medstrom

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by medstrom 5d ago
Ah, vBulletin. I confess I don't recall if there was any important difference to me. And looking on https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com , which I like, it seems to run a thing called XenForo? Anyway, the look-and-feel of a
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by medstrom 6d ago
Attempt by who? Responsibility to do what? Not snark, just not following.
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by medstrom 6d ago
I keep thinking of phpBB. I loved posting on phpBB forums back in the day. Checking in every so often to see if anyone had replied to my posts. Often recognizing the same people, but also a healthy flow of new people. Oddly... there was no
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by medstrom 1mo ago
> you can detect `curl | bash` server-side Oh wow, ok. So if anything, manually do `curl` and `sh` separately?
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The Wayback Machine and the Quest for Deleted Fics(duckprintspress.com)
3 points by medstrom 5mo ago|1 comments
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by medstrom 5mo ago
Appreciated this storytelling, it exposes some real procedural knowledge about using the Internet Archive.
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by medstrom 7mo ago
The prompt is the code :) The code is like a compiled binary. How long until we put the prompts in `src/` and the code in `bin/`, I wonder...
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by medstrom 7mo ago
Consider your biases about the word "hobby". It's easy to average way more than 40 hours per week on a hobby, and to spend those hours with as much deadly seriousness as the hours at work. Especially if you don't work f
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by medstrom 7mo ago
But you can be a software dev even if you do not work in software dev. Plenty of those individuals in open source, for example.
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by medstrom 7mo ago
I, too, appreciate the clarification in the term "write-only code".
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by medstrom 7mo ago
Still, isn't the forecast for one hour from now more useful than literally now? You can see that through the window (and feel it on your face by opening the window).
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by medstrom 7mo ago
I don't see that TFA claimed any cost savings. That is not the reason people go for e-paper.
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by medstrom 7mo ago
TIL a built-in (zone &optional PGM) Inferred type: (function (&optional t) t) Zone out, completely.
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by medstrom 8mo ago
That's not so dissimilar to my experience in 2025 with whatever USB drives I can scrounge up around the house!
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by medstrom 8mo ago
The issue isn't really Android, it's the touchscreen and the way the UX is a regression from many analog single-purpose devices. If you gonna have a single-purpose device - make it analog (or close to analog)! Don't give it a
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by medstrom 8mo ago
I loved the buttons on the Galaxy Spica https://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_i5700_galaxy_spica-pictures... Now that I think about it, going no-buttons might have been a driver towards larger screens. Having at least a few but
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by medstrom 9mo ago
There is plenty more for a cardiologist to do even if they solve the most pressing current problems. Hard to run out of puzzles in biology.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
> High LDL is correlated with the development of heart disease, but it does not cause heart disease. You realize this sentence is an oxymoron? Unless you meant to say "it does not cause the development of heart disease". I ag
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by medstrom 9mo ago
> tell the AI to write in the style of a HN commenter, or whatever. This might turn out to be one of those tricks like Ctrl+C Ctrl+V that surprisingly few people discover.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
...ChatGPT? Such an odd take, to point at weather being variable. This is a coastal city at a fairly run-of-the-mill latitude, people build functional bike networks in much worse.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
A discussion is held between people who don't (initially) believe each other. Nothing odd about it.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
Not clear in your example if you have a to-dont list, or just decide "don't" in the moment.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
You mean... an aha list?
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by medstrom 9mo ago
There are tan-thru clothes, if you want to be serious about it.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
The 2 y/o example isn't very good, I can only imagine that they'd perceive last year as pretty recent, compared to how I perceive last year.
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by medstrom 9mo ago
Damn, the 80s felt that recent ?
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by medstrom 10mo ago
Self-updating too!
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by medstrom 10mo ago
Plus, in my experience when I make a separate user manual... a lot fewer people read it.
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by medstrom 10mo ago
If it seems odd, maybe it's not what they're doing.
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by medstrom 10mo ago
Also thinking about this. Requirements I've identified -- and this is why people give up and just run Emacs on Android: 1. Able to natively edit and view same file type on both devices, be it .md or .org or whatever you choose (there a

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