mrblampo

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by mrblampo 5mo ago
My kids have an Ooma landline and haven't gotten bored with it yet. It's been months. The hype is real.
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by mrblampo 5mo ago
Me too!
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by mrblampo 7mo ago
Good feedback, thanks! Gemini got a bit carried away writing the README for me. Toned it down and added a demo GIF
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Show HN: Disco Checkers(github.com)
3 points by mrblampo 7mo ago|2 comments
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by mrblampo 7mo ago
DMA in what sub-field?
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by mrblampo 11mo ago
This is pretty cool
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by mrblampo 1y ago
Got a music degree, decided the career wasn't for me, went to a programming incubator, really struggled with interviewing for a while, got a job at a startup, got a job at FAANG, here I am a decade after the career switch
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Ask HN: What technology do commercial jets have for avoiding collisions?
3 points by mrblampo 2y ago|1 comments
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by mrblampo 2y ago
Yep same. "Teach yourself to eat chocolate."
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Ask HN: How did/does the "dial tone" work?
2 points by mrblampo 2y ago|3 comments
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by mrblampo 2y ago
Fun article! Particularly enjoyed the anecdotal evidence from individual soldier's writing.
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by mrblampo 2y ago
Thanks, I enjoyed this and it rings true. This abstract concept of "space" getting filled up thoughtlessly, and that "space" being created by unnecessarily breaking things up into smaller parts that don't really nee
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by mrblampo 3y ago
Try not to worry about what others think of you, and definitely don't think about IQ. Judgment is so much more important than speed. Why are you concerned with speedy thinking?
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by mrblampo 3y ago
Made me laugh out loud
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by mrblampo 3y ago
First example seems odd? The author acknowledges that the two proposed alternatives (printing "<function exit>" or actually exiting) aren't great. The fact that the Python REPL provides a helpful hint seems like extra e
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by mrblampo 3y ago
Yep this happened to me yesterday. In a taxi, the driver was following Google Maps, which showed a 22 min ETA, with one or two alternatives adding a minute or so. My phone was open and showed the same options. He felt certain that he knew a
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by mrblampo 3y ago
Beautiful Country, by Qian Julie Wang. Beautifully written memoir about immigrating to NYC as a child in the 90s. Poignant, sweet, honest, easy to read, fun, not too too emotionally heavy, but also full of lessons about trauma.
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by mrblampo 3y ago
Sounds like the thing about "ad blocker sabotage" is about replacing the Web Request API with something called declarativeNetRequest. I've been sifting through documentation but have had trouble seeing why this is any kind of
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by mrblampo 3y ago
Yep, everything in this article is right on my money in my experience.
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by mrblampo 3y ago
This was invaluable in music school.
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by mrblampo 4y ago
How could it help with anything at runtime? The type system only exists at compile time, right?
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by mrblampo 4y ago
Reading https://github.com/total-typescript/ts-reset/blob/main/src/e... , I'm more confused than before. The generic NonFalsy<T>[] looks to me like it should evaluate to never[] if the ent
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by mrblampo 4y ago
Interesting! The example [1, 2, undefined].filter(Boolean). // number[] is interesting because it makes use of the fact that the types of individual array members are known at compile time. I can think of some times when I have de
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Ask HN: Anyone else getting lots of Google Docs comment spam?
31 points by mrblampo 4y ago|6 comments
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by mrblampo 4y ago
Cool! Separate question: What makes people decide to use a mail client instead of webmail? What can I do with a client that I can't do with Gmail web?
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by mrblampo 4y ago
I guess one option would be to use the same music streaming apps I would use on a phone, but use the download feature aggressively for playing music offline.
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by mrblampo 4y ago
Fascinating. To use such a thing, where would I get downloadable DRM free music these days? What software do I use to sync it to an Android device? What software do I use to browse and play it on an Android device? (I am asking these questi
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by mrblampo 4y ago
This was super interesting, and it would seem Bill Gates absolutely predicted the effect that not Java, but ultimately interactive web apps in a broad sense would come to have by making it less important to have one operating system or anot
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by mrblampo 4y ago
Relax and enjoy leisure!
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by mrblampo 4y ago
Most prominent European composers from the last 500 years must be suffering for eternity I guess?

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