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by tsm 14d ago
I still think that I'm young, but I currently reminisce about doing real work without an always-on internet connection (and using saved-to-disk HTML documentation, physical books, etc.), and I am looking forward to reminiscing about wr
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by tsm 2mo ago
> which is why they have the little red thing on their mailboxes Yes. One of my surprises when moving from the US to the UK were that I couldn't mail a letter from my house (and also how expensive the postage is!)
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by tsm 2mo ago
The Aero effects on Vista were cool enough (to this day, my two favorite Windowses are 2000 and 7), the problem with Vista is that it was extremely unstable. If you treat Vista as an open alpha for 7, things feel a lot better.
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by tsm 6mo ago
I'm far from an LLM power user, but I've found ChatGPT to be quite good at debugging my init.el and also writing little extensions I wish I had.
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by tsm 7mo ago
I'm a semi-professional violinist who got to borrow a Strad for a couple months and whose long-term teacher has the lifetime loan of a del Gesu (and has had access to a Strad but prefers the del Gesu!) I don't have Studies to back
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by tsm 8mo ago
I own a handful of TI calculators (TI-{80, 83, 83+, 86, 89T, NSpire CAS}, possibly a few others) but actually use a TI-89 Titanium emulator on my Android phone. I no longer do anything remotely interesting with it, but I prefer it to the st
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by tsm 10mo ago
I'd guess that the majority of people who've made a bug like this got started on Ruby via Rails, where many hashes are HashWithIndifferentAccesses. HWIAs are convenient, but they do confuse the issue.
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by tsm 10mo ago
Previously (2024-07-07; 136 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40898654
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by tsm 1y ago
How do you think the LLMs train? If I release a new library tomorrow, do I not need to write docs for it?
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by tsm 1y ago
>Europe is worse than the US on this front Would you please expand on this?
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by tsm 1y ago
Theft does not exist. Only deficient windows intentionally designed to be breakable exist. if you want your "personal possessions" to not be taken, dont make them vulnerable. <etc> Yes, the companies involved should take som
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by tsm 1y ago
Don is especially susceptible to huge regional differences. It's as GP described in Honduras and I think as you described in Spain.
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by tsm 1y ago
I've found the Metabase test suite[0] to be very good considering it's real-world software written by a for-profit company. Coverage is good, the correct tests usually break when doing a refactor (stuff like "Oh, I thought th
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by tsm 1y ago
In these cases it's all Scottish Gaelic, which has a complex but very consistent phonics system. Complaining about it would be like complaining that Russian vodka brands are hard to pronounce because you can't read Cyrillic
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by tsm 1y ago
Seems like a very backwards-looking article. Would've been interesting to hear more about his ideas for the future, such as what this should involve: > if the new Scottish Languages Bill is to succeed in securing the Gaelic and Sco
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by tsm 1y ago
My wife and I realized we were only really using Netflix to watch Seinfeld. I got a complete set of DVDs for less money than a month of Netflix and canceled my subscription
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by tsm 1y ago
The etymology is from 'enCYClopedia'.
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by tsm 1y ago
I worked for an IBM acquiree 13 years ago and as part of the "Blue-washing" process to get our software up to IBM spec we had to use their proprietary tools for verifying our dependencies were okay.
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by tsm 1y ago
American elevators are 1-indexed!
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by tsm 2y ago
Time was you could check in online and get the ticket counter agent to print your boarding pass for you
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by tsm 2y ago
A magnifying glass on its own could mean: 1. Search (across the application) 2. Find on page 3. Adjust zoom
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by tsm 2y ago
My surname is Macdonald—some ancestor generations ago decided to use the lowercase d. When I lived in the US it took considerable coaching to get humans not to write McDonald, and some just couldn't get it. I then moved to Scotland, wh
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by tsm 2y ago
Usually, thus the common construction "and/or" to unambiguously mean inclusive-or.
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by tsm 2y ago
It's Mary -> Molly-> Polly, which makes slightly more sense
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by tsm 2y ago
Tangential: I'm looking for a handheld Linux computer that's the approximate size and shape of a GameBoy Advance SP, but with a QWERTY keyboard and wifi. The old Zipit Z-2 would've been perfect. All it needs to run is git and
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by tsm 2y ago
If you find this remotely intriguing, I highly recommend Ross Duffin's book How Equal Temperament Ruined Harmony (And Why You Should Care) https://search.worldcat.org/title/How-equal-temperament-ruin...
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by tsm 2y ago
I really like the idea of getting my day's worth of emails in the morning and responding to them throughout the day while offline (using one of the great folding keyboards!). Hard to emulate that these days though. It feels artificia
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by tsm 2y ago
SF is SourceForge, which at the time effectively had a monopoly (and also sucked)
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by tsm 2y ago
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland. I require a UK Skilled Worker Visa Remote: Currently working remote; flexible Willing to relocate: Potentially within Scotland. Could make visits to a UK headquarters as needed. Technologies: Expertise in Cl
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by tsm 2y ago
I have the same setup via GSuite.

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