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by michaelsmanley 24d ago
I thought that as well and then realized I had inserted the word "of" before "using" where there's an implied "by."
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by michaelsmanley 2mo ago
I had my doubts about my pressure cooker when I received it, as I recalled the monstrosity my mother used when I was a kid. But that thing gets used several times a week now. Combined with a recipe from Kenji, I'm going to have to try
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by michaelsmanley 2mo ago
Anecdotal, but I have built from scratch a fairly large OpenAPI-compliant service using the Goa dsl ( https://goa.design ) and a coding agent and I've suspected for a while that the reason I've been as productive as I ha
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by michaelsmanley 4mo ago
Same here. I scan the post titles to decide what to look at, and only open the HN discussion if the article looks like the discussion will be at all useful. That's increasingly rare.
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by michaelsmanley 4mo ago
Oh, that's funny. The only ISP that services my current domicile blocks sites all the time in the name of "safety," including several I need to access for my job. I have to use a VPN just to get things done. There's no a
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by michaelsmanley 4mo ago
Pronounced, "effin," right?
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by michaelsmanley 4mo ago
We just finished a 6-week period where my mother-in-law was cared for at home 24/7 by personal assistants, with three shifts per day. Whole dumb, long story on why we had to do this, and I am very glad it is over (she's in memory
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by michaelsmanley 5mo ago
This reminds me of one of my favorite Mac apps ever, Feeder: https://reinventedsoftware.com/feeder/ Literally, the only app I miss after leaving the Apple ecosystem. The question I always have is how to keep a permanen
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by michaelsmanley 5mo ago
I just want to comment on how clear I find Filippo Valsorda's writing on this kind of thing. Even for an old dunderhead like me, his mathematics and examples were easy to follow. I really appreciate that kind of clarity in technical wr
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by michaelsmanley 5mo ago
Bisson once lived in the town just across the river from where I grew up and was an inspiration for me as a nerdy kid from the sticks who just wanted to write science fiction. His novels Talking Man, Fire on the Mountain, Voyage to the Red
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by michaelsmanley 6mo ago
Oh, so sad to read. Everyone knew him when I was at Purdue. A rare mind. RIP, ghg.
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by michaelsmanley 10mo ago
"All art is ultimately about the creation of art," was the kind of reductive thinking that made me drop any pretense of continuing in academia after I finished my MFA. While I thought that was a marginally better stance than taken
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by michaelsmanley 10mo ago
Oddly enough, I happen to be reading this book right now (though my edition is titled "An Island Called Moreau"). I had just finished re-reading Wells and Silvia Moreno Garcia's "The Daughter of Doctor Moreau" (a re
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by michaelsmanley 1y ago
Yeah, when I say "nice" about the screen, it is all relative. Mine was nice compared to the original screen on the Model 1. There are very few pieces of laptop/notebook hardware that I really enjoyed. The 5140 was one of them
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by michaelsmanley 1y ago
That was almost 40 years ago, so little I recall other than it was an 8088 variant in there, the peripheral bus was unique to that machine and the only documentation was in the tech manuals (as opposed to the hardware reference book I had f
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by michaelsmanley 1y ago
When I was a co-op student employee at IBM in the late 80s, I was given a desk in what was otherwise a storage room piled with stuff that had been used and then set aside. One box contained a 5140 convertible laptop with one of each periphe
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by michaelsmanley 1y ago
That made me laugh when I read it, too.
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by michaelsmanley 1y ago
Thanks for pointing this interview out. I've really enjoyed Mattie Lubchansky's comics. I first ran into her work on The Nib , which was as close to a successor to the zine World War 3 Illustrated as I've yet seen. I miss
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
Only a single data point, but my father, who was Vietnam-era USMC in "special weapons," wore his wristwatches this way all his life. He never really said why other than that was what he learned in the Corps (he had never owned a w
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Open-Source Security Chip Released(spectrum.ieee.org)
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
This so accurately describes the last week of my life. Years of shrugs and "we will get to that when <moving goalpost>" when security concerns are brought up. Thankfully, we had done some of the work anyway and were teed up
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
Others have said it here, but I read this and thought, "Why not just prioritize spending time with them now, while they're still alive?" I'm not convinced that the human condition would be improved by simulation of the d
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
IIRC, that decision has been covered in one of the many documentaries covering Nuclear Waste Disposal Area 2 and the 9/13/1999 accident.
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
As a lifelong (congenital) anosmic, I often think about the practical consequences of lacking that sense. A whole therapeutic avenue cut off, if I'm thinking about this correctly, is a new one.
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
I was about to post the same thing here. BBQ mutton from Moonlite in Owensboro, KY is one of my favorite foods, second only to their burgoo made with mutton. Long, long ago, Owensboro was a major wool production center and river port and th
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by michaelsmanley 3y ago
I'm so glad there are still sites like this.
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by michaelsmanley 4y ago
That's close to what I did. Major in software engineering, equivalent of a second major in English (back then, the university I attended didn't have the concept of "minors" for engineering students, or recognize double m
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by michaelsmanley 4y ago
This is how we manage things as well. Support is a totally different stream of work from product development. I've often had a difficult time getting non-engineering management to understand the difference between proactive work that c
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by michaelsmanley 4y ago
This seems to surface once in a while. I recall it was originally constructed with Flash, 20-ish years ago. That's some longevity.
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by michaelsmanley 4y ago
I'd like to know which of the Area 120 projects did make it. I have been looking forward to Tables either becoming a Workspace product or getting rolled into Sheets (or AppSheet, worst case). It had just the right set of functions to r

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