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FPGAhackeron Eye contact marks the rise and fall of shared attention in conversation

I just tell people that I get distracted by facial expressions and I look down or away to really focus on what they are saying.

FPGAhackeron Overview of the 555-XXXX phone number

As I said, you paid per minute long distance charges to call another area code. A 555 number would not be long distance. Therefore they charged up front.

FPGAhackeron What the “superforecasters” predict for major events in 2023

Wouldn’t the expected number of correct answers for random guesses of rolling dice a number of times be (1/sides)*rolls?

FPGAhackeron Overview of the 555-XXXX phone number

The point is you don’t have to dial an area code with the 555.

555-abcd, sans area code, would just work and route to you no matter where (in the USA) a caller was calling from.

Therefore it is equivalent to having that number in every area code.

Now there is a good chance you aren’t old enough to know/remember this, but people in the US didn’t have to dial an area code (and occasionally nearby area codes) when calling people in their own area code. In the era of land lines this was the norm.

You paid a lot of money per minute to call people “long distance” in other area codes.

Now it’s absolutely normal and routine to dial with an area code, in large part because people’s numbers follow them around and there is no reason to think someone geographically near you is in the same area code.

FPGAhackeron Money Creation in the Modern Economy – Its a Wonderful Lie

They both are saying the same thing.

FPGAhackeron Idiot Proof Git

Well, the article presents a seemingly nice workflow that lets you handle local rebases. I was considering it.

However, we use vscode, and I rather like auto fetch. But apparently this workflow would destroy something auto fetched that I might not have even noticed.

FPGAhackeron Idiot Proof Git

Oof, thanks for that warning. So it will blow away changes you haven’t merged (only fetched)?

I guess git can’t tell the he difference between “not merged yet” and “don’t want to merge, please destroy”

FPGAhackeron Barilla passive cooker

Damn, 40 per kWh electricity.

My last energy bill (including taxes and fees) is showing $0.124 per kWh electricity, and $0.62 per cubic meter of gas.

FPGAhackeron Twitter, when the wall came down

came here to post this.

ref: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/06/st...

FPGAhackeron Twitter Blue for $8/Month

You can make lists of people you want to follow and only see their tweets. I'd never use twitter if it weren't for this option.

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-lists

FPGAhackeron Chip design shifts as fundamental laws run out of steam

No kidding, almost 30 years later and windows still finds a way to make my work computer run like crap.

Looking at a flame graph 60 levels deep demonstrates the problem pretty well I think.

FPGAhackeron An Apple II Tale

Just to add a little more context, copy-2-plus could circumvent copy protection.

FPGAhackeron The Essential Philip K. Dick

> And then it had the typical Stephenson ending, which is to say

that made me laugh out loud

FPGAhackeron Eglot has landed on master: Emacs now has a built-in LSP client

That makes sense, and never occurred to me. I was in the egg-lot camp

FPGAhackeron 3M Glass Cloth Tape 361

This the kind of thing I wouldn't buy at amazon. It's small, expensive and mechanically simple. A good recipe for counterfeiting.

FPGAhackeron Linux: What Can You Epoll?

You should do a write up of item 2.

FPGAhackeron Reverse Engineer’s Perspective on the Boeing 787 ‘51 days’ Directive

Sounds about right. But it’s still a critical failure for a fault of any kind to ever display incorrect information to the pilot.

FPGAhackeron Apple bought out all of Newsweek's 1984 Election issue ad space for Mac

huh. I guess I never knew what yuppies was short for. Dinks I understood to be "double income, no kids."

FPGAhackeron VS Code Org Mode

https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode

https://github.com/VSCodium/vscodium

FPGAhackeron Vogtle Unit 3 starts nuclear fuel load

I read it as 6950 too. Maybe spell out 6 or use something as a separator (- or x or *) maybe.

FPGAhackeron The Hummingbird Clock: date videos by background mains hum

Your point still stands but the noise here is effectively a higher frequency modulation of the base AC oscillation.

In other words, the base oscillation of 50 or 60 Hz is not stable, but instead varies a little above and a little below at higher rates.

The magnitude is significantly lower than the base mains frequency. So possibly not audible above any other noise in the recording, but present nonetheless.

FPGAhackeron You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back

Definitely not. Switching required a specialist to come out and change hardware.

FPGAhackeron You Hated Your Cable Package. Your Streaming Services Are Bringing It Back

It used to be that you got a bundle with a ton of channels but only a few played shows worth watching.

Now, you can pay for individual channels, but each one has only 1 show worth watching. Anytime a new show becomes popular, it gets its own “channel” that you have to subscribe to.

FPGAhackeron What does $0=$2 in awk do?

> This is really such a gorgeous piece of code. Clever and poetic.

I suppose that is subjective, but I think this is terrible code.

The fact that someone had to write a lengthy blogpost to figure out what it was doing should be an obvious warning against it.

Write code for readability / comprehensibility.

FPGAhackeron Tuned Mass Damper of Taipei 101

That doesn’t strike me as irrational at all.

FPGAhackeron iPhone 14 Pro comes with dual-frequency GPS

It’s needed for things like site surveying and construction.

https://www.takeoffpros.com/2019/07/31/gps-surveying-explain...

FPGAhackeron It seems that the good times for online Minecraft play are over

Underphil Aphqt

FPGAhackeron Health insurers just published close to a trillion hospital prices

> "negotiation_arrangement": "ffs"

Negotiation arrangement: for fuck’s sake

FPGAhackeron Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007)

It was cellular triangulation.

FPGAhackeron Robert's Rules of Order (1876)

The second half of the sentence that you stopped short of quoting in full explains that no reason is required for a motion of no confidence. It was added solely as a prod.