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Not exactly what I was thinking of, because that's more on a local system than at web scale. Something else, I'm sure it's related though, kinda like a crowd crush?

What's the term for when a failing service causes the users of said service to use it more to complain about it failing? Because it sure seems like that's happening to some extent.

Assuming the computer talks over a standard protocol like serial or parallel, I don't see how it wouldn't be fairly straightforward to move it to a newer machine. Might even be able to run it on a virtual machine for better compatibility.

Should've just used a rock instead. Free and you can argue about whether expensive European mountain rocks work better.

I had a coworker that I tried to help out, but he barely knew some common programming terms like what a type was, or how he had to declare something beforehand in order to use it. We never really found out why he didn't know these things because he was so softspoken and shut down at any attempt to understand why he was having trouble. I don't talk to him much anymore due to some team restructuring, but other coworkers still see the same so I don't know if he can be helped honestly.

The only reason I made a blog and a post was because it was something to learn with and get some of that sweet sweet Hacker News front page traffic. It did work by the way.

I've heard good things about the NanoPi.

There are some posts where Twitter is the primary source. Banning Twitter outright isn't a solution for this type of situation.

I got mine from Brooklyn Bedding, a high loft one since I sleep on my side.

A talalay latex pillow. Memory foam sucks forever for me now.

I'll second this, it's immensely useful when I can't wrap my head around a regular expression.

Pros: I haven't done anything.

Cons: I haven't done ANYTHING.

I should've also linked the video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkoML0_FiV4

Sonder: https://www.dictionaryofobscuresorrows.com/post/23536922667/...

I made an actual robot to automate hi alching for me a year or two ago, to work around the whole "no software" thing. It just pressed the mouse button for over a month every ~0.6 seconds. Totally worth it. Just had to check on it every 24 hours when the client timed itself out.

How about something like ZPAQ instead for archiving? Especially if you're doing backups and not a lot of the information is changing.

So it's basically AutoHotKey?

Bare HTML/CSS/JS. I did move to Netlify from Github Pages for privacy reasons (and Github Pages for private repos costs money). Works on every device as well!

Use one of the solutions listed below, but you HAVE to do sorting on the fly. You need to have places to put books and sort them by some general genres and you HAVE to throw out books that aren't worth the time due to damage or any other reason a book would be deemed a recyclable. With that many books, a proper library style cataloging system may be your best bet.

That being said, if you do want to do image comparison for covers, books without covers usually have a copyright page with most of the info on it. Use that to determine what a book is when the other method fails. Throwing together some cheap bookshelves with plywood and 2x4's will greatly help with the finding part, but while scanning use some big bins to do a rough sort.

And I can't stress enough you HAVE to throw out books. It's clear that there's a space issue and if he's willing to get them for free but has a hard time getting rid of them, that's hoarder behavior, not just eccentricity.

Neat! More cool stuff to look forward to. Appreciate your comment!

I feel you're missing my point here. A PDF is bad for the specific case of inputting a resumé into an applicant tracking system, due to the myriad of things that could go wrong without notifying the applicant of any error, discarding their application without a second glance by a human. A Word document makes the likelihood of system discard due to error much smaller. A docx file is just a zipped file, which contains a document.xml that can be easily read by any regular text editor. It's got all the style information in it, but it's at least more easily computer parseable than a PDF. A doc file is also just a zipped file, with a WordDocument file inside. It can also be read by any regular text editor, but it's got some binary garbage around it. Still more easily parseable than a PDF.

FLIF would be really nice, as it does beat out all of those along with retaining a ton of features from PNG. And it's lossless!

You'll be happy to know that FFmpeg will happily convert a WebP file to a PNG and vice versa. The reason being that WebP is a single frame WebM. Silly, yes, but it works.

Only from my view, once it's automatically parsed, nobody is going to look at it, because either it'll automatically throw it out from the parsed data (in which case a blank resume is an obvious throw away), or it'll do some keyword parsing and determine you haven't copy/pasted enough. The second one is a problem with all of those systems though. After that point it'll pass it on to the hiring manager, at which point they'll look at it regardless of format. PDF then is simply not the best choice if it gives the highest chance of failure at the first step. A Word document is a much better choice.

PDF is great! For human reading. But it's garbage for everything else, and, as I found out from a a bunch of frustrating job application efforts, absolute shit for resumés. Literally not parseable, even with OCR apparently. I don't even know WHY any job application even accepts a PDF for a resumé. It shouldn't be allowed to if there's any sort of post-processing done to it to extract information. A bunch of applications didn't even let me see what it extracted, which, depending on the PDF to text application they're using, may spit out absolutely nothing from an entire page of text. That's right, a whole page converted to a single empty line. Marvelous. Truly a technological marvel that's helping the "it's hard to get a job" feeling go away.

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned addon debugging if you really need an extension working. All of the extension packages are in <your profile>/extensions folder and you can load them for the duration of your session by turning addon debugging on in about:debugging and loading them in. This should be fixed fast enough that this fix will be good enough, just don't close your browser.

That's basically my reasoning as well. I want the IDE to tell me things so I don't have to look up documentation all the time, especially since most of the time I'm working on code I had no part in originally. It's a helpful learning tool more than anything else.

And if you like those, any of the Zachtronics series of games are perfect. Spacechem is a personal favorite (machine layout programming), but there's also TIS-100 (modular system programming), SHENZEN IO (modular digital logic programming), and Opus Magnum (machine layout programming). The last two are actually upgrades of older games they made, KOHCTPYKTOP and The Codex of Alchemical Engineering. I'm hoping that Ruckingenur II gets an upgrade eventually (debugging! in a video game!).

There's also ChucK http://chuck.stanford.edu/

In an effort to be as unproductive and productive as I could, I built a robot once that just pressed the 5 button on my mousepad avery ~1.2 seconds or so. This let me, over the course of 30 days of straight button pressing, successfully accomplish a goal in a video game without triggering their macro detection. It also burned out a few LEGO motors and gears, but that's a minor thing to pay for not having carpal tunnel.

But to actually answer your question, I have a mouse set up with a few macro buttons. One is alt+tab and the other is alt+tab+tab, which lets me switch between the last 3 visited windows very quickly. Usually I'm using it to switch between a project program and its documentation. The last one is bound to windows+lshift+s, for quick screenshots.