ramenbytes

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by ramenbytes 7mo ago
> Imagine an AI reminding you that you've been on HN too long and offering to save off the comment your working on for later and then moving they browser window to a different tab. > Having idle thoughts in the car of things you
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McCLIM and 7GUIs – Part 1: The Counter(turtleware.eu)
3 points by ramenbytes 7mo ago|0 comments
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by ramenbytes 9mo ago
With the recent work done enabling the use of Common Lisp in the browser on WASM, I've been thinking about spinning up a really simple static site that's just a CL REPL for people to play with.
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by ramenbytes 11mo ago
The exact stuff I now use Kagi for. Finding obscure relevant PDFs that Google didn't is literally one of the things that made me switch.
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
And I used them in a graduate physics course last fall.
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
Deep Space 9 had an episode dealing with something similar. Superintelligent beings determine that a situation is hopeless and act accordingly. The normal beings take issue with the actions of the Superintelligents. The normal beings turn o
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
I had to use Google in a library while printing datasheets and clicked the first relevant looking result out of habit, only to be taken to the wrong part page. Closer inspection of the search results showed the small faint print of "Sp
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
An inelegant weapon, for a less civilized age. And yet, it works.
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
The wife says the chain and lock were for weight training.
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
Probably too recent, but any chance it was this? https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/14186/red-dwarf-diversity-in-sp...
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by ramenbytes 1y ago
Urban Ore in Berkeley. It's a salvage shop with an electronics area. Scored some vintage Tek scopes there.
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
I don't have it on hand at the moment, but I think I saw something about how the victims of those lawsuits didn't actually end up paying. Might have been related to bankruptcy, and certain things being non-enforceable. Basically t
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
I love engineering paper too! My weapon of choice is this pad: https://www.rspaperproducts.com/products/95182/ I have not tried the Tops yet, I think because I saw somewhere it was thinner? I like the slightly thi
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
Could use the electronics convention and save a character: 2k6
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
AdBlocker, yes. UBlock Origin, no. Maybe it's since reached feature parity, last time I checked it hadn't from what I could tell.
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
> When I press F12, does an inspector open? Where does it open? When I select some words, how do I send them to a new tab in YouTube, Amazon, Google or Stack Overflow? How do I open all the links which are within a selected rectangle in
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
The one thing holding me back from this is not being able to run UBlock origin on it yet. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll have the spare time to change that myself....
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Introducing the UHK 80(ultimatehackingkeyboard.com)
6 points by ramenbytes 2y ago|1 comments
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
- Digikey - Mouser - SparkFun - Adafruit - Antique Electronic Supply - Sphere Research Corporation -Ebay, occasionally, if the seller is trusted and known by your corner of the electronics community. There are several mailing lists where yo
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
> It's possible to become very good at doing things the wrong way, then belatedly realise that progress has been unintentionally stunted. And sometimes when that happens, I've seen people say "I'll just stick with th
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
Like a sibling comment mentioned, I was considering that newspapers got non-trivial amounts of funding from ads. Classifieds in particular, if I remember correctly. If that's still not satisfactory, then just consider the case of free
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
More like cutting out the funnies from a newspaper and trashing the ads.
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
> Sometimes musicians use dispersing devices mounted on the speakers, like "beam blockers". Beam blockers seem to be the most common thing employed, though to my knowledge a much more effective measure is a "Mitchell donut
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
I've been surprised to find that this isn't a common viewpoint. In fact, I have a long-term bet with a friend that I'll learn something faster using deliberate practice 'n stuff then he did trying to learn everything at
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
> Thank god we still have vim and Emacs. Emacs has had AI since before it was cool again. M-x doctor
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
This article was brought up in this[0] ongoing discussion, and it looks interesting enough to warrant it's own submission. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41282574
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Cognitive Science of Learning: Developing Automaticity(justinmath.com)
4 points by ramenbytes 2y ago|1 comments
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
That is a much better way of putting it, thank you. (edit) One thing neither of us directly mentioned in our comments, but which I feel is important is this bit from your article intro: > Insufficient automaticity, particularly in basic
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by ramenbytes 2y ago
I don't know if I'm using the word the same way, but I understand the benefit of mastery to be that you automate and abstract away things and can get to a point where you're just firing off mental routines instead of having t

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