geluso
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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
I collect and maintain a list of examples like this. Usually stuff I see somewhere else or random ones that pop into my head.
My favorite simple one: "Unlike whiskey, you can't water water down."
My favorite long one: "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign"
Comment · 3 years ago
oh man I got really lucky and was prompted with a picture of Italy. I got it right on my first try. I didn't realize the country images rotated!
Comment · 3 years ago
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The roman numerals in your password should multiply to 35.
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Your password must include today's Wordle answer.
Your password must include a two letter symbol from the periodic table.
Your password must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji.
Your password must include the name of this country.
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Your password must include the best move in algebraic chess notation. (picture of chess puzzle)
← This is my chicken Paul. He hasn't hatched yet, please put him in your password and keep him safe.
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Comment · 3 years ago
I'm stuck at "iatetomatoesyesterday0265Z#521juneVpepsiVIIxngxcaboutAg[moon emojis]italy2020Bf7+" trying to solve the chess notation puzzle.
I especially laughed at the rule "must include today's Worldle" and I'm happy with my solution including every emoji for "must include the current phase of the moon as an emoji."
(HackerNews doesn't seem to display emoji. My solution is to paste every moon phase emoji.)
Excited to see what's next after figuring out the best move in this Chess puzzle.
This reminds me of trying to manually construct an Autogram like below. This one is a quote someone else made. I tried to do it myself and it is so hard because the counts keep changing as you write out other counts!
Only the fool would take trouble to verify that his sentence was composed of ten a's, three b's, four c's, four d's, forty-six e's, sixteen f's, four g's, thirteen h's, fifteen i's, two k's, nine l's, four m's, twenty-five n's, twenty-four o's, five p's, sixteen r's, forty-one s's, thirty-seven t's, ten u's, eight v's, eight w's, four x's, eleven y's, twenty-seven commas, twenty-three apostrophes, seven hyphens and, last but not least, a single !
Comment · 5 years ago
I like the one called "The Hobgoblin." The student asks "why don't all these commands follow the same pattern?"
It doesn't make sense to my why the three "view" commands have different nomenclatures, but it /sort of/ makes sense that the two destructive ones have different syntaxes. It would hurt to think you're deleting a remote reference and accidentally deleting a local branch.
What's the point of the Master throwing himself off the railing when the novice runs `git -h branch`?
I'm running it and git responds "unknown option: -h" then displays a short version of the help menu. Maybe it is a joke on showing the short help menu even when using incorrect syntax?
Comment · 5 years ago
Consider me absolutely plussed.
This reminds me of hanging out with friends when someone wondered, "what is the opposite of nonchalant? Is 'chalant' its own thing?!"
Comment · 6 years ago
It's not about what time. but from what world?
Comment · 6 years ago
Hello! I'm Steve Geluso. I'm in Seattle looking for work. The health industry has been on my eye for a second. I've spent the last three years as a lead instructor at boot camp schools. I was full time at Google, I freelanced, and I worked here in Seattle at Moby Inc. all before doing education. I'm definitely looking to get back in to engineering, especially with a company that has practical impact.
I'll apply on the site, and here's some more info about me, if you're interested. Thanks for raising attention to the role!
Comment · 8 years ago
Ridiculous. Why does it become so slow though?
Comment · 9 years ago
Atom is free. Sublime costs $70. Plus, Atom comes with several lovely features Sublime doesn't have. Pay less, get more? Great deal! It's funny to catch friends looking at Sublime's payment popup window. I always joke, "oh, you're still evaluating?" Of course they're not evaluating. They're never going to pay for it. What a nuisance.
Atom has excellent window management. It's very easy to drag a tab and split it half-and-half with any other window horizontally or vertically. Amazing! Sublime doesn't do this.
Atom allows me to rearrange files in the left-nav. I can drag a file from one directory to another. Sublime doesn't do this.
Those two simple features alone are killer features for me. I don't see why Sublime doesn't copy them.
I understand Sublime has some cool multiple cursor stuff. My friend has definitely wowed me with a specific example before. I use vim motions inside Atom, which are great, and I'll occasionally open a file in native vim if I want to use more powerful features like recording macros.
Sublime's code-preview side-bar is semi-useful. It definitely looks pretty. I used an Atom plugin that emulated that behavior but ultimately disabled it to gain screen real estate. Also, long files with redundant code blocks (that looks oh-so pretty in that side bar) is bad code! Keep files short, gain screen real estate, and there you go! I swear, I worked with someone who used Sublime and he wrote the longest, most redundant code I've ever seen. I assumed he loved looking at the code in that preview side bar. I admit: the experience left a bad taste in my mouth.
Those are my reasons for using Atom over Sublime. Sorry I don't have enough experience with VSCode to answer your actual question!
Comment · 9 years ago
Where'd they get the lyric data for this analysis? In my experience this data in bulk is all incredibly locked down!
I made something like this for TV shows and movies using floppy disks. Each floppy has a text file with filepaths of videos on a hard drive. When the floppy is inserted a bash script detects it and plays a random video from the text file on the floppy.
I like the physicality of systems like this. It is much more satisfying to to flick through physical items than to scroll through a digital list of things.
You've got great artwork. I need to up the artwork on my floppys!
There's a demo video in my repo: https://github.com/geluso/floppy-vision