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dogline··on The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge
That's an interesting idea, and seems like a good implementation. I'll play with it.
dogline··on The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge
I like your list, but it's also very depressing. Can't say it's wrong though.
dogline··on Displayport: A Better Video Interface
I'm looking too, but that one linked has HDMI out only, with DP and HDMI in. Don't you lose the benefit of DP with this setup?
dogline··on The end of the magic world’s 50-year grudge
I've been looking for a new source of news, now that Reddit, et.al. have been going weird. I've subscribed to the Washington Post for a bit now, even though I'm on the West Coast.

This is the sort of thing the NY Times has been pushing lately, which seems to be obviously some sort of weird re-writing of history for several topics. It's not the mainstream topics, but it is enough to raise up alarm bells and wonder what's pushing this. All of the articles on Netflix "The Bear" falls on the same thing, and they're pushed as front page news/promotions.

I do like a top word-game, and NYTimes is the pinnical. But, it seems like they're obviously pushing something, not sure what. I don't think all major news sites are like that, but maybe they are.

dogline··on Demystifying Text Data with the Unstructured Python Library
I hadn't seen the unstructured python library before. Seems handy to parse personal text, like the author is doing.
dogline··on Future ultra-precise timing links to geosynchronous satellites
I didn't realize that a "time-nut" was a thing. Never thought about people doing this as a sort of hobby. Congrats!
dogline··on The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)
I dunno. With some people talking about how many CFM they can move with their fan system, maybe a filter or two would just add to things.
dogline··on The Cuboid: A DIY air purifier that's better than a box-fan (2021)
While I'm sure that your product is wonderful, setting up a positive pressure system is a bit more work. The intent here is to get something working on an internal pressure space and have it work well, which it seems to do.
dogline··on Why do recipe writers lie about how long it takes to caramelize onions? (2012)
Sifting flour will still leave you with the lesser of two weevils.
dogline··on NodePad: LLM-aided graph based note-taking and brainstorming tool
But, what is this?

Check website, no real text, just a video.

Ok, fine.

Video opens with an explanation of LLMs.

Close video after a bit. Still don't know what this is or what it brings to the table. I'm not going to sit through a long video to figure it out.

dogline··on The Staff Engineer's Path – Book Review
I think there's another past staff/senior where you get to tell all of the other groups to leave you alone, and you're back to being dirty and building cool things. This is where you're most valuable and where they want you. But, you need the confidence that you've got it handled and you're trusted to communicate as needed.
dogline··on Facebook LLAMA is being openly distributed via torrents
That's the first good coherent argument I've seen _for_ Citizens United. Thank you for that insight.
dogline··on Ask HN: What is the best thing you read in 2022?
Ok, that story alone is a reason to get back into short stories. Great stuff.
dogline··on Ask HN: Are you a “lifer”? If so why?
I wasn't, until I read your points, then thought, well, maybe.
dogline··on Show HN: Fully-featured desktop gRPC/gRPC-Web client
This page has a lot of information, and still doesn't define "gRPC" for people who aren't keeping up with all of the latest acronyms.
dogline··on Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
Are there _any_ ways to uniformly put a geolocation in a Markdown/note/txt file?

Seems like there should be a general answer for this, as sometimes I'd like to put a geolocation and notes in a file, and some uniform way to parse this later, whatever the tool.

dogline··on Aerc – a pretty good (terminal) email client
So, given that with email, the important part is the data, and not the client, I was able to give this client a spin. Not bad. I was able to go though my recent email, view some HTML email I keep getting, and mash through things without a lot of problems. Maybe I'll stick with this client? ::shrug::

This is one of the few domains where you can play with different client still. And there can be innovations here with CLI versions, which I like.

Reading other comments in the thread, it sounds like ddevault has ideas for the next version. If so, that's cool, and it should be easy to try out.

dogline··on Schedule cronjob for the first Monday of every month, the funky way
I guess you can just say "Easter 2023"
dogline··on Ask HN: How to get fast cellular internet in rural areas
I've got a Peplink UBR LTE I like that I have in a remote location. Two different cell antenna pairs that can accept external antennas, 4 sim cards, Wifi, internal software that allows auto switchover if something goes down. Can take 12-24 DC so I can plug it into a car battery when the power is out. I use it in conjunction with a Starlink setup. I've got sim cards for both AT&T and Verizon, but in my area, the AT&T 20GB for $50/month works fine.

https://www.peplinkworks.com/UBR-LTE.asp

dogline··on The Up-Goer Five Text Editor
Where did this list come from, or what source was used to generate the list? Just glancing through it, it contains 'piss', 'TRUE', and 'eyebrow' as the top 1000 words. Seems like an odd source.

https://splasho.com/upgoer5/phpspellcheck/dictionaries/1000....

dogline··on Type of Barcodes and Their Usage
They went into the codes that they're trying to sell with their software.
dogline··on Ask HN: How to find a small town to relocate for remote work?
Now sure what to make of "I live in a ~1000 pop town" yet can be in a bigger town in 10 minutes via car (in the East), and "I live in a ~1000 pop town" and it's 45 min to anything (in N. CA and the west). (Have lived in both.)
dogline··on Ask HN: How to store large amounts of data on paper with QR code like tech?
Has anybody done the calculation (I'm tempted to, now), if you were to take the text, create QR codes, how much text could you reasonably have on a page? The QRs do have a certain amount of redundancy, which is good. If this is calculated, then how many pages you need is easy.
dogline··on From novice to master, and back again (2013)
From a comment I saved several days ago:

> we don't have to figure it out - we just need to remember what we did

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32318185

dogline··on Vifm: A Vim-like file manager
That's what I just came here to the HN comments for.
dogline··on Coding as a greybeard
> we don't have to figure it out - we just need to remember what we did

That's a great line.

dogline··on Coding as a greybeard
People that graduated in late 80's/early 90's are now hitting 50+. This is the big bubble, there aren't that many people older, but there's a big group now that we're in our 50's. There are workplaces now that have a big group of these people, which didn't exist before.
dogline··on I reviewed the $20k trash cans SF is testing. Here’s what I found
With the assumption that there are smart people involved who thought this was a good idea --

The article really doesn't go into detail what's new here. Looks like it's trying to be graffiti-proof, perhaps other ways to be easy to maintain. Lots of things like this aren't always obvious. If you said it's $10-20k for a trash can (well, they did), that sounds silly, but there should be a reason these are being considered.

dogline··on Ask HN: Do you maintain a list of RSS links of GOAT blogs?
That'd still be a cool service.
dogline··on Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in dev
>90%, maybe 93%, of project managers, could probably disappear tomorrow to either no effect or a net gain in efficiency.

As a prior PM, I agree. We're there to help management, not the engineer. The engineer does not care, and it does not raise efficiency. I always felt bad about this, and went back to engineering.

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