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by nox101 2y ago
Awesome! I hope you'll post some write up or something on how you did it!
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by nox101 2y ago
I really wish they'd repurpose public libraries for this.
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by nox101 2y ago
It only takes one student to lose an arm, face, life and their parents will sue the school into oblivion and start PAPT (parents against power tools) or something "for the kids!" I'm on your side that I'd rather see the
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by nox101 2y ago
I have, it's called Visual Studio Code and I ditched my old native editor(s) for it. I'd even suggest that the fact that it's JS based has significantly changed the tech world because the editor itself will run in a browser s
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by nox101 2y ago
Google Maps allows you declare your allegiance. You can mark a business as LGBTQ+ friendly (why should I have to declare that and it not just be assumed?). https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/small-business/ad
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by nox101 2y ago
MUJI used to have lots of that (20-25yrs ago). Shelves made from cardboard tubes, etc... You could tell, one bump and it would be destroyed. I think they got rid of most of them.
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by nox101 2y ago
> #1 Understand the system: Read the manual, read everything in depth, know the fundamentals, know the road map, understand your tools, and look up the details. Maybe I'm mis-understand but "Read the manual, read everything in
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by nox101 2y ago
Mario has "slot machines" in, even today
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by nox101 2y ago
I've been on the internet as long as you and from my POV it changed a ton. The biggest changes to me are (1) social media via smartphones - letting everyone trivially post to everyone else on the planet. This use to be nerd activity (b
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by nox101 2y ago
exceptions in C++ are a foot gun. Even the top C++ gurus/leaders know this and are trying to find some new solution https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os7cqJ5qlzo
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by nox101 2y ago
> Easy way to use libraries This is both a blessing and a curse. Seeing the rust docs require 561 crates makes it clear that rust/cargo is headed down the same path as node/npm Downloaded 561 crates (50.7 MB) in 5.21s (l
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by nox101 2y ago
I agree there hasn't been a super strong reason to upgrade in the last 10 years. I just disagree with "I will never need to buy a new computer again". I suspect at some point the new "Youtube" (3d volumetric video,
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by nox101 2y ago
"640k is all you need!" There is always new tech. Local LLMs and other high processing intensive things might be a thing people want. Not directly, but it may enable things they want. More viral TikTok videos. Maybe some kind of
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by nox101 2y ago
The top end of OutRut type tech was Power Drift and Rail Chase https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ngUCwEVtlI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQd3FFT7pnc
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by nox101 2y ago
Sounds like COM/DCOM from ~1995. Every API had a public interface including a description. You could open the DCOM Inspector, browse all the APIs, and see the type signature of every function and its docs.
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by nox101 2y ago
What's giving me burnout is work from home. I got much of my social needs met by working at work with people I liked. We'd talk. We'd go to lunch. We'd meet up after work and on weekends. We also collaborated at work. De
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by nox101 2y ago
Very cool. I know this is not a related solution but just want to remind people that Google maps has a 3D mode. I do wonder if they are planning to get rid of it because they are burying it deep. you have to turn on "Globe View" a
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by nox101 2y ago
Types are not enough to solve this issue https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2005/05/11/making-wrong-code-...
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by nox101 2y ago
At the company I work at, IMO, their DEI initiatives are counter productive so they claim "we support DEI", but in actual practice they're making the problem worse not better. It might be true that removing DEI is performativ
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by nox101 2y ago
not looking at how bad the new LG remote is but my all time favorite remote is the Apple remote from like 2010ish. This one : https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/949603040 White, plastic, 6 buttons (u
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by nox101 2y ago
I've never heard any solar physicist refer to "Sun". I have heard "the Sun" and "Our Sun". "The Boss said please take the day off" "Our Boss is nice" "Jill is the boss" "
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by nox101 2y ago
I went to them 25 years ago as well. I get the same thing from the organized promoted ones as I got from the old ones. I didn't need it to be "underground". I just needed the people, the music, the vibe.
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by nox101 2y ago
Does anyone do this? SoCal, NorCal, Seattle - Earthquakes SoCal, NorCal - Fires Midwestern States - Tornadoes North Easy - Blizzards South Easy - Hurricanes Which part do you suggest everyone move to?
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by nox101 2y ago
what is the definition of a rave at this point? Large crowds of people dancing in or outdoors to techno music is still a HUGE thing. There's video of tons of them on youtube. If often put them on while working. Is it only a rave if it&
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by nox101 2y ago
I know lots of people that eat 1 pound of dried mango, usually sugared but often not.
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by nox101 2y ago
I don't know about zig bit the power of lisp is that youre manipulating the s-expressions or to put it another way, you're manipulating the ast. To do that in C you'd need to write a full C parser for your C program that proc
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by nox101 2y ago
What part is zero-sum?
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by nox101 2y ago
My issue with flexbox is that I can't seem to memorize all the settings I need to get boxes within boxes and content to either fill a box or the box to surround the content. This is particular important on an SPA where I want the boxes
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by nox101 2y ago
ads aren't chewing though my mobile data. I generally don't go to any sites with ads. The few times I open a link and it's covered in ads I close the link.
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by nox101 2y ago
it works in Safari on both Mac and iOS but you have to enable WebGPU in the settings as Safari has not yet shipped it. Unfortunately, the demo itself is not responsive to the screen size.

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