squeedles

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by squeedles 2mo ago
That looks really nice! I haven't spent much time with split keyboards, particularly the extreme ergo things like that but I am very tempted!
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by squeedles 2mo ago
Yea, generally you have full size/108 key boards, tenkeyless (no numpad but other layout unchanged), then 75%/65%/60% which all condense the function row and arrow key block to varying degrees. TFA depicted an extremely con
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by squeedles 2mo ago
65% is the sweet spot for me. Reaching across a numpad for a mouse aggravates my RSI. I ditched 100% long ago, then eventually ditched the mouse and moved to a laptop-style trackpad in the middle, which did the trick. Over the years, I tr
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by squeedles 3mo ago
Manufacturing matters, and six years ago, I said that one side effect from the pandemic is that mRNA technology, which had been lab-scale stuff, suddenly had dump-trucks full of money appearing to help them scale their manufacturing. They a
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by squeedles 3mo ago
Color is magnificent and I can't believe we've lost so much joy on our relentless march to hyper-optimized profit. I recently read another article about how everything has gotten more monochrome, will try to find it again. In sca
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by squeedles 3mo ago
Was excited to hear that they have a lower power rad-hard snapdragon system going into the new missions! The RAD 750 is basically a 30-year old IBM RS-6000. Very well known, but has been the goto CPU for way longer than I thought it woul
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by squeedles 3mo ago
When I was a kid, we had a "record producer" board game and the randomizer was a 45rpm record with three concentric grooves. You did a needle drop and it said It's a Hit, It's a Flop, or Break Even. EDIT- Apparently it
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by squeedles 4mo ago
Almost forgot the OG Bungie hit Pathways Into Darkness! I keep that on my Basilisk env too for the occasional hit of nostalgia.
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by squeedles 4mo ago
I loved Marathon and we even had enough Macs in our lab to have a few lan parties. Wonderful memories. And the Ambrosia folks were giants! So many great games - Maelstrom, Ambrosia and the EV saga! There was such a thriving ecosystem o
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by squeedles 4mo ago
I was surprised to see SC3k described as isometric like 2k. I recall versions after 2k being "look anywhere" 3D, but I guess I missed some versions. So many games, like Railroad Tycoon post RRT2 and Worms went full 3D and gamep
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by squeedles 4mo ago
Every corporation of sufficient size turns into a blind elephant, walking in one direction and trampling everything in its path. This is just the nature of bureaucracy, but there has always been someone somewhere within the organization t
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by squeedles 4mo ago
Are you talking about the Jellyfin server? It is quite an active project. Last release was 10.11.8 about a month ago, and github says that there have been 1049 commits to master since then. https://github.com/jellyfin&#
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by squeedles 4mo ago
FYI, getting hardware acceleration for Intel working with Jellyfin is pretty straightforward. The key thing is that you have to put the server acct into the render group, then pass through the dri device. I also pass through the video gr
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by squeedles 4mo ago
I ran a plex server for about a dozen years just to watch local movies and photos on a couple of rokus. No matter how they pushed, I never created an account because I didn't like the idea of remote access proxied through them. It ran
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by squeedles 4mo ago
I came to this film late. Somehow, despite being quite active at the time of its release, I never knew of it until a colleague turned me onto it in the 90s. Watching it with the benefit of 20 years of history, the influence on subsequent f
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by squeedles 4mo ago
The Win7 UI was comfortable, and still configurable enough that I could make the tool work for me rather than having to work for the tool. I'd be more interested if it brought back the performance of Win7. That OS was released into
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by squeedles 5mo ago
I large part, the sticker trend is so that people can distinguish one gray rounded slab from another. It is the reaction, not the cause.
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by squeedles 5mo ago
Vanguard is mutually held, a rarity these days. Which means that if you own some shares of their SP500 index fund, you own a part of Vanguard, and they work for your benefit. They are as big as they are because they solved the original
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by squeedles 6mo ago
Never got around to The Backrooms, but the follow on Oldest View / Rolling Giant series of videos are absolutely fantastic. It captures the tension between curiosity and dread perfectly, which seems to me what all of this fascination
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by squeedles 6mo ago
Shut up and take my money!
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by squeedles 7mo ago
Reading the review, it looks like they gave it the best treatment they could with what they had, definitely better than the DVD. Still a shame that WB didn't go the extra mile and redo the CGI, but maybe that will happen in time.
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by squeedles 7mo ago
I'd be delighted to spend that for a Blu-ray of the series but I'm afraid of getting the mangled version that they released on DVD. For background, JMS knew the widescreen transition was coming so filmed everything in 16:9. As he
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by squeedles 8mo ago
Exactly so. I didn't notice that missing def when I put together the blog post, but you are right to call it out. In this case that decref was copypasta from some other code -- I don't decref on the other error returns. I co
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by squeedles 8mo ago
This was around 2021 so AI code tools had not yet eaten everyone. One of the most interesting challenges was finding the right value judgements when blending multiple type systems. I doubt any agentic coding tool could do it today. I bl
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by squeedles 8mo ago
Had to write a fairly substantial native extension to Python a couple years ago and one of the things I enjoyed was that the details were not easily "Googleable" because implementation results were swamped by language level result
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by squeedles 8mo ago
And both of them were written by Ian Braid, Alan Grayer, and Charles Lang (and others) in Cambridge. Parasolid was v1 and old school C, then they got the C++ bug like many of us at the time and did ACIS as v2.
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by squeedles 8mo ago
Happy to see this. Maybe I'll consider buying toner cartridges again. Every time I've tried in the past, what has shown up has been unusable, sketchy junk. I now go to a neighborhood Staples where I can put actual eyes on the
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by squeedles 8mo ago
This article should be at the core of any discussion about media concentration. The vast consolidation of radio stations is well known, but the same thing has been happening to small local newspapers. In both cases, you end up with a voi
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by squeedles 9mo ago
I have a digital archive of photos going back to the 1930s, and have physical archives of negatives and slides preserved properly. Not everything is scanned, but it will probably remain on my "to do" list permanently. B/W
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by squeedles 9mo ago
It's the all you can eat buffet effect. Pay the price and don't have to worry about shipping, can watch (some) streaming without having to worry about paying, and whatever else they decide to roll into their monopoly black hole

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