sandyarmstrong

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by sandyarmstrong 4mo ago
Wow, the list of missing features exactly matches the list of things I don't want and often behaved like pop-up ads on my desktop. Thanks!
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by sandyarmstrong 8mo ago
Have you played flappy bird before? You keep pressing the button to get it to flap and stay aloft.
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by sandyarmstrong 8mo ago
> it puts tension into the spring Well it certainly put tension into the scene! Thanks.
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by sandyarmstrong 8mo ago
Is there guaranteed to be a solution that encloses the cherry? Is Day 8 the first day to have a cherry?
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by sandyarmstrong 8mo ago
The Verge's article here is the least compelling. They report it with the same confidence and style as their original article when the Reddit post first made waves. I recommend reading https://www.platformer.news/fake-u
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by sandyarmstrong 10mo ago
That is probably not true if you are transferring from a community college after two years. It's entering as a freshman direct from high school that has all the barriers.
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by sandyarmstrong 10mo ago
A line I always remember (from Babylon 5) is: "When I clean my place, all I've done is clean my place. But when I help you clean your place, I'm _helping you_." tl;dr you should ask your badass partner for strategic help
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by sandyarmstrong 1y ago
sqlite does not have native support for a vector-like column type. Extensions like this and sqlite-vec build on the BLOB column type, and provide additional functions to let you efficiently search and manipulate this vector data.
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by sandyarmstrong 1y ago
I believe it's free.
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by sandyarmstrong 1y ago
It's been really fun following the development of this, Miguel et al have been really open about the design process. A really cool journey for both the UX and the backend. I recommend reading through past blogs if you're intereste
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by sandyarmstrong 1y ago
Gmail was also announced on April Fools'...
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
I just had to fix this for my kid over the weekend. https://steamcommunity.com/app/2767030/discussions/0/5962604... was very helpful: You can also skip the UAC prompt without editing the registry, by add
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google associated it as a result was something I did all the time.
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Watery, yes, that's definitely a component of it!
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Yup, that's completely true. But as somebody who typically prefers to buy "cheap" brands, and is usually completely satisfied by them, the fact that I experience such a wide gulf between Boar's Head and other brands make
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Compared to other brands available in the supermarket, my family finds that Boar's Head deli meats consistently taste better. There is something "cheap" that I find hard to quantify in the taste of generic grocery branded del
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Yes, exactly! I'd seen an episode of B5 here and there, but it was hard to know what was going on. My family moved states when TNT bought the show and started airing the series in order 5 days a week as Season 5 was starting to come ou
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
This was the most important web destination for me in high school, so glad it's still up!
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Have you never read a blog by an open source nerd? Hell, most nerds I know have written their own blogging software at some point.
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Or the battery :P
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
In some parts of the world, wired lightning headphones are actually cheap bluetooth headphones that only use the lightning port for power (to avoid Apple licensing fees). For the author this was baffling, as everyone else took it as normal
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Yeah, that was really cool. A couple of years before that, Harvey Danger (yes, the Flagpole Sitta band) literally released their album Little by Little on BitTorrent. I loved that move, and it also happened to be a great album.
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
> Advice for myself around leisure activities.
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Was going to say the same, I'll bet it's listed as an example question in the prompt or something like that. Seems unlikely to be a hallucination since multiple people got the exact same question. (Also happen to work at Microsoft
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Historically, it was designed to resemble C#, yet transpile to GNOME-like GObject-based C code, to provide an alternative way for GNOME developers to get higher level language syntax without having to depend on Mono/C# (which was very
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
There was a brief reference to it: > They might also want to check out the game’s expansion pack, which caters more to the FPS hardcore by eliminating the community-theater cut scenes and making everything in general a little bit harder.
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
Have you tried it? It's horribly slow.
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by sandyarmstrong 2y ago
See https://www.lexaloffle.com/picotron.php?page=faq > Picotron supports PICO-8 style shorthand syntax, almost the whole API, and other compatibility features that make it relatively easy to port PICO-8 cartridges. Howev
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
What clues? I listened through an entire song and nothing was presented. Although I also noticed the bug that I could click and drag to see a frame from the movie. I felt like if I didn't know in the first 5 seconds, I wasn't goin
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by sandyarmstrong 3y ago
LLMs and vector embeddings are always lossy compression, yes?

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