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> Imagine an AI reminding you that you've been on HN too long and offering to save off the comment your working on for later and then moving they browser window to a different tab.…

With the recent work done enabling the use of Common Lisp in the browser on WASM, I've been thinking about spinning up a really simple static site that's just a CL REPL for people …

The exact stuff I now use Kagi for. Finding obscure relevant PDFs that Google didn't is literally one of the things that made me switch.

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave_field_synthesis

And I used them in a graduate physics course last fall.

Deep Space 9 had an episode dealing with something similar. Superintelligent beings determine that a situation is hopeless and act accordingly. The normal beings take issue with th…

I had to use Google in a library while printing datasheets and clicked the first relevant looking result out of habit, only to be taken to the wrong part page. Closer inspection of…

An inelegant weapon, for a less civilized age. And yet, it works.

The wife says the chain and lock were for weight training.

Probably too recent, but any chance it was this? https://www.voicemag.uk/blog/14186/red-dwarf-diversity-in-sp...

Urban Ore in Berkeley. It's a salvage shop with an electronics area. Scored some vintage Tek scopes there.

I don't have it on hand at the moment, but I think I saw something about how the victims of those lawsuits didn't actually end up paying. Might have been related to bankruptcy, and…

I love engineering paper too! My weapon of choice is this pad: https://www.rspaperproducts.com/products/95182/ I have not tried the Tops yet, I think because I saw somewhere it was…

Could use the electronics convention and save a character: 2k6

AdBlocker, yes. UBlock Origin, no. Maybe it's since reached feature parity, last time I checked it hadn't from what I could tell.

> When I press F12, does an inspector open? Where does it open? When I select some words, how do I send them to a new tab in YouTube, Amazon, Google or Stack Overflow? How do I ope…

The one thing holding me back from this is not being able to run UBlock origin on it yet. I keep telling myself that eventually I'll have the spare time to change that myself....

- Digikey - Mouser - SparkFun - Adafruit - Antique Electronic Supply - Sphere Research Corporation -Ebay, occasionally, if the seller is trusted and known by your corner of the ele…

> It's possible to become very good at doing things the wrong way, then belatedly realise that progress has been unintentionally stunted. And sometimes when that happens, I've seen…

Like a sibling comment mentioned, I was considering that newspapers got non-trivial amounts of funding from ads. Classifieds in particular, if I remember correctly. If that's still…

More like cutting out the funnies from a newspaper and trashing the ads.

> Sometimes musicians use dispersing devices mounted on the speakers, like "beam blockers". Beam blockers seem to be the most common thing employed, though to my knowledge a much m…

I've been surprised to find that this isn't a common viewpoint. In fact, I have a long-term bet with a friend that I'll learn something faster using deliberate practice 'n stuff th…