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bitslayer

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web database developer - Asheville, NC ff6600
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bitslayer··on Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)
It does mention the Insight Meditation Society.
bitslayer··on I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video]
>I wish the description of the video was like an abstract.

Business opportunity something something AI

bitslayer··on Easily setup new MacBooks
Ah ha! I had searched the article to see if there was a way to do that. Because while it would be awesome to have a file like this, creating it sounded like a pain.
bitslayer··on Finite State Machine Designer
The white square is the designer. Try double clicking on it.
bitslayer··on CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike
I worked at company_name when the .xxx top level domain became available, and my boss was sure that we should buy company_name.xxx. I talked them out of it. Luckily no one has maliciously registered company_name.xxx all these years later. I guess it could happen any day now.
bitslayer··on Humans 1, Chimps 0: Correcting the Record
"with even very moderate practice, humans can match Ayumu’s performance."

The article is misnamed, the actual score is 1 to 1.

bitslayer··on Pi calculation world record with over 202T digits
Meh. About as useless as blockchain, I guess.
bitslayer··on The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy (2014)
Capital oriented companies can lead to the correct outcome if the consumer has enough information to distinguish the superior product. One solution to this problem that capitalism has found is UL Listing (Underwriters Laboratories.) Of course you could say they are just outsourcing what should be done by the government. It comes down to who do you trust to not fall into corruption.
bitslayer··on The demise of the mildly dynamic website (2022)
They didn't say constant maintenance, they said endless maintenance. 20 minutes a month is a never ending commitment of time. They have better things to think about.
bitslayer··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
In Richard Feynman's book, "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman!" he tells the story of his exploits in safe cracking. And the eventual "solution" that the bosses come up with... not to make their safes safer, but to ban Feynman.
bitslayer··on Multi-channel Audio Part 2
_those are for playing MP3s off a flash drive._ I am reminded of the workaround people used to use for inputting streamed audio to their old car stereos through a cassette tape adapter. Could the computer emulate a flash drive somehow?
bitslayer··on Need a Home for 80k Puzzles? Try an Italian Castle
"Then last year, on a whim, the Millers bought a 15th-century, 52-room castle" Translation: https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/translation-of-a-new-yor...
bitslayer··on RSS can be used to distribute all sorts of information
What is artcasting?
bitslayer··on I accidentally a scheme
Took hints from, ergo "an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation"
bitslayer··on Cooking and bird safety
Canary in the coal mine...
bitslayer··on Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' manual examples?
In ETL work I often come across a nightly job that is harder to implement than most for some snowflakey reason, and I just start my day doing it manually, which might just take a minute. At some point I will get so annoyed that I will take the time to figure it out properly.
bitslayer··on Pgroll: zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations for Postgres
That is a funny word. I am a big proponent of in-word dashes, which in this case could help clarify. It is "undo-able", not "un-doable".
bitslayer··on Linux has nearly half of the desktop OS Linux market
The article mentions Chrome OS Flex, which is a version that doesn't require the Google security chip so it runs on a regular Intel PC. That is "de-Googled" I suppose, though I am not sure about the security implications that you mention.
bitslayer··on Bank Failures Visualized
If we are comparing the impact, shouldn't it be adjusted for the size of the economy? The U.S. GDP was under $15T in 2008 and is over $23T today.
bitslayer··on Magic Sand: augmented reality sandbox/playground
That _is_ a very interesting idea. If every toy had a "home," then it could be a game; every object not in an assigned place would turn red, and you have to find its home.
bitslayer··on Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game
Pretty. Keyboard shortcuts would be a nice addition.
bitslayer··on 2D Rubik’s Cube solution visualization
The corners appear as triangles in the figure. I counted all the triangles I could find and was confused because I only saw 7. But then I realized the 8th is around the outside of the whole figure!
bitslayer··on Resolving the great undo-redo quandary
I am not a JetBrains user, but it looks like that only applies to saved versions? Undo normally holds every typed change. https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/local-history.html#resto...
bitslayer··on The Geometry Junkyard
So many dead links! Sad, I would love to poke around a resource like this.
bitslayer··on The Art of Menus
Oh! Menus. I was confused, having come from a Hacker News link.
bitslayer··on Parmigiano Reggiano makers embedding tiny trackers in rind to fight cheese fraud
Right, what kinds of heavy metals are they introducing into something that should be edible?
bitslayer··on What a Math Party Game Tells Us About Graph Theory
Depending on your definition of simpler, everyone could just pair off and shake exactly one hand.
bitslayer··on A Silly Usecase for WebSockets (strobe warning)
That's a good idea. Or you could have a grid of squares, with each person getting their own color when they click each one. Any of these ideas would work much better if you could prevent scripting of course.
bitslayer··on Power imbalances and sex
"people want to have sex with women" Actually approximately 50% of people want to have sex with men.
bitslayer··on PSD is not my favourite file format
https://www.photopea.com/ is similar to pixlr. I prefer it.
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