It's not just that it had quirks, it's that your feedback loop was longer in IE compared to Firefox with Firebug and Chrome. IE 7 did not, to my recollection, have a way to open developer tools and tweak CSS values…
Yeah my plan was to anchor the loose cable ends under wood once we lowered the bed, but as I said, we pulled off the light strip very soon after. It now sits in, you guessed it, the big box of cables, in case I need a…
mine had 2 male USB ends on one side and 1 on the other. It was to power a laptop hard disk drive from USB if one port couldn't provide enough power. Feels illegal. I bought it off eBay with a money order in like 2003.
In 2021 I cut the end off a USB cable to expose the power leads which I scotch taped to the power meter on my bike to charge it. I kept that cable. In 2024 I used it to add USB disconnects to the light strip I attached…
Ok maybe it's that but it's definitely also a phone
The only things I can think of are: cheap track saws in Europe, and combination jointer/planers. There are two makerspaces near me with wood shops, and one has a French combo machine while the other has two separate…
It was Damon Dash, who was a cofounder of Roc-a-Fella records but not a rapper himself. He mentioned it here too and in a few other profiles that I can remember…
I do a lot of this and `pbpaste | sed s/^ // | pbcopy` and things like that. It just fits my brain better. What's nice about raycast as a macOS pasteboard manager is that whatever you last selected via Cmd-Shift-V is…
Maybe things have changed since 2022, but per the Fed's survey that year, the median American had $8,000 in transaction accounts alone (not unrealized stock gains, vehicles, houses, retirement, etc.). Because that's a…
hahah I picked that up from a youtube woodworker when I was a CALENDAR YEAR into building my son's toy chest. A lot of measurements I had sweated over didn't matter; they are inside of the channels on shaker panels. A…
> The more I look back into history, the more I realise that besides the sparkling blinky-blinky gadgets, we have made no progress at all - on a species level. 2019–2020 world average life expectancy at birth was…
You can also do lunatic things like overload the `Object` prototype and get synchronous FFI by encoding then decoding an object. I do this at work to get locale-aware sorting. I know you know this, but it'll be news to…
Trapper Keepers are binders. Did they also make folders? Regardless, asked and answered yeronner: not big enough for a whole term. Things fall out if you turn your bag upside down or put the folder in upside down
They sell adapters to turn oil cans into silencers. Each one should be a violation of the National Firearms Act and subject to up to a half million dollar fine https://www.atf.gov/media/25071/download Nota bened; these…
Similar to what? Von Neumann was part of Europe's elite scientific brain drain to the US in the 20th century, that's all.
> In 2023, Wizards—which publishes Magic: The Gathering—sent the Pinkerton detective agency to the home of a YouTuber who had acquired 22 boxes of cards Born too late to get into a gun fight with striking steel workers…
You can do this at Target, Wal-Mart, The Gap (incl. Banana Republic, Old Navy), any department store (Macy's, Bloomingdales, Saks), Paul Stuart, Brooks Brothers. I'm struggling to think of anywhere you cannot do this.…
Decent overview from the US CDC https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-wasting/about/index.html in one study, Rhesus monkeys were infected by eating CWD infected meat. There's no cure or mitigation of prion diseases so that'd be…
Chuck Wendig's 2023 novel Black River Orchard has an apple historian as one of the protagonists. Lots of talk of scion wood and girdling and colonial era apple varieties. You may find this interesting.
I left this comment a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45752905 when someone asked what was up with Elm at the current moment. I left a bunch off. - Evan entered hermit mode to create Acadia, a language…
The most constructive feedback I can come up with you is to think of other people's feelings before doing anything, and don't do anything at scale until you've proved that you can do this. Failing that, learn how to…
This is in fact how Elm does it! Tail call recursion compiles to a while loop.
I assume you're referring to Tito? He died in 1980. None of the constituent countries tried to leave Yugoslavia until 1991, right? That's following, technically, but there's a lot of history in that decade. From my very…
Here's the thing about "fucking magnets; how do they work?" How do magnets work? No less a science communicator than Richard Feynman—he of the rubber sheet gravity spacetime analogy—had no analogy to communicate why…
Win what tomorrow? An election? There's no election tomorrow. A coup? Intriguing! Probably take a while though. Volunteer doing what? Donate to what? Boycott what with what demands? What's the most successful boycott in…
It's not just that it had quirks, it's that your feedback loop was longer in IE compared to Firefox with Firebug and Chrome. IE 7 did not, to my recollection, have a way to open developer tools and tweak CSS values…
Yeah my plan was to anchor the loose cable ends under wood once we lowered the bed, but as I said, we pulled off the light strip very soon after. It now sits in, you guessed it, the big box of cables, in case I need a…
mine had 2 male USB ends on one side and 1 on the other. It was to power a laptop hard disk drive from USB if one port couldn't provide enough power. Feels illegal. I bought it off eBay with a money order in like 2003.
