds 5y ago
Or if you actually want to send shortwave snail mail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARRL_Radiogram
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by mds 5y ago
Reminds me of this Penn and Teller trick with a similar method but the opposite effect -- see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnEGedfTrzc (skip to 2 minutes in). Freely think of any card, then miraculously reveal the card i
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by mds 6y ago
And here is the mandatory AvE Hole Hawg tear-down: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoR59rzqlxw
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by mds 6y ago
As far as I understand it this is the opposite of that. In other words it only works if you already have internet access. You can use it to talk over the internet with your radio from within your own home wifi. AREDN is basically trying to
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Red Hat to remove contentious terms like master and slave from its source code(newsobserver.com)
30 points by mds 6y ago|95 comments
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by mds 6y ago
All of the slow mo sounds are recreations. In fact I’m pretty sure they use that same sloshy sound clip in about half their videos.
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by mds 6y ago
You laugh, but Minecraft Education Edition -- where lots of kids are getting their first exposure to coding -- is locked to Office 365.
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by mds 6y ago
I took a communication class many years ago and this was the main thing I took away from it. If you give a reason or an excuse the other person will try to help you "solve" it. If you give a simple "no, sorry" or "n
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by mds 7y ago
The first time I remember hearing the phrase was in 2009 when Roberts flubbed the swearing in oath at Obama's inauguration. They later announced that the oath was administered again privately "out of an abundance of caution."
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by mds 7y ago
Oh man, I have the same memory. Back in ‘92 or ‘93, in addition to the “^]” telnet trick, our local dial up gopher could launch vi sessions for sending emails which they hadn’t thought to lock down to prevent it from executing “sh”. Poking
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by mds 7y ago
Beorg is awesome, I use it daily, but it's really "TODO" oriented, and not that great for editing documents. I've often wished there was an iOS text editor that understood org format, even just basic markdown style forma
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by mds 8y ago
This list from the same site, titled “The 10 Longest-Kept Cars When Bought New” has almost no overlap. http://www.thedrive.com/news/22665/the-10-longest-kept-cars-...
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by mds 8y ago
I've always wished John Williams would just include this piece straight up in a Star Wars movie. Both to acknowledge the inspiration and just because it would be perfect sad, brooding music as the camera panned across across a smashed
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One Man’s Quest to Outrace Wind (2011)(wired.com)
36 points by mds 8y ago|17 comments
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Elon Musk's Boring Company set to unveil its first Los Angeles-area tunnel(reuters.com)
3 points by mds 8y ago|0 comments
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by mds 8y ago
Here is some marketing material that may spark some ideas: https://www.ibm.com/watson/supply-chain/resources/csc/deskto... One concrete example IBM likes to talk up is predicting shipping delays due to w
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by mds 8y ago
It's less true now, but a lot of older blog posts and books (at the time, even the most recently published books) talked about managing via replica sets instead of deployments. That was a major source of confusion for me when I was get
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by mds 8y ago
Should be “Others’”
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by mds 8y ago
An anagram of Scary Devil Monastery, the group that by tradition is not named to avoid summoning lusers.
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by mds 8y ago
A video of someone actually building and typing on one of these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIDs8tq5Pa4
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by mds 8y ago
Someone always says this, but starting with cat sure makes it easier compose the command line. When working with big files, start with "head -1000 | sort | uniq ..." and switch to cat after you work out the command. Or you start c

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