nonesuchluck

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by nonesuchluck 2y ago
Maybe someone here can help me remember. I had a PalmOS app that I loved, back in the day, and I can't remember what it was called. It was a shareware clock app, with hand-drawn time that animated from one numeral to the next. I used t
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by nonesuchluck 3y ago
Yeah. Now we have parallel murders.
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
That would certainly be an improvement over their current strat (ignoring what I want to click on, showing me what's most profitable for them instead)
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
Seems a natural fit for a notebook UI. If a PRQL cell doesn't start with "from," just continue adding filters to the pipeline above. Would let you progressively build pipelines by adding filters and derivations, while preview
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
This is fantastic, but not fully in the spirit of the old web. Personal pages looked like they did because they were essentially outsider art: the product of experimentation by teenagers and rank amateurs, who had no idea what we were doing
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
Could have packaged up the Amiga chipset on an ISA card, an all-in-one video/audio/io gizmo. Sell that to 386 owners and give the OS away. Bonus points for a ROM socket to insta-boot AmigaOS with no disk.
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
AT stands for ATTENTION. In command mode, it configures the modem for data transfer. It is an excellent name for a social network protocol.
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
They did just that in 1989, with the Macintosh Portrait Display [1]. It was designed to fit snugly on the Mac II. Like other CRTs with fixed resolution and refresh rate, the phosphor persistence was perfectly tuned for comfortable, fatigue-
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
Forget satellites: launch water, rocket fuel, 3D printing material! Relativity Space is building 3D printers large enough to construct orbital-class rockets in one piece. Others will follow. If they can make printers work in vacuum at 0g, t
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
Yeah, the capacitive touch screen feels really tetchy and imprecise. Frustrating to use, even for simple card games with large touch targets (ex. Dicey Dungeons). But I've found the dual thumb pads to be surprisingly good for mouse inp
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
I've never seen anyone use this logic to recommend installing Windows Insider on production servers.
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
Whole thing boils down to "I've always been in the cultural in-group, but man it sucks here in the out-group," as he notices for the first time what life has been like for most people, for most of history. Hilarious.
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by nonesuchluck 4y ago
Oh. To this modern reader, L. Bob Rife was just an obvious parody of L. Ron Hubbard. But he wasn't a Texan, so I suppose I see your angle. Interesting bit of flavor.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
I sympathize with this sentiment, I hate printers. Worked in a copy shop for a time. Hate em. But there has been at least 1 good printer, and HP made it: - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_LaserJet_5 Also, 9-pin dot
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
This mini-thread accidentally explains why the West don't, won't, and can't care about Azerbaijan/Armenia violence: it's fucking incomprehensible. Tribes killing each other for generations, for complicated reasons t
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Pretty poor execution by Tesla though. It didn't even honk and yell "ride on the sidewalk, moron!"
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
They probably do, then give themselves a nice round of applause. They're getting rid of their (unprofitable) discerning users, and keeping all the (profitable) naive users. On average, this increases the effectiveness of their ads and
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
550km is also just the operational altitude. SpaceX initially releases satellites in a much lower initial orbit. If they fail to POST, they fall into the atmosphere months after launch. Starlink climbs slowly to 550km with the same ion thru
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Has live search, it's as quick as you can type.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
I use Automattic's Simplenote. I pin the web app in a Firefox tab, avoiding the Electron app. The Android and iOS apps are both great tho. Live sync is perfect, you can publish read-only links to notes (like pastebin), and it has basic
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
"Laptop?" More like, revenge of the luggable!
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Mix up a cup of fiber supplement (I use BeneFiber) and drink it 10 min before you plan to eat. You will eat less and feel fuller for longer (eating slowly increases the effect). If you're already choosing healthy foods, portion control
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
A bit later, it seems Netscape wanted to connect to the Visual Basic hype of the time: https://web.archive.org/web/19971022101212if_/http://www101.... I'm not sure if Visual JavaScript is archived a
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Nothing you wrote contradicts anything I said, because I did not claim Tesla or SpaceX invented anything brand new. I said they built existing inventions into viable products and brought them to market. They were each great ideas whose time
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
2006: There is a reason Gustave Trouvé invented the electric car 125 years ago and it never took off. 2011: There is a reason Bell invented VTVL rockets 50 years ago and it never took off (lol). Musk's _entire deal_ is taking well-know
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
I've lived in Chattanooga long enough to call it home (decade+). First thing about Chattanooga is, it's built on the backbone of the Interstate system, in the valley between some mountains. It's a bigtime car city. Anyone out
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Similar problem I've encountered is AWS Athena not supporting Parquet files compressed with Zstd. I re-wrote files with Snappy to get around it.
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Yep. The peculiarities that make this Excel workflow unreasonably effective are pretty easy to identify: 1. Tabular data. There's some tricks with named ranges etc, but for the most part your entire application state is spread out befo
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
Now I've only watched to the 2nd episode. But there are _some_ very special people in Asimov's universe. I'm withholding judgement on who that pregnant woman might be, or who her child might become... it's a detail left
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by nonesuchluck 5y ago
We are stuck in a local minima with C and C++. Rust is a particle with high enough energy to tunnel through the barrier to a lower, safer energy level. To some degree, it doesn't matter how Rust acquired the energy; if you want to hop

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