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New comment by ballmerspeak in "NASA again delays Boeing Starliner's return home"

ballmerspeak — Mon, 17 Jun 2024 16:57:42 +0000

Helium is used to pressurize hydrogen and other gases to move them through the plumbing. This link says "before takeoff" but its also used after.

https://www.uky.edu/~garose/helium#:~:text=Helium%20is%20use....

New comment by ballmerspeak in ".plan"

ballmerspeak — Wed, 17 Nov 2021 03:15:39 +0000

Welp. I ruined emojis for everyone.

¯\\_(ツ)_/¯

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Show HN: My wife is pregnant; naturally I made a baby-name app to prepare"

ballmerspeak — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 16:15:12 +0000

Like others have said: great job. Usually there is a tradeoff of functional, aesthetics, and open source/no tracking where we only get 2 of the 3.

EZ 5-star review for me.

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Why does it take so long to get to Mercury?"

ballmerspeak — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:39:34 +0000

It's Mercury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SumDHcnCRuU

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Show HN: Monte Carlo simulation for predicting project timelines"

ballmerspeak — Thu, 03 Jun 2021 14:52:25 +0000

If those buttons are appealing, I recognize them from this blog post by Josh Comeau https://www.joshwcomeau.com/animation/3d-button/

New comment by ballmerspeak in "A categorized list of all Java and JVM features since JDK 8 to 16"

ballmerspeak — Thu, 01 Apr 2021 16:47:28 +0000

As someone who began programming in undergrad, Java was the university's language of choice for the "introduction to programming" course. My first internship was in Java SE 6 and part of the big debate for that summer was when to move to 7.

I haven't used it since but I'm glad to see it's gotten the more modern language features that make writing and reading code much easier. Without this list, I probably would never have learned this so thanks

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Scrollycoding – A new way to write code walkthroughs [video]"

ballmerspeak — Mon, 15 Mar 2021 16:43:23 +0000

This is fantastic. I'll be using on a new project and will happily provide feedback.

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Object Browser (2010)"

ballmerspeak — Tue, 09 Mar 2021 17:48:23 +0000

> I don't. Programmers are retards. That's my answer to everything. And the only evidence I need is that C++ exists.

> (Literally, people lack imagination. They're satisfied with the present circumstances because they can't imagine anything different, they can't imagine what the system is lacking unless someone tells them what to imagine. The vast majority of people aren't original or even independent.)

I wasted a little more of my time than you did. I love a good rant, but this one seems to be all the sadness/depressing angst without the fun.

New comment by ballmerspeak in "How the Hell Do You Govern in a Complex World"

ballmerspeak — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 03:08:38 +0000

I really hope Cave Jackson is Cave Johnson in a mustache holding a lemon

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Rga: Ripgrep, but also search in PDFs, E-Books, Office documents, zip, tar.gz"

ballmerspeak — Wed, 02 Dec 2020 19:11:13 +0000

If its a scanned PDF (essentially a collection of 1 image per page), there would need to be an OCR step to get some text out first. Tesseract would work for this.

Once that's done, you have all the options available to perform that search. But I don't know of a search tool that does the OCR for you. I did read a blog post of someone uploading PDFs to google drive (they OCR them on upload) as an easy way to do this.

New comment by ballmerspeak in "Vodka is a creative coding environment for creative writers (LISP)"

ballmerspeak — Thu, 19 Nov 2020 22:20:06 +0000

It had to have started there right? But I think this could also be valuable before hitting the peak.

But then again, unraveling a drunkenly produced chunk of LISP doesn't exactly sound fun either.