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lfowles

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About lfowles

C++/Python/Unreal Engine developer looking for interesting work!

See: https://linkedin.com/in/lfowles Portfolio: https://partlyatomic.com

Contact: hn@lfowles.org

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    I've rented a 2026 Kia minivan this week for vacation and I can set a cruise control offset of -10 to +10 in steps of 5.(which is kind of funny in isolation, "how much do you want …

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    Comment #47876381

    I've been dipping my toes into High Frontier lately

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    Comment #46033979

    Thanks for bringing this up, I'm often lost in a setting with competing voices. I don't strictly need hearing aids but the few times I've had my earbuds in with ambient voice enhan…

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    Comment #44884330

    Probably because we're attempting to make 3x more products

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    Comment #44658591

    And those repairs often get put off years or until a house sale becomes dependent on the.

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    Comment #44077375

    > The recognize the useful stuff from the metros are the food, culture, etc... Probably most importantly, a thriving job market

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    Comment #38417211

    Companies seem to have lots of great policies from the inside but getting back in is the challenge for me, having been a stay at home dad for roughly 3 years now (also 2 kids in). …

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    Comment #38373892

    I definitely remember seeing "turn off the TV" campaigns back then as a kid!

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    Comment #38348632

    Computer engineering degrees already exist, but they're much closer to the hardware.

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    Comment #38280014

    Alternatively they get one single vegetable

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    Comment #37978608

    Is a blacklist a list of black pixels on the screen?

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    Comment #37870669

    Why bespoke licenses? Won't that make customers more wary as they have to clear the licenses through their legal too?

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    Comment #37844618

    It's not feelings, it's the lack of feedback loop.

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    Comment #37833950

    I've observed it used as a great way to shut down projects that don't immediately have demonstrable results

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    Comment #37311504

    It was only present on the high end when we were replacing our system in 2021.

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    Comment #37289147

    Empirical observation of $0.10 worth of screws

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    Comment #37288819

    I spent over a decade customizing and tweaking my vim installation, but for the past 5+ years I've been team IDE (JetBrains in particular). It's really incomparable if you have a g…

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    Comment #37150547

    Explicitly supported many places! https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=... https://www.warbyparker.com/home-try-on

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    Comment #36912444

    I've tried preaching philosophy to my toddler but he just doesn't seem to get it for some reason :) Some toys do get "broken" (but easily fixed so they reappear in a week or more),…

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    Comment #36911632

    Indeed, it's not just that I'm anxious the toy will break. It's that I'm anxious the behavior will continue and the replacement will be broken in short order and so on.

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    Comment #36757290

    I had the first book of the Gingery set, but as I was rapidly moving around during college I never acted on it. The proposed workshop bootstrapping really made my imagination run..…

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    Comment #36655242

    Giving the Colosseum tourist the benefit of the doubt, maybe they thought that was a relatively "modern day" section they were carving their name on?

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    Comment #36619382

    It gives you a core set of patterns for going off on your own and building. Think of it as lego practice that shows you a neat model at the end you can then scrap :)