In 2021 I cut the end off a USB cable to expose the power leads which I scotch taped to the power meter on my bike to charge it. I kept that cable. In 2024 I used it to add USB disconnects to the light strip I attached…
Ok maybe it's that but it's definitely also a phone
The only things I can think of are: cheap track saws in Europe, and combination jointer/planers. There are two makerspaces near me with wood shops, and one has a French combo machine while the other has two separate…
It was Damon Dash, who was a cofounder of Roc-a-Fella records but not a rapper himself. He mentioned it here too and in a few other profiles that I can remember…
I do a lot of this and `pbpaste | sed s/^ // | pbcopy` and things like that. It just fits my brain better. What's nice about raycast as a macOS pasteboard manager is that whatever you last selected via Cmd-Shift-V is…
Maybe things have changed since 2022, but per the Fed's survey that year, the median American had $8,000 in transaction accounts alone (not unrealized stock gains, vehicles, houses, retirement, etc.). Because that's a…
hahah I picked that up from a youtube woodworker when I was a CALENDAR YEAR into building my son's toy chest. A lot of measurements I had sweated over didn't matter; they are inside of the channels on shaker panels. A…
> The more I look back into history, the more I realise that besides the sparkling blinky-blinky gadgets, we have made no progress at all - on a species level. 2019–2020 world average life expectancy at birth was…
You can also do lunatic things like overload the `Object` prototype and get synchronous FFI by encoding then decoding an object. I do this at work to get locale-aware sorting. I know you know this, but it'll be news to…
Trapper Keepers are binders. Did they also make folders? Regardless, asked and answered yeronner: not big enough for a whole term. Things fall out if you turn your bag upside down or put the folder in upside down
They sell adapters to turn oil cans into silencers. Each one should be a violation of the National Firearms Act and subject to up to a half million dollar fine https://www.atf.gov/media/25071/download Nota bened; these…
Similar to what? Von Neumann was part of Europe's elite scientific brain drain to the US in the 20th century, that's all.
> In 2023, Wizards—which publishes Magic: The Gathering—sent the Pinkerton detective agency to the home of a YouTuber who had acquired 22 boxes of cards Born too late to get into a gun fight with striking steel workers…
You can do this at Target, Wal-Mart, The Gap (incl. Banana Republic, Old Navy), any department store (Macy's, Bloomingdales, Saks), Paul Stuart, Brooks Brothers. I'm struggling to think of anywhere you cannot do this.…
Decent overview from the US CDC https://www.cdc.gov/chronic-wasting/about/index.html in one study, Rhesus monkeys were infected by eating CWD infected meat. There's no cure or mitigation of prion diseases so that'd be…
Chuck Wendig's 2023 novel Black River Orchard has an apple historian as one of the protagonists. Lots of talk of scion wood and girdling and colonial era apple varieties. You may find this interesting.
I left this comment a while back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45752905 when someone asked what was up with Elm at the current moment. I left a bunch off. - Evan entered hermit mode to create Acadia, a language…
The most constructive feedback I can come up with you is to think of other people's feelings before doing anything, and don't do anything at scale until you've proved that you can do this. Failing that, learn how to…
This is in fact how Elm does it! Tail call recursion compiles to a while loop.
I assume you're referring to Tito? He died in 1980. None of the constituent countries tried to leave Yugoslavia until 1991, right? That's following, technically, but there's a lot of history in that decade. From my very…
Here's the thing about "fucking magnets; how do they work?" How do magnets work? No less a science communicator than Richard Feynman—he of the rubber sheet gravity spacetime analogy—had no analogy to communicate why…
Win what tomorrow? An election? There's no election tomorrow. A coup? Intriguing! Probably take a while though. Volunteer doing what? Donate to what? Boycott what with what demands? What's the most successful boycott in…