niccl

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by niccl 6d ago
There is a problem with the over-under method use for long cables. If you then grab the wrong end through the centre hole you end up with a cable with a bunch of overhand knots in, which I find much more tedious to deal with than just using
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by niccl 15d ago
any specifics on what you did?
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by niccl 15d ago
I find them almost unintelligible. I'm a native English speaker. I read a lot, so I think my comprehension should be at least OK. I'm not even particularly stupid. Yet when faced with things like below (a direct copy/paste fr
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by niccl 16d ago
This recalls a time I was driving the Desert Road in Aotearoa/NZ at dawn. As I got to the top of the hill the sun came up in line with all the power lines and they glowed like golden spider webs off into the distance. I'd never th
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by niccl 24d ago
nit pick: _So Long_ and thanks for all the fish I'm really sorry about that, but it jarred my ASD-ness
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by niccl 28d ago
They mention 'breaking rapport' a few times. I'd really appreciate if someone could explain to an ASD person what that looks like. Genuine question
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by niccl 29d ago
IIRC, at one time, in Aotearoa/New Zealand at least, Coca Cola Amatil (or whoever it is) had trademarked 'Always'. It may have been some other word, but it was definitely a common word. And it wasn't the particular brand
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by niccl 29d ago
It seems that management in most organisations can't believe something unless they've paid vast sums for it. So they can't believe their own staff if they say X, even if it's right, because they haven't paid enough
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by niccl 1mo ago
> For instance, Shakespeare’s characters call one another “cuz,” Calling someone 'cuz' is quite common in Aotearoa/NZ.
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by niccl 1mo ago
No. I got from the article that he's saying that the purchase is sunk cost, so any sale is 100% profit. So it's correct
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by niccl 1mo ago
> Factory workers soaked the skins in a orange-coloured solution containing mercuric nitrate; a process called 'carroting'. Vapours from the mercury poisoned the workers' nervous systems, making them prone to tremors, irri
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by niccl 2mo ago
I agree with this in general but I think there's a nuance. 'dumb' prompts can get the result, but require more back-and-forth with the model and more token usage when compared to a crafted prompt
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by niccl 2mo ago
and reader-mode doesn't show the text
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by niccl 2mo ago
yes. TLA and XTLA overloading is a real problem, particularly when going cross domain. Maybe we should insist on some standardised expansion of TLAs and XTLAs so you know unambiguously what any particular Three Letter Acronym or eXtended Th
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by niccl 3mo ago
Thank you for posting this. I thought I knew a bit about what was going on with audio sampling and reproduction, but I learned a surprising amount from this well presented introduction
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by niccl 3mo ago
Darwin Award recipients!
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by niccl 4mo ago
until quite recently I dealt with a machine that had uptime in excess of 16,000 days. Before anyone panics, it was on a closed network. It was a second hand machine and we were very worried that if it was shut down the disk wouldn't re
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by niccl 4mo ago
and the comment there about using emacs for the different shells in different modes possibly explains the un-resolved nit in TFA about proportional and monospaced fonts in different areas
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by niccl 4mo ago
I think it's more like the old adage 'the first 50% of the job takes the first 90% of the time, and the other 50% of the job takes the other 90%'. Except that with vibe-coded AI stuff it's more like there's yet anot
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by niccl 4mo ago
There's much more information in the linked github repo at https://github.com/krauseler/muxcard It even includes an eInk display as well as the battery.Insane, but really impressive.
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by niccl 4mo ago
Having associations with Aotearoa/NZ, I read it as w-eh-roh, which is part of the traditional Maori greeting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wero_(M%C4%81ori)
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by niccl 5mo ago
That wouldn't work (for me, at least). As soon as I figured out the pattern, I'd know I had a week after the 'deadline' and then the pressure is off until that week is passed/nearly up
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by niccl 5mo ago
How about Bill Gates as US's Benevolent Dictator For Life?
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by niccl 5mo ago
Sturgeon's Law (2026): 99% of everything is crap or slop
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by niccl 5mo ago
Another anecdatum: it definitely seems better to me in the last few days. Thanks again to you and tomhow for all your stellar work on keeping the site as close to its original intent as practical these days
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by niccl 6mo ago
you've got me. What's the typo?
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by niccl 6mo ago
And then there's trucks flashing an indicator to say it's safe to overtake if you're behind them. In the UK it's the nearside indicator, which makes sense: it's a bit like the truck is pulling over to let you pass.
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by niccl 6mo ago
thank you. I knew there was something I was missing
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by niccl 6mo ago
Sadly, I think the only answer is some other form of payment than ad clicks. I've no idea what that could be, though.
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by niccl 7mo ago
All. The. Time. And I hate it. Imagine giving a customer a rebate based on buggy code. You fix a bug, the customer comes back and wants to check that the rebate was correct that last time. Now you have to somehow hard-code the rebate they d

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