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wiredfool
·15 hours ago·discuss
I think Jurassic Park was pretty similar craziness. Definitely pushing the CGI aspect, and super super popular.
wiredfool
·9 days ago·discuss
First generation powerbooks, the 140/170, were amazin keyboards. The 100, not so much.
wiredfool
·9 days ago·discuss
I bought 2 M13s (one black, one beige, the one with the builtin track point) in Seattle thrift stores in the early 2000's, one was $5 and one was $10.

At one point, other copies were both $300 plus on ebay.

Sadly the black one has an intermittent issue with some of the keys where hits are doubled, but the beige one is still a daily driver.
wiredfool
·11 days ago·discuss
From my son's experience in calisthenics and looking around at the group he sometimes trains with, there are definitely a lot of overload/overuse injuries, at a range from just needing rest to bicep tears.
wiredfool
·13 days ago·discuss
One time I got an entire center row of 5 seats going from Seattle->Heathrow overnight.
wiredfool
·15 days ago·discuss
And there are a lot of middling bakeries in Europe.

Haven't spent much time in Belgium, but I was disappointed in the average quality of the bread in small bakeries in France. There was one awesome organic bakery in Paris near the catacombs tour, and one hypermarche (forget where) that somehow had an absolutely incredible rustic baguette. But the little shops in towns, eh. And most of the hypermarches. Germany is also kind of average, the Reve bakeries are reliably on the good side of middling, but nothing that I'd consider incredible.
wiredfool
·15 days ago·discuss
The whole obsession about measuring giving exact hydration percentages is strange to me.

Assume you have 100g of flour at equilibrium 20% ambient humidity, and the same 100g of flour at 80% humidity.

I don’t know how different the effective moisture content would be, but measuring the weight of the flour to the gram seems like you’re including the moisture in the weight of the flour. Maybe one packs denser on a scoop. I don’t know. But I don’t necessarily think it’s more accurate.

On the other hand, it’s really easy to just pour in 540g of flour, mix in a shy tablespoon of salt, 280g of water, and a good glop of starter. Far easier than trying to get consistent scoops or measure to the meniscus in a liquid measured.
wiredfool
·15 days ago·discuss
Eh, I found the Seattle artisanal bakeries (Fremont, Grand Central) to be better than all but the best I’ve found in Europe.
wiredfool
·17 days ago·discuss
It is/was legal on rural interstates in Washington. I've cycled down I90 in roughly the North Bend area (in the late 90's).
wiredfool
·22 days ago·discuss
Few different use cases, other than just a general swiss army knife for vaguely tabular data.

* fastapi + duckdb + parquet for the backend for a relatively high profile website

* wasm duckdb + react for a few visualization websites

* yaml driven ETL from lots of sources, principally ugly spreadsheets, into usable data. More T than E or L really
wiredfool
·25 days ago·discuss
Saw this before the evening bus commute, trying it. 15 min in, not sure it’s working for me.
wiredfool
·last month·discuss
I run some moderate profile gov and ngo opendata sites, and I’d say that bot like traffic is 99% of the requests we’re seeing on some sites.

Mostly current valid user agents, lots of ip addresses, but the traffic patterns are not organic. I’m not clear if it’s bad ai scraping or dos, but at some level it’s indistinguishable.
wiredfool
·last month·discuss
Unschooling works for a fraction of kids, and at some stages of their life.

How big is that fraction? In my experience being around a bunch of home schoolers (and adjacent, and school system), some of whom were more in or out of unschooling, I think it's small enough that it should be a rarely considered option.

There are some kids where it will work _really_ well. I've interacted with a couple. There are a lot of kids where it really doesn't work, especially in a distraction rich environment.
wiredfool
·2 months ago·discuss
Unfortunately, digeridoo playing is just as disruptive to partner's sleep as snoring is. Perhaps they should try bagpipes?
wiredfool
·2 months ago·discuss
Apple 2 was often az/,. .
wiredfool
·2 months ago·discuss
Ubuntu has patched as of this morning. Debian doesn't look like they've patched trixie yet.
wiredfool
·2 months ago·discuss
I paid the equivalent of $12.50 a gallon for diesel at the peak price a month or so ago.
wiredfool
·3 months ago·discuss
Personally I’d look for the coveted 5 eights uptime.
wiredfool
·3 months ago·discuss
I've seen issues last week onboarding a new employee, where emails from Jira and Slack and lastpass just weren't getting through.
wiredfool
·3 months ago·discuss
I doubt it. The spanish (really tetra pack) wine was dry, and after double distilling it was basically moonshine. The Hungarian one was more in the mixing back into the undistilled wine -- making something akin to port+ strength that drinks like wine. It's the same idea behind pineau, first distilling + the cheap young white wine of the region